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FEBRUARY 22 - 28, 2017 UCW 19 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM The objective of global education and awareness is to cultivate and raise a knowledgeable generation that is equipped to communicate, understand, and be aware of other countries. To prepare students for embarking on their career goals, education needs to provide a platform and opportunity for students to be globally competitive. International awareness and global education represent a concept that can be incorporated across academic disciplines. This is important because in today's world, businesses desire to hire individuals who can work with others in nations across the world, travel independently internationally and be effective in understanding and respecting diverse cultures to promote products, ideas or services. Education differs from one country to another, including differences in structure and organization of schools as well as social and cultural differences. For example, in the United States, grades are often comprised from homework assignments, quizzes and exams. However, in Europe, grades are primarily based on exams (sometimes just a final exam). Students in many parts of Europe are required to learn two languages. Many students in the U.S. have never traveled abroad. European students, on the other hand, due to close geographic proximity from one country to the next and open borders, have more experience in global learning. The ability for students to experience another country firsthand, examine the culture, interact with citizens, and learn different customs and practices takes learning to a heightened level. Misconceptions, unfortunately, sometimes exist concerning the educational experiences available to students through community colleges. Community colleges provide a smart pathway for students to transition to four-year institutions or enter the workforce. At Fayetteville Technical Community College, students who study Criminal Justice or Paralegal Technology have a unique opportunity — first time in FTCC history — to study abroad for college credit. Criminal Justice instructors attorney Larry Vick and I will lead a short- term faculty-led study abroad program. Approximately 14 FTCC students will embark for London, England, in March 2017 where they will have the chance to participate in unique opportunities and visit historical places including the Inns of Court, the Royal Courts of Justice, the Old Bailey and Houses of Parliament. They will have dinner with London police officers and take a Jack the Ripper-themed tour. Students enrolled in Court Procedure and Evidence or International Comparative Criminal Justice will discuss and write papers about their study abroad experience. Through the experience, students will be able to understand international and cross-national comparisons better and describe factual, quantitative differences on a variety of indicators in the deliverance of the criminal justice system, comparing the United States and the United Kingdom. For many students, FTCC represents much more than a place for academic study — it opens the door to unique opportunities, a place of hope, and the pathway to a better way of life through education. Opening the door to explore the world beyond where they live will be a unique experience for each of these study- abroad students. Global learners will result in globally competitive employees. Learn more about FTCC by visiting our campuses or at faytechcc. edu. DR. PIA DUNCAN, FTCC Criminal Justice Instructor. Staff Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomin- gweekly.com. 910.484.6200. What's that I hear? Is that… is that the sound of Johnny Galecki's film career flushing itself down the nearest toilet? He seems like a nice guy, so I hope he is saving his Big Bang Theory money. Based on his appearance in Rings (107 minutes) he's not going to be able to earn a dime after that show ends. The obvious question going in was, "Why is this happening?" In the first place, the J-horror classic Ringu didn't need to be remade on account of how overall awesome it was, but since Americans hate subtitles, we got an American remake, plus an unnecessary sequel. In the second place, in a streaming world, how does a third Ring film make any sense? The central plot point revolves around VHS tapes, which, as far as I can tell, have all been repurposed into either yarn dispensers or tables (the latter also requiring pounds of hot glue, obviously). My theory is that someone realized how much profit Adam Wingard and the mumblegore crowd made off the low-budget shaky-cam-aganza V/H/S and jumped onto the money train. Incidentally, this film probably got the greenlight soon after V/H/S 2 was released, then originally was scheduled for release in November 2015, then shelved two or three times on account of everyone involved realizing exactly how stupid and pointless it was, and then finally released at the precise moment that the audience was totally and completely over the V/H/S franchise. We begin on a plane. Sadly, there are no snakes. Instead, two generic nobodies discuss a video that they both (I can only assume) watched at a hipster party that involved nineties fashion tragedies and ironic smoking. The acting is terrible, so good on Samara (Bonnie Morgan) for crashing the entire plane, thus mercy-killing the scene. In a completely unrelated set on a totally different movie, two idiots meet each other while musing over the relative value of obsolete tech. My bad. Idiot #2 is a college professor named Gabriel (Galecki), thus qualifying him for ultra-mega-super idiot status. I suppose his character was developed via the ever-popular wheel of fortune, and when the writers spun, it landed on "biology professor," not that anything he does over the course of the movie has any connection to that. Perhaps his degree should have been in kicking dead horses, because his role in this film renders him more than qualified. About ten minutes in, the scene shifts yet again. To another couple of people, who I cared even less about. Julia (Matilda Lutz) is wishing her boyfriend Holt (Alex Roe) a fond goodbye as he goes off to college and she stays behind to [plot contrivance]. By the way, in what morality-free hippie love commune are the parents of these overgrown children letting them have sleepovers? Are they Amish kids during Rumspringa? Somewhere in there the plot threads finally start to come together. Professor Idiot sets up an experiment (and there are so many things wrong with his set-up I can't even) that systematically exposes students to the video, then provides them with someone to show the video to, and so on. What he was going to do for volunteers over Spring Break I have no idea. Overall, it looked fine. The plot is rehashed, but it is a sequel so no surprises there. The real tragedy is the missed potential. When I heard they were doing another Ring I thought, oh, it will be on some kind of YouTube-like website and people will send it to people they hate and there will be a worldwide epidemic like in Contagion. Instead, the video resurfaces and people watch it and that's pretty much it for most of the movie. Now playing at Patriot 14 + IMAX. Why? Rings (Rated PG-13) by HEATHER GRIFFITHS HEATHER GRIFFITHS, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@ upandcomingweekly.com. 910 484-6200. FTCC Takes London by DR. 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