Sunday, September 5, 2010

Introduction to Sin - The Case of Mendoza

1. As a group, investigate on the hostage-taking which occurred last August 23, 2010.
2. Answer the following questions:

a. Identify the important people in the botched hostage taking scene (i.e. Rolando Mendoza, the SWAT, PNP, and the negotiators, the Ombudsman, the “usiseros,” the Chinese nationals, the media, etc.)
b. Instruct the groups to organize themselves and look into the involvements of those in the hostage crisis (Google Documents can be used so that there would be simultaneous updating of what they are working on.)
c. What happened? Summarize the turn of events leading to the death of the tourists and the hostage-taker.
d. How were the characters involved in the hostage-taking?
e. What were the reasons attributed to the action of each of the individuals?
f. What should they have done as individuals, in terms of being moral? Were there other choices of action which could have been done?
g. In terms of being moral, how did each of them fare?

Post this (posted through the blog) tomorrow night. On or before 11:59pm.

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