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Video Five Students can write and print notes in the box below.
  1. Why do the people interviewed in this clip have such different opinions?
  2. Who do you think should decide where the boy will live? A government? The courts? The boy? An agency? His relatives?
  3. What do you think the advantages and disadvantages would be for the boy returning to Cuba? For the boy staying in the USA?
  4. Take a survey of people in communities around you to see what they think about Elian. See if there is a correlation between their opinions and places of birth, citizenship, economic class, gender, or other factors. Report your findings to the class.
  5. Have a debate in class where one side favors returning Elian to his father while the other side favors keeping him in the USA.
  6. What laws determine Elian's fate? American laws? International laws?
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