What are the origins of the Tutsi-Hutu conflict ?

1. What percentage of the population do the Tutsis make up? The Hutus? Who owns the majority of the land?
Tutsis Tutsis make up about 15 percent of Rwanda's population

2. How did the Belgians show favor toward the Tutsis?
they were helping them recieve taxes, they were also helping them economically

3. Why were identification cards later used for? How is this connected to the Holocaust?
to determine the people that were sent to a death camp and they were killed.
. If you were a freed slave or an indentured labourer in Mauritius, you had to carry a Card.

4. When did Hutus gain political power?
used ethnic tensions to preserve his own power. Hutu radicals, working with his group (and later against it), co-opted the Hamitic hypothesis, portraying the Tutsi as outsiders, invaders, and oppressors of Rwanda

5. Write two facts about the country of Rwanda.
Rwanda experienced Africa's worst genocide in modern times
atleasty 8000 tutsis have been brutally massacred during this time.

Understanding Genocide

1) Acts committed with intent or destroy, in whole or in part, national, ethical, racial or religious group.

2) Every human being- Arrogant thoughts, feelings of irritation, coldness, anger, envy, even indifference

Prejudice- 'What mattered about Vitya was that he was my trusted friend, not that he was Jewish.

3) 1904 NAMIBIA
1915 ARMENIA
1932 UKRAINE
the HOLOCAUST
1975 CAMBODIA
1982 GUATEMALA
1994 RWANDA
1995 BOSNIA

4) It is occuring in Darfu, Sudan.

Background to Hotel Rwanda

1) What are the two major groups in Rwanda?
- The hutu and the tutsi.
2) What group is considered "superior?" Why?
- The tutsi's because they had lighter skin and there features were european.
3) How was this group treated better?
- the beligions were offering them better jobs, housing, and better food.
4) How long did the genocide last? How many people were killed during this time?
- It went on since 1959 to 1994 and 200,000 people were killed.
5) Define genocide.
- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Gang Statistics

1) As of 2009, approximately how many active gang members are there in the US?
- 1 million
2) What percentage of gang members are under the age of 18?
Consider - why do you think this number is so high?
- 40 percent
3) Out of the boys who have been in juvenille hall, what is the ratio of them that have some type of gang affiliation?
- 9 out of 10
4) When female gang members are arrested, what are their crimes usually for?
- drug use, larceny, petty theft, status offenses or domestic issues
5) What percentage of female gang members have been sexually abused?
- 70 percent

It’s a dead end in MS-13

* Beginning of article
- This article talks these gang members from MS-13 doing there job in the gang.
* One way ride
- This article talks about how once your in the gang you die either in the gang or trying to get out.
* Life is cheap
- This artilce talks about how people will get shot for no reason.
* A deadly dis
- This article talks about how it is a gamble being in MS-13.
* No way out
- This article talks about how once your in the gang you can't get out you live and die for MS-13.

Mara Salvatrucha Background Information

1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
-They were originally founded in Los Angeles CA, they were then organized in El Salvador.
They are a gang that want Revenge from life and kill people brutally beating them.
2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara Salvatrucha?
-The people or Members that got arrested and deported then recruit and make a bigger piece of that gang.
People that have been deported also get mad and they release a rage together that runs the streets filled with blood and dead bodies.
3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect
-The girl who they mentioned was killed because she ionformed the FBI about some of the Activivities that they did as a Gang.

Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of crime

1. How many gang members are there in the US?
- 1 million people
2. In how many states is MS13 active?
- 42 states
3. Summarize gang activity in Omaha, Nashville, and Maryland.
- There were 13 poeple who got caught for a murder and they all pleaded gilty but they flead to maryland before the got caught.

Catadores

Valter,Tia"O. and Zumbi
I have learned that they had to live in a landfill because they dont have money. They would work and earn 20 a week just to pick recyclibles. They would eat the food that would be thrown away by other people. Tia"o is still working in the landfill. Also Zumbi works with Tia"o but also as a Co-op.

Mid-Quarter Grade Review

What is your percentage?
5/75 I have an F.
How many assignments are you missing?
All of them because she didnt have my url for this.

Why I recycle!

How much trash does one American produce each year?
2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution
Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence.
To redice it means that you cut down on the garbage or sometimes waste the the we reproduce it.
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.
Reuse is to help with the gargabe problem and to find ways that either you.
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.
Recycle is when you recycle your bottles and they can use it again, like you return something old and they created into a something new.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage-throw away 65 million plastic and metal
**Paper- with the paper they create the newspapers,people to use paper they cut 850 millions tress per year.
**Landfils-can reduce, reuse and recycle instead of throwing away so much trash.
**Recycling-people has use the recycle for allmost 3,000 years.
**Energy-the recycle can save the energy

Problems with Landfills

1) What are bottom liners?
-it creates a bathtub in the bottom ground

2) Explain, IN YOUR OWN WORDS (the answers are right there and obvious so you have to be able to put your answers in your own words), the problems with the following types of bottom liners:
a) Clay- it is often factured but then it starts to crack easy
b) Plastic-household chemicals go through the the plastic but then it makes the plastic soft after a while it starts to crack
c) Composite- It starts to leak after a while.

3) What is a leachate collection system? Explain one problems with this system.
-This is a thing that keeps all the water that gets contaminated by the trash.

4) What is a cover? Explain one problem with using a cover.
-it is something like an umbrella to keep water out of landfills

5) Considering that Americans produce almost 5 pounds a day (as an individual), what do you think are some alternatives to landfills?
-they should just burn the trash

Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-4.6 pounds
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5%
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-55%
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
•Dump - an open hole in the ground where trash is buried and that has various animals swarming around.
•Landfill - carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground in which trash is isolated from the surrounding environment . This isolation is accomplished with a bottom liner and daily covering of soil.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-You do not want excess water from the landfill draining on to neighboring property or vice versa
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-Sanitary reasons so for it doent damage the earth.
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
-I think that there will be more pollution and the dumps and landfills would take up alot of space.

Martin Moreno- Housing Segregation

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/2011/08/violent-ms-13-gang-fading-bay-area

            This article tells me how some members from MS-13 "one of the most violent gangs in the world" were charged for severval things. One of the cops thought that the gang was dieing down but they moved to different places. They were commiting many murders in other places too. Once theyarrested some members from that gang the number of murders went down.

Bachalor Party

1) Police chief William H. Parker
-He was a really racist cop that would get other cops from the south to crack down on the people of color. He hated people of color.
2) Second Migration of African Americans (out of the South --- to places like LA)
-It is that almost 5 million african amercans migrated from the SOUTH to the north,mid west, and the west. They came for a better life but they would get picked on by the whites.
3) White Flight
-White flight has been a term that originated in the United States, starting in the mid-20th century, and applied to the large-scale migration of whites of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.

Background on Gangs

*** What do you know about gangs?
-Gangs are a group of people who are from one neighbor hood and what to make there gamg bigger and want to let people know that there gang is "down"
*** What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc.
-My experience with gangs is really big. I grew up around gangs, my father was in a gang, also many people in my family were in a gang. I also was involved with a gang when I little but then I got tired of getting into trouble just for a place were I grew up at. I watch gangland and it also tells me about gangs.

Under the Same Moon - Movie Review

                                                     Under The Same Moon
I only watched some part of the movie under the moon. The movie was goog because it was about mexicans. I didnt like it because i couldnt watch all of it This movie is a 5 because it is a good movie.

                                                             Forrest Gump
I didnt like this movie because it didnt catch my attention. It was boring and i didnt like it. I rate this movie a 1 because of how boring it was.

                                                     Boy in Stripped Pajammas
This movie was ok it is rated a 3 because it was somewhat boring too. It was nice of the boy to go and help the kid look for the dad.

Skin Tone Test

I wasn't suprised by my results because i ain't rasist. My rusults were like that because i guessed. I dont think nothing racisist. i is connected to immagration because immagrants were picked on because of there race.

10 Myths about Immigration

1. Most immigrants are here illegally.
- Of the more than 31 million not from here people living in the United States in 2009, about 20 million were either citizens or legal residents

2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
- For about the first 100 years, the United States had an “open immigration system that allowed any able-bodied immigrant in,” explains immigration historian David Reimers

3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
- The simple answer is that there is no “line” for most very poor people with few skills to stand in and gain permanent U.S. residency

4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
-While today’s immigrants may speak their first language at home, two-thirds of those older than 5 speak English “well” or “very well” according to research by the independent, nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute

5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
-The reality is that the typical pattern of assimilation in the United States has remained steady, says Reimers

6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
-On an economic level, Americans benefit from relatively low prices on food and other goods produced by undocumented immigrant labor.

7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
- According to the conservative Americas Majority Foundation, crime rates during the period 1999–2006 were lowest in states with the highest immigration growth rates.

8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
-The Social Security Administration estimates that half to three-quarters of undocumented immigrants pay federal, state and local taxes, including $6 billion to $7 billion in Social Security taxes for benefits they will never get

9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
-Many people also accuse immigrants of having “anchor babies”—children who allow the whole family to stay

10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal
-No they just crossed illegally abd they just came to this country to have a better life

Home room grade

Home Room: 45% (F)
I am not happy with my grade in this class. I will have to redo alot of work to get a better grade and then I would have to keep doing my work to maintain my grade.

Immigration Quiz

What was the question?
-About four out of 10 undocumented immigrants enter the country legally and then overstay their visas. What percentage of undocumented immigrants cross the southern border of the U.S.?

What was your inital answer?
-12 percent

What was the correct answer?
-40 percent

Why did it surprise you so much and What did you learn?
-Because that's alot of undocumented immigrants coming into the U.S from the southern border. I learned that we have lots of illegal and legal immigrants coming from all different places into the U.S.

Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry

Undocumented Workers
- Undocumented women filll our lowest paying jobs and go through so much hard labor to get the food we eat today.
- There are is about 4.1 million undocumented women in the U.S. today. In addition, 4 million U.S.-born children.

Farmworkers
- The U.S Department of Labor states that farmworkers suffer from higher rates of toxic chemical injuries and skin disorders than any other workers in the country.
- The children immagrant farmworkers have higher rates of pesticide exposure than the general public.

Poultry Workers
- Almost a quarter of the workers that butcher and process meat, poultry and fish are undocumented.
- Out of 174 chicken factories in the major U.S are latino and more than half are women.

Sexual Abuse on the Job
- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discovered that hundreds if not thousands of women had to have sex with supervisors to get or keep jobs and/or put up with a constant barrage of grabbing and touching and propositions for sex by supervisors
- It showed in an article in Florida of 1989 that sexual harrasment was so bad that the women would refer to fields in California as "The Green Motel" and "Fil de Calzon" ("Fields of Panties")

 

Immigration & Nativism

           4 QUESTIONS
1. What is nativism?
-Refers to a policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants
2. What were the two main sources of nativism in the early 19th century?
-Religion and labor
3. What were the two main groups that resulted from nativism?
- Nothing Party and the Ku Klux Klan"kkk"
4. What has been the result of 20th century nativism?
-Tighter immagration laws
           DEFINITIONS
Migrate- Move from one region to another

Migration- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

Immigration- The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

Under the Same Moon

1. What countries did they come from? Mainly they came from Italy and Irland. Also they were coming from Europe.
2. Why did they come to America? They came to amrecia for a better life. Also they came because it is the land of the free.

3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN. They weren't welcomed to amercia. They would start problems over who came first to amercia.
4. What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing? They started to look for a job and they would live in basements. They would work for slauter houses and the girls would work on sewing bottons on shirts and sweaters.

Jewish Resistance

1.) Hitler would cut off the jews tounges so they dont talk or scream while being tortured.
2.) He put them in a camp that would have a electrical fence all around it.

This paragraph is talking about how hitler would treat the jews and how the jews would have to live. The jews would always try to escape but would get caught and tortured. There was this one group of people who escaped and they formed a group that got bigger and then they ended up haveing a spritural resisitace. They didnt care that the place were they live was distroyed by the nazis.

One Thousand Children

          During the holocaust many deaths and how out of thousands of jews wents to a hundred of jews were saved and the narrator talks about why he talks about it he was a survivor as well the holocaust happened duringg the 1940's .Over half a century, and describe how a group of dedicated individuals, and later organizations, rose to the threat of Nazism, faced American immigration laws and child-settlement bureaucratic limitations, and took upon themselves the challenge of saving hundreds of children from discrimination and possible death.

         This story is in the first part of spring in the year of 1933, only after a few weeks after Hitler came into power, when the particularly touching plight of Jewish children in Nazi Germany moved several American Jewish organizations to suggest various means of assistance. In the middle of that year, the executive committee of the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist-Oriented organization connected with the World Jewish Congress, adopted a resolution expressing the hope that some 40,000 German-Jewish children would be cared for by private families throughout the world. A considerable number of these children were expected to reach the United States.

Holocaust Overview

Ms. S check my edmodo because it doesnt let me publish it here.

Kite Running

1. What is kite running? What are the roles of each person called? What do they do?
 a sport they have in afghanistan, they are vivtimsof the russians, they move to america to start a new life and they are not as wealthy as before.
2. What is the history of kite running in Afghanistan? How long? Importance?
it is important becuase they admire those who win
3. Kite running was not allowed during Taliban rule. Why do you think this is?
if you were caught with a kite, many times you would be beaten and the spool
would be destroyed
4. What signifance does kite running play in the movie, The Kite Runner? What does it help teach us about the characters? It represents freedom for the kids thats why the taliban thought of it as a bad thing.

Week 5 Grades

39% I am not  saticfied about my grade. I got this grade because i didnt turn in my url for this blog. I have 7 missing assignments. I am going to turn in my url for this blog. Im going to do all my work. I will do good on my tests.

Taliban Rule in Afghanistan

1. What is the Taliban?
A Sunni Muslim movement dominated by people with Pashtun ethnic identity

2. During what time did they control Afghanistan?
1996 to 2001

3. What guided Taliban rule (philosophy/religion)? List two laws that they enforced.
911 when they crashed the twin towers

4. What was the set of laws called that the Taliban regime used? List two prohobitions they had (things they people weren't allowed to eat/drink/etc.
Cant shave there beards and can't listen to music

5. What event made the US get involved with the Taliban?
91

6. In 1-2 sentences, describe the treatment of women under Taliban rule
They were treated different then the men.

Pashtuns and Hazaras in Afghanistan

1) What percentage of the population do Pashtuns and Hazaras make up in Afghanistan?
45% and 8%
2) Where do Pashtuns mainly live? What language do they speak?
Pashtu and live in Kabul
3) Where do Hazaras mainly live? What language do they speak?
Farsi and live in dry mountains
4) What effect did the Soviet Invasion of 1979 have on the Pashtun/Hazara ethnic groups?
December 1979 has been the major determining factor in Afghanistan's ethnic relations since that point in time
5) From what you read, why is there a conflict between Amir and Hassan? How does what you learned explained their relationship?
They are best friends and there ethnic group are different

Background of Afghanistan

1. Who was involved in the Afghan Civil War? When was it?
Democratic Party of Afganistan and the Soviet Union were involved and this began on 27 April 1978

2. What was the military coup called?
Saur Revolution

3. When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? Why?
Ivaded in December 1979 to keep the Afghan PDPA communists in power

4. What were the Peshawar Accords?
Established the Islamic state of Afghanistan and appointed an interim government.

5. List two things the Taliban prohobits women from doing.
1.Women were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight.
2.Women were not allowed to work

6. Who was Ahmad Shah Massoud? What were the laws for girls/women like under him?
1.He was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the name Lion of Panjshir.
2.Women and girls did not have to wear the Afghan burqa. They were allowed to work and to go to school. In at least two known instances, Massoud personally intervened against cases of forced marriage. To Massoud there was reportedly nothing worse than treating a person like an object

7. What was the US led war in Afghanistan called? When did it start?
1.It was called the Operation Eduring Freedom.
2.It started on september 11, 2001

Journal

What do you think Forrest Gump is about or, if you have already seen it, what do you remember about it?

Forest Gump is about a guy that is a little slow and he goes in the army and lives in the big war that the a little people sursived. He falls in love with some girl named Jenny. It was about all types of  people can do anything they set there mind to.