Mi Vida Loca.

Mi Vida Loca, a movie based on a book, called always running, about the gang life in Huntington Park, California, is the one movie’s that remind me the most of imperialism. These gangs are meant to control territory and power; it is what the gang life is all about.  The fight and argue about who owns what side of town, over names, and who has the most power around. In Los Angeles, California this is a very common factor among teenagers. School are filled with Gangs and Gang member who try to get teenagers to get involved in their gang activities because they know it will take them a lot more to come out the gang life then it would take an adult.

Also, in Mi Vida Loca, The girls try to fight like the boys do, they try to fight battles that they should not try to fight for the boys, even though they come from the same culture in this case the same gang, they have different duties then the one they try to fight.

                This movie reminds me of imperialism because just like the U.S fights to earn power, the gang members fight other gangs which in the case of this country it would be other countries. As hard as it seems, yeah sometimes the gang members’ fight to help other people like the U.S helped Cuba become an independent country from Spain. The gang members also fight to help other people, or as they see it to help the people of their own kind, which in the case of this movies it would be the Mexicans. They protect themselves, and they help other Mexican’s too.

                In the other hand, while the U.S government fights for the best of our country, and it looks good, whereas when the police sees the gang members fight they say it is illegal and they should not do it but at the end of the day it is the example we show our kids. They youngsters are the ones who lern the most about the gang life, especially when they are born in the gang. One you are born in a gang you have no way out of it or you will go through many horrible situations. When you are bron in imperiaiism you can not get out of it unless your teacher gets you out but in this case not even the parents can get out out. It is important for them to always keep up with the enemies.

                In another point of view, we can also say that the gang members and imperialism are similar because just the way when imperialism becomes in charge of different countries that still stand on their own the gang members can help you out but if they like you and only you they will not let people from the other cliques inside their town and if they do decide to come just like that something really bad can happen to them.

                The gang members take pride and power very serious and if they do not get respected they will be very offended and it would take So much for them to be nice again. They would not trust you or the gang you are a head of.

How would You Feel If You Were Uncommunicated.?

If I lived in this time period and I had to go to the War without being able to cmmunicate with my family i would be debastated. Family to me has always been everything. I am very close to them and to think that i have to be away and I would not be able to just send a text, an inbox on facebook, or even an email, would hurt a lot. Just to imagine that I would have have to wait many days, weeks and sometimes even months would fill me with frestruation. The soldier's family probably felt scared for the soldiers life, scared to not be able to know if the soldier was still alive by the time they had recieved the letter from them. I know I would have gone crazy if I couldn't communicate with my family.

What Were You Thinking? What Were THEY Thinking?

At this time in their life the pilots were probably scared. The pilots had to think about saving their lives no matter who they were killing. It could have been a friend or a family member of the pilot that just happened to be in the opposite team. Also, all they had to think was about saving their lives before anything else, shoot to kill, or they would die, they had to think about their family whom they left behind, whom they loved and whom the pilots knew loved them very much. If I had  been there I would just think about my family and how much they would suffer if anything ever happened to me.

Queen Lil's 
Well I'm off to declare my new constitution. !!!! wish me luck
01/14/1892 1:05 PM
Queen Lil's 
WELL it's been refused. damn it.
01/14/1892 2:00 PM
Queen Lil's It looks like a nice day today (: Other than having to go and challenge stevens >:/
01/15/1892 12:00 PM
Queen Lil's 
USS Boston has arrived uh ohhhhh
01/15/1892 12:30 PM
Queen Lil's

Awh, I love you all who came to support me!

01/16/93 5:02 PM

Queen Lil's
Troops are marching through downtown protesting 
01/16/93 5:02 PM
Queen Lil's

we have been betrayed Sanford Dole becoming President.

01/16/93 5:20 PM

Queen Lil's

I just ended up yeilding my throne. :/

 01/17/93 11:20 AM

Panama Canal

 The work that we have to do for the Panama Canal is terrible. My life is in danger at all times. Most deaths are because of gases, dynamite explosions, getting crushed by rocks. It is absolutely just horrid. The weather is hot and sticky, there are even diseases I have to worry about contracting. Like, Malaria, YellowFever, dysentery, typhoid and dengue.I really want to go back to my family. I hate that I had to take this job in order to support them, because if I am killed in the process, no one is there for them. I do this back breaking work, at all times in fear of death. Why do I have to live such a life. Well, at least this is almost done, and I can hopefully soon be reunited with them.


 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has a direct representation of  these two classes, the Borugeoisie and the Proletariat. The bourgeoisie is Willy Wonka he is the highest power.He looks over the Oompa Loompas, who are the proletariat, and ensures that they do their job. The oopma loompas do everything in the factory and do whatever Willy Wonka tells them to.  This is exactly what Carl Marx's Communist Manefesto coveys, a higher power suppressing a middle class. 

School of the Americas... Not cool.

The School of the Americas is inhumane. Latin American citizens have been "tortured, raped, assassinated, "disappeared," massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins." These men are basically trained to kill, they have destroyed the lives or many Latin Americans, in countries such as Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala and many more. Our government is paying for, and training these men for the wrong reasons. We should not be intervening in their affairs. Only for these men to end up killing innocent people, in an attempt to overthrow governments. For what exactly? for Americas benifit... well I don't believe it has had any effect on us, negative or positive. All we see is lives being taken for the wrong reasons. The SOA should not continue to run.

My Favorite.!!

My favorite blog post was ,"Does history matter?" because this blog made me realize that we make history eeryday. We make history in the world, in our lives, in the country we live in, practically everything we do, and say will affect somone or something in this world one way or another. Histry represents who we are today, to the people in the future. We record history to have prove of what we have done, and the outcome of it. Most of the time we only record in our history and only teach what we do good and everything that is good for us. We tend not to teach other about our mistakes but only about what we have done the right way to make us look like role models who had done most things right. Knowing that a choice i make today can make a difference in someones history is what makes me like this blogs post a lot and it is why this is my favorite one.

What does it feel to be an immigrant.?

 At this point in time beingan immigrants was a lot worse then it was back then. people had to go through phisycals, cross the atlantic or pacific ocean and very poor conditions. The immigrants traveled in steering section in which diseases were spread rapidly due to the fact that the rooms were very small. Many of these immigrants came from the western and eastern europe. According to these pictures, they did not look happy at all, but who can be happy when they have left everything behins in their cuntries to become practically nobody here. If coming here now as a legal person is hard for someone, i can imagine how hard it was probably for them when they had no internet to communicate with their family or any technology. It must have been hard and very hurtful for them.

Factory Slavery..

According to this song and what we have discussed in class these women and girls whom worked at the factory were not conditioned to do this hard job. Te apperently worked in very poor conditions until very late. From day to night, from light to dark, they worked all they long, they would wait for the stars to come because they would know that it would mean they could go home. They could rest a little.The slaves were treated so bad that they did not even get any food. They even had dreams about sowing buttons. I think it is brutal the conditions these women wored in, and it is understandable that they would prefer to die then to live like this.!

Going To The West

Searching For A Better Life, Not.

In 1865 the 13th amendment was created which purpose was to abolish slavery in the United States. Then in 1868, 14th amendment was came alone providing a guarantee of rights and security of the freed people. Finally, the 15th amendment was issued, and it allowed African- Americans the right to vote. This led to allowing the states to come up with the black codes. These were laws that applied to the freed man stopping them from serving in juries, coming to private properties, sitting in the back of the bus and even serving the military representing the United States. This is what we know as segregation. Even though all the laws and amendments were passed they white men still did everything they could to separate the black from them.  It always seemed that the black race was progressing but at the end of the day they would go forward and back at the same time. Yeah laws were passed for them but the white race always found its way to let them know that they were still inferior, and as the United States citizens they were they could not be denied any of those rights.

For example, when the slaves were let free, the white men knew that the freed men did not have the resources to become independent right away. Yes, passing the bills and amendments was a step for the black race to become independent sometime in the future but not right away. They did not have the money, or the knowledge of education to know that they could be more the just sharecroppers. As they were “free men’ living in their masters land, they had to follow a contract that they had to sign agreeing to give about 50% of the crops to the White men to pay for everything they needed.

In the other had during the civil rights movement that took places later on they African Americans were still being treated differently. The white men segregated them by sending them to separate schools, different benches at park, sitting in the back of the public buses, not having any kind of relationship with them. They treated them as if they were not humans just as everyone else was. The whole country was divided as “white men” and in the other side the “Black Men” yes legally they have the right but they were not being enforced in any way.

The civil rights movements were a time period when the Colored men got tired of after all they have been through and everything they had done they were still treated different. Many men tried to stand up for the black men but not all of them got to live long enough to make it happen. A lot of these men were killed as they attempted to make the black men right the same as the white men. They stood up so that the white men would want to have a relation with them, why not? They were human beings, who should have the same civil rights, such as sitting in the same place in the bus, going to the same school, attending the same restaurants, drinking out of the same water fountains. Also, they should be able to have the good things the white men had. By which I mean that the white men would always have newer things and not would forget but would intentionally leave the old things that didn’t work to the freed men. At the end of the day after everything the color society wen through and everything their ancestors suffered they are not free and have the equal right so many fought for.

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How free were the Slaves after the reconstruction.

The slaves were not free at all after the reconstruction. Yeah they had the rights but they did not have the resources to be free.! they could not leave their master's plantation because not many of the slaves had the money to go to the north and be free so staying at in the south as their only option. 50% of their crops grown in their master's plantation where they also lived was for the white people to pay for the tools the freed men use and themselves. It was thelegal way for the white men to feel in a type of control over the freed men . They didn't want to realize that they now not had any control over them and if they wanted to live they could, but the white men were very aware that the freed men did not only not have the resources economically but also they didn't have the education to do it.

Should we forgive the South.?

The president of the North claimed to want to give the south amnesty but as we discussed in class the North nor the South were happy about this. Lincoln wanted to replace loyal rule in the south. He also agreed on forgiving the crimes all the high ranking confederate officials had committed. Ten percent of the south states had to take an oath of loyalty but even though that was a part of it, it was not enough, ten percent of the population is a very small percent as we descussed it in class.This part of the reconstruction made the republicans mad because the congress men were confederates goverment officials. They didn't agree with it because their crimes were just forgiven easily.

Stereotypes in the Country.

We are so aware of the stereotypes in our society due to the fact that we are surounded by so many other cultures and societies at all time. In this country people come to accomplish te "American Dream" from all over the world, and we all thing our culture is better then an other one. So we creat this stereotypes of eachother to make the other one look bad. Also, sometimes we feel like there are certain guidelines we need to follow to fill in or represent our culture and where we come from. we do ot ofter realize that we hurt people by sayig things we say just because that is what we are told since we are kids. Childre are told by their families to always represent their traditios ad culture but ever realize that it is how we creat the stereotypes we kow today.

Don't fix what is Not broken!

"The government is best, which governs least." This quote I believe  was said  to tell the goverment to do what they have to do but to stay away from the population's life as much as possible. Do not give or take away anything from the people who believe it is fine the way it is. We do not need the government to "fix" what we consider is good for the country. Do I agree with this qoute said by Thoreau? Of course! The less you try to tell the people what to do the better the country will be led. We don't need to be told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. The government should focus more on the things that need to be taken care such as education, immigration, polution and the youth of the country. If we were to focus  more on what need to be done to become the best country we can be to the world then the country as a whole would feel well represented by their government and would have more respect for them.

Schools should take a look at the way students are being thought history. Little kids should not be looking at the cartoon movies to learn about what happened in history. Plus those cartoons are not even telling them the true of what really happened. Te country does not want us to learn what really did go down because they would not want to make themselves look bad. In our eyes the united states is an honorably country which many other countries look up to right now but if we were to know what really happened in detailed then we would probably not be as fascinated by the country and its government anymore. Therefore we teach the kids what we want them to know to represent us in a good manners the country. We should think  that we are preparing this young adults for life and one day they will  run into someone who will make them feel like ignorance for believing what we are being thought at school which is not always the right story and that is when the education reputastion for this country will start going down. It might be too late to try to fix it then.

Countries should not be able to disappear any content of their history due to the fact that is it not in their favor. Children should have the right to learn about both sides of history to understand better why people did what they did and why events occur the way they did. Students want to know the other side of the story not to pick sides but to be able to appreciate the complete history of the world. It could be easier for students if they can identify with one side of the they even or battle to learn the content of the history behind the actual event. Countries should by law not be able to hide to students the true story behind the history of the world.

In my opinion history is one of the most important subjects at school. Many kids argue that why should we learn about what happened in the past, but every event that has happened anytime before this minute has brought us to where we are today. History has opened as it might have closed opportunities for us. For example, in my families history thank to my grandmother who was brave enough to immigrate to the United States to give her children a better life I have the chance to have a good education and be bilingual. If my grandmother would have stayed in Guatemala I would not even have any kind of chance to attend a college here or in Guatemala. So my history has brought me to where i am now and the same way happened with the history of this country and any other country. Whatever happened before has brought it to where it is today and student should have that knowledge of  the past events of the world which have helped us come to this point in the world.