Bastards of the Party

City of Quartz summary

Reason 1 - Diverse racial composition
- The reason is because of all the mixes of latin american, asian, and european they ensured that the black freedom would develop a multiracial context.

Reason 2 - Dynamic economic growth
- They lost alot of the manufacturing jobs, they gained alot but also lost alot of miney because certain people couldnt work for their color or whatever.

Reason 3 - Dispersive spatial arrangement
- The dense population combined with proportionally small size of the black population the rigid racial segregation of the workplace, and the city's heavy dependence on private rather than public transportation, created an atmosphere which led to blacks and whites not getting along and allowing residential blacks to prewar in LA

Gangs in the News

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015994828_gangs24m.html

- On July 23 rival gang members opened fire at a car show in kent and 12 people were injured and a 13th was that same night at an apartment complex.
- the sheriff's office predicts that there is about 140 street gangs with more than 10,000 gang members in king county and the gang criminal activity increased 165 percent since 2005.
- in 2008 and 2009 there was 29 gang related homicides and 200 reported gang related shootings around the same time.
- Gagliardi says that there's about 5 or 6 latino gangs are responsible for most violence and most gang member are between 12 and 35 years old.
- Gang members committ crimes for their gangs to get money by committing burglaries, robberies, car thefts and trafficking in stolen property, including firearms.

Background on Gangs

What do you know about gangs?
- i don't know anything about gangs ms. s
What is your experience with gangs?
- i don't have any experiences with any gangs.
Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc.
- from watching the news and seen some things that happened i  learned that gangs are really stupid and a waste of time.

Pashtuns and Hazaras in Afghanistan

1) What percentage of the population do Pashtuns and Hazaras make up in Afghanistan?
- The Hazaras take up about 9% of Afghanistan's population and Pashtuns take up about 45% of the population in Afghanistan.

2) Where do Pashtuns mainly live? What language do they speak?
- The pashtuns mainly live in Afghanistan and Pakistan and speak pashto.

3) Where do Hazaras mainly live? What language do they speak?
- Most Hazaras live in Afghanistan as well and scattered in other countries and they speak a form of persian language called, Dari.

4) What effect did the Soviet Invasion of 1979 have on the Pashtun/Hazara ethnic groups?
- When the soviet invasion began, the Hazaras fought against the communist governement and succeeded in liberating most of their homeland early in the begining of the civil war and for the Pashtuns were the ones who dominated on the factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan up until mid 1991.

5) From what you read, why is there a conflict between Amir and Hassan? How does what you learned explained their relationship?
- Because they are Amir was the higher class (Pashtun) and Hassan was the lower class (Hazaras) so people were always wondering why Amir would hang out with him. It explains their relationship because since they're from two totally different classes it explains the reason they were treated differently and tells why Amir's dad was able to get him out of that city.

Under the Same Moon - Movie Review

How did you like this movie?
- I really like it.
What did you like about it?
- i liked it because of all the parts that kept you on the edge.
What do you not like about it?
- i didn't not like anything about it.
Rate it from 1-5.
5
Rate all the movies from 1-5 with WHY you rated them that way.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
5- because it was really interesting but also a learning experience.
Forrest Gump
2- i didnt really like this movie because it was pretty boring.
Under the Same Moon
5- i liked this movie because it was really interesting to me and i learned alot about immigration.
The Kite Runner
3- i didn't really like this movie because i wasn't here for the whole movie.

Skin Tone Test

What were your results?
- My results were that i perfer light skinned people rather than dark skinned people.

Were you surprised by your results? Why?
- Yeah cause im not really raciest but i just would rather be light skinned.

Why do you think your results were what they were?
- Cause i like my skin color

What does this suggest about implicit (hidden/not obvious/you don't talk about it) racism?
- that i like to be light skinned.

How might this connect to the concept of immigration?
- This connects because light skinned people might not want others in their country cause they just don't like them.

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? 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.

Grades

What is your grade?
-My grade is a 40% (F)

How many missing assignments are you missing?
-I have 12 missing assignments.

Are you satisfied with this grade? If so, how will you maintain it? If not, how will you improve it?
-No, because I know I can do better and I'm going to improve my grade by getting all my missing assignments turned before the end of this week.

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

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.

1. What is nativism?
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?
The know- nothing party and the Ku Klux Klan.

4. What has been the result of 20th century nativism?
Tighter immagration laws

1. What countries did they come from?
They came from mainly Italy and Ireland.

2. Why did they come to America?
They came to America for a better life and because there's freedom and land.

3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN.
They weren't really welcome here. When they arrived, many of them were put through lots of obstacles because since they were coming from diffeent countries and different places everyone didnt get along and since they were illegaly entering America the people who already lived there were mean because they were there first.

4. What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing?
When they arrived they looked for jobs, they lived in people's basements, and they would work in slaughter houses while girls sewed buttons on shirts.

Jewish Resistance

Jews started trying to fight back in 1943 when they heard rumors saying that the Germans were goignt o deport all the Jews. Jewish groups attacked German tanks with Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms. The Germans were able to stop the war within days but it took about a month to deport all the Jews.Thousands of Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into forests. Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers in 1943 and prisoners with stolen weapons attacked the staff. Jews in the ghetto camps responded to the Nazi's with spiritual resistance such as creating Jewish cultural institutions, continuing to observe religious holidays and rituals, providing clandestine education, publishing underground newspapers, and collecting and hiding documentation.




Shocking Facts:
- Nearly 250 Jews died during the fighting.
- 200 more Jews died, the SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying the members of the Sonderkommando with explosives to blow up a crematorium.

One Thousand Children Website Project

The Holocaust rescue started being discovered around the time of the 1940s which was about a decade and a half after the war. His brother and sister survived due to a four-country, trans-continental odyssey. He was interested in researching history and what happened in the holocaust because of what he had to go through during the holocaust. In the next section he"s gonnna be talking about his research on 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.

When the war started around 1933 the German/Jewish kids didn't have any safe places to go so they finally started moving some 40,000 Jewish kids into safe homes with different families and were hopefully on there way to reaching the U.S. The children refugees were held highger than the adult refugees and always came first. Some of the reason as to why is because, they would not compete with labor during the economic depression, American immigration regulations already stipulated that the Secretary of Labor would accept bonds for unaccompanied children, and last was because children would arouse more sympothy than any other group. Between 1933 and 1934 the American Jewish Comittee worked with a program thta would bring 250 German- Jewish children to the United States.

Holocaust Overview

An Overview of the Holocaust

Using the link, http://www.ushmm.orp/wlc/en/article.php?Moduleld=10007262 (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website), go to “Education” at the top of the page, scroll down and click on “for teachers”, then go to the left side of the page and click on “essential topics to teach”. Then click on each topic area, read the entire section then answer the question that corresponds to that particular section.

1933-1939

Dictatorship under the Third Reich

In the first months of Hitler's chancellorship, the Nazis instituted a policy of "coordination"--the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals. Which were the four goals that came under Nazi control?

The four goals that came under Nazi control was culture, the economy, education.

Early Stages of Persecution

The Nuremberg Laws did not identify a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs. Instead, the first amendment to the Nuremberg Laws defined a “Jew” as?

The first amendment to the Nuremberg laws defined a “Jew” as anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual recognized himself or herself belonged to the Jewish Religious community.

The First Concentration Camps

Define the term “Concentration Camp”

Concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that is a constitutional democracy.

1939-1945

World War II in Europe

What happened on September 1, 1939, that starts WWII? Explain.

On September 1, 1939 Germany started World War II by invading Poland.

Murder of the Disabled (Euthanasia Program)

The Euthanasia Program murdered children, young adults, and adults that were considered “physically” and “mentally” disabled. They were put in gas chambers and then burned to ashes. These were not “Jews” but Germans. The families were told that their family membered died from what?

After being murdered their families were told that it was from Enterprise T4.

Persecution and Murder of Jews

Others than the Jewish people, name three other populations that were targeted under Hitler’s Regime.

Three other populations that were targeted under Hitler’s Regime was the Roma (gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples.

Ghettos

What were the three types of ghettos?

Three types of ghettos were closed ghettos, open, ghettos and destruction ghetto.

Mobile Killing Squads (Einsatzgruppen)

The “Einsatzgruppen” were mainly German soldiers and Secret Service German men that would go and kill Jews and anyone who was against Hitler. How did they kill these people? At first they only killed men, but as the war continued, did they kill women and children?

They would shoot people, rob homes, kill women, children, and old people.

Expansion of the Concentration Camp System

The goods extracted or produced by prisoner labor in the concentration camps were sold to what two German Reich through SS-owned firms?

The two German Reich through SS-owned firms was the Krakow (Cracow) and Trawniki.

Killing Centers

What was the name of the first “Killing Center”? Where and when did it open?

The first killing center was Chelmno which opened in the Warthgeau (Part of Poland annexed to Germany) in December 1941

Additional Victims of Nazi Persecution

Among the earliest victims of Nazi discrimination in Germany were political opponents -- primarily Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, and trade union leaders. What was the name of the concentration camp that these political enemies were placed?

Given overall responsibility for the security of the Nazi empire, Hitler was the key and senior Nazi official, responsible for conceiving and overseeing implantation of the so called final solution which was the Nazi plan to murder the Jews of Europe.

Jewish Resistance and Non-Jewish Resistance

Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers. Name two of these center and include the month and year.

April-May 1943- Treblinka Killing Center

October-1943- Sobibor Killing Center

Rescue

What is “Zegota” and when did it begin?

The Zegota was a Polish underground organization that provided for the social welfare needs of Jews and this began in September 1942.

United States

After reading this section, why do you think that the United States refused to help the people that were being murdered?

I think when it came down to it the reason the U.S Authorities didn’t help rescue was because they wanted the war to be settled already so I’m guessing they wanted to really show that they wanted something to be done about it already.

Death Marches

The evacuations of the concentration camps had three purposes, what were those reasons?

(1)SS authorities did not want prisoners to fall into enemy hands alive to tell their stories to Allied and Soviet liberators

(2)The SS thought they needed prisoners to maintain production of armaments wherever possible

(3)Some SS leaders, including Himmler, believed irrationally that they could use Jewish concentration camp prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that would guarantee the survival of the Nazi regime

Liberation

The Germans tries to destroy the evidence by destroying the concentration camps. However, what evidence was found that proved the Germans had killed an unimaginable number of Jewish peoples?

They found some personal belongings, hundreds of thousands of men’s suits, more than 800,000 women’s outfits and more than 14,000 pounds of human hair.

Post- 1945

Postwar Trials

The International Military Tribunal (IMT) defined crimes against humanity as?

The IMT defined crimes against humanity as "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation...or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds."

Displaced Persons Camps and Emigration

 Define Zionism a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.

Kite Running

1. What is kite running? What are the roles of each person called? What do they do?
- Kite-running is a two-person affair, with one person called the charka gir and
the other called the gudiparan baz. The charka gir is in charge of the holding
the wooden kite spool. The second person is called the gudiparan baz actually is in control of the movement of the kite in the air
2. What is the history of kite running in Afghanistan? How long? Importance?
- Kite Running has been aroung for about 100 years and its a pastime favorite activity for people in afghanistan and some in Kabul but only on few streets and if they did caught, under taliban rule you'd be beaten and the spool would be destroyed.

3. Kite running was not allowed during Taliban rule. Why do you think this is?
- I think it wasn't allowed during Taliban rule because it seems pretty dangerous and competetive, and fights may have broke out.

4. What signifance does kite running play in the movie, The Kite Runner? What does it help teach us about the characters?
-Amir and Hasan have a friendship like Kite Runners because amir would usually be doing one thing to help hasan and it would be the same way around for hasan but it would usually always be for each othe or together.

week 5 grades

Are you satisfied with this grade?
-I'm not really satisfied with this grade because it's an F but some of my stuff hasn't been graded yet or turned in.

Why is this the grade you are earning?
- Because i didn't turn in everything on time and because all of it hasn't been graded yet.

How many missing assignments do you have?
- I'm missing 10 assignments "/

3 Strategies:
- I will start turning in my work on time.
- I'll start completeing assignments on time.
- and I'll bug ms. s to grade stuff on time more!

Taliban Rule in Afghanistan

1. What is the Taliban?
- is an Islamist militia group that ruled large parts of Afghanistan.

2. During what time did they control Afghanistan?
- from September 1996 to 2001
3. What guided Taliban rule (philosophy/religion)? List two laws that they enforced.
- men were ordered to grow beardes.
- Women were forced to wear the burqa in public.

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.
.-taliban created a government agency. called the ministry for ordering what is right and forbidding what is wrong. to enforce its fundamental rules of behavior taliban leaders banned
music, shut down cinemas and burned films, and buldozed bottles and cans of alchohol.

5. What event made the US get involved with the Taliban?
.-9/11

6. In 1-2 sentences, describe the treatment of women under Taliban rule.
.-women were told to cover themselfs from head to toe in burkas. improperly dressed women were beaten.

Background of Afghanistan

1. Who was involved in the Afghan Civil War? When was it?
- The people's 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.
- Women were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight.
- Women were not allowed to work.

6. Who was Ahmad Shah Massoud? What were the laws for girls/women like under him?
- 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.
- 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?
- It was called the Operation Eduring Freedom.
- It started on september 11, 2001

Forrest Gump

From what i've heard, as a chila is mentally slow and is has handicap preoblems with his legs. He also had speaking disabilities. He had a friend who was a hipi, but they ended up falling in love with each other. As he was growing up, he visited a doctor and they told him that his legs wouldnt be able to get fixed. One day as he was running from guys that were bullying him his braces on his feet fell off and thats how they got fixed. At the end of the movie he had a child with the hipi that he was with.