Dolores Huerta

Patricia Ibarra
Andrews
World History II
22 April 2013




     When attending Dolores Huerta's speech and her telling us about her work and the work she did with Cesar Chavez which was the united farm workers association they had done,was moving because she has really made a change for immigrants and as well as for womens rights. I think it is great how she wants to may a change for those farm workers who earn minimum wage, who work long hours in the fields and with no proper sanitation and health care. Many who work in the fields get sick because of the lack of health care due because they do not have money to pay for medications. Dolores Huerta's foundation, where she mainly focuses this on education, has set this up totally for the people, all the fuunds go to this Dolores Huerta organization and she does not take any of the money for herself. Also when she talked about the times she had gone to jail was very eye opening because it shows how determine this one women is to make a difference in the United states, and also to hear that there was a time where she even had her children in jail with her. I think for her having to go through something like that must have been hard just because I don't think that any mother wishes to have their children in jail with them, and having to suffer something that they had nothing to do with. I think that Dolores Huerta is a great human rights activists that has done so much and having to meet with her was a great privalege because not everyday someone has the opportunity to meet a great activist like Dolores Huerta.

Putin's Challenge

Patricia Ibarra
Andrews
World History II
22 April 2013



      When reading the article about Putin's challenge: The Circassians and the Winter Olympics, I found it interesting to read about how many Muslim people identified themselves as Adyghe who had suffered greatly due to the expanding imperial Russia who had taken over their home. But these people didn't just stand and watch them just take their home. The Circassians fought back but the russians didn't like this so they decided to eliminate them by killing them off or by deporting them which is very cruel because these people had done nothing. I think a good way that Putin could have handled this situation for having the olympics set at Sochi, the Russian resort city, was to realize that Sochi was the site of the Circassians capital and the place where the Ubykh tribe made the Circassian "last stand" in 1864, which had an important significant to the people. Not realizing that this was the place where thousands of killings had been taken place and not acknowledging this, is a complete sign of disrespect and not caring for the loss of the people. Another way that Putin could also show how he wants to take action and be a good person is by him keeping his promise  to extend human rights, dignity with full respect for identity, democratic representation and economic opportunities to all citizen. This would give Russia the chance to have equal rights for everyione and maintaining equal economic needs. Being able to reach out to the people and giving them motivations as to why they should continue to live after the struggles they had to overcome, is a good way to have the respect and trusrt from the people.

Feminism in the West

Patricia Ibarra
Andrews
World History II
22 April 2013


         I was excited to read about feminism in the west and learn about the millions of women who responded to Betty Friedan's book the Feminine Mystique that talked about the identity crisis of educated women who were unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. Black women always worked outside the home and many did not feel for the need to be released  from the responsisblities that needed to be done at home. But on the otherhand, the white women found the family overwhelming and the african american women saw this a safe opportunity to not be part of racism.
       In South Korea and Chile there was a women's movement that focused a lot on the experience of young female workers in the country's export industries.Women who worked in factories were paid very little, had long hours of work and they recieved little respect from other workers and so they had to deal with sexual harassment every day at work. Havig to live during this time of period must have been hard due to the hardships women had to edure just because a lot of women didn't have much freedom and rights. I think the image of women is much more powerful now than it was before because women now have a voice where they are able to speak out and have a choice to do whatever they want with their lives,to better themselves or even as to making a change in the world, that will have an important imapact for younger women.
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The East India Companies

Patricia Ibarra

Andrews

World History 11

28 January 2013

            I found it interesting how the Dutch took control over the shipping but also the production of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace. And how they took control over a number of small spice-producing islands, forcing the people to sell only to the Dutch and destroying the crops of those who refused. I found it very inhumane how the Dutch killed, and enslaved and left to starve overall the entire population of about 15,000 people and who later replaced them with Dutch planters, using a slave labor force to produce the nutmeg crop. During the seventeen century it had been going pretty well for the Dutch because they were able to control the trade in nutmeg, mace, and cloves and to sell the spices to Europe and India. This also would benefit the Dutch because Europe and India had to pay fourteen to seventeen times the price that was paid in Indonesia.

            Also when reading about how people would hunt animals for their furs, was something that was really popular during the little ice age because it increased the demand for a lot of fur, since it was very cold. But the furs still kept being used even when it got close to July, which seems strange because normally by that time it’s pretty hot and everyone probably would be wearing more cool clothes for the heat. The use of fur also made the prices rise, like for good quality beaver pelt. The main way that the people would receive the furs were by the Indians, who would bring the fur and skin to their coastal settlements and later would be taken away to the trading posts in the interior of North America. There the Europeans would buy the furs with their exchange of guns, blankets metals, rum. This was their way of paying back to the Native Americans and shows how little and cheap their labor force was.

Colonies of Sugar

Patricia Ibarra

Andrews

World History 11

28 January 2013

            When reading about the Colonies of Sugar, it was interesting how sugar was very valuable because it was much in demand in Europe, where it was used as medicine, spice, sweetener, preservative, and also in sculptured forms like a decoration that signified highest status. The Arabs who introduced it into the Mediterranean mainly produced the sugar production. Later the British, French, and the Dutch turned their Caribbean territories into productive sugar producing colonies, breaking the Portuguese and Brazilian control. Sugar had transformed Brazil and the Caribbean because of the production that went towards, like growing the sugarcane and processing it into usable sugar. This type of production made slave labor very tiring because it was intensive. Slaves who produced the sugar, worked under severe conditions. Working in the heat made it exhausting and hard to work in, especially because of the fire from the cauldron, which were used to turn raw sugarcane to crystallized sugar. I couldn’t imagine how hard it must have been for a slave during that time period because the workload that they had to put in was a lot. And also it’s sad to hear that because of the working conditions, many slaves had high death rates, five to 10 percent per year. This required plantation owners to keep importing new slaves in order to keep doing the job.

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