Prisoner of Her Past

Prisonerofherpast

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What about Chavez's childhood and personality motivated him to become a leader and an activist?
What influenced Chavez to become an activist?
What influenced his personality to make him a leader in human rights?
How did his childhood contribute?
How did his working life contribute?
Did him having a lack of formal education affect anything?
Did cultural background affect his motivation?
How did Father Donald McDonnell and Fred Ross influence Chavez?
How did fasting contribute to his protesting?
Although he was not formally educated, he learned much from books with topics varying from philosophy to biographies on Gandhi?

How did his form of education, books, people, and observation influence his will to become an activist for human rights?

How did Chavez's alternative education (not formal schooling) influence him as an activist for human rights?

Research Proposal

I'm going to do the topic of major influences in human rights and I thought Cesar Chavez would be a good topic because I would like to do something a little more positive in class.

http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?inc=history/07.html&menu=research
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/
http://usliberals.about.com/od/patriotactcivilrights/a/CesarChavez.htm


What in his childhood caused Chavez to want to fight for human rights?
Who helped him with fighting for human rights?
Did he have a hard time for gaining latino rights?
Why agriculture?
What were the conditions of agriculture before he started to fight?

How were latinos treated before Chavez?
How are the changes that Chavez made doing now?

Maustrap.

I thought the image with the door on page 71 was really disturbing. Not so much about the actual door, but what happened behind the door. The caption reads "the biggest pile of bodies lay right next to the door where they tried to get out". I just couldn't imagine what those people were thinking within those 3-30 minutes, knowing what was going to happen, trying to do everything they could to escape. But there was no way they could escape, no matter how hard they tried. They were caught in a mousetrap and couldn't do anything about it. Imagining the guards outside having to listen to the screams of the people blows my mind too. If they enjoyed it or if they felt guilty, depending on their personality. Also, the fact that there is a window, they can see the outside, but they can't get out. So close, but so far away. UGH aslfjasdlfjasdlf. Crazy. Words can't describe.

RESPONSE

First off, this is probably the first “history” book that I enjoy reading. In the first chapter, I liked how the book described both sides of the story of when the Europeans came to the Congo. I thought it was very interesting that the Africans saw the Europeans as “vumbi” and that they came up with all these myths about what the Europeans did, like getting clothing from a hole in the middle of the ocean and paying with dead bodies. I also found it very interesting that no one could find the source of the Congo River and that people have attempted, but never have been able to really find it. I liked the last sentence in the prologue too, how they described Africa as “the Dark Continent” because Europeans saw Africa as blank and empty and ready to be explored. I don't really understand the significance yet about Stanley, but I know he is important. I like getting to know the background of him and how he grew into who he is before I learn more about his life. Also, I found it funny that people who discovered land or were explorers were like “celebrity figures” and heroes.

Why did people who were African explorers considered “celebrities”?

Why do you think Africans reacted the way they did to the Europeans?

current events

1. What's being discussed in this article?

They are discussing the debate on if the one-child policy in China is worth keeping or if they should get rid of it. Researchers have underestimated the fertility rate of women and they would actually like them to increase the number of kids women have. They also compare policies for having children with China's policy and what's better and what's worse.

1. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)

This has been an ongoing topic since the 70s, although they have more recently been questioning the one-child policy more in depth.

1. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?

What are they planning on doing about the situation?
How are they going to go about convincing people that they can have more babies/ have less babies?
Why does China care so much about the fertility rate of the women?
Why would it take so long to go into effect?

reminisce

Which Newsworthy Events do you remember from your lifetime?
Then ask parentals.

I haven't really been informed about worldwide events throughout my lifetime because I didn't watch television growing up, and I didn't start watching the news until a couple years ago. The only information I would really take in was when I watched Oprah with my mom. Although, I do remember some things...The most memorable event from my lifetime was 9/11 because it was all over the news when I was in elementary school. The War on Terror and the execution of Saddam Hussein. Then there was the genocides in Rwanda (the Congo War) and Darfur that I was informed by Oprah and the movie, "Hotel Rwanda". Then there was the Tsumani in Indonesia and Hurricane Katrina.

My step-dad remembers 9/11, when JFK was shot, when Reagan was shot at, and when the Berlin Wall Fell.
My mom remembers 9/11 and watching space shuttles take off on television, although she doesn't remember which ones.