Friday, July 29, 2011

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

undocumented immigrants: that  atleast evey home has an undocumented person living there. Undocumented women got paid minimum wage and didnt have any health insurance.

poultry workers: a quarter of the poultry workers have no papers or are either not registered. all the hours that they work are not paid and cannot get claimed because then they lose their job.

farm workers: 60% of the farm workers have no documents. the farmers get pesticide infections or have injuries and their work doesnt cover them.

sex abuse on the job: Women were not treated with equality they had to have sex with their supervisor in order to keep thier job. they got paid less and did not have any coverage

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Week 7 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

  • Hypothesis - Theory, Plan


Sentence; The hypothesis was that we tested a 2013 Mac computer .
  • Emerge - Appear, Come Out
 

Sentence ; The Alien emerge from the pyramid .

 
 
  • Implicate - Connect, Embroil

 
 
Sentence; The implicate was that they found a fingerprint on a murder scene .

Immigration

1. What countries did they come from?
Ireland, Italy

2. Why did they come to America?
A better life for their Family, to get money to support themselves

3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN
they werent welcome they were deported but sometimes beaten.

4.What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing?
They use to ask people that if they would let them live in their hoe they would work for them.
they would live in their backyards or in their basement.
1. What countries did they come from?
 they came from Mexico City and mostly Latin Areas.
2. Why did they come to America?
to find jobs because their town or country is very poor and in America there is more poplulation so there are more jobs.

3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN.
No, sometimes they were beat and still got deported. If people try to resist they would get somtiees killed

4. What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing?
She arrives to Los Angeles to find a jpob and she has a house in L:os Angeles

Monday, July 25, 2011

Jewish Resistance

there are alot of little kids that were not saved andthey were killed with their family members and they were also tortured to go without for days and when they got fed it was leftovers. people in the concentration camps were taken into a Room where they filled it up with jews and they were Incinerated. people were also attcked and were foprced to make their own tombs and they were then shot . they were basically the Nazi's slaves they did everything in the camps and where paid with a bullet in their head.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

One Thousand Children

Well based on what I read i understood that in the times where there was people getting send into concentration camps and others were saved and they were send to another part. There was atleast 1,500,000 children killed and they also were killed along with their Families and friends.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

One of your blogs - Summarize what you learned from one of your blogs: the history of kite running, Pashtun/Hazara culture divide, the Taliban, or the background of Afghanistan. Include a picture.
In Afghanistan they Fly kites and there is a competition they do to represents something they dont have which is like the abiltity to do whatever they want or to have "Freedom".

The Talibans ars a group of People that dont care about what other people are doing they mostly kl everything and everyone who is in thernterritory or is not part of them, they kill people in the streets they rape women and make them have kids from them!


this is the picture but since i did it on my Phone i couldnt upload it properly sorry!------>http://counterterrorismblog.org/taliban.jpg

Monday, July 11, 2011

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.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Blog Title - Week 5 grades

I know that my grades are not as they should be at in order for me to return to Chula
Vista High School.
Am I satisfied with my grades? No, i am not they are not high Enough

 Why is this the grade you are earning? The grades that i am earning are not above 70 - 85% i am earnig these grades for the lack of work i do and the talking!

*** How many missing assignments do you have? i have like atleast 8 missing assignments in my mathclass and in lmy home room i have around
5 missing assisgnments!

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Blog Title: Taliban Rule in Afghanistan

1. What is the Taliban?
      is an Islamist militia group that ruled large parts of Afghanistan from September 1996 onwards
2During what time did they control Afghanistan?
      In the Taliban's (1996–2001) war against the United Front (Northern Alliance), regular battalions and regiments of Pakistan's Frontier Corps and Army fought alongside the Taliban against the United Front.1996 to 2001

 What guided Taliban rule (philosophy/religion)? List two laws that they enforced.
What the Taliban regime used? List two prohobitions they had (things they people weren't allowed to eat/drink/etc.

5. What event made the US get involved with the Taliban?
     the 9/11 tragedy :(
describe the treatment of women under Taliban rule. women were told to cover themselfs from head to toe in burkas thay were also raped and killed if they didnt obey what they said!