Blog #10 & 11: What's the deal with Reconstruction? And your Civil War Writing

What's the deal with Reconstruction?
1856-1877
The reconstruction took place in south America after the civil war, the union who had won the war didn’t want the confederates south to go back to what they use to be.

What is/was Reconstruction? What went well? What went poorly?
What was good about the civil war was that the union won, this end slavery. But "president" Ulysses Grant took the troop out of the south and moved them to Texas so they could fight against the natives! There was no federal authority in the south so very quickly it become back to what they use to be. During this time that KKK became alive.

Why is it relevant today?
If the union had not left the south by itself with no authority after the civil war, I think many people from that area would be thinking different them how they are today.
Also the USA government made the same mistake in the Iraq war. They took the Taliban’s out, but didn’t stay long enough to make sure they would come back, and they did it stronger.

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/arpaiopiccontroversy0815-CR.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293487,00.html

Blog #9—Media Saves the Beach in the News

IMPERIAL BEACH
Following the flow of pollutants
Ocean-monitoring project will help researchers to predict beach closures

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/22/following-flow-pollutants/?&zIndex=169982

The drifters and nontoxic dye will be released from the Tijuana River to just north of the Imperial Beach city limit, depending on the swell and other conditions.
yeah blame it on tijuana


"Dozens of scientists, engineers and volunteers in wet suits and immersed in 67-degree water are setting up sensitive equipment along Imperial Beach's shoreline to better understand water pollution". they are trying to track how pollutants are moved by waves, currents and tides.
This article relates to our project, Medias Saves the Beach, because of the water pollution.
Water pollution is on of the big topics we are going to learn in class and through our projects try to make a differences.

Blog #8—Media Saves the Beach
What ideas do you have for Media Saves the Beach? What content interests you? What projects might you create?

I want to make an awareness (documentary) video educating the audience “every one” about the importance of recycling, and how pollution affects or beaches and our life. Even though I love photography, I think the best way of making awareness is through a (not boring) video that all ages can watch and learn something new, with out it being so complicated.
I also want to do a video because i enjoy working with final cut pro, so i know its going to be a fun project!

“America’s first feminist”
Magda Aguirre

“Silly, you men so very adept at wrongly faulting womankind, not seeing you're alone to blame for faults you plant in woman mind. After you've won by urgent plea the right to tarnish her good name, you still expect her to behave, you that coaxed her into shame.” This are two stanzas from my favorite poem, “Stubborn Men”, that was written by a brave nun in the 1660, when women did not have the chance to read and write, especially humiliate men. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was brave and intelligent enough to do it all, and therefore she is my icon of inspiration.
Through out history I have read and heard about many women that have changed the world from Cleopatra, Rosie the Riveter, Indira Gandhi to Hillary Clinton they have all been feminist icons of strength and intelligence supporting the fact “We can do it”; but non of them influence me like Sor Juana. I still remember the first time I saw her image printed in the cover of the book Poems, Protest and a Dream. It really got my attention seeing a nun sitting down in a library and with the word Protest as part of the title. I opened it and read, “What happy mean could there be for the woman who catches your eye, if, unresponsive, she offends, yet whose complaisance you decry?” I have never read something so strong against men from a woman’s perspective. It was my mom who introduced me to Sor Juana.
Sor Juana was born in Mexico, 1649 in a time when men dominated society, and a women’s highest achievement in life was to give birth. Sor Juana was a very determined and disciplined girl that always did the impossible to reach her goals. At the age of three she convinced a teacher to give her reading lessons, but when her mother found out she forced her to stop. But by the age of 6, Juana had taught herself to read and write. When she was ten her aunt hired a Latin scholar for her, but after ten or eleven lessons, Juana surpassed what the scholar could teach her and continued learning by herself. When she was a teenager she met the Mexican governor, who protected her and allowed her to go to the university. In 1669, she entered the convent where she could keep on learning and writing. She taught the other girls to not allow themselves to be manipulated by men because there is no intellectual difference.
Even though I have never lived through any type of physical abuses, I hate injustices, and just like Sor Juana, I want to find a way to help out the women that still to this day are being abused and oppressed by men and in other places by the same sexist (Machista) society. This is a problem not only affecting the women but their children, and everything converts into a vicious cycle, that affects all of us. Sor Juana together with my mom have given me enough courage to over come my fears, to do well in school so that one day I can become a social worker and help people live better and healthy live, the same way Sor Juana has helped me.
There are millions of cases of abused women all around the world and there are so many organizations that need our help to make a huge difference. One of the organizations I plan to help is Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez. This is an organization that works towards ending crimes towards women in Ciudad Juarez and provides support to the family members of the victims. Since 1993 more then 550 women have died between the ages 12-20 and 600 are still missing. In Iraq there is an under ground organization hidden from the government that helps sexual violence and domestic abuse victims called “underground railroad”. More then 72,000 women have become widows due to the war in Iraq, and are left without male protection, therefore have become free for all. Close to home every 9 seconds a woman reports being abused in the US.
Works Cited
Ramirez, Juana Ines. Poems, Protest, and a Dream. England: penguin books, 1997.
Hanke, lewis. Latin American History. New york: Markus Wiener Publishing Inc.,1992.
Montes, Fransico. Poesia Hispano-Americana. Mexico: Libreria Porrua, 1998.
Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a casa.http://www.mujeresdejuarez.org/, 9/14/09

Blog #6: American Icons Reflection part 1

1. What did you discover about your writing during this project?
2. Identify and describe (at least) one specific writing technique that you used. How did you use it? What effect did it have on your writing?
3. If you had time for one more draft, what would you do?
4. Copy one sentence that you believe is well-written and/or important to your overall piece. What makes it stand out to you?


1. During this project I discovered that I’m a really messy writer. I write different ideas through out the whole paper, but the loop out line really help me to organize my ideas to get to point I need. I also discovered that when I write I want to change the readers mine and make him think like me.
2. The tips that we learned in class helped me a lot to make my writing better. Taking -ing’s make’s your writing sound more realistic and makes the writer sound like a confident person. The other technique that helped me a lot was the loop, especially with the outro, leaving the writer with something to think about
3. If I had more time to do one more draft I would have gotten it critique one more time, and taken some parts of to make it a lot shorter.
4. -Even though I have never lived through any type of physical abuses, I hate injustices, and just like Sor Juana I want to find a way to help out the women that still to this day are being abused and oppressed by men and in other places, by the same sexist (Machista) society.
-There are millions of cases of abused women all around the world and there are so many organizations that need our help to make a huge difference.

Blog #5: Photography Techniques


Rule of Thirds

This picture was taken two years ago in the Galapagos. I think it's a great example showing rule of thirds, because I’m in the corner and the person seeing the picture appreciate the background better with out forgetting about me (in the corner).







Movement

This picture was really hard to make, because I was trying to get my cousin to look like if he wasn’t in motion but the background looking blurry (movement) I think I accomplished it very well since I was moving at the same time he was, when I took the shoot.







Depth of field

In this photo, I tried focusing only in one flower, to make the other ones blurry. When some one looks at a picture like this it makes them only want to focus on the not blurry part. This is a good technique of trying to make something stand out.

Blog #4 Artist Statements & critiques

I love when people critique my work especially when it’s going to be graded, because they always find new things I didn't think about adding or changing. Today Corey read my art statement and told me to spend more time talking about the connection Sor Juana and I have, also to work on my last sentence making it sure that it ends strong and answers the so what question. As Corey told me what I need to change and improved I felt that my next draft was going to be a lot better.

“America’s first feminist” #1 (lupe)
“Silly, you men so very adept at wrongly faulting womankind, not seeing you're alone to blame for faults you plant in woman's mind. After you've won by urgent plea the right to tarnish her good name, you still expect her to behave, you that coaxed her into shame.” This two stanzas from my favorite poem, “Stubborn men”, were written by a brave nun in the 1660, when women didn’t have the chance to read and write, specially humiliate men. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was brave and intelligent enough, to do it all; this is why she is my icon of inspiration.

Through history I have read and heard about many women that have changed the world from Cleopatra, Rosie the Riveter, Indira Gandhi to Hillary Clinton they have all been feminist icons of strength, intelligence supporting the fact “We can do it”; but non of them influence me like Sor Juana did. I still remember the first time I saw her image printed in the cover of the book named Poems, Protest and a Dream it really got my attention seeing a nun sitting down in a library and with the word Protest. As I was reading “What happy mean could there be for the woman who catches your eye, if, unresponsive, she offends, yet whose complaisance you decry?” I felt ghost bumps I have never read something so strong against men from a woman. It was my mom who introduced me to Sor Juana. Since that day she became one of my biggest inspiration. To understand the admiration I have for her you need to understand who she was.

Sor Juana was born in 1649 when México was still part of Spain in the time when men dominated society, and a women’s highest achievement in life was to give birth. Sor Juana was a very determined and discipline person that always did the impossible to reach her goals. At the age of 3 she convinced a teacher to give her reading lessons, but when her mother found out she forced her to stop. But by the age of 6, Juana could read and write Sor Juana was not a typical child she abstained from eating cheese because she had heard that it slowed the learning process When she was 10 her aunt and uncle hired a "Latin scholar" for Juana, but after ten or eleven lessons, Juana surpassed what the scholar could teach her and continued learning by herself. When she was a teenager she met the Mexican governor, who protected her and allowed her to go to the university. In 1669, she entered the Convent where she could keep on learning and teaching other girls to never be manipulated by men that there is no intellectual difference.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz has been an inspiration for many Latin women to rebel against the Machista men. I have seen for generation women that have suffered and didn’t do any thing about it, because the guy made them feel like if they deserved it. Sor Juana has not only inspired me to never get manipulate by a anyone but also to speak that is on my mine if she had the courage to spill her beliefs feelings and pain in her poetry during that time then I can do it too. I really admire the determination and discipline that Sor Juana had to reach her goals. Nothing scared her from moment she had put in her mine that she was going to the university she knew she was going to reach it. This is the type of woman I want to be. Sor Juana together with my mom have given me enough courage to over come my fears, to do good in school so that one day I can become a social worker and help out other women and people to reach their goals and live better life, the same way Sor Juana has helped me.

“America’s first feminist” #2(mom)
“Silly, you men so very adept at wrongly faulting womankind, not seeing you're alone to blame for faults you plant in woman's mind. After you've won by urgent plea the right to tarnish her good name, you still expect her to behave, you that coaxed her into shame.” This are two stanzas from my favorite poem, “Stubborn men”, that was written by a brave nun in the 1660, when women didn’t have the chance to read and write, specially humiliate men. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was brave and intelligent enough, to do it all, this is why she is my icon of inspiration.

Through out history I have read and heard about many women that have changed the world from Cleopatra, Rosie the Riveter, Indira Gandhi to Hillary Clinton they have all been feminist icons of strength, and intelligence supporting the fact “We can do it”; but non of them influence me like Sor Juana did. I still remember the first time I saw her image printed in the cover of the book Poems, Protest and a Dream. It really got my attention seeing a nun sitting down in a library and with the word Protest as part of the title. I opened it and started to read, “What happy mean could there be for the woman who catches your eye, if, unresponsive, she offends, yet whose complaisance you decry?” I have never read something so strong against men from a woman perspective. It was my mom who introduced me to Sor Juana. Since that day she became one of my biggest inspiration. To understand the admiration I have for her you need to understand who she was.

Sor Juana was born in Mexico, 1649 in a time when men dominated society, and a women’s highest achievement in life was to give birth. Sor Juana was a very determined and discipline girl that always did the impossible to reach her goals. At the age of 3 she convinced a teacher to give her reading lessons, but when her mother found out she forced her to stop. But by the age of 6, Juana had thought her self to read and write. When she was 10 her aunt hired a "Latin scholar" for her, but after ten or eleven lessons, Juana surpassed what the scholar could teach her and continued learning by herself. When she was a teenager she met the Mexican governor, who protected her and allowed her to go to the university. In 1669, she entered the Convent where she could keep on learning, writing and teaching other girls to never be manipulated by men that there is no intellectual difference, she got in many problems for this with the other nun in the convent.

Even though I have never life through any type of physical abuses, I hate injustice, and same as Sor Juana, I want to find a way to help out the women that still to this day are being abused and oppressed by men and in other places by the same sexist (Machista) society. This is a problem not only affecting the women but their kids, and everything converts into a vicious cycle, that affects all of us. Sor Juana together with my mom have given me enough courage to over come my fears, to do good in school so that one day I can become a social worker and help people live better and healthy life, the same way Sor Juana has helped me. There are millions of cases of abused women all around the world and there a so many organizations that need our help to make a huge difference. One of the organizations I am planning to help is Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez. This is an organization working towards ending crimes in Ciudad Juarez and providing support to the family members of the victims. Since 1993 more then 550 women have died ages 12-20 and 600 our missing. In Iraqi there is this under ground organization hidden from the government that helps sexual violence and domestic abuse victims called “underground railroad”. More then 72,000 women have become widows do to the war in Iraqi, and our left without male protection, therefore have become free for all. 75,000 Brazilian women are being forced to work as prostitutes in the European Union. Every 9 seconds a woman reports being abused in the United States.

“America’s first feminist”#3 (teacher)

“Silly, you men so very adept at wrongly faulting womankind, not seeing you're alone to blame for faults you plant in woman mind. After you've won by urgent plea the right to tarnish her good name, you still expect her to behave, you that coaxed her into shame.” This are two stanzas from my favorite poem, “Stubborn Men”, that was written by a brave nun in the 1660, when women did not have the chance to read and write, especially humiliate men. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was brave and intelligent enough to do it all, and therefore she is my icon of inspiration.

Through out history I have read and heard about many women that have changed the world from Cleopatra, Rosie the Riveter, Indira Gandhi to Hillary Clinton they have all been feminist icons of strength and intelligence supporting the fact “We can do it”; but non of them influence me like Sor Juana. I still remember the first time I saw her image printed in the cover of the book Poems, Protest and a Dream. It really got my attention seeing a nun sitting down in a library and with the word Protest as part of the title. I opened it and read, “What happy mean could there be for the woman who catches your eye, if, unresponsive, she offends, yet whose complaisance you decry?” I have never read something so strong against men from a woman’s perspective. It was my mom who introduced me to Sor Juana.

Sor Juana was born in Mexico, 1649 in a time when men dominated society, and a women’s highest achievement in life was to give birth. Sor Juana was a very determined and disciplined girl that always did the impossible to reach her goals. At the age of three she convinced a teacher to give her reading lessons, but when her mother found out she forced her to stop. But by the age of 6, Juana had taught herself to read and write. When she was ten her aunt hired a Latin scholar for her, but after ten or eleven lessons, Juana surpassed what the scholar could teach her and continued learning by herself. When she was a teenager she met the Mexican governor, who protected her and allowed her to go to the university. In 1669, she entered the convent where she could keep on learning and writing. She taught the other girls to not allow themselves to be manipulated by men because there is no intellectual difference.

Even though I have never lived through any type of physical abuses, I hate injustices, and just like Sor Juana, I want to find a way to help out the women that still to this day are being abused and oppressed by men and in other places by the same sexist (Machista) society. This is a problem not only affecting the women but their children, and everything converts into a vicious cycle, that affects all of us. Sor Juana together with my mom have given me enough courage to over come my fears, to do well in school so that one day I can become a social worker and help people live better and healthy live, the same way Sor Juana has helped me.

There are millions of cases of abused women all around the world and there are so many organizations that need our help to make a huge difference. One of the organizations I plan to help is Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez. This is an organization that works towards ending crimes towards women in Ciudad Juarez and provides support to the family members of the victims. Since 1993 more then 550 women have died between the ages 12-20 and 600 are still missing.

Blog #3: American Icons—Resources


Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
MEXICO



Books: People and Issues in Latin America History The colonial Experience
Poesia Hispanoamericana
These our books that teachers gave me in school that can help me learn more about who Sor Juana was and her philosophy.
By learning more about Sor Juana can help me understand better our connections and what of her life really inspires me.
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/delacruz/fama/
More info. (online book)
Website:
poetry
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-men/
Bio http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/271-the-remarkable-life-of-juana-inés-de-la-cruz-1651–1695
Reading her poetry makes me reflect, realize how men really our and thats what I'm going to portray on my picture, what her poetry makes me feel.
Movie:
Yo, la Peor de Todas
This movie is about her life and the challenges she faced. Watching the movie really help me understand the moment and who she felt.




Madre de Plaza de Mayo
ARGENTINA






Website:http://www.unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/humanidades/centros/cedehu/material/(36)%20Entrevista%20Bonafini.pdf
This website is a letter to the Government saying who they are and what they want. http://www.paginadigital.com.ar/articulos/2002rest/2002cuart/varios/madr30-4.html http://www.madres.org/
This is the official website of the Mother de Plaza de Mayo I could e-mail them if I have a question or want to learn more.
Interview:
http://www.me.gov.ar/monitor/nro6/entrevista.htm
This is an interview of a mother who her son disappeared during the “dirty war” in Argentina.
Books:
http://www.abuelas.org.ar/material/libros/abuelas30.pdf
Movie: Imagining Argentina, is a movie that I haven't seen but read the book, Joann recommended it to me to understand more about what was happening to argentina during that time.

Blog #2: American Icons—Ideas


Mother Teresa
The Nobel Peace Prize 1979
"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. At the very young age of 12 she began to get involved in Christianity. In May 24, 1931 after a few months of training she was sent to India, where she taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty outside the school impacted her so much that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the school and work with the poor people in the slums of Calcutta. Even though she had no funds she depended on "Divine Providence", and opened a school for slum children. Soon she was being helped by volunteers, and received financial support. Mother Theresa inspired me for wanting to become a social worker; to make a difference in this world, and help out the people in need like she did. I really admire her bravery for helping out the people in the slums, because not everyone has the strength to do so.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Born November 12, 1651, in San Miguel Nepantla, when Mexico was part of Spain.
"Silly, you men-so very adept
at wrongly faulting womankind,
not seeing you're alone to blame
for faults you plant in woman's mind."

Juana Inés de la Cruz lived in the time that Mexico was a part of Spain. At the age of 3 she convinced a teacher to give her reading lessons, but when her mother found out she stopped them because of her short age. By the age of 6, Juana could read all the books in her grandfather's library. When she was 10 her grandfather, who taught her how to read, died. Her aunt and uncle hired a "Latin scholar" for Juana, but after ten or eleven lessons, Juana surpassed what the scholar could teach her and continued learning by herself. When she was a teenager she met the Mexican governor, he was so impressed to see how smart she was that he allowed her to stay at his house. There she met a lot of important people and wrote novels poems and plays that were preformed in the palace. In 1669, she entered the Convent of the Order of St. Jerome where she remained there until her death.

Juana Ines de la Cruz represents a strong, smart, determine and revolutionary woman that reached all her goals no matter what. This is the type of woman I want to be. During that time it was rare for a woman, especially a nun, to speak up go to universities and rebel against men. She has inspired me to do good in school graduate, say what I think and reach my goals.

Mother of Plaza de Mayo (AMASU) is an association of Argentina mothers whose children "disappeared" during the Dirty War taken by the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

“One of the things that I simply will not do now is shut up. The women of my generation in Latin America have been taught that the man is always in charge and the woman is silent even in the face of injustice...Now I know that we have to speak out about the injustices publicly. If not, we are accomplices. I am going to denounce them publicly without fear. This is what I learned.”
María del Rosario de Cerruti

For more then 34 years, Argentinean Mothers have fought for their right to reunite with their kidnapped children that were taken by the military. The military government tortured, and killed anyone that opposed the regime; politics, young students trying to express their dissatisfactions with the regime, this also included pregnant women and babies. In 1977 the mothers that had lost their family members started gathering every Thursday wearing white head scarves, symbolizing their kids blankets and peace, protesting for more then an a hour in the plaza de mayo (Buenos Aires). They wanted to know why the government did this and what happened to them.

Before going to Argentina I didn't know any thing about this, Joann was the one that explained to me everything when we were there. This is really interesting because I like being aware of politics (corruption) especially in Latin America. I was surprised I didn’t know any thing about this, something so important. I want to learn more about The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and discover why the US government sponsored the military government? And why this topic has only stayed in Latin America “Argentina”?

Welcome back to school!

I have many goals to achieve this upcoming year, since it’s the hardest year, I know I’m going to work extra hard on everything to keep my grades up and become a better reader and writer. My plan to reach this goal will be reading more books at home and writing down words I don’t understand and searching the definition. I am also planning to take honors, so I need to organize my time and brain so I don’t end up stressing out on every project.

I really hope this year I become a better reader, writer and expand my vocabulary to do good on my SAT so I can get in to the collage I want and feel good about my self.