"The knowledge of good and evil is fundamentally the knowledge the rulers of the world must exercise, because every single thing they do is good for some but evil for others. This is what ruling is all about, isn't it? (Quinn 165)"
Why do the rulers think they are always right?
I guess that the rulers think that everything they say and do is right, this is because they are the rulers and they have the power, but not everything that they do is right and this is not what ruling is all about because it is not just say and do things if you are perjuring others.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Interview
My class was assigned to make an interview about the state of our planet, I told my mom to drive to a park, there I walked towards a woman that was sitting down on a bench, and I started to ask some questions. I will not tell the name of the person but I should say that she was a nice woman.
Hi, I’m a High Tech High student can I ask some questions about the global warming? -mmm, sure.
-ok
1. Do you think the world needs saving? - I think maybe not right now but in a few years we will have serious problems if we don’t do something now.
2. Do you care about the world? –Of course I care about it, it is where we live, and I also think everyone should care about it.
3. What do you think about global warming? –I think global warming is an important issue that everyone should take part of especially since it can be prevented.
4. Do you think global warming is affecting our world?- Definitely yes, it is a big issue that everyone should be aware of, because it affects us and our environment and you can notice big changes in the world, especially the climate.
5. What do you do to prevent global warming? -Well, some things I do to take action are: I never buy aerosols, I always use paper bags and I have recycle bins at home. When I see someone throwing an item in the trash that should be recycled, I make sure it goes in the recycle.
Hi, I’m a High Tech High student can I ask some questions about the global warming? -mmm, sure.
-ok
1. Do you think the world needs saving? - I think maybe not right now but in a few years we will have serious problems if we don’t do something now.
2. Do you care about the world? –Of course I care about it, it is where we live, and I also think everyone should care about it.
3. What do you think about global warming? –I think global warming is an important issue that everyone should take part of especially since it can be prevented.
4. Do you think global warming is affecting our world?- Definitely yes, it is a big issue that everyone should be aware of, because it affects us and our environment and you can notice big changes in the world, especially the climate.
5. What do you do to prevent global warming? -Well, some things I do to take action are: I never buy aerosols, I always use paper bags and I have recycle bins at home. When I see someone throwing an item in the trash that should be recycled, I make sure it goes in the recycle.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
QQC 2
" We don't need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what's actually there." (Quinn 96)
What is actually there?
I also think that we don't need anyone to tell us how to live, we don't need prophets, we don't need the Bible or anyone, I just think that you should as you think is correct to live, and you can do this by just respecting and knowing the limits of people and you.
What is actually there?
I also think that we don't need anyone to tell us how to live, we don't need prophets, we don't need the Bible or anyone, I just think that you should as you think is correct to live, and you can do this by just respecting and knowing the limits of people and you.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The story of a man
My theory of how human began is that God said one day that he wanted life and he created all the planets, but when he finished all the planets he wasn't satisfied and he created life on one of the planets on Earth, but the only thing he created were animals and plants so the animals could survive and not die, but when he created the monkeys they developed so well that that;s what we became, but this happened through million and billions of years.
QQC 1
Quote: "I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director".
Question: What was he looking for?
Comment: I think he was looking for a teacher just to receive advice and help from him/her but also to learn stuff from a person that had already live that, but in the search of a teacher he couldn't find anyone except for a gorilla that he founds on a house.
Question: What was he looking for?
Comment: I think he was looking for a teacher just to receive advice and help from him/her but also to learn stuff from a person that had already live that, but in the search of a teacher he couldn't find anyone except for a gorilla that he founds on a house.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Essay
Erick Salazar
Humanities
Guerrero
April 2, 2009
The Left and Right of the Spanish Civil War
The combat of land and labor was a deadlock between property holders and the poor. People wanted more land, more money and less work, that is how the communist revolution started in Spain. Meanwhile, another type of government that wanted to take over Spain was the fascists. The types of governments that were fighting to take over Spain were the Communism and Fascism. Spain wanted to resolve this issue with bullets and of course ruthless war. To this day the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 is still remembered the single most crucial moments in history of Spain politics. There were a number of events that led to the victory of the fascists. The main reason Fascism won control of Spain was because Communism was separating the attention of the governments away of the civil war. As shown in the book The Forging of a Rebel the fascist were forming a coup de etat to take over Spain, but before that the civil war was going on in Spain, they were trying to change the types of governments, instead of being Socialists the currents type of government they wanted to change to a communist country, this was the solution for equality.
One of the main factors on the communist revolution was land and labor disputes. There was a conflict between wealth landowners who owned a lot of land and landless peasants who worked as casual laborers and earned very low wages. On Arturo Barea’s autobiography when the uncle dies they could not be owners of the land because the uncle was using the land to grow food, but now that he was gone they were not contributing to the country. “Communist party had demanded that government accelerates the distribution of land” (Bolloten 6). This happened because people wanted equality in their country. In other words, “The big landowners should be expropriated and their lands distributed among the peasants without delay” (Bolloten 6). What they also wanted was the redistribution of a large estate lands and more recompense for labor. But the wealthy people and the high social classes were not satisfied with these arguments that the poor people were discussing. Work hour disputes affected many people, especially women because they worked on food plantations for many hours and for very few money. “The leader of the Fascist party declared: That women in a village of Seville, leave their homes at 3:00 in the morning to gather chick-peas, they end their work at noon after a nine hour day, and receive one peseta” (Bolloten 4). The peseta has a dollar value of $.25 in today’s economy, which in 1936 was not even close to enough. Women were oppressed by the work force and did not get fair treatment. Moreover, all the peasants had to work for many hours and they received very few money, which is why they could not be landowners.
While the communist revolution led by Francisco Franco was taking place in Spain, on the other hand Fascist party was conformed by Germany and Italy who wanted to take over Spain. “The failure of the attempt military coup de etat against the Spanish second republic of 17-18 July 1936 led a full-scale civil war” (Preston 26). When the group of Spanish generals attempted to make a fascist party, they failed. This was because of the divided attention they were having with the communist revolt. The Fascist party was also supported by Germany and Italy; this made the fascist party stronger than it was. Two months after the Spanish Civil War, World War II broke out. However the Fascist party was winning the power on Spain and the other communist party was weakening more and more.
After the communist civil war the Fascist attempt final victory was honored to the Fascist. In the end the fascist was supported by two big countries: Germany and Italy. “When the second World War II broke out only a few months after the end of the civil war had ended, Spain declared neutrality” (Franco’s Spain). Spain was too devastated to fight a second war and the people on the country were afraid and confused, that is why Spain was declared as a neutral country on the World War II. When the World War II was starting the Fascist party was already in power, and Spain was already reconciled with communism.
It should be remembered that in Spain the army had always been a dominant political force in the country. As the autobiography of Arturo Barea says, he did not know for whom to fight because if he fought for the Spanish army he would be on the corrupted side of the government. However he was still fighting for the corrupted side while fighting with the people because he also wanted equality on his country. But there is only one way to deal with this problem and that is for the workers of Spain themselves to fight their capitalist republican government, to reform it and show the Moroccans in deed that their cause is one and that the same fight that will free the Spanish workers will free the masses of the world, and the same fight Arturo was fighting.
In conclusion Spain was living to wars, one for the communist power and one for the Fascist power. This made things more difficult on the country because the people wanted rights and equality but they did not know that another attack was planned on their country, and when finally they reached to a peaceful end, the World War II started, but they could not fight another war after fighting two wars at the same time, one for winning control of Spain and the other one to change the type of government that ruled the country, that is why they declared as a neutral country.
Humanities
Guerrero
April 2, 2009
The Left and Right of the Spanish Civil War
The combat of land and labor was a deadlock between property holders and the poor. People wanted more land, more money and less work, that is how the communist revolution started in Spain. Meanwhile, another type of government that wanted to take over Spain was the fascists. The types of governments that were fighting to take over Spain were the Communism and Fascism. Spain wanted to resolve this issue with bullets and of course ruthless war. To this day the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 is still remembered the single most crucial moments in history of Spain politics. There were a number of events that led to the victory of the fascists. The main reason Fascism won control of Spain was because Communism was separating the attention of the governments away of the civil war. As shown in the book The Forging of a Rebel the fascist were forming a coup de etat to take over Spain, but before that the civil war was going on in Spain, they were trying to change the types of governments, instead of being Socialists the currents type of government they wanted to change to a communist country, this was the solution for equality.
One of the main factors on the communist revolution was land and labor disputes. There was a conflict between wealth landowners who owned a lot of land and landless peasants who worked as casual laborers and earned very low wages. On Arturo Barea’s autobiography when the uncle dies they could not be owners of the land because the uncle was using the land to grow food, but now that he was gone they were not contributing to the country. “Communist party had demanded that government accelerates the distribution of land” (Bolloten 6). This happened because people wanted equality in their country. In other words, “The big landowners should be expropriated and their lands distributed among the peasants without delay” (Bolloten 6). What they also wanted was the redistribution of a large estate lands and more recompense for labor. But the wealthy people and the high social classes were not satisfied with these arguments that the poor people were discussing. Work hour disputes affected many people, especially women because they worked on food plantations for many hours and for very few money. “The leader of the Fascist party declared: That women in a village of Seville, leave their homes at 3:00 in the morning to gather chick-peas, they end their work at noon after a nine hour day, and receive one peseta” (Bolloten 4). The peseta has a dollar value of $.25 in today’s economy, which in 1936 was not even close to enough. Women were oppressed by the work force and did not get fair treatment. Moreover, all the peasants had to work for many hours and they received very few money, which is why they could not be landowners.
While the communist revolution led by Francisco Franco was taking place in Spain, on the other hand Fascist party was conformed by Germany and Italy who wanted to take over Spain. “The failure of the attempt military coup de etat against the Spanish second republic of 17-18 July 1936 led a full-scale civil war” (Preston 26). When the group of Spanish generals attempted to make a fascist party, they failed. This was because of the divided attention they were having with the communist revolt. The Fascist party was also supported by Germany and Italy; this made the fascist party stronger than it was. Two months after the Spanish Civil War, World War II broke out. However the Fascist party was winning the power on Spain and the other communist party was weakening more and more.
After the communist civil war the Fascist attempt final victory was honored to the Fascist. In the end the fascist was supported by two big countries: Germany and Italy. “When the second World War II broke out only a few months after the end of the civil war had ended, Spain declared neutrality” (Franco’s Spain). Spain was too devastated to fight a second war and the people on the country were afraid and confused, that is why Spain was declared as a neutral country on the World War II. When the World War II was starting the Fascist party was already in power, and Spain was already reconciled with communism.
It should be remembered that in Spain the army had always been a dominant political force in the country. As the autobiography of Arturo Barea says, he did not know for whom to fight because if he fought for the Spanish army he would be on the corrupted side of the government. However he was still fighting for the corrupted side while fighting with the people because he also wanted equality on his country. But there is only one way to deal with this problem and that is for the workers of Spain themselves to fight their capitalist republican government, to reform it and show the Moroccans in deed that their cause is one and that the same fight that will free the Spanish workers will free the masses of the world, and the same fight Arturo was fighting.
In conclusion Spain was living to wars, one for the communist power and one for the Fascist power. This made things more difficult on the country because the people wanted rights and equality but they did not know that another attack was planned on their country, and when finally they reached to a peaceful end, the World War II started, but they could not fight another war after fighting two wars at the same time, one for winning control of Spain and the other one to change the type of government that ruled the country, that is why they declared as a neutral country.
Artist Statement
A Falling Republican
Victor Villegas
Chris Martinez
Karen Garcia
Erricka Delamancha
Eric Salazar
Photography
During 1936-1939 Robert Capa took photographs of the Spanish Civil War. Death of a Loyalist Soldier is the photograph our group recreated. As you can see the soldier is by himself. This picture is actually a real shot. Robert Capa quotes that if your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough. The inspiration of the artist is a republican soldier.
This picture shows a dying republican soldier in the outskirts of Spain. The photo shows a Spanish republican soldier getting shot. This symbolizes what happened in real life which is that the republicans lost the war to fascist dictator Francisco Franco. This scene is taking place in a war zone in the fields of Spain. This photo captures not only a soldier but also, the scenery around our campus is very much like the arid landscapes the Spaniards fought on in 1936. There is a lot of emotion in this photo because of the facial expression given off by the actor. In the background you can also see a republican flag. We took this picture out in the fields in front of our school. Once we had the black and white pictures we made them in the dark room.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Outline
Salazar Erick
Guerrero
Humanities
February 26, 2009
The left and the right on the Spanish civil war
I. Thesis: The reason Fascism won control of Spain was because communism was dividing the attention of the government away of the civil war.
II. The communist revolution taking place in Spain.
a) Labor disputes.
b) Land disputes.
c) Work hour disputes.
III. The fascist coup attempt.
a) Franco tries to take over.
IV. Divided attention.
a) Government trying to fight fascism, supported by Germany and Italy.
b) Reconcile with communism.
V. Outcome.
a) Fascist victory.
VI. Conclusion.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Annotated Bibliography
Bolloten, Burnett. The Spanish Revolution. USA: The grand camouflage, 1968.
My source is a book about the Spanish revolution, it explains the left and the struggle for power during the civil war. While reading some pages of this book I find out that there was two groups fighting for the power, the nationalists and the republicans. This book really helped me with my research question because it is very descriptive about the Spanish revolution.
My source is a book about the Spanish revolution, it explains the left and the struggle for power during the civil war. While reading some pages of this book I find out that there was two groups fighting for the power, the nationalists and the republicans. This book really helped me with my research question because it is very descriptive about the Spanish revolution.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
QQC
Quote: "The up-stroke of the blade cut his hairs with a rasping sound. The noise stopped. Blood splashed bright over the white lather, ran down his throat and painted a river."
Question: Was uncle Jose trying to commit suicide?
Comment: On the autobiography the forging of a rebel, Arturo Barea is wondering about people having hairs all over the body, he thinks that women shouldn't have hair, but sometimes the grow some on their upper lips, especially when they are old; while uncle Jose is shaving he suddenly cuts himself, but I wonder if it was an accident or he was trying to commit suicide.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Research Question
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Your first blog assignment:
1. Type title and author of text
2. Give brief (3-5 sentence) plot overview (what's going on in the story)
3. Give Revolution Background (date, place, why the fight?)
4. Post a possible research question
5. Go to your group members and leave a critique of their research question.
*remember *kind* specific* helpful*
1.The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
2.This book is about Arturo, a boy that is enrolling on the Spanish army against the revolutionary people.
3.The revolution took place mostly in Madrid, this happen because the rising of taxes and bad governments.
4.What was the motive of the sapanish revolution?
1. Type title and author of text
2. Give brief (3-5 sentence) plot overview (what's going on in the story)
3. Give Revolution Background (date, place, why the fight?)
4. Post a possible research question
5. Go to your group members and leave a critique of their research question.
*remember *kind* specific* helpful*
1.The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
2.This book is about Arturo, a boy that is enrolling on the Spanish army against the revolutionary people.
3.The revolution took place mostly in Madrid, this happen because the rising of taxes and bad governments.
4.What was the motive of the sapanish revolution?
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