Ishmael Blog 6- Q,Q,C #4

Miriam Zepeda

Quote: "We're on our way to discovering he lies at the very root of your fear and loathing of the leaver life. We're on our way to discovering why you feel you must carry the revolution forward even if it destroys you and the entire world. We're on our way to discovering what your revolution was a revolution against."

Question: Why does this quote bring up revolution so much? Why is it so important to figure out the root of your fear?

Comment: The reason why I picked this quote is because it really had me thinking to figure out what is the meaning to this quote. It's a hard quote for me to understand but what i think it means is that that slowly we are figuring out that the leaver world isn't that bad after all. That they actually did good. They dont things like drugs ruining their life as much as it is in ours. Also us as takers we feel that we have an obligation to carryout the new revolution we are started no matter what it takes and that we will do anything to keep it growing. That the old revlutions never wanted the new revolutions negitivness to ever exist.

Ishmael bolg 4- Interview

Miriam Zepeda

Today I got an assignment to interview someone about the world. I was thinking who should be my victim:). So I looked around and who better the person sitting next to me, yes. To keep her identity secret i will just call her cookie. Okay, I came up to her and she greeted me with a big big smile. listening to her music.

Mz: Hi how are you since school will be over in a few?

Cookie: Good... HAPPY

Mz: Do you know what global warming is?

Cookie: No... I'm just kidding yes.

Mz: Okay, what is it?

Cookie: It is the over heating of the planet due to the pollution done to the planet.

Mz: And what causes the pollution?

Cookie: Cars like my baby escalades

Mz: Is that your favorite car?

Cookie: Yes

Mz: If it pollutes the earth why is that your favorite car?

Cookie: Because it's ... PRETTY

Mz: (laughing) Really what do you think we should do to change pollution, really quick since school is about to be over?

Cookie: I don't know

Mz: Okay thanks for his talk bye

Cookie: Okay I got to go bye.

Ishmael Blog 3- Q,Q,C #2

Quote: This is percisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: "I will not let them starve."

Question: Why do we always feel like the once that have to do something. That wothout us things would be honorably wrong?

Comment: That is true that we sometimes do say that we can't do anything about it that he have to help. But i never really saw it as a superiority way. I just thought about it as a helpful way. and throught the reats of this page i did realize that some takers really do feel like they are the superior ones and that with out us their would be nothing. But i don't think that i agree with this quote because I don't think that we say these thing to feel superior it's to be good people and do something about it

Ishmael Blog 2- How the earth started

Miriam Zepeda

How the earth started

The way it all started. God started created plantes on the earth and oceans first. After that God put man on the earth and called him Adam because he thought the world was missing something. So after that Adam was created he roamed the earth, you know eating bananas apples menstrual things then he got to see all the animals on the earth diffrent verities. There was a male and a female. they all had someone (or something) they had common features. But Adam didn't have they have anyone in he world. He was the only one of his own kind. So one night he talked to god. He told him how all the animals had a partners and he had no one and God just said i'll alk to you in the morning and I will see what I can do. So that night while Adam was sleeping he took one od Adams ribs to create another person. The first female on earth.

Ishamel blog 1- Q,Q,C #1

Miriam Zepeda

Quote: "Try this: You've been in love with someone for a decade- someone who barley knows your alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that you love is worth something. Then one day you open up the paper and glance at the personal columns, and you see that you loved one has placed an ad . . . . seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by." (Ishmael)

Question: Why did he pick to talk about love out of all the things he could have related the topic by?

Comment: I think this was a great way for an example. I like this quote because the way he chose his words seemed very persist and he put a lot of thought into it so that the narrator and the readers of this book could put themselves in that place and would be able to convey their emotions and thoughts by this text into what Ishmael was trying for them to understand. I like the emphasis he puts into most of the sentences in this text especially in the second sentence where he says "You've done everything, tried everything ect." It shows more emotion where I put the italics.

Artists Discription

An unfair victory

Miriam Zepeda, Alex Martinez, Christian Guzman, Theresa Oceguera

The Nigerian Civil war took place from 1967 to 1970. When Biafra seceded from Nigeria, a war took place to absorb Biafra back. Because Nigeria won the war, our picture shows a soldier holding the Biafra flag on the ground being subdued while another soldier holds the Nigerian flag triumphantly in the air. Britain supported Nigeria by funding them and sending them weapons and supplies. The picture shows Britain on the side of Nigeria, but not participating in the fight.

The visual affect in the picture like the lighting and detail was created on photo shop. We Adjusted the lighting and the color. Our group struggled most with the sky color and creating the clouds and getting the picture at the right color necessary.

Final Essay

Miriam Zepeda

Humanities

Guerrero

March 5, 2009

Imperialism in a Civil War

Just imagine someone taking over everything that is yours and you have nothing to do with them and just because they have more power than you or are bigger than you they have the right to treat you badly, that just because of where they are socially ranked. What if someone would have the right to tell you where you belong and where you are suppose to be? To be treated differently than others and brought down. What would you do if someone forced you to do something that you absolutely don’t want to do? To pursuit a brutal career that puts you life at risk and you have no choice or say in what you want to do. That is the power of Imperialism and that is what great power Britain had over Africa. Which later Britain’s imperial power lead to Nigerians’ Civil War.

Imperialism causes a lot of trouble for the Country that is being affected. “Imperialism has existed for millennia but in the nineteenth century European powers appeared to take little interest in it until the late 1870s” (Imperialism). Which their interest went to Africa. The reason why is because Nigeria has a large amount of oil and the only way to obtain the oil is to take over Africa. “An example of imperialism is when a country may attempt to dominate others by direct rule and settlement – the establishment of a colony – or by less obvious means such as control of markets for goods or raw materials” (imperialism). Like when Britain took over Nigeria and started new corporations and used Nigeria for their benefits like oil and transports Slaves around the world. European imperialism was encouraged for economic opportunities and for finding the cheapest way to obtain cheap supplies to fuel Europe’s industrial revolutions (Imperialism, 19th-century European). Many people don’t realize how much imperialism could affect a country.

Nigeria did not have a say in how their borders were defined. “From the earliest days of African independence, this continent’s leaders have repeatedly had to wrestle with the legacy of the arbitrarily drawn borders established and frozen in place by Europe’s colonial powers” (French). This was not at all affair for Africa because they had no say in how they would be divided. “Even more troublesome are cases like Nigeria, where European boundaries forced caused rival cultures, each with long-standing political traditions of their own, to cohabit within the confines of a single state” (French). The rivalry lasted for about when Nigeria won its independence in 1960. These rivalries remained which caused a lot of chaos. These tribes were the Igbo tribe and the Biafra tribe. Which later in time turned into the Nigerian Civil War that became one of the continent’s most destructive “War. The founding fathers of Nigeria tried to avoid the confrontations and rivalry so they tried to focus on different things like creating larger federations” (French). If Europe had never sectioned Africa the way it did, Nigeria would have not started its war.

After Nigerians difficulty and struggle things soon paid off. “In 1960, Nigeria peacefully gained its independence from Great Britain” (Humanitarian Issues In The Biafra Conflict). But still that didn’t really end the conflicts in the region. “The Northern and Southern regions of Nigeria were on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of socioeconomic development” (Humanitarian Issues In The Biafra Conflict). For example if the North had some kind of benefit the South would not. The South of Nigeria had benefited in education. That is what the south was more focused on ( Humanitarian Issues In The Biafra Conflict). On the other hand the north lacked education dramatically. In addition, economic development in the South had far outpaced that of the North (Humanitarian Issues in the Biafra Conflict). Which later all these differences cause the Civil war in Nigeria to grow along with their rage and anger.

The European’s greed grew rapidly. The greed war so big that it lead to exploiting the Nigerians right. They brought changes into their life and work. To pay the new taxes, Africans had to undertake wage labor Imperial enterprises created vast demanding skilled labor: rail road, rubber sugar and cocoa estates, and mining operations in central and southern Africa were all highly intensive labor. Human resources were exploited for the benefit of European industry and commerce. Portugal shipped off people for labor where they would live and die. The Europeans brutal crime brought people helplessly having to work with no right to make their own decision.

The war was concluded finally in January 1970, with Biafra surrender after Ojukwu had fled to the Côte d'Ivoire (Nigeria). The war left the economy gravely weakened, and warfare and famine had cost an estimated 1 million lives (Nigeria). Imperialism had a great impact on this revolutionary war in Nigeria. They took over the lives on the citizens of Nigerians which later caused Nigerians Civil war. That is what their independence later lead to. The rivalry between two tribes in one continent, Nigeria.

If it were not for Britain and its imperial power there would not have been any need for a war. They started with their arbitrary boarders, which they had no say in how Africa would be divided. Then they had different beliefs and with their boundaries there was little room to practice the religion they wanted to practice just because one side had more power than the other in different areas. Later European greed after imperialism aimed at exploiting Nigeria’s resources. Britain took their oil and put unskilled labor workers in jobs that could not be done with their knowledge. That is the power of imperialism and how it started the Nigerian Civil war.

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