...Christine Munroe Sociology November 26, 2015 Topic # 1 One of the most significant contributions to the growth of the agricultural economy was the creation of the Bracero Program in which more than 4 million Mexican farm laborers came to work the fields of this nation. The braceros converted the agricultural fields of America into the most productive in the planet. The Bracero Program was a corporative international program through which the United States imported large number of Mexicans workers (mostly farmworkers). This program came about because of farm labor shortages caused by American entry into World War 11. The men were recruited to work primarily in agriculture, although during World War II braceros also supplied railroad labor. The majority of the braceros were experienced farm labors from important agricultural regions of Mexico. Huge numbers of bracero candidates arrived by train to the northern border. Their arrival altered the social environment and economy of many border towns. The program brought Mexican workers to replace American workers dislocated by the war. The program was intended to be temporary, but because of dependence of American farms on Mexican labor it kept going for nearly two decades after the war. The braceros contracts were controlled by independent associations and the Farm Bureau. The contracts were in English and the braceros would sign them without understanding theor full rights and the conditions of employment. When the contracts...
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...Social Movements and Trends His/145 May 29 2012 In the rare occasions when the U.S looks at unions, the media tends to view social movements as the creation of strong leaders. The view of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers is one of the most evident events of all. Cesar Chavez the famous activist would have been 85 years old today. After his death in 1993 an abundance of coverage assumed that the Unite Farm Workers would not survive the tragedy. The Chicano movement began during the Civil Rights era with three main goals which included the restoration of land, rights for farm workers and developments in education. Prior to the 1960’s Latinos had no influence when it came to the national political arena. There was a complete turnaround in the 1960’s when the Mexican American Political Association worked to elect President John F. Kennedy, creating Latinos as a significant voting alliance. After Kennedy won the election he showed his appreciation towards the Latino community by assigning Hispanics to posts in his administration and he also took in consideration the concerns of the Hispanic community. Latinos, mainly Mexican Americans began demanding and were very persisting towards the reforms made in labor and education to meet their needs. Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the Chicano movement in the 1960's used economic pressure rather than violence to pursue civil rights for Mexican-Americans. The fight during the 1960’s to secure unionization for farm workers is...
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...Cesar Chavez Essay Contest 2011 Cesar Chávez, a great Mexican-American labor leader, who fought without violence for the rights of the farm laborers. He was one of the heroic figures of our time. Chavez changed the perspective of the legislators in improving the life of farm laborers. His core values made a big difference today in our society. Without his perseverance to make a better society, it could have been in a big calamity. One of his core values was the acceptance of all people. To have a success in social change, people should have an essential ingredient in organizing a diverse force and actualizing the democracy. Since my really caring, hilarious, and friendly counselor always trigger his students’ ability to earn As and Bs, join clubs, play sports, and volunteer. I came to a conclusion to follow all this norms and it’s worth the time. I have been an active member of variety of clubs at school and big organizations in my community. Volunteering 3 days a week, trying to help my peers with their concerns is a good feeling. Crawford High School is so diverse that it has over 40 languages spoken and most students that immigrated are from Somalia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and countries around the world. They were refugees who had no choice but to leave the country they loved and begin a new life in a strange new country. In addition, students need to feel welcomed and loved. I help my peers through asking them to go to this one organization I volunteer at, San Diego...
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...The Farm Labor Movement was when Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta worked together to form the United Farm Workers Union. This union was formed to ensure that farm workers got paid for the right amount of time they worked for. Many farmers were getting low wages and Cesar Chavez thought that was unfair. Cesar Chavez was a farmer ever since he graduated eight grade. His father was in an accident and he didn't want his mother to work so much. When he was 17 he went to the Navy for two years. He started the United Farm Workers Union in 1962. Cesar didn't have many members in it until 1970, when he urged grape workers to join the union. This caused the Delano grape strike, a march from Sacramento to Delano. This was a three hundred and forty mile trip to Delano. The marchers wanted state government to pass laws, which would permit farm workers to organize into a union and allow collective bargaining agreements. He tried to make people aware of the struggles of farm workers for better pay and treatment. He did this through boycotts, pickets, and strikes. Cesar did not believe in acts of violence. The picketing, boycotts, and strikes worked against the grape growers and this led to the grape growers sign contracts with the union. The result of the Farm Labor Movement gave farmers the money and dignity that everyone should receive and ensured that the farmers of America will always be treated fairly. Work Cited ----------...
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...This man fought for the rights of migrant workers everywhere, he gave all he could to better other people’s lives, his name was Cesar Chavez. Cesar was a very influential activist for farm workers and Mexican immigrants in the 1960’s and 70’s. He spent his early life as a farm worker and experienced firsthand, all the problems that the workers had to endure. He dedicated his life to helping others and improving wages for migrant workers all over California. Cesar spent the early years of his life in the United States as a farm worker with the rest of his family. When he turned 17, he joined the U.S. Navy. After leaving the navy, he referred to his time in service as the worst two years of his life. He returned to California to marry his high school sweetheart and moved to San Jose. He continued to work in the fields until 1952. In 1952 Cesar moved on to working for the Community Service Organization, which was an activist group for Latin Americans. He worked with the group for six years, and was made the national director in 1958. Cesar worked as the director for four more years before leaving the group to co-find the United Farm Workers. The United Farm Workers brought migrant workers together, in order to get more reasonable wages, and to keep the legal immigrants from losing their jobs to illegal immigrants. In 1965 Chavez joined the Delano Grape Strike. His work helping the strike win caused three other groups in different areas to strike for fair wages and working conditions...
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...Exercise country analysis and country risk Venezuela Hypump, a US company producing hydraulic pumps used in oil producing industry, likes to investigate the possibility of starting a new subsidiary in Venezuela, and asked you to make a country analysis and country risk report. The facts, key indicators and back ground information of Venezuela you found after research are presented in the Appendix. Use that information to answer the following questions: Moderate poverty and inequality have decreased from 1998 onwards due to the program called ‘Missiones’ according to the World bank (see appendix). 1. Use the fact sheet Venezuela whether this can be confirmed with figures. Assess: a. Level of development b. Income inequality 2. Assess Venezuela’s export structure. What is it based on? Use GDP and expenditure components for Q 3 and Q4 to assess Venezuela’s attractiveness from the table: 3. How can you see 2014 and 2015 are forecasts? 4. Characterize the phase of business cycle Venezuela has faced in 2013 and 2014 (Explain which key indicator(s) are used to answer the question) 5. Make a ‘first level analysis’ of the aggregate components of GDP to explain the economic (GDP) growth during 2013. 6. Explain the influence of imports on GDP in 2013. 7. Make a ‘second level’ analysis of the aggregate components of GDP to find some reason(s) for the movement of the various components. ‘The decrease...
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...Cesar Chavez's Was Cesar Chavez's an effective leader? Cesar Chavez's was born March 31, 1927, Yuma, AZ Cesar Chavez was given Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom, Pacem in Terris Award, Jefferson Awards for Public Service was a Civil rights activist goal was to build their own union called (UFW = united farm workers) dropped out of school to help his family was poor moved to california started to pick Cesar passed away in his sleep on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, Arizona, only miles from his birthplace 66 years earlier.Cesar Chavez was an effective leader because he did everything non-violence,had clear goal and had a positive attitude and was willing to sacrifice. First Cesar Chavez s strategy that was most effective was nonviolence....
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...Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta born April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who was co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and later the United Farm workers. Huerta has received many award and accolades and has remained a role model and voice to many in the Latino community. Huerta was born to Juan Fernandez and Alicia Chavez, they divorced when Huerta was just three years old. Both Huerta’s parents were active in the rights of people and the community itself. Huerta’s father was a field worker, miner, as well as a union activist. Huerta’s mother was a business woman who owned a restaurant and a 70-room hotel where she helped low wage workers. A lot of Huerta’s humanitarianism...
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...farm workers, this man’s name was Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez is undeniably courageous because he was able to persevere through all the harsh challenges he had to face, he showed integrity while others showed him hatred, and he showed respect to anyone it didn’t matter their race, color, or gender he still showed respect. Perseverance To Illustrate who Cesar Chavez was one of America’s most heroic citizen is perseverance. Perseverance was one of many things that Chavez had showed throughout his entire life. The strike began in 1965, when Cesar Chavez had...
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...Al-Qaeda making comeback in Iraq, officials say BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaeda is rebuilding in Iraq and has set up training camps for insurgents in the nation's western deserts as the extremist group seizes on regional instability and government security failures to regain strength, officials say. / Iraq has seen a jump in al-Qaeda attacks over the last 10 weeks, and officials believe most of the fighters are former prisoners who have either escaped from jail or were released by Iraqi authorities for lack of evidence after the U.S. military withdrawal last December. Many are said to be Saudi or from Sunni-dominated Gulf states. Teenage School Activist Survives Attack by Taliban At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by giving voice to her dreams. As turbaned fighters swept through her town in northwestern Pakistan in 2009, the tiny schoolgirl spoke out about her passion for education — she wanted to become a doctor, she said — and became a symbol of defiance against Taliban subjugation. / On Tuesday, masked Taliban gunmen answered Ms. Yousafzai’s courage with bullets, singling out the 14-year-old on a bus filled with terrified schoolchildren, then shooting her in the head and neck. Two other girls were also wounded in the attack. All three survived, but late on Tuesday doctors said that Ms. Yousafzai was in critical condition at a hospital in Peshawar, with a bullet possibly lodged close to her brain. Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu calls for early elections JERUSALEM...
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...1. Executive summary: The main purpose of the following report is to provide information about the profile of The Bolivarian Republican of Venezuela; in order to study the current situation of the country for further investigations in the future that may help to understand the opportunities and risk involve in importing and opening new markets in Venezuela. The analysis includes reviews and an extensive research about: First the geography and global information to introduce the country; second, the History since the arrival of the Spaniards. The Political analysis will be explained as much detailed as possible due to its specifics characteristics in the recent decades with the Hugo Chavez’s government. He report draws special attention in the Social analysis is one of the main issues to be reviewed due to its importance at the time of making any decision. The economic aspect of course will be in consideration with both: the Official’s figures and the international observer’s ones, the graphics will be analyzed. It will be also mentioned the Business environments and the principal sectors to invest or that could be interesting to sell. To support all the information in the report before any conclusion, it will be used THE SWOT tool to demonstrate why Venezuela is an interesting place to import, especially in the last 5 years. It is not just a country of striking natural beauty, which ranges from the snow-capped Andean peaks in the west, through the Amazonian...
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...on the people. With years of oppression and marginalization, a new president in 1998 came into power, this President is Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez was able to win the presidency, perhaps because he has been viewed as a people’s man. Chavez has made it very clear that he is for socialism, and not for a neoliberal Venezuela, “Es el neoliberalismo el camino? Sí, el camino al Infierno. Ese es el camino al Infierno” - Hugo Chávez. Hugo Chavez has set out a plan for his socialist government, this plan has been designed to finally put an end to all the oppression the many lower class marginalized groups have faced over the decades. However, it is very evident that putting this plan into action has proved a lot more difficult than Chavez and his administration thought it would. For this reason, it is clear that for social justice, and the democratization of this country have been widely affected, and not for the good. As Chavez has changed the agenda, but in the view from social justice and democracy, he has lacked to really implement change for the better, and this is why we still see a high number of marginalized groups that are fighting constantly for more rights. Women have continued to fight in the name of social justice and democracy to pave a way for all the women that are oppressed. If we view Venezuela from the view of the plans put into place by Chavez, we see amazing proposals for a democratic and better country. However, the issue lies deeper, and that has led me to ask why...
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...Introduction: The United States today has a large population of Mexicans, and has had a significantly large population of Mexicans since they became U.S citizens after the Treaty of Hidalgo was signed in 1848. The treaty was an agreement between the U.S, and Mexico, transferring land to the U.S, but not only did they get land; Mexicans who resided in those states also stayed, and most became U.S citizens. Since then, Mexicans, and their U.S born children have faced many problems such as, discrimination, inequality, and segregation. For many years Mexicans, and Mexican-Americans dealt with the inequality, until the 1960’s when they decided that there had to be an end to all the discrimination that Mexicans faced, and started what is now known as the Chicano Movement. The Chicano Movement had a huge impact on not only Chicanos, but also on the nation. A) During the 60’s there were several civil rights movements that took place, and according to Rodolfo F. Acuna “the bases of social movements were inequality, and a moral outrage at the lack of fairness in the system” (Acuna 287), and this is what the Chicano Movement was. In order to understand the Chicano Movement, it must be defined; in short, the Chicano Movement was part of the Civil Rights movement during the 60’s whose goal was to get better education, voting rights, equal wages, and restoration of land grants; as it had originally been agreed to in the Treaty of Hidalgo. The word “Chicano” used to be considered...
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...Cross Cultural Perspectives Derrick K. Henry Sr. ETH/316 October October 10, 2014 Donna Craft Ohio- based Owens Illinois is glass giant in the glass business, with more than 20,000 employees and more than 80 factories in over 20 countries. Serving primarily the food and beverage industries, Owen Illinois has been on the Fortune 500 list since it has been established in the 1950’s, with revenues of over 7 billion in 2009 and with the bulk of business occurring outside the United States. Since then e then it has become known as the world’s leader in glass making in 20 countries. The headquarters is located in Perrysburg, Ohio, and operates in four regions which are in Asia Pacific, Latin America, North America, and Europe. Cultural issues that affect Owen’s are the ethnicity of various plants outside the United States. Salaries vary for skilled labor from various plants in other countries due to the economy. A U.S. supervisor retains his normal pay and sometimes an increase in salary also accompanies a relocation package in other regions of the world. A non U.S. worker receives less in foreign country working for Owens but due to their relocation to the U.S. an increase will accompany them only if they decide to remain in a United States plant. Collaborating with the global organizations has been highly encouraged as well as with any organization for the benefit of being competitive and seeking best practices throughout the organization. Identification...
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...poorest of poor and the weakest of weak are pitted against the strongest of strong.” While reading this particular document about Cesar Chavez and his actions regarding Mexican American Civil Rights I was surprised to see how much of a role he played. Chavez was a Mexican American farm worker and his role was key in the organization of the unions fighting for the rights of farm workers in California-Mexico area. After I read this document my eyes were opened to how immigrants were treated when it came to their jobs as labor workers. I think that the information that Chavez presented in this document was very informative and given at a very accurate point of view. Through this document you can learn that immigrants were very poorly treated. This document also shows that there are many ways we have advanced as a country and society, where there are also ways that we have not. Just like now, the U.S. contracted out work to different countries. First it was the Philippines in the early twenties and then on to the Japanese when they moved to the U.S. and then when the population of Mexicans began to rise, the U.S. used them and allowed them temporary access to the United States. Some of the main cultural and social changes I noticed from this document were that there were tons of issues within the labor workers. Cesar Chavez witnessed all of this first hand, and this account gives the reader a look into what went on, on a more personal level. Rather than just listening...
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