...takes us through a journey in the life of Cesar Chavez. The film “Cesar Chavez: An American Hero” starts with Cesar Chavez (played by actor Michael Pena), was born in Yuma, Arizona and of Mexican-American decent. His family owned a ranch in Arizona, and lost it during the great depression. When they found themselves homeless, they moved to California to work in the fields. But to their surprise there were more people than work. After witnessing the injustice farm workers endured on a daily basis, and the exclusion to bargain for wages after the implementation of the National Labor Relations Act, Chavez decided to take action. Therefore, he joined the CSO (Community Service Organization), and that is where he learned how to organize people and met Dolores...
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...Imagine a world where people protested with violence. Could you live in a world like that? Well there’s a person that couldn’t live in a world like this and his name is Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez deserves to be called a hero for the good deeds he did for all the farm workers around our country. First he fought for all the workers rights. When people wanted to use violence he told them that they would not use violence,it was a non-violence protest. Later on he was one of the founders of National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). The first reason Cesar Chavez is a hero because he fought for all the workers rights. The farm workers were getting mistreated. One way they were being mistreated is that they didn’t get paid enough, they would...
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...123 (Hispanic movie #3) Ceasar Chavez When you look at inequality through the lens of race and ethnicity, Latinos[->0] are among the hardest hit. “Hispanics, at 16 percent of the population, received 9 percent of the earning pie, just one point above African Americans. Asian Americans earned slightly more than the 5 percent of their population share”(Andrina D. Kugler). Latinos are at the low end of income distribution and are more likely to be unemployed and thus have no income than any other group except African Americans. This all relates to a movie called Cesar Chavez produced by Diego Luna. Cesar Chavez is a incredible edge of the seat watching film based on a true story of the real American hero Cesar Chavez who sadly passed away at the age of 66. Naratating the birth of a modern American movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the legendary civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. He belived that every American had the right to bring about social change within the system which is why he started an organization to boycott for farm workers who suffered from inequality. Also, Chavez embraced non-violence as he encountered greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring self-respect to people. One scene in the film reminds me of similar situation that I went through. One of his enimies in the film said “whos this Ceasar Chavez” and the guy said “I heard he’s Mexican”...
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...Cesar Estrada Chavez was a hero for Latinos. He is an example of leadership for young people, future generations, and for those in a moment lose hope, in memory of Cesar Chavez we say Yes we can! "!Yes we can!" for me it's hard to describe. I can not find the words because it's a feeling. Like the blood that runs through my veins, like love for Mexico, my people, my pride of being Latina. Three powerful words that help me stay strong in hard moments. It provide me confidence and hope to fulfill my dreams. Chavez's words still remember to this day. In the newspaper La Opinion a farmer said "We need another Cesar Chavez. But where do we're going to get him. I wish we could bring him back "(Flores). There are people outside hoping to someone...
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...Mexican-American Culture A Part of History?? History is taught in elementary school all the way through high school. From the renaissance era to world war one, from the first presidential campaign to the most recent one. They teach, or at least try to, instruct everything in their curriculum using every minute of such a short class period. In addition, most of what were taught in school is all United States related with a sprinkle of other countries that in the end had something to tie into with the US. As for Mexican-American history or Mexican history we are taught the staples: Mexican-American War, the Mexican Revolution and most recently, for myself, the construction of the Panama Canal. But what about the details and the lives of Hispanic...
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...Can Dolores Huerta be considered a hero? Yes she can. Dolores can be considered a hero because she was a civil rights activist. Going more into that she always wanted to help people who were not treated equally as everyone else. She also was a non-violent activist, she never went as far as violently trying to get what was needed to be fixed. Finally, she was an inspiration to many people that felt were underprivileged of rights and inspired them to take action. One reason Dolores Huerta is considered a hero is because she was very big on making sure that everyone had rights, not just Americans. In 1955 she co-founded the Stockton Chapter of the Community Service Organization. They led voter registration drives and fought...
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...to say is if you fear the government, they will feel more powerful. Then if the government fears us, we will all be more powerful then them. And this is what is going to be discussed today. The government has ruled and brought fear to blacks, Mexicans, and girls. But not to worry; Dr. king, Chavez and Yousfzai will fight back and there going to make the government fear us. What Dr. king is fighting about is; blacks should have equal rights just like whites do. For example you can’t say you hate a piece of cake because you don’t the color. It’s about how it’s good inside not what it looks like outside. In Chavez speech, he is fighting for Mexicans to stop being forced into farm labor. Lastly in...
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...get around four-thousand to five-thousand people. The event is extremely courteous due to the fact that everything is free, no money is required to fish or to eat, everything is free. The event is even known for helping families unite and create memories to cherish. Yet it does not stop there, bags are given that contain information on minority organ donation awareness and breast cancer awareness.“We just do so many things that benefit the families that join us,” Christy explained. Christy’s lists of accomplishments do not end there. She was the first person who wanted to name a street in Lubbock after Cesar Chaves, a civil rights activist. “It took me a while but we got one of the longest streets named after Cesar Chaves in the Nation,” Christy exclaims. Her plan was to cross MLK street with the Cesar Chaves but unfortunately, she had resistants from the African-American community and the request was denied. “It is unfortunate that these things happen, but part of why I do what I do is to bring awareness and dialogue. So we can make people feel good about differences.” Even though she wasn't allowed to cross the two roads she has been resilient and did not let this stop her from continuing her goals Christy is even targeting health issues in Hispanics like diabetes and high blood pressure. To eliminate these problems she has raised $35,000 to buy outdoor fitness equipment to place in the parks. She has served as a Parks Board Chair and was inspired when she saw something...
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...injustice. Acts of civil disobedience are shown in modern society today, whether in society or through the media. Many individuals who are portrayed as heroes are people who break the law and fight for the power and authority that the citizens have lost due to their rights being taken away. A person must be able to accept the outcomes and consequences of their own actions when they disobey. Being civilly disobedient is not only about breaking a law. The actions of these individuals spread ideas. In the end, the outcome of the struggle may involve a change in a law like the way Cesar Chavez used this method to get the workers a union. In Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, the outcome may be to influence and empower others to change their minds about supporting a law, war, or other action. He wanted others to realize the importance of using one’s individual freedom to fight against government corruption. In Batman, the hero must battle political corruption as well, despite...
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...9-508-052 ROHIT DESHPANDÉ GUSTAVO HERRERO REGINA GARCÍA CUÉLLAR Chocolates El Rey The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue: a cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food. — Hernán Cortés, 15191 In late November 2006, Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company’s growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million,2 El Rey produced top-quality chocolate made with single-origin Venezuelan cocoa beans.3 The firm sold its chocolates in four different sectors—food services, industry, retail, and beverages4—and exported 17% of its production, mostly to the United States, Europe, and Japan. El Rey needed to grow, but Redmond wondered how to achieve growth and how to market the El Rey brand to its different target segments and international markets. With only 0.5% of cocoa’s world production, was it worth the effort to try to establish a country-of-origin image for Venezuelan chocolate? If so, how should El Rey go about it? And was this wise for a small company with scarce resources for marketing? El Rey In 1929, José Rafael Zozaya and his father-in–law, Carmelo Tuozzo, introduced chocolate bars under the El Rey brand, founding Venezuela’s second-oldest chocolate company. The company, called Tuozzo Zozaya and Co., was funded with a 15,000-Bolívares (Bs) loan from Pius Schlageter. Tuozzo Zozaya produced mainly chocolate bars...
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...Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (pronounced [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled," "venerable"[2])—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,[3]—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father,"[4] "papa."[4][5]) in India. Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule. Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both...
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...OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY OUTLINE OF OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY C O N T E N T S CHAPTER 1 Early America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CHAPTER 2 The Colonial Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CHAPTER 3 The Road to Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CHAPTER 4 The Formation of a National Government . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 CHAPTER 5 Westward Expansion and Regional Differences . . . . . . . 110 CHAPTER 6 Sectional Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 CHAPTER 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 CHAPTER 8 Growth and Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 CHAPTER 9 Discontent and Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 CHAPTER 10 War, Prosperity, and Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 CHAPTER 11 The New Deal and World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 CHAPTER 12 Postwar America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 CHAPTER 13 Decades of Change: 1960-1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 CHAPTER 14 The New Conservatism and a New World Order . . . . . . 304 CHAPTER 15 Bridge to the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 PICTURE PROFILES Becoming a Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born in Germany), 1830–1902 Valley of the Yosemite, 1864 (detail) Oil on paperboard 30.16 × 48.89 cm (11 7/8 × 19 1/4 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, BostonGift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 47.1236 Buyer: Susan K. Culbertson Media Project Manager: Sridevi Palani Compositor: MPS Limited, a Macmillan Company Typeface: 10.5/12 Times Roman...
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...STUDENT GUIDE TO CULTURAL AWARENESS INDEX LESSON TITLE PAGE 1 Philosophical Aspects of Culture SG- 3 C1 Native American Experience SG- 4 C2 White American Experience SG- 23 C3 Arab American Experience SG- 43 C4 Hispanic American Experience SG- 53 C5 Black American Experience SG- 76 C6 Asian American Experience SG-109 C7 Jewish American Experience SG-126 C8 Women in the Military SG-150 C9 Extremist Organizations/Gangs SG-167 STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING FAMILIARIZED WITH ALL CLASS MATERIAL PRIOR TO CLASS. INFORMATION PAPER ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE Developed by Edwin J. Nichols, Ph.D. |Ethnic Groups/ |Axiology |Epistemology |Logic |Process | |World Views | | | | | |European |Member-Object |Cognitive |Dichotomous |Technology | |Euro-American |The highest value lies in the object |One knows through counting |Either/Or |All sets are repeatable and| | ...
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...LEADERS INSPIRE ACTION THROUGH NARRATIVE The LEADERSHIP STEPHEN DENNING John Wiley & Sons, Inc. More Praise for The Secret Language of Leadership “Out of the morass of strategies leaders are given to transform organizations, Denning plucks a powerful one—storytelling— and shows how and why it works.” —Dorothy Leonard, William J. Abernathy Professor of Business, Emerita, Harvard Business School, and author, Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom “The Secret Language of Leadership shows why narrative intelligence is central to transformational leadership and how to harness its power.” —Carol Pearson, director, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, and coauthor, The Hero and the Outlaw “The Secret Language of Leadership is not only the best analysis I have seen of how and why leaders succeed or fail, it’s highly readable, as well as downright practical. It should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in engaging a company with big ideas who understands that leaders live and die by the quality of what they say.” —Richard Stone, story analytics master, i.d.e.a.s “A primary role of leaders is to create and maintain meaning for their organizations. Denning clearly demonstrates that meaningmaking comes from stories well told.” —Thomas Davenport, President’s Distinguished Professor of I.T. and Management, Babson College, and author, The Attention Economy “Steve Denning is one of the leading thinkers...
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