...Chapter 1 Handicapped by History Brief Summary As the first chapter in this long analytical book, chapter one serves as the foundation for the rest of the novel, with a basic premise that “history textbooks make fool out of the students.” It shows how portrayal of historical figures and events in the best light for the reputation of United States leads to biased and distorted historical education. Author’s Viewpoint Loewen uses two examples—Helen Keller and Woodrow Wilson—in order to illustrate his point, and I would like to focus on the latter for this analysis. Loewen states that while Woodrow Wilson is often presented as the founder of League of Nations following World War I and the leader of progressive causes like women’s suffrage, textbooks rarely make any reference to racial segregation of federal government and his military interventions in foreign nations (22). Wilson intervened in countries like Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua, and, which set up dictatorship in those nations, but surprisingly documentary evidences only emphasize his role in withdrawing the troops, which sounds ironic considering that he “wasn’t” the one who put the troops in at the first place (25). Instead, textbooks portray his intentions as building up friendship or take a step further and blame the invaded nations themselves (24). Next argument that Loewen makes is that Wilson was a racist who effectively closed the Democratic Party to African Americans, a fact that...
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...read through the stories they all had one thing in common and that was the Great Spirit. The Native Americans relied heavily on the Great Spirit for guidance and worshipped him greatly. “Our Great Father, over the great waters, is angry with the white people, our enemies. He will send his brave warriors against them; he will send us rifles, and whatever else we want-he is our friend, and we are his children.” (449) When the white men were trying to overrun the native Americans it was the Great Spirit who gave them advice to rely on the ancestor’s techniques to overcome the white men. The European Americans on the other hand viewed their spirituality completely different. In the first readings in the beginning of the course, many settlers came to the America’s to practice their religion in which they believed in. Such practice of their particular religion was not allowed back in Europe and they were forced to deal with it even though they did not agree with the religion being forced upon them. In week 4, we also...
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...Summary Friedman concludes that the world is flat on a visit to Infosys Technologies Limited in India, where he travels with Discovery Times. Friedman is impressed by the campus’s advanced technology such as the glass-and-steel buildings and large flat-screen televisions. Nandan Nilekani, the company’s CEO, tells Friedman that the playing field has been leveled; now countries like India can compete for global knowledge. Friedman realizes that the world is flat, which fills him with both dread and excitement. Friedman believes there are historically three great eras of globalization. The first was from 1492-1800, which he calls Globalization 1.0; the second was from 1800-2000, which he calls Globalization 2.0. Friedman argues that we are now in the midst of Globalization 3.0 is a period in which the world shrinks from small to tiny, flattening to such a degree that individuals can collaborate and compete globally. Friedman tells the reader that the purpose of this book is to understand how the world became flat as well as the implications of that development. Friedman spends a night in an Indian call center. Twenty-five hundred twenty-somethings work in this multi-floor facility; some are “outbound” operators, selling various items, others are “inbound” operators, tending to the customer-service needs of various companies. Friedman notes that there are about 245,000 Indians working in this industry, which offers them high-paying, high-prestige jobs. Employees are trained how...
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...Spain and Texas Today in my summary of Texas: A Compact History I will be talking about the relationship that Spain had with America and Texas. Spain emerged from the Middle Ages and became the first great European nation. I personally think that it’s crazy for something to climb the ranks like that. When Spain supported Christopher Columbus’ voyage, they had the luck of finding where American Indian cultures extracted precious metals like gold and silver. Because of this find, Spain became the wealthiest European nation for a while. Spanish leaders began to search the New World for additional wealth. I liked reading about the relationships between the nations and how America came to be. I think it is interesting to know that modern America...
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...Pages: 216 I. Summary The author introduces theory that the world is flat. He traveled to Japan, China, America and India that lead him to this conclusion. It starts while he is playing golf when he finds himself surrounded by advertisement of traditional American companies such as Pizza Hut, Epson, HP and Texas Instruments. He identified ten influencing factors that led to globalization and world flattening. First is Collapse of Berlin Wall it allowed people from other side of the wall to join the economic mainstream. (11/09/1989). Then on 1995 internet was lunched. Free workflow software follows allowing people from around the world to collaborate and work together on projects using a shared medium. Communities are uploading and collaborating on online projects. Companies splits service and manufacturing activities into components, with each component performed in most efficient, cost-effective way. Using the Chinese manufacturing sector forced other developing countries to try to keep up with their low cost solutions, resulting in better quality and cheaper products being produced worldwide. By using technology to modernize item sales, distribution, and shipping. Employees are working for another company. People on their own had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people. Finally, the presence of personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods makes the life better and faster. When the factors came together they created...
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...opened one of their first satellite offices in Columbus Ohio. Their overall goal for opening each satellite office is to open in cities they believe have great talent potential. The company is always in search of new talent. They send recruiters to all area campuses on a monthly basis in search of talent to bring in for interviews. I personally chose this company because I have first-hand experience of the environment as a former employee. I believe this job has extraordinary entry level opportunity and gives every employee an opportunity to build their own business. The training program is very thorough and you can tell that the trainer and other management really care about your progress while learning the ropes of the logistics industry. I will be researching several outside sources for information on TQL and will be focusing my research on the great work environment TQL has to offer as well as the tremendous growth potential TQL has to offer. I will be available to answer any questions you, or the CSCC placement office have in regards to this evaluation. You can reach me via email, or by phone. I will return your email, or call as soon as possible with answers to any questions you may have. Regards, Brandon Lundberg blundberg@student.cscc.edu 614-787-6794 Table of Contents Evaluating an Employer…………………....i Transmittal letter…………………………...ii Table of contents……...................................iii Executive summary………………………...iv Introduction………….............
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...TRANSPORTATION PLANNING STUDY REPORT ZIP CODE AREA: 10024 UPPER WEST SIDE Beatriz Serrano CE-351 Urban Transportation Planning Professor Lennon Lawrence Fall 2015 Table of contents Section 1- Executive summary3 Section 2 – Historical context4 Section 3 – Urban planning and land use6 Section 4 – Socioeconomic characteristics9 List of figures12 List of Tables13 References14 Base Map15 Section 1 – Executive Summary Only in final submittal ------------------------------------------------- Section 2 – Historical context 1024 zip code area is bounded on the South by 76th street, Central Park the East, the Hudson River on the West, and by 91st street on the North. From West to East, the avenues of the zip code area are Riverside Drive, West End Avenue (11th Avenue), Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue (10th Avenue), Columbus Avenue (9th Avenue), and Central Park West (8th Avenue). This area is an affluent, primarily residential area with many of its residents working in more commercial areas in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. It has the reputation of being home to New York City's cultural, intellectual hub (with Columbia University located at the North end of the neighborhood), and artistic workers. Because of his boundary with the Hudson River, the riverfront of this area used to be a shipping, transportation, and manufacturing corridor. The Hudson River Railroad line tight-of-way was granted in the late 1830s to connect New York...
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...Summary of The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman LENGTH: 4976 words HEADLINE: It's a Flat World, After All BYLINE: By Thomas L. Friedman. Thomas L. Friedman is the author of ''The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,'' to be published this week by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and from which this article is adapted. His column appears on the Op-Ed page of The Times, and his television documentary ''Does Europe Hate Us?'' will be shown on the Discovery Channel on April 7 at 8 p.m. BODY: In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India, going west. He had the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He never did find India, but he called the people he met ''Indians'' and came home and reported to his king and queen: ''The world is round.'' I set off for India 512 years later. I knew just which direction I was going. I went east. I had Lufthansa business class, and I came home and reported only to my wife and only in a whisper: ''The world is flat.'' And therein lies a tale of technology and geoeconomics that is fundamentally reshaping our lives -- much, much more quickly than many people realize. It all happened while we were sleeping, or rather while we were focused on 9/11, the dot-com bust and Enron -- which even prompted some to wonder whether globalization was over. Actually, just the opposite was true, which is why it's time to wake up and prepare ourselves for this flat world, because others already are, and there is no time to waste. I wish I could say I saw...
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...Migration of the Indians to the New World. It is believed that the people who Columbus saw when he came to the New World were nomadic hunters from central and East Asia who followed the buffalo and deer. When the herds moved, people moved after them because they were dependent on the animals for food. It is therefore suspected that the herds led the people out of Asia by the north-east, across the Bering Strait and into North America. They crossed the sea by an ice –bridge when it was frozen over during the last Ice-Age. They did not know that they were crossing water from one continent to another. Map 1 Amerindians migration from central Asia into North America. The Amerindians settled throughout North America and were the ancestors of the many Red Indian tribes we know today, as well as the Eskimos in the far north. In general, they were nomadic but some followed settled agricultural pursuits and developed civilizations of their own like the Mayas in South America (check internet reference for profile on this group, focus on level of development, structure of society, religion). The migration continued south through Central America into South America from where the Arawaks and Caribs migrated to the West Indies. The Arawaks and the Caribs can be traced by their languages to two different cradle lands in South America where the Indians speak related languages. The ancestors of the Arawaks probably came from...
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...In 1492, Columbus found the new world and that started the whole process of trading and force labor. The Spaniards didn’t reach the Andes until 1532. It wasn’t until 1572 when the Spanish viceroy named Francisco Toledo started the mita. The mita was created to make the people in Andes to do force labor such as, working in the mine. The mine wasn’t a safe place for his people to work, it was dangerous to breathe in the air. Breathing in the air caused death among his people, it also would cause them to get sick. The Spanish started this force labor because they found the mine, which was full of sliver. The only problem is that they needed people to move the silver out of the mine so they could trade it with other European countires. It seem like they were trying to take over the Andes. Well, Guarache didn’t like that because it seem like his people were going in the mind and some of them were dying and even getting sick, also the people who heard about doing force labor left...
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...The Age of Exploration A Resource to Accompany History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism Brings Learning Alive! Teachers’ Curriculum Institute 1 Introduction I n this reading, you will learn about the Age of Exploration. This period of discovery lasted from about 1418 to 1620. During this time, European explorers made many daring voyages that changed world history. A major reason for these voyages was the desire to find sea routes to east Asia, which Europeans called the Indies. When Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean, he was looking for such a route. Instead, he landed in the Americas. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies. In time, Europeans would realize that he had found what they called the ”New World.” European nations soon rushed to claim lands in the Americas for themselves. Early explorers often suffered terrible hardships. In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan set out with three ships to cross the Pacific Ocean from South America. He had guessed, correctly, that the Indies lay on the other side of the Pacific. But Magellan had no idea how vast the ocean really was. He thought his crew would be sailing for a few weeks at most. Instead, the crossing took three months. While the ships were still at sea, the crew ran out of food. One sailor wrote about this terrible time. “We ate biscuit… swarming with worms…. We drank yellow water that had been putrid [rotten] for days... and often we ate sawdust from boards.” Why did explorers...
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...Reflective Summary: Review and reflect on the Health Insurance Billing and Reimbursement Discussion Board. Based on your review and reflection of new learnings in this course, write at least 400–600 words on the following: * What have you learned from others' responses? * What were the most compelling points from the interaction with your fellow students? * How did participating in this discussion help in your understanding of the Discussion Board task? * What approaches could have yielded additional valuable information in the students' networking? * What is still unclear after the discussion with your classmates that needs to be clarified? During week ones discussion board assignment, we discussed the different types of health insurance billing and reimbursement methods. This discussion board assignment required taking the time to research the history of health insurance and how it has evolved over the years to the system that we know it as today. By utilizing the discussion board portion of this class, I was able to learn many things from my classmates’ postings. I learned the many different methods of healthcare reimbursement that is still currently used today. I learned the history of health insurance, and why it was developed for the patients in the first place. I also learned many different views and opinions of my classmates that allowed me to reconsider and further educate myself on the views of the future of the healthcare industry. The most...
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...maize in tote, traveled to all corners of the world. Quickly, maize was being grown as far east as China. Once imported, maize tended to flourish and those who came upon the grain quickly learned what the natives of the Americas had known for centuries; maize’s ease of growth and high yields made it a vital resource for impoverished people. In numerous areas throughout the world and especially among the lower classes, maize became an integral crop. Despite the wishes of the Spanish to impose their culture in the Americas, aspects of indigenous culture were bound seep into the exchange; the bidirectional nature of contact and the utility of maize ensured it. Furthermore, maize seemed to enter into societies in the same position it inhabited in the Americas, primarily among the lower class. While maize and its ability to survive and even prosper in a number of disparate climates serves as the most prominent example, other foods such as chile peppers and beans fall followed a very similar path to maize. Whereas food moved fluidly between continents, Catholicism was imparted directly from the Spanish to the indigenous, albeit intermittently. One could argue that Catholicism was the most formative and enduring “good” of the exchange, especially as 85% of Mexicans identified as Catholic in 2010. From the arrival of Columbus, Spaniards possessed an incessant desire to convert natives to Catholicism. Fray Jerómino de Mendieta’s account of the Twelve Apostles of Mexico, titled “The Spiritual...
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...26th of July Movement took over Cuba’s streets in January 1959. Though Castro’s charismatic and vibrant personality quickly won him astonishing support, he knew that he had to consolidate his political power by ensuring the trust of the population. The consolidation of Fidel Castro’s power between 1959 and1961 was more of a result of domestic issues rather than United States economic policies. In order, to consolidate power, it was known that the reminder of the revolutionary groups that were involved in the fight against Batista had to be quickly eliminated, so as not to challenge his political ambitions. The revolutionaries brought many of Batista’s prominent military and civilian leaders before trial which were extremely quick and defied any sense of justice and resulted in the summary execution of hundreds of persons. The regime ended the trials only in response to international criticism. Hence through this action, along with Raul using the military and large civilian militia to rid the country of the batistianos and the confiscation of their properties, Castro ensured that there was no opposition to his position and actions. In fact Louis Perez Jr. recalls, “Property owned by batistianos was confiscated, their safe deposit boxes seized, and their bank accounts frozen”. Castro appeared a saviour as he was exacting justice for the violated rights of the Cuban people. Another factor that consolidated Castro’s power was that of propaganda. In January 1959, Dr. Manuel Urrutia...
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...Still Separate, Still Unequal Segregation is a topic that has been discussed for decades. Segregation in schools wasn't really dealt with. The government basically disguised it and kept it away from the public. Brown V. Board of Education, Plessy V. Ferguson, and Jim Crow Laws was the cover, but it didn't solve anything. Segregation isn't just about race, it's also financially. When money is involved in the situation there's a major advantage. Johnathan Kozol talks about how we're still separate, and unequal. Johnathan Kozol touched on some really great points, when it came down to gproving how we're separate, and unequal. Kozol digs a little deeper to back up his word on being separate and unequal. In the following paragraphs I will summarize Kozol's article "Still Separate, Still Unequal" and continue on what needs to be done to solve this problem. Many people wonder do segregation still exist, but not many people want to investigate. Jonathan Kozol, did a little more than investigate. Jonathan Kozol pointed out, in most poor neighborhoods the schools have mostly black and Hispanic students (348). The percentage of blacks and Mexicans students were higher than fifty percent. There was a teacher who was 65 years old who taught at a majority black school stated that "Out of eighteen years, this is the first white student I have ever taught" (348). It's not very common that white students attend underclass schools. Kozol stated that there is a school in New York City named...
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