Q:How according to Ishmael can we save the world? And according to you?
A: According to Ishmael we can save the world by changing the minds of people. And the takers need to become leavers that is Ishmael s way of saving the world. My way of saving the world is when people realize that the world needs saving and we can form and create a way to save it. Not only will we be saving our earth but show that man kinds was actually never a mistake and that there is a possibility that we aren't worthless after all.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
ISHMAEL BLoG 6
Q: "Mother Culture teaches that before the revolution human life was devoid of meaning was stupid empty and worthless" (Quinn 217)
Was life worthless before all revolutions?
Im not sure if life was meaning less before a revolution. People didnt have a freedom of certain things so im guessing its true. People where some form of meaning less before a revolution. And when the revolution took place they began to realize some form of ability to over throw and become worth knowing.
Was life worthless before all revolutions?
Im not sure if life was meaning less before a revolution. People didnt have a freedom of certain things so im guessing its true. People where some form of meaning less before a revolution. And when the revolution took place they began to realize some form of ability to over throw and become worth knowing.
ISHAMEL BLoG 5
Q:"there is a very special knowledge you must have if your going to rule the world" (Quinn 155)
Makes you wonder if you really do need knowledge?
I think you do need some what of knowledge to rule the world. Great leaders did go on ruling the world just like that. It took them time to understand what they were ruling for and what they were going to accomplish for there country. So i agree with this quote.
Makes you wonder if you really do need knowledge?
I think you do need some what of knowledge to rule the world. Great leaders did go on ruling the world just like that. It took them time to understand what they were ruling for and what they were going to accomplish for there country. So i agree with this quote.
Monday, May 18, 2009
ISHMAEL #4 Interview
Q:What environmental conditions do you know about the world today?
A: That the ozone layer is getting destroyed by all the pollution on earth
Q: Will you help out in protecting the ozone layer? How?
A: Yes i will by not using hairspray
Q:DO you think global warming is affecting our society as well?
A: If it was affecting the earth so much people would have done something about it
Q:DO you think our waters are getting polluted?
A: Yes i do they even say that in a couple years we will run out of water
Q:Have you contribute in helping out the community in any way?
A: By recycling at home and we recently changed the light bulbs to be equal friendly
A: That the ozone layer is getting destroyed by all the pollution on earth
Q: Will you help out in protecting the ozone layer? How?
A: Yes i will by not using hairspray
Q:DO you think global warming is affecting our society as well?
A: If it was affecting the earth so much people would have done something about it
Q:DO you think our waters are getting polluted?
A: Yes i do they even say that in a couple years we will run out of water
Q:Have you contribute in helping out the community in any way?
A: By recycling at home and we recently changed the light bulbs to be equal friendly
Thursday, May 14, 2009
ISHMAEL BloG #3
Quote: "Everyone in your culture knows that the world wasn't created for jellyfish or salmon or iguanas or gorillas. It was created for man"
Was the earth really created for man?
This makes you wonder if the world was really only made for man sure we have animals but we are the ones who evolved. The only ones who really rule this earth, we are the ones who decide how the world will end and how it lives on. Animals were probably there to entertain us or feed us but we mostly control the world today. But was this earth really made for us or are we just one step to gods new plan.
Was the earth really created for man?
This makes you wonder if the world was really only made for man sure we have animals but we are the ones who evolved. The only ones who really rule this earth, we are the ones who decide how the world will end and how it lives on. Animals were probably there to entertain us or feed us but we mostly control the world today. But was this earth really made for us or are we just one step to gods new plan.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
ISHMAEL BLOG #2
The Story of MAN
No one knows exactly how man started some say were decedent from monkeys others say we were created by god. But the fact that we are here makes us unique from everything else we are the only species that can evolve quickly and live in hard conditions. We ourselves create new things to keep us living. Like the cave men before us and the vikings each new era consists of evolving. Who knows how long humans, man will live on.
No one knows exactly how man started some say were decedent from monkeys others say we were created by god. But the fact that we are here makes us unique from everything else we are the only species that can evolve quickly and live in hard conditions. We ourselves create new things to keep us living. Like the cave men before us and the vikings each new era consists of evolving. Who knows how long humans, man will live on.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
ISHMAEL QQC #1
"With MAN gone will there be HOPE for GORILLA"
What could it mean for GORILLAS?
This quote makes you wonder that there are two sides to this saying. It can mean that with man gone the gorillas can live life and peacefully. Or gorillas need man to help them in order to survive because with out them there will be no food or shelter for them. It all depends on what you want it to mean and what perspective you have from this saying.
What could it mean for GORILLAS?
This quote makes you wonder that there are two sides to this saying. It can mean that with man gone the gorillas can live life and peacefully. Or gorillas need man to help them in order to survive because with out them there will be no food or shelter for them. It all depends on what you want it to mean and what perspective you have from this saying.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Photograph Description
The Propaganda Wall
By: Sherilyn Bumatay, Zayda Cavazos, and Paul Gonzales
Photography and edited with Photoshop
Our group researched the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which took place from 1966 to 1976. During the revolution, the Chinese government attempted to turn the country’s economy back to Communist, attacking citizens who were considered Capitalist in the process. Propaganda played an important role; posters called da-zi-bao were used as a form of humiliation by criticizing and insulting those with a bad class status.
Named after a chapter in our book, Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang, our portrait demonstrates how a person living a bourgeois (capitalist) lifestyle would be treated. The American businessman observes the degrading posters, while his Chinese counterpart lies in the sun, exhausted and weak. Neighborhood authorities assumed him to be capitalist, and attacked him. They tore up his clothes, took his shoes, and publically humiliated him. Now, forced to change his ideology by reading Chairman Mao’s book (represented by a copy of our book), he is tired of all the insults and criticism.
Main points of emphasis in our portrait were the poster’s colors and the character’s costumes. According to the Chinese, Communism was symbolized with the color red, and black was its opposite; the phrases on our posters were written accordingly. For clothing: the successful American wears a business suit; a Chinese person in the same situation would wear western-styled clothing. At first, we used a digital camera to take photos of our model, Aldo Romero, wearing the two outfits separately. Then, we edited the shots in Photoshop to place the two characters in the same scene together.
By: Sherilyn Bumatay, Zayda Cavazos, and Paul Gonzales
Photography and edited with Photoshop
Our group researched the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which took place from 1966 to 1976. During the revolution, the Chinese government attempted to turn the country’s economy back to Communist, attacking citizens who were considered Capitalist in the process. Propaganda played an important role; posters called da-zi-bao were used as a form of humiliation by criticizing and insulting those with a bad class status.
Named after a chapter in our book, Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang, our portrait demonstrates how a person living a bourgeois (capitalist) lifestyle would be treated. The American businessman observes the degrading posters, while his Chinese counterpart lies in the sun, exhausted and weak. Neighborhood authorities assumed him to be capitalist, and attacked him. They tore up his clothes, took his shoes, and publically humiliated him. Now, forced to change his ideology by reading Chairman Mao’s book (represented by a copy of our book), he is tired of all the insults and criticism.
Main points of emphasis in our portrait were the poster’s colors and the character’s costumes. According to the Chinese, Communism was symbolized with the color red, and black was its opposite; the phrases on our posters were written accordingly. For clothing: the successful American wears a business suit; a Chinese person in the same situation would wear western-styled clothing. At first, we used a digital camera to take photos of our model, Aldo Romero, wearing the two outfits separately. Then, we edited the shots in Photoshop to place the two characters in the same scene together.
CHiNESE CULTURAL REVOLUTiON ESSAY
Zayda Cavazos
Humanities
Ms. Guerrero
March 29 2009
A Cultural Revolution
Before the Chinese Cultural Revolution began which was in 1966, China’s agricultural economy was pretty bad. “ …[P] procurement and pricing policies, pressures to meet targets, and hoarding based on fear of unstable food supplies eventually caused great disruption and suffering in the countryside” (Soled 62). Mao, the leader of China during this time, made decisions that caused problems for the nation. Other Communist leaders were trying to find new policies to help China’s economy. Mao didn’t accept that because he wanted to keep his political power. Instead of allowing practical solutions to economic problems, he wanted the country to focus on communist values and perpetuating revolution. “After all without revolution, how can we have peace” (Jiang 25). Mao’s Cultural Revolution had a massive impact on China. As depicted in Ji-Li Jiangs book “The Red Scarf Girl” the Cultural Revolution had a great toll especially on the wealthy and educated social classes.
Why did the people of China go along with the new revolution instead of solving their economic problems? Mao convinced the nation that the revolution was all for a good cause, and brainwashed the people of the lower classes which were workers and poor people to revolt against the wealthy classes such as landlords and rich peasants. “The stated purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to revitalize the values of Communism and bring about a classless society” (Gay 72). The following quote explains how the people felt about him “To us Chairman
Mao was a god. He controlled everything we read everything we heard and everything we learned in school. We believed everything he said. Naturally we knew only good things about Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Anything bad had to be the fault of others. Mao was blameless.”(Jiang265). Mao not only was controlling but also enforced laws that changed the way people lived there lives. “As a result Mao Zedong Thought came to serve as the primary guiding principle in all aspects of daily life. People were encouraged to join organizations” (Soled 77).
Mao’s new enforced laws had a dramatic affect on society. Mao wanted China to live in the present and not in the past so he created the four olds. Four olds were considered any old ideas, old customs, old culture and old sayings and any one found with them would be severely punished or cruelly humiliated. Mao formed the Red Guards. “High school and college students who were from red family backgrounds were Chairman Mao’s loyal supporters and the pioneers of the Cultural Revolution” (Jiang 282). The way Mao would influence the laws to the citizens, particularly the wealthy class would be by “accomplishing fear to the people, murderous terror campaigns, managing public opinion through propaganda methods-speeches, posters, directives, published materials” (Gay 78). That was Mao’s way of showing direct power over his nation. Mao was very manipulative towards the nation and so the people began to act the same way.
Ji- li Jiang was the main character in “The Red Scarf Girl” who was in a wealthy class and was related to a landlord. She remembers that before the Cultural Revolution, citizens would not be discriminated against based on the type of class they belonged to, but when the Cultural Revolution came, even school girls were encouraged to resent their classmates. Ji-Li Jiangs classmate, Yin Lan- lan wrote “As one of its victims I denounce the revisionist educational system. Being from a working class family I have to do a lot more house work than students from rich families. So I have difficultly passing exams. I was forced to repeat grades three times. The teachers think only of grades when evaluating a student they forget that we, the working class are the masters of our socialist country” (Jiang 42). Ji-Li Jiang’s school ended up closing “Most schools were closed indefinitely and students received free transportation and food to travel across the nation to spread Mao’s ideas and to punish “cabalist roaders” (Gay 74). Teachers were among the first targets. One married and pregnant was dragged out of her dormitory. “My very own students…tied me up and put a sign board around my neck. One of them poured a bottle of black ink over my head to humiliate me. I was kicked punched and forced to discredit myself. For the next three days, I was humiliated in front of all other school children. If not for some parents who tried to stop their children from carrying on with the brutal behavior, I probably would of died there” (Gay 76)
The wealthy classes began to realize that the Cultural Revolution was having an effect on them. They began to feel scared and worried about how this might turn out. Ji-Li Jiang’s family repainted the old furniture they had to make it look new and cheap. The Red Guards barged into their house and left it a complete disaster. Before the revolution stores would be filled with people. “The Great Prosperity Market was on Nanjing Road, Shanghai’s busiest shopping street. Nanjing Road was lined with big stores and always bustled with activity” (Jiang 21). Now shop owners lived in fear.
Mao ended up getting what he wanted but created a terrible catastrophe for the nation. The people of China suffered horribly just so Mao could keep his power. “The result was disorder, chaos, and many dead and wounded” (Gay 77). In the end it was not just the wealthy who suffered from the Cultural Revolution, but the entire country took a great step backward.
Humanities
Ms. Guerrero
March 29 2009
A Cultural Revolution
Before the Chinese Cultural Revolution began which was in 1966, China’s agricultural economy was pretty bad. “ …[P] procurement and pricing policies, pressures to meet targets, and hoarding based on fear of unstable food supplies eventually caused great disruption and suffering in the countryside” (Soled 62). Mao, the leader of China during this time, made decisions that caused problems for the nation. Other Communist leaders were trying to find new policies to help China’s economy. Mao didn’t accept that because he wanted to keep his political power. Instead of allowing practical solutions to economic problems, he wanted the country to focus on communist values and perpetuating revolution. “After all without revolution, how can we have peace” (Jiang 25). Mao’s Cultural Revolution had a massive impact on China. As depicted in Ji-Li Jiangs book “The Red Scarf Girl” the Cultural Revolution had a great toll especially on the wealthy and educated social classes.
Why did the people of China go along with the new revolution instead of solving their economic problems? Mao convinced the nation that the revolution was all for a good cause, and brainwashed the people of the lower classes which were workers and poor people to revolt against the wealthy classes such as landlords and rich peasants. “The stated purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to revitalize the values of Communism and bring about a classless society” (Gay 72). The following quote explains how the people felt about him “To us Chairman
Mao was a god. He controlled everything we read everything we heard and everything we learned in school. We believed everything he said. Naturally we knew only good things about Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Anything bad had to be the fault of others. Mao was blameless.”(Jiang265). Mao not only was controlling but also enforced laws that changed the way people lived there lives. “As a result Mao Zedong Thought came to serve as the primary guiding principle in all aspects of daily life. People were encouraged to join organizations” (Soled 77).
Mao’s new enforced laws had a dramatic affect on society. Mao wanted China to live in the present and not in the past so he created the four olds. Four olds were considered any old ideas, old customs, old culture and old sayings and any one found with them would be severely punished or cruelly humiliated. Mao formed the Red Guards. “High school and college students who were from red family backgrounds were Chairman Mao’s loyal supporters and the pioneers of the Cultural Revolution” (Jiang 282). The way Mao would influence the laws to the citizens, particularly the wealthy class would be by “accomplishing fear to the people, murderous terror campaigns, managing public opinion through propaganda methods-speeches, posters, directives, published materials” (Gay 78). That was Mao’s way of showing direct power over his nation. Mao was very manipulative towards the nation and so the people began to act the same way.
Ji- li Jiang was the main character in “The Red Scarf Girl” who was in a wealthy class and was related to a landlord. She remembers that before the Cultural Revolution, citizens would not be discriminated against based on the type of class they belonged to, but when the Cultural Revolution came, even school girls were encouraged to resent their classmates. Ji-Li Jiangs classmate, Yin Lan- lan wrote “As one of its victims I denounce the revisionist educational system. Being from a working class family I have to do a lot more house work than students from rich families. So I have difficultly passing exams. I was forced to repeat grades three times. The teachers think only of grades when evaluating a student they forget that we, the working class are the masters of our socialist country” (Jiang 42). Ji-Li Jiang’s school ended up closing “Most schools were closed indefinitely and students received free transportation and food to travel across the nation to spread Mao’s ideas and to punish “cabalist roaders” (Gay 74). Teachers were among the first targets. One married and pregnant was dragged out of her dormitory. “My very own students…tied me up and put a sign board around my neck. One of them poured a bottle of black ink over my head to humiliate me. I was kicked punched and forced to discredit myself. For the next three days, I was humiliated in front of all other school children. If not for some parents who tried to stop their children from carrying on with the brutal behavior, I probably would of died there” (Gay 76)
The wealthy classes began to realize that the Cultural Revolution was having an effect on them. They began to feel scared and worried about how this might turn out. Ji-Li Jiang’s family repainted the old furniture they had to make it look new and cheap. The Red Guards barged into their house and left it a complete disaster. Before the revolution stores would be filled with people. “The Great Prosperity Market was on Nanjing Road, Shanghai’s busiest shopping street. Nanjing Road was lined with big stores and always bustled with activity” (Jiang 21). Now shop owners lived in fear.
Mao ended up getting what he wanted but created a terrible catastrophe for the nation. The people of China suffered horribly just so Mao could keep his power. “The result was disorder, chaos, and many dead and wounded” (Gay 77). In the end it was not just the wealthy who suffered from the Cultural Revolution, but the entire country took a great step backward.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
OUTLiNE
Zayda Cavazos
Humanities
Ms. Guerrero
Feb, 26 2009
Outline
I. Intro
A. Thesis- As depicted in Ji-Li Jangs book The Red Scarf Girl the Cultural Revolution had a great toll on the social classes in china.
1. Explain the Chinese Cultural Revolution
2. Who Chairman Mao was
3. What affect he had in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
4. How he influenced the fore olds and the little red book
II. New Social Hierarchy
B. How did the people begin to react
1. What was the reaction?
2. Talk about the classes and how they were affected
3. Explain about the poor classes and how they began to take charge
III. Red Guards take Charge
C. Changes by force/ propaganda
1. Explain about the Red Guards
2. What were they in charge of?
3. What was the affect on the people
IV. Higher Class lost respect
D. Effect
1. How was the wealthy class affected
2. Talk about the book we read
3. Examples from the book of how the wealthy classes were being treated
4. How it affected the main character from the story
V. Conclusion
E. Repeat/ mention the Thesis
1. What happened to china towards the end on the cultural revolution
2. When did the cultural revolution end
3. How did it end
4. What affect did it have on the people
NEW Thesis
As depicted in Ji-Li Jangs book "The Red Scarf Girl"the Cultural Revolution had a great tole on the social classes in China.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thesis
The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a huge impact on the people of china especially the ones in the highest class it was a time when they were considered the lowest in the classes this caused the people to go crazy as told in the story The Girl in the Red Scarf by Ji-Li Jiang.
Friday, February 20, 2009
New Research Question
After the Cultural Revolution was over how did it impact on the people and the economy?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
QQC#2
Quote: "Life was very hard so hard that i could hardly breathe sometimes"
Question: Why is her life hard?
Comment: This quote was said from Ji-Li in the book the "Red Scarf Girl". The reason she said this was because her life had turned completely upside down due to the Chinese cultural revolution. And i think its true life is hard and sometimes you feel like you cant breathe but you just have to make the best of your life no matter how poor or how rich you are. I really liked this quote because people can relate to it.
Question: Why is her life hard?
Comment: This quote was said from Ji-Li in the book the "Red Scarf Girl". The reason she said this was because her life had turned completely upside down due to the Chinese cultural revolution. And i think its true life is hard and sometimes you feel like you cant breathe but you just have to make the best of your life no matter how poor or how rich you are. I really liked this quote because people can relate to it.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Citation
One source I found in the History Study Center
Communist China, 1949-. ProQuest. History Study Center. ProQuest LLC. 12 Feb. 2009.
I found a lot of good information in this reference about the way people were affected in this revolution and how leader Mao lead this Chinese Cultural revolution. Leader Mao was an early Communist Party member, he embraced agrarian revolution in the 1920s and emerged as the Party's pre-eminent leader during the Yan’an period. The people were affected and brain washed due to the disastrous economic mistakes and political machinations of CCP leaders left much of the population cynical about the Party and communism itself. The widespread official corruption of recent years has only compounded such sentiments. This website gives really good and specific information about the cultural revolution.
Communist China, 1949-. ProQuest. History Study Center. ProQuest LLC. 12 Feb. 2009
I found a lot of good information in this reference about the way people were affected in this revolution and how leader Mao lead this Chinese Cultural revolution. Leader Mao was an
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Red Scarf Girl
The book I am reading is the Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang. This book is mainly about the Chinese Cultural Revolution which took place during the 1966 in Central China. In the story the main character which is Ji-Li talks about how perfect her life was and how she had everything in her life that is until the Communism started in China also known as the Cultural Revolution. Then it started getting bad there where red guards everywhere watching your every move they would also check your houses for any items that were Forolds( which were old things or old custom's) people where pressed charges for rebellion.
?Research Question
Why did leader Mao Ze-dong influence and lead the Chinese Cultural Revolution and how did the people react?
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