April 30
I think it is very important to find good qualities in everyone. One person cannot be all bad, just as one person cannot be all good. In the people that come across as bad or that you do not like, it is especially important to find a redeeming quality because you should never hate anyone.
April 23
If I could have a fictional character as my best friend it would be,
May 3
I would choose the life of danger and instability. I would choose this because I want to make a difference in the world. If I could make a positive change in somebodies life, then it would all be worth it.
May 4
Today is Friday and I have my banquet tonight!!!! I’m so excited :))) I’m getting my hair and make up done then everyone is coming to do pictures at my house. It’s going to be so much fun with me and Daniel, Arthur and Aubrey, and Kristen and trey at my table!!
April 16
I think being unwanted is definitely a problem in today’s world, but I do not think it is the biggest problem. With bullying and all the hatred in the world many people feel unwanted, but I believe that other problems in the world are more important, such as starvation, cancer, and crime.
April 17
Winnie the pooh is my favorite Disney movie. I always watched as a kid and my mom used to sing the Winnie the pooh song to me when I was little. I also love the fox and the hound, Mulan, the lion king, and snow white.
April 18
I get worked up about people lying. It is ridiculous to lie to people and believe that you can get away with it. People always find out the truth. Even worse than lying is lying to get out of something or lying about things when people already know the truth or continuing to lye when you’re confronted.
1) The similarities between the experience in China and Vietnam and the process of decolonization elsewhere in Africa and Asia include exposure to Western imperialism during the 19th century and to that of Japan during the 20th century. They had developed economic dependency in the global trade network. They did not industrialize and shared overpopulation problems and poverty. The differences between the experience in China and Vietnam and the process of decolonization elsewhere in Africa and Asia included failure to create a Western-educated middle class and to undertake a lengthy period of nationalist, democratic government. They accepted a form of Marxism, achieved success in raising the status of women, and were able to maintain independence from the diplomatic systems of the United States and the Soviet Union. Both had a secular orientation; they lacked the Catholicism of Latin America or the religious focus provided by Islam and Hinduism. They emphasized the peasantry rather than an urban working class.
2) The communist revolution in China and the Russian Revolution of 1917 had many similarities. Both countries lacked a middle class to support liberal democratic experiments; both had agriculture early in their revolutionary development and had five-year industrialization plans, although Russia’s was much more successful than China’s. Mao, through his opposition to a technocratic elite, introduced programs aimed at destroying urbanized industrialization; the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution slowed economic development. Both regimes expanded into neighboring regions. The two regimes during their middle periods were dominated by powerful leaders – Mao, Stalin. Both countries have introduced reforms and increased Westernization since the 1980s, but Russia’s reforms have gone much farther than China’s. The communist revolution in China and the Russian Revolution of 1917 were different.
3) Under Communism in China, women recieved many gains in society. Mao, assisted by his wife Jiang Qing, was committed to the liberation of Chinese women. Guomindang efforts to reverse gains made by women during the early revolution caused many women to support the Communists. They worked in many occupations in Communist ranks. When the revolution triumphed women received legal equality. Women gained some freedom in selecting marriage partners and have been expected to work outside of the home. Traditional male attitudes persisted and made women labored both in and out of their homes. Males continued to dominate upper party levels.
1. The author starts with the description of the man he killed to add effect. He wants the reader to see what he saw and feel the emotions that he felt. The description is very graphic which makes it all the more real. It shows that the war was messy and filled with death.
2. Tim O’Brien does not know those intimate details about the young man’s life. They are a part of his imagination. He has given the people he killed in war faces and lives. Those details about the mans life were story-truth.
3. After killing the man his emotional state is fragile. The author took the life of another without even thinking about it. He is upset about the death and is not sure how to handle it.
4. Tim O’Brien continues to write war stories so he can portray what the war was really like. Even though his stories don’t always contain factual truth, they contain story-truth, which can be just as important. His stories give the emotional truth to how he felt about the war and all the killing.
5. The truth is that while in war, he experienced a lot of death. We won’t ever know the factual version of this man’s death, but that’s not the point. The author wants us to feel his emotions about killing men and seeing dead men.
6. The significance of the main character having a daughter is to show that he doesn’t want to admit that he killed anyone. It shows that he wants to protect the younger generation by shielding them from the knowledge of death and war. Even if the author does not have a daughter, he still experienced the same events and has the same opinion about them.
7. I believe that his descriptions of war are accurate. Even though his stories may not be factual, his descriptions of war do show what it was like. The stories may not give us facts, but it gives the atmosphere and feelings of soldiers of war.
1) The African and Asian states could not establish national identities because of dependent economies, different ethnic groups, debt, dependence on the west, and social unrest. Disagreements between ethnic groups caused much division. Sometimes, disagreements could stop government functions. Because of dependent economies, the countries could not get the resources for development that the independent countries wanted. The debt had a similiar effect. Without money, the countries remained dependent and could not have social reform, making people unhappy. Dependence on the West obviously made it difficult for African and Asian states to have their own identity. All of these factors caused social unrest and slowed political processes.
2) ■Western influences on the Shah contributed to the gaining of power by Islamic fundamentalists in Iran. The Western influences primarily took form in a program of Westernization and economic development. The Westernization that took place by the Pahlavi shahs failed to observe religious rituals, thus upsetting the Islamic leaders of Iran. The acceptance of capitalism by the Pahlavi shahs upset the Iranian middle class. When the current Shah in Iran realized he didn’t have any power, he fled from the country. In his wake, Khomeini chose to establish a radical government based on Islamic religious leaders. The new regime eradicated the Western cultural and economic influences. The people, tired of the Western cultural imperialism, gladly accepted this change. The removal of the Western influences from Iran signaled the final shift in power from the Pahlavi shahs to Khomeini’s Islamic fundamentalist state.
3) Cities in Asia, African, and Latin America differ from cities in the West through population, socioeconomic distribution of the people, and different levels of infrastructure. Their are primate cities in Third World countries, compared to spread out populations in the West. Because of the population concentration, their is economic struggles for the city to support such large populations. The West is more capable of handling their population. Also in the West, poorer people live in the older parts of cities, while the wealthier population lives in suburbs. In third world countries, the wealthier population lives in the center of the city and poor population lives in the outer limits of the city. All of this comes from the countries ability to support their population.
1) Nearly all nationalist movements were led by Western-educated elites who often had prior experience in the colonial administration. There often was a charismatic leader (Gandhi, Nkrumah). With the exception of the settler colonies and in the Middle East, decolonization usually was achieved by nonviolent confrontation on the model of India. In settler territories European populations prevented peaceful reform leading to majority rule. In the Middle East the move was complicated by Zionism which resulted in the introduction of a significant foreign Jewish population into Palestine,. In many ways the problem of Palestine resembles the problems of colonialism in the settler colonies.
2) The colonies gained some strength as a result of the European world wars. The development of industrialization was connected with European preoccupation elsewhere. Colonial elites also obtained positions of influence because of the wars, as the European need for support gave colonies bargaining powers previously absent. The Western powers were weakened by the two global wars and the Great Depression. Treasuries were exhausted and war weariness among populations curtailed enthusiasm for colonial involvements. Thus the colonial powers were vulnerable to demands from indigenous peoples, particularly from nonviolent movements. Britain, France, and other powers used some force (Suez Canal, Indochina, Algeria) but did not win the confrontations.
3) Even though most Arabs won independence from foreign rule by the 1960s, the Palestine problem presented special problems. The Zionist movement was strengthened by German persecution, and immigration to Palestine increased. The British reacted to Arab resistance to the foreigners by attempting to limit Jewish arrivals. A major Muslim revolt between 1936 and 1939 further strengthened British resolve to halt the inflow. The Zionists in return resisted the British measures. By the end of World War II both Arabs and Jews claimed Palestine, but in 1948 the sympathies roused by the Holocaust caused the United Nations to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. The neighboring Arab states then attacked. The outnumbered Jews drove them back and expanded into Arab territory. Thousands of Arabs fled Palestine. An enduring hostility between the two sides marked the future.
1) Different countries in South Amrica approached the social, polititcal, and econominc problems differently, and all the approaches had different results. Mexico continued oneparty rule; the conservative PRI sacrificed social justice to economic growth. In Venezuela and Costa Rica reform, reform-minded governments triumphed in open elections. Others turned to Marxist socialism as a guide and became caught up in cold war struggles. Some radical and revolutionary solutions were attempted. In Bolivia a 1952 revolution supported by miners, peasants, and urban middle class groups led to mine nationalization and land redistribution. Fears of moving too far to the left brought the army back to power in 1964 and subsequent governments stressed order over reform.
2) The economy of Guatemala depended upon the export of coffee and bananas. In 1944 a middle class and labor coalition elected Juan José Arevalo as president. Under a new constitution he began land reform and improvement of worker and peasant life. Arevalo’s reforms and nationalism led to conflict with foreign interests, especially the United Fruit Company. In 1951 the more radical Jacobo Arbenz was elected president. His reformist programs, especially a proposed expropriation of United Fruit land, led the Cold War American government to impose economic and diplomatic restrictions on Guatemala. In 1954 the CIA assisted military opponents to overthrow Arbenz and under the new government reform ceased. Continued violence and political instability followed.
3) The Great Depression emphasized the weaknesses of Latin America’s dependent economies and political systems. Foreign investment ceased and purchase of export products declined. The liberal regimes lacked solutions for unemployment and economic dislocation. Within three years there were military coups in 12 countries. Experiments with corporatism, an ideology appealing to conservatives and the military, placed the state at the center and tried to avoid class conflict. Elements of fascism also were popular. Latin Americans were part of a world trend whereby governments moderated the principle of unbridled capitalism to attain some type of social reform.
April 9
It is always important to be yourself. Pretending to be someone else just to impress people or to make yourself more well liked is pointless. Eventually who you really are will show through and they won’t like you anyways or they are probably not the kind of people that you should be hanging around.
April 10
I don’t carry many things with me. I carry my keys, which have keychains. I guess the keychains could represent memories, but I don’t really think of them that way. I carry my backpack to school which holds all my school books, lunch, and phone. The only thing that I “carry” is my ring which I actually wear not carry. My ring is a flor da lee and it represents my faith.
April 11
EI is more important than IQ. Being able to interact with other people is so important because when you go for a job interview, if you cannot interact with others you’ll never get a job. Facts and how to do things can be taught, but social, interaction can not. Human interaction is one of the most important things in our society. People judge and make impressions so fast that if you can not interact successfully, then your SOL.
April 12
One time I wrecked my car. I was pulling into my garage when I hit the brick wall. The front of my car was completely totaled. I couldn’t drive my car and my parents were upset with me. I was crying and really upset that I had wrecked my car.
April 13
Today is going to be a good day! I can feel it! I got up early and curled my hair and I look good. After tennis practice I get to go to the galleria and go shoe shopping!!!!!!!!!!! I love shoes and shopping for them is the best part. I’m going to get some super awesome heels and it doesn’t matter how high they are because my banquet date is 6′ 3″ so I’m really excited!!
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