Adrian Espinoza - Who Are You Online?

Answer the following questions...
1. What do you think it means to be “real” or “fake”?
- to be real it means to be your own self and fake it mean to make an account and not put your info but a fake one.

2. Do you think it’s easier for people to be “fake” online than in real life? Why or why not?
-because they can create their creature how ever they want. If they wanna be a girl they get picked on because no one will know and noone will get bullied on the internet.

Answer the following questions based on the video...
1. Ramon talks about how some people exaggerate or seem very different online than in person. How do you explain these differences between their online and in-person personas?
- some people act all tough and theyll say/talk crap online but in person they wont dare to say it to someones face.

2. Are there risks for creating an online presence that is very different than the offline one? Are there benefits?
-yes there lot os risk on creating an online account because there are lots of people that like to harrass others on online

3. What are other reasons why people might feel they can act in ways online that they wouldn’t act offline?
- they are too scared to act tough in person

REVIEW the Key Vocabulary words anonymous and inhibited...
4. Are there any benefits to being anonymous or being less inhibited online?
- yeah because people might think that your creepy

5. Are there risks involved with being anonymous or less inhibited online?
- i think there are risks because if you dont know that person than you never know if that person can be a sesxual predetor and try to do something to you

Adrian Espinoza - How was the Rwandan genocide carried out?

1) How long did the Rwandan genocide last?
- 100 days

2) Approximately how many people were killed during this time?
- Nearly one million people were killed in this time.

3) What were the Interhamwe? What did this word mean?
-Civilian death squads called Interhamwe, or “those who fight together” had trained prior to the start of the genocide and were responsible for the largest massacres.

4) What made the general Hutu civilians (the non-trained group) believe they had to kill Tutsis?
- Told that the Tutsis would destroy Rwanda and kill all of the Hutus, the Hutus were made to believe that they had to kill the Tutsis first.

5) What happened to Hutus who refused to kill or protected Tutsis?
-  Hutus who refused to kill or attempted to hide Tutsis were killed as well.

6) What role did radio play in the genocide?
- Radio played an integral role in the genocide. A nation crazed with fear and desperation heard repeated broadcasts labeling the Tutsi as “cockroaches” and “devils.”

7) What role did the US play in this genocide? How do you think they should have responded?
- The United States, the only country in the world with the technical ability to jam this hate radio, refused, stating that it was too expensive and would be against people’s right to free speech.

Adrian Espinoza - Understanding Genocide

1) Define genocide.

- Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a racial, religious or ethnic group

2) List and DESCRIBE (2 sentences each) at least 2 seeds of genocide.
- NATIONALITY/IDENTITYA Croatian writer:
'I met a Turk who was working in Germany. He complained, "When I'm in Germany, they see me as a Turk, but when I visit Turkey, they don't think f me as one of them, they think of me as a foreigner, a German. I always feel I have to choose between the two, and I don't like it." 'Well, how do you feel/ Who do you think you are?" I asked. 'I am both," he replied. It was only others who had a problem with his identity. But in a culture of nationalism, identity is made up of borders, territory and blood, and one is forced to choose.'
- LAW AND ORDERA Muslim political leader:
'Sharia laws can only be applied in a settled, well-fed, successful country. When many people have nothing, you can't cut off the hand of a hungry little thief. When war mutilates souls, sweep aside moral norms, and devalues life, you can't punish with execution.'


3) There have been 8 genocides noted. List what countries they occurred in.
- Namibia
-  Armenia
- Ukraine
-  Holocaust
- Cambodia
- Guatemala
- Rwanda
- Bosnia

4) In what country is a current genocide occurring?

Adrian Espinoza - Rwanda Genocide

1. Describe the roles (jobs) between the Hutu and Tutsi group.

-Tutsis tended to be landowners and Hutus the people who worked the land

2. What effect did the European colonists have on them?

-Missionaries, too, came from Europe, bringing a new political twist: the church taught the Hutu to see themselves as oppressed, and so helped to inspire revolution

3. What is the RPF? What group created it?

- RPF rebels seized the moment and attacked: civil war began.
- the Rwandan Patriotic Front

4. When was the Rwandan president killed? What were Hutu civillians told to do as a result?

-On April 6 1994 -The Tutsis were accused of killing the president, and Hutu civilians were told, by radio and word of mouth, that it was their duty to wipe the Tutsis out.

5. What method was used to communicate the plan of genocide against the Tutsis?
-the plane carrying Rwanda's president was shot down, almost certainly the work of an extremist. This was the trigger needed for the Hutus' planned 'Final Solution' to go into operation.

Adrian Espinoza -Background to Hotel Rwanda

1. Describe the roles (jobs) between the Hutu and Tutsi group.

    Most of the Rwandan population belong to the Hutu ethnic group,Tutsis tended to be landowners and Hutus the people who worked the land;

2. What effect did the European colonists have on them?
     European colonial powers also introduced modern weapons and modern methods of waging war.  Missionaries, too, came from Europe, bringing a new political twist: the church taught the Hutu to see themselves as oppressed, and so helped to inspire revolution.

3. What is the RPF? What group created it?

1990 RPF rebels seized the moment and attacked: civil war began.
They were preparing soldiers to their rebellion!

4. When was the Rwandan president killed? What were Hutu civillians told to do as a result?

On April 6 1994 the plane carrying Rwanda's president was shot down, almost certainly the work of an extremist. The Tutsis were accused of killing the president, and Hutu civilians were told, by radio and word of mouth, that it was their duty to wipe the Tutsis out.

5. What method was used to communicate the plan of genocide against the Tutsis?
The State provided Hutu Power's supporting organisation; politicians, officials, intellectuals and professional soldiers deliberately incited (and where necessary bribed) the killers to do their work. they were improvising in weapons or other things.

1) As of 2009, approximately how many active gang members are there in the US?
-1 million

2) What percentage of gang members are under the age of 18?
Consider - why do you think this number is so high?
-40 percent

3) Out of the boys who have been in juvenille hall, what is the ratio of them that have some type of gang affiliation?
-9 out of 10

4) When female gang members are arrested, what are their crimes usually for?
-drug use, larceny, petty theft, status offenses or domestic issues.

5) What percentage of female gang members have been sexually abused?
- 70 percent

Adrian Espinoza -Mara Salvatrucha Background Information

1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
They were originally founded in Los Angeles CA, they were then organized in El Salvador.
They are a gang that want Revenge from life and kill people brutally beating them.

2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara Salvatrucha?
The people or Members that got arrested and deported then recruit and make a bigger piece of that gang.
People that have been deported also get mad and they release a rage together that runs the streets filled with blood and dead bodies.

3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect
The girl who they mentioned was killed because she ionformed the FBI about some of the Activivities that they did as a Gang.

Adrian Espinoza -The International Reach of the Mara Salvatrucha, by Mandalit del Barco

1) What is "Mano Dura?"
-El Salvador has a similar law, called the "Mano Dura," or Firm Hand, and now the "Super Mano Dura."

2) How are the police in El Salvador trying to prevent gang activity?
- they are in a battle with the MS 13

3) What does it say is the reason that MS13 started in Los Angeles?
-And some of the worst of those "monsters" — members of the Mara Salvatrucha — were created in Los Angeles, Calif. Immigrants from El Salvador living in the city's Pico Union area created the gang. In an effort to stem the violence, U.S. officials began deporting suspected gang members back to Central America in the 1990s.

Adrian Espinoza - Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of crime

1. How many gang members are there in the US?
-1 million
2. In how many states is MS13 active?
-42
3. Summarize gang activity in Omaha, Nashville, and Maryland.
Omaha-last of 24 ms 13 were arrested with federal arms charges and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Nashville-during the last two years 14 ms 13 members pleaded guilty on charges ranging from murder to obstruction justice.
Maryland-federal authorites said that since 2005 they have apprehanded 42 ms13 members and over half were charged with racketeering conspiracy in which means the members were involved in robberies and beatings.

Adrain Espinoza filmclass grade

*** What is your percentage?
-45/75

*** How many assignments are you missing?
-i have 6 missing assignments

Adrian Espinoza - Jardim Gramacho

1. What is Jardim Gramacho? Where is it located?
Jardim Gramacho is a landfill. It is located at Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas.

2. What are catadores? What has their contribution to Jardim Gramacho been?
The catadores are anarchic community of scavengers during the economic crises of the 70’s and 80’s. Their contribution to Jardim Gramacho has been removing 200 tons of recyclable materials each day.

3. How many catadores live in Jardim Gramacho?
13,000

4. How has the catadores job been formalized by the government? When does it end? What effect could this have?
The catadores job had been formalized by the government by establishing the job and rehabilitating the landfill. It will end in 2012.It would put many people out of work and homes.

Adrian Espinoza - Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-Americans generate trash at an astonishing rate of 4.6 pounds (2.1 kilograms) per day per person

2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 pounds is recycled or compost

3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
- 251 million tons

4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
- a dump is a whole in the ground and a landfill ic created above the ground

5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
- so the trash doesnt get cought on fire

6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
- for senatary reasons so it doesnt hurt the enviornment.

7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
- over population of trash.

Adrian Espinoza City of Quartz summary

Assignment:

There are three reasons listed as to the why the disenfranchisment of African Americans occurred. Summarize each reason in two sentences per reason.

Reason 1 - Diverse racial composition    -The reason for diverse racial composition is that by generating increased competition for the menial labor and manufacturing jobs that would have gone to them easily in a city like Chicago or Detroit and after WWII they became isolated rather than racial intergration.

Reason 2 - Dynamic economic growth   -Though a new wave of both very high-skill and very low-skill manufacturing industries, along with the expansion of retail and service industries, created thousands of new jobs in Los Angeles and Southern California the blacks found that they were not treated equally.

Reason 3 - Dispersive spatial arrangement   -Though the whites finally became to recognize the consequences of housing people in segregated areas they agressively respnded of the flood of blacks by defending racial desegragation and whatever blacks gained from the benifits of WWII quickly disappeared in the postwar years.

Adrian E. Gangs in the News

The high levels of activity and the fact that virus continues to amplify, there is a moderate risk that human cases of WNV will occur in the State. Severe illness can develop in vulnerable populations and sometimes the illness may result in death.West Nile Virus illness is completely preventable by using personal protective measures and by being proactive to eliminate mosquito breeding on your property. Residents should also avoid large, mosquito breeding areas such as wetlands, shallow stagnant ponds and water filled depressions.

Bastards of the Party

1) Police chief William H. Parker
-It may have been coincidence that the Department’s most distinguished Chief took office during the City’s centennial in 1950. July 16, 1966,Chief Parker was stricken with a fatal heart attack.

2) Second Migration of African Americans (out of the South --- to places like LA)
-The Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West.  It took place from 1941, through World War II, and lasted until 1970. It was much larger and of a different character than the first Great Migration (1910-1940).

3) White Flight
-Immediately following World War II, the United States underwent an urban transformation. Kenneth T. Jackson, citing a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey for home building in the six largest metropolitan areas for 1946-47, notes that over 62% of all home construction occurred in suburban areas.

Adrian E. Under the Same Moon - Movie Review

*** How did you like this movie?
-i really like this movie i cought my attention

 What did you like about it?
- i like the movie because it shows what a an immigrant goes through and that an adult or little kid ca go through that too.

 What do you not like about it? Rate it from 1-5
- nothing
- 5
*** Rate all the movies from 1-5 with WHY you rated them that way.
-The Boy in the Striped Pajamas; 4 it was interesting
-Forrest Gump; 2 cause it was kinda boring
-Under the Same Moon; 5 cause its in spanish and its a mexican movie
-The Kite Runner; it shows what happens in anothe country and how much they suffer.
- Bastards of the Party

Adrian E. Rascist Test

*** What were your results?
*** Were you surprised by your results? Why?
yes i was cause i didnt really know what it was for.
*** Why do you think your results were what they were?
because i was paying attention to only half of the test
*** What does this suggest about implicit (hidden/not obvious/you don't talk about it) racism?
i think its an ok website
*** How might this connect to the concept of immigration? to see who is good or bad people

Adrian E. 10 Myths about Immigration.....

1. Most immigrants are here illegally.
-about 20 million were either citizens or legal residents, and 45 percent  entered the country legally and then let their papers expire.
2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
-the first 100 years the United States had an open immigration system that allowed any able-bodied immigrant in.
3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
-there is no line, gaining permission to live and work in the United States is limited to people who are: highly trained in a skill, escaping political persecution,  joining close family already here.
4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
-two-thirds of those older than 5 speak English “well” or “very well”
5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
-about 500,000 immigrants became naturalized citizens.
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
-it is easier for unscrupulous employers to exploit this labor source and pay immigrants less, not provide benefits and ignore worker-safety laws.
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
- the violent crime rate has declined 34 percent and the property crime rate has fallen 26 percent, even as the number of undocumented immigrants has doubled.
8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
-The Social Security Administration estimates that half to three-quarters of undocumented immigrants pay federal, state and local taxes, including $6 billion to $7 billion in Social Security taxes for benefits they will never get.
9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
-the historic high actually came in 1900, when the foreign-born constituted nearly 20 percent of the population.
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal.
-Federal immigration law says that unlawful presence in the country is a civil offense and is, therefore, not a crime.

Adrian E. Immigration & Nativism

*** Define the following terms: migrate, migration, immigration.
migrate- to go from one country, region, or place to another.
migration- the process or act of migrating.
immigration- the movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there



1. What is nativism?
- the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

2. What were the two main sources of nativism in the early 19th century?
-Nineteenth-century nativism in the United States contained a strong anti-Catholic strain, since many of the newly arrived immigrants hailed from predominantly Roman Catholic countries.

3. What were the two main groups that resulted from nativism?
-The KKK
-The no nothin party

4. What has been the result of 20th century nativism?
-Workers from other countries immagrated to the west.

Adrian E. Under The Same Moon

1. What countries did they come from?
-they came from Europe, Ireland and Italy.

2. Why did they come to America?
-The immigrants came to the U.S. to find a better life
and to find jobs

3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN.
-They we ren`t allowed because they would fight for who came in first
and they were also racist.

4. What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing?
-The first thing that they did when they arrived was look for jobs. The men worked in
slaughter houses and the women would sew bots onto shirts.

Adrian Espinoza

Jews were the nazis primary victims they  resisted nazi oppression in a variety of ways both collectithey joined Soviet partisan units or formed separate partisan units to harass the German occupiers. and as individuals Thousands of young Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into the forests. Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers. such as Jewish council chairman Moshe Jaffe in Minsk, resisted by refusing to comply when the Germans ordered him to hand over Jews for deportation in July 1942.

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Introduction: 

During the holocaust many deaths and how out of thousands of jews wents to a hundred of jews were saved and the narrator talks about why he talks about it he was a survivor as well the holocaust happened duringg the 1940's .
over half a century, and describe how a group of dedicated individuals, and later organizations, rose to the threat of Nazism, faced American immigration laws and child-settlement bureaucratic limitations, and took upon themselves the challenge of saving hundreds of children from discrimination and possible death. 



Only weeks after Hitler came to power, when the particularly touching plight of Jewish children in Nazi Germany moved several American Jewish organizations to suggest various means of assistance. In the middle of that year, the executive committee of the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist-Oriented organization connected with the World Jewish Congress, adopted a resolution expressing the hope that some 40,000 German-Jewish children would be cared for by private families throughout the world. A considerable number of these children were expected to reach the United States. Why not adult refugees?

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Adrian Espinoza

July 20, 2011

An Overview of the Holocaust

1933-1939

Dictatorship under the Third Reich

In the first months of Hitler's chancellorship, the Nazis instituted a policy of "coordination"--the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals. Which were the four goals that came under Nazi control?

In the first months of Hitler's chancellorship, the Nazis instituted a policy of "coordination"--the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals. Culture, the economy, education, and law all came under Nazi control.

Early Stages of Persecution

The Nuremberg Laws did not identify a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs. Instead, the first amendment to the Nuremberg Laws defined a “Jew” as?

Nazi leaders began to make good on their pledge to persecute German Jews soon after their assumption of power.

The First Concentration Camps

Define the term “Concentration Camp”

a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., especially any of the camps established by the Nazis prior to and during World War II for the confinement and persecution of prisoners.

1939-1945

World War II in Europe

What happened on September 1, 1939, that starts WWII? Explain.

Adolf Hitler signed a secret authorization in order to protect participating physicians, medical staff, and administrators from prosecution; this authorization was backdated to September 1, 1939, to suggest that the effort was related to wartime measures

Murder of the Disabled (Euthanasia Program)

The Euthanasia Program murdered children, young adults, and adults that were considered “physically” and “mentally” disabled. They were put in gas chambers and then burned to ashes. These were not “Jews” but Germans. The families were told that their family remembered died from what?

That they died from some sickness.

Persecution and Murder of Jews

Others than the Jewish people, name three other populations that were targeted under Hitler’s Regime.

In the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents.

Ghettos

What were the three types of ghettos?

Open ghettos, Closed ghettos, Destruction ghettos

Mobile Killing Squads (Einsatzgruppen)

The “Einsatzgruppen” were mainly German soldiers and Secret Service German men that would go and kill Jews and anyone who was against Hitler. How did they kill these people? At first they only killed men, but as the war continued, did they kill women and children?

They were a squad of people  that would go around killing Jews and gays.

Expansion of the Concentration Camp System

The goods extracted or produced by prisoner labor in the concentration camps were sold to what two German Reich through SS-owned firms? 

Krakow and Trawniki

Killing Centers

What was the name of the first “Killing Center”? Where and when did it open?

The first killing center was Chelmno, which opened in the Warthegau (part of Poland annexed to Germany) in December 1941.

Additional Victims of Nazi Persecution

Among the earliest victims of Nazi discrimination in Germany were political opponents -- primarily Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, and trade union leaders. What was the name of the concentration camp that these political enemies were placed?

Dachua

Jewish Resistance and Non-Jewish Resistance

Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers. Name two of these center and include the month and year.

Treblinka in August 1943 and Sobibor in October 1943

Rescue

What is “Zegota” and when did it begin?

Polish underground organization that provided for the social welfare needs of Jews, began operations in September 1942

United States

After reading this section, why do you think that the United States refused to help the people that were being murdered?

They refused because they didn’t want any of our people or state to get attacked by the Nazi’s.

Death Marches

The evacuations of the concentration camps had three purposes, what were those reasons?

(1) SS authorities did not want prisoners to fall into enemy hands alive to tell their stories to Allied and Soviet liberators

(2) the SS thought they needed prisoners to maintain production of armaments wherever possible

(3) some SS leaders, including Himmler, believed irrationally that they could use Jewish concentration camp prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that would guarantee the survival of the Nazi regime.

Liberation

The Germans tries to destroy the evidence by destroying the concentration camps. However, what evidence was found that proved the Germans had killed an unimaginable number of Jewish peoples?

They left the gas chamber standing.

Post- 1945

Postwar Trials

The International Military Tribunal (IMT) defined crimes against humanity as?

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation...or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds.

Displaced Persons Camps and Emigration

 Define Zionism

a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel

Adrian E. Week 5 grades

*** Check your percentage and letter grade for your Home Room.
90-100% - A
80-89% - B
70-79% - C
60-69% - D
Anything below 60% - Failing
 122/212

*** Are you satisfied with this grade?
im not satisfied with the grade i have.
*** Why is this the grade you are earning?
because i havent turned in some work.
*** How many missing assignments do you have?
i havee 6 missing assignments.
*** Write down three strategies that you will try to use to raise your grade before next report cards come out?
-im going to start paying more attention in class
-ima stop messing around in class
-i am definitly going to do my work from now on.
 Remember, report cards come out in 5 weeks (10 week quarters) but you only have until week 7 to complete any missing/redo work. This means you have only TWO WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT MISSING/REDO ASSIGNMENTS.

Adrian E. Taliban Rule in Afghanistan

1. What is the Taliban?
    -The Taliban or Taleban is a Sunni Muslim movement dominated by people with Pashtun ethnic identity which controlled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001.

2. During what time did they control Afghanistan?
      -The Taliban, a Muslim fundamentalist group, took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996 and ruled until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion drove it from power.

3. What guided Taliban rule (philosophy/religion)? List two laws that they enforced.
    -the men were ordered to grow beards and then they were beaten up badly.

4. What was the set of laws called that the Taliban regime used? List two prohobitions they had (things they people weren't allowed to eat/drink/etc.
   -taliban created a governer agency called the ministry for ordering what is right and forbidding what is wrong. To enforce its fundamental rules of behavior taliban leaders banned music, shut down and burned films, and buldozed bottles and cans of alchohol.

5. What event made the US get involved with the Taliban?
     -9/11
6. In 1-2 sentences, describe the treatment of women under Taliban rule.
-Women were not allowed to work outside of there house.they were also not allowed to
get any education.

Adrian E. Pashtuns and Hazaras in Afghanistan

1) What percentage of the population do Pashtuns and Hazaras make up in Afghanistan?
- This, accordingly, lowered the percentage of Pashtuns in Afghanistan's population and raised the percentages of the country's other ethnic groups until the mid-1990s when many of the refugees returned. This raised the percentage of Hazaras in Afghanistan from 8% in 1978 to 14% in 1987. The Hazaras now constitute about 9% of Afghanistan's population.
2) Where do Pashtuns mainly live? What language do they speak?
-the Pathan are concentrated in the east and the south. As they gained control over the rest of the country in the 19th century, however, many of them settled in other areas too.
-The Pashtuns mostly speak Pashtu (although some residing in Kabul and other urban areas speak Dari) and are generally Sunni Muslims

3) Where do Hazaras mainly live? What language do they speak?
-The Hazaras speak Farsi and are mostly Shi'i Muslims (primarily Twelver Shi'i, some Ismaili Shi'is), yet there are also some Sunni Muslim Hazaras. They settled in Afghanistan at least as far back as the 13th century. Hazaras have always lived on the edge of economic survival.

4) What effect did the Soviet Invasion of 1979 have on the Pashtun/Hazara ethnic groups?
Pashtun -The Soviet invasion of December 1979 has been the major determining factor in Afghanistan's ethnic relations since that point in time. From that time Until mid-1991 the various factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, all dominated by Pashtuns, controlled the country's government. All other factions either opposed or aligned themselves with the PDPA (with most in the opposition), including several Pashtun factions.
Hazara -The Soviet invasion of December 1979 has been the major determining factor in Afghanistan's ethnic relations since that point in time. The Hazaras were among those who fought against the Communist government and they succeeded in liberating much of their homeland early on in the civil war. During the 1980s, they reached an agreement with the government in Kabul that in exchange for not attacking the government, the Hazaras were allowed to live relatively independent lives.

5) From what you read, why is there a conflict between Amir and Hassan? How does what you learned explained their relationship?
- One of them is poor and is the servent of the other boy. the rich boy`s dad doesnt want his son to be hanging out with the poor one but they still hang out and the rich one reads stories to the poor one because he doesnt have books or cant read.

Adrian E. Background of Afghanistan

1. Who was involved in the Afghan Civil War? When was it?
The 1992 to 1996 phase of the Afghan Civil War began with the resignation of President Najibullah from the Government of Afghanistan and the entrance of the Mujahideen groups into Kabul. The fighting involved multiple factions and up until the Taliban entered the city in 1996, was largely fought on three fronts

2. What was the military coup called?
The Taliban


3. When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? Why?
Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union reached new lows after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Responding to this action, the United States led a boycott of the 1980 Summer

By the summer of 1978, a rebellion began in the Nuristan region of eastern Afghanistan and civil war spread throughout the country. In September 1979, Deputy Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin seized power after a palace shootout.
Olympics in Moscow

4. What were the Peshawar Accords?
By April 25, Massoud could no longer wait for an agreement by the Peshawar parties on arrangements for a new government. With the cooperation of Pushtun officials in the army and the interior ministry, Hekmatyar's troops were infiltrating Kabul. The situation appeared to offer the opportunity for him to take power in a sudden stroke, but his move was too late and too weak. Dostam's and Massoud's forces were better positioned and stronger. After two days of hard fighting Hekmatyar and his Khalqi allies were forced out of the city. A new struggle for power had begun.

5. List two things the Taliban prohobits women from doing.
Women were forced to wear the burqa in public, because, according to a Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them. In a systematic segregation sometimes referred to as Gender apartheid, women were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an.
6. Who was Ahmad Shah Massoud? What were the laws for girls/women like under him?
7. What was the US led war in Afghanistan called? When did it start?
The war in Afahanistan began in October 7, 2001
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Journal

What do you think Forrest Gump is about or, if you have already seen it, what do you remember about it?

Im not really familliar with Forest Gump becaause i have seen the movie, but i have heard that it is a good movie. Well they`ve told me that as a little kid he has problems with his legs. I also heard that i think he run through a forest and that he ran for a long time.