Thursday, November 18, 2010

Avatar Imperialism

    Avatar is linked to Imperialism because it has the strong team of people trying to dominate a planet called Pandora. There is racism on the movie also because they are against these living aliens from that planet they think if they are not human they should die, that's horrible. Also it has a lot of leadership involved. The most important point is that it is not a coincidence, for example, that no real critique of presently obtaining American militarism is possible in a movie with no real American military presence. Critics have claimed that the story of a white US Marine who saves an alien race perpetuates the "white Messiah fable" and suggests that non-whites are primitives incapable of helping themselves. Avatar is a racial fantasy. It rests on the stereotype that white people are rationalist and technocratic while colonial victims are spiritual and athletic. ikening the film to Pocahontas, where the Indian woman leads the white man into the wilderness, and he learns the way of the people and becomes the savior, It's really upsetting in many ways. It would be nice if we could save ourselves.

Anti-SOA

The United States should not be able to operate such an organization and train people in the practice of the coup d'etat because the SOA, frequently dubbed the “School of Assassins,” has left a trail of blood and suffering in every country where its graduates have returned. Well over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. At the same time they have a lot of victims and it also needs replacement. SOA has a lot of violence that's another reason why the United States should not be able to operate such an organization. An example of violence is when On February 21-22, 2005, eight members of the San Jose de Apartado Peace Community in Uraba, Colombia were brutally massacred. Witnesses identified the killers as members of the Colombian military's 17th Brigade, commanded by an SOA graduate. Also few rich and powerful in the US and their cohorts in Latin America. Horrible human rights record, damage critical bio-diversity in the Amazon basin, and more. Those are all the reasons why the United States should not be able to operate such an organization.

Relative To Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

 Bourgeois has to do kind of like the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when it stars saying that all of the European powers have allied themselves against Communism, frequently demonizing its ideas. It's kind of when the people were starting to hear about the chocolate factory. Therefore, the Communists have assembled in London and written this Manifesto in order to make public their views, aims and tendencies, and to dispel the maliciously implanted misconceptions. It all begins by addressing the issue of class antagonism. In the movie they were also gethering people for the announcement. It shows the revolutions just like in the chocolate factory into exchange. They had towns just like in the chocolate factory. It became powerful. The Proletariate also has to do with the chocolate factory because it is linked to the Bourgeois , the Proletariate also developed, The proletarians live only as long as they can find work, and they can find work only as long as their labor increases capital. They have market just like in the movie. Technology has rendered their specialized skills no longer useful. The Manifesto then describes the past history of the proletariat. As soon as this class was created it began to struggle with the bourgeoisie. This struggle originally involved the individual laborer, and all these things are somehow linked just like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Queen Liliuokalani Point Of View Of "The Overthrow of the Monarchy"

January 14

I see my brother King Kalakaua, seeking to control the kingdom politically as well as economically, formed a secret organization, the Hawaiian League. Native Hawaiians in the kingdom, was predominantly American, including several missionary descendants. Organizer and fire brand of the league was Lorrin A. Thurston, a lawyer and missionary grandson, who would later be a leader in the overthrow of the monarchy, with many of the same men.




January 15


I see the Native Hawaiians looked up to their sovereigns with respect and aloha. Kalakaua and Lili`uokalani were also well-educated, intelligent, skilled, and equally at home with Hawaiian traditions and court ceremony.




January 16




The Bayonet Constitution greatly curtailed the king's power, making him more powerful. It placed the actual executive power in the hands of the Cabinet, whose members could no longer be dismissed by the king, only by the Legislature of that place.



January 17



Draped in the black of mourning, was a powerful symbol. The Hawaiian people are still seeking justice through legal means reparations, a fulfillment of trust commitments. seeking recognition of Hawaiiansovereignty. The Native Hawaiians will decide how they choose to structure sovereignty, as a nation within a nation, complete independence, or some other model. It is no longer a distant dream, but an attainable goal.

Dangers Faced On The Construction Of The Panama Canal

Day 1

Hey, Im am one of the West Indians that are doing the construction of the Panama Canal. Life here, is doing ok we just got here and where about the start working on the Panama Canal. It looks like hard work but let's see what will happen eventually.

Day 2 
 Well things now are starting to look bad. I see a lot of sad and crying faces, i see worry and frustration and a lot of other people getteing hurt or having a lot of diseases. céanique was a plague was the first problem appearing.

Day 3

While i was working on the Canal there was a total of Five hundred lives lost for every mile (about fifty miles) of the length of the Canal, or a total of 25,000 deaths. The tropical diseases inherent in cutting through dense, virgin jungle, and working in the uniquely hot and humid climate of Panama.

Day 4

I see people getting Malaria, Yellow Fever, dysentery, typhoid, dengue, and they were having difficulties of adapting to the tropical heat. It was hard for us black people, West Indian, if they survived, would remember the many wondrous and worthwhile things about their Canal experience.

Day 5

Death by violence was probably even more feared than disease. Being crushed under land and mud slides, and suffocation from noxious gases was happening at this Canal. Some people were caught under the wheel and died. I see Indians, men, with thousands of fifty pound boxes of dynamite on their heads or shoulders, along with the men who drilled the charge holes into the side of rocky precipices were often the victims of accidental explosions, Yes life here at the Panama Canal was hard.