Current Events of May 2015

Ethiopian Israelis: 'A community crying out 

source: cnn.com

Topic:Ethiopian Israeli protesters and police clash after a discrimination protest.

Summary

•  Ethiopian Israelis are protesting against their discrimination by the Jews.

• Many Ethiopians arrived from Ethiopia to Israel in 1980's and were considered Jews by the Jewish people. 
• The Jews helped them move to their country and showed them how to read and write.
• Now they estimated roughly 135,000 Ethiopian Israelis
• Statistics show that 88% of the Ethiopian Israeli are married to fellow Ethiopian Israeli showing the low level of intermarriage.
• They are mostly worried about the police they say that they are treated heavily by the police.
• Reports have shown that there are many imprisoned young Ethiopian Israeli.
• The police in Israel have been compared to the ones in America and their treatment towards African Americans.They say they are treated poorly because of their skin color.
• The Ethiopians are also worried about the education system as well as the economic system.
•   After the protest incident prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will talk to the Ethiopian Leader.

  Analysis

 This case is similar to the Ferguson and many others in America and the only way to address this is to stop the racism in Israel.This doesn't only affect one part of the world it affects the whole world.First it started in America now in the Middle East.There is no way of predicting where this will go unless we stop it.

police stopping the protest

  

Abolition and Antebellum women's right movement similarities

New York 1848

The Seneca falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions speech,given in New York 1848 and the "what to the negro is the forth of July" speech by Fredrick Douglass,given on July 5, 1842 dealt with rights of the people considered as the minority in America (women and slaves).The both speeches helped to promote America to be the nation it is today.Being a woman in America was almost the same as being a slave.They were no permitted to own property, go to school or speak/stand up for what they believes in.This was what the slaves had to endure plus the hard work they had to do for their masters.

fredrick Douglass

Transcendentalism

TRANSCENDENTALISM

Transcendentalism was a religious movement developed in the 1800's as a protest against the state of spirituality and the doctrine/teachings of the Unitarian church.
      

          HENRY DAVID THOREAU QUOTES

• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

money doesn't determine the price of anything it is how many live (including your own) you are willing to sacrifice for it.
  

• Things do not change, we change

we make the changes the world doesn't change.

transcendentalism

  

        RALPH WALDO EMERSON QUOTES 

• do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

easy meaning of transcendentalism

this tells us that life is not always about following someone's footsteps but it's about creating a new path.

• life is a journey not a destination.

life is a is a long ride but it is up to us to decide what our destination is going  to be.

  

Trail of Tears

            TRAIL OF TEARS

black hawk war

The Indian removal act  was an act that was signed into law by president Andrew Jackson on May 28 1830 authorizing the removal of the Indians from the east to the western territory. This law lead to the The trail of tears. It was the journey of the Cherokee nation towards the west after being removed from their land in the east. In May 1832 the fox Indians under the leadership of the Black Hawks left their Iowa territory to return to their home in northern Illinois.Black Hawk began to plan a war against the Americans for their land.In may the Black Hawks war was won by the Indians.In 1835 to 1842 there was a conflict between various native American groups which led to a war called the second Seminole war also known as the Florida war.It was the longest and most costly conflict between Indians.

Trail of tears map

Blog Reflection

           Blog reflection

 My best post for 3rd quarter was the Tecumseh's speech.The reason was because I had a fun time doing it. Working on the speech was really good because i got to brainstorm and write in the view of an Indian warrior.



  I would like to re-do the slave narrative blog because there was so much information in the source which made it easier and more interesting to do.
There was many choices to choose from and i got to learn about a slave who is 105 years old and is still alive.



Overall my blog looks good but the older posts look so disorganized. During the course of time i have learnt that my blogs are supposed to come from my understanding no from copy and pasting.



       In my point of view i think doing the blogs has helped me understand better in what we are learning.I get to do more research about the blogs and in the middle of it sometimes i find more information and even other information that i have never heard of before.I would prefer to do the blogs on Monday than stay in class because for once I to take my time in learning and understanding what i'm going to be blogging or writing about.

12 year slave

               how gender affected the slaves

platsey's experience

        In the movie as  I concluded being a female slave was hard than a male.In this case in the movie a girl named Platsey has to deal with working hard, rape from her master and hate from her masters wife.She has a very hard time surviving because she gets beat up and abused by her masters wife bacause she thinks  that her husband likes Platsey better than her.In the movie when Epps wife bakes brownies for the slaves she doesn't  let Platsey have any. This is a way to show her how much she hates her .Platsey gets punished for something she doesn't do.She works harder than all the other slaves but she is still punished.

platsey and the other slaves after picking the cotton

punished by Epps wife

12 year slavery

   how ownership affected the slaves


       Platt had  a master by the name Ford.Ford liked Platt and trusted him. He has a very hard time when his owner sells his farm to another owner.He sells it to Epps. Epps hates Platt out of all his slaves and make him work hard.With Epps as his owner Platt doesn't have a right to speak or tell his opinion as he did with master Ford.The little freedom that he had with Ford is taken away.In the movie when platt is building the house master Epps comes and starts talking to him and in the middle of it he knocks out the wood that platt was nailing to the house. Platt tries to defend himself sometimes but he is still beaten. When the slaves as sent to another owner from a while Platt receives favor from his temporary owner.When he gets back he goes back to his same old condition of working hard without rest.

platt at the ownership of master ford

Platt at the ownership of Epps

owned by ford

12 year slavery movie

   
the role that violence played in the slave society


      violence was something was embraced during the time of slavery. Many masters used violence as a way to get his slaves to listen to him.This was the best thing they got because if the slaves feared them than they would obey them.Some masters used the bible to create the violence like in the movie master Epps reads a verse from the bible but changes it in favor of him. He says that every man shall obey his master and if not he or she shall get 100 lashes.Most African Americans used God as an escape of their suffering.The violence came in many was like making them work harder, hanging,and beating them up.No woman or men wanted to be beaten so they has to do as told despite the fact that they hated it.In the movie when Platt is sent by Epps wife to go somewhere he finds to slaves being hanged which tell us they did something wrong.In the movie was also another slave called Platsey she went to get soap from her friend an when she came back she was whipped because her master thought that she ran away even when she tries to explain herself he still orders someone to beat her up.

slave violence

violence

slave tied as punishment