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Table talk

Comments:
1- Cuba's fishing fleet increased a great success from the revolution

2- Raw materials in Cuba were scarce but there after the revolution increase rationally

3- Cuban laeders confess they wouldn't have survived economy wise without the socialist world

4- a principle that cuban people a re always united in their struggle for Liberty and independence

5- Cuban is fairly segregated ( in schools )

Questions:
1- What did one man's testimony prove ?

2- If colored people helped Cuba fight the revolution why are they segregated ?

3- What is the "socialist world" ?

4- Why was that young 17 year-old so hostile and inpolite toward Lee ?

Vocabulary:
1-Exploiting: An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one

2- Decree: a formal and authoritative order, esp. one having the force of law

3- Consensual: formed or existing merely by consent

Literary terms:
1- exposition
2- simile

Overview sentence:
Hositality in Cuba is very important because, it shows great honor and during hard and scarce times Lee notice how differnt it was for families to keep this principle. This chapter is also about bi-racial families who marry and racial problems in Cuba due to segregation.

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( First Impressions )

Comments:
1- Cuba gained independence from Spain after their victory of the 1959 revolution

2- the constitution of 1940 was what made the sex equality but few dignified jobs were offered to women

3- Lee inteviewed and learned about Monica and her achievements to make herslf a better life

4- the eduacation sysytem was unfair they rejected rural schools more even if 80 percent

5- one sex schools are rare other than Ana Retancourt ( general they are uni-sexed schools )

Questions:
1- What does Lee wnat to do for the schools ?

2- Is she being biased between the sexes because she's a woman ?

3- What's wrong with the education system ?

4- Will Lee make any difference in Cuba ?

Vocabulary:
1-Conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action

2- Optitude: capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent

3- Sanitary: of or pertaining to health or the conditions affecting health, esp. with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.

Literary terms:
1- metaphor
2-Personification

Overview Sentence:
Lee began inteviewing Morgan and other family that are "woman that are head of household" She focusing on women's inequality and visit rural areas that have one- sex schools to see their achievements compared to other schools.

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The rise & the fall of a Republic

Comments:
1- American interviented between the war of Spain and Cuba for its independence

2- The great depression hit Cuba in 1933 and more than half of the active population was unemployed afterwards

3- Batista used his knowlegde of the USA governmet in his favor to try and create one in Cuba that was dependent of him

4- Fidel castro was of high education and at a rise of Tyranny in 1948 he became president of a high class Law association

5- He made a speech and it was clear what his goals for society would be under his rule ( after Monada Attack )

Questions:
1- How bad was the great depression? worse then the USA?

2- Did Batista create the Tyranny in Cuba?

3- What did Batista want to do for Cuba (his plans) ?

4- How did Castro become presidnt of the law association ?

Vocabulary:
1- contingent: dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional

2- treason: the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

3- insurrection: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.

Literary terms:

1- irony - that the USA is in "the great depession" as well as Cuba
2- simile - the ecomies

Overview sentence:

It's about how Cuba was doing well with is economy and then began to fall. So it went from rise to fall. The bad economy led to many rebellions from citizens and how Fidel Catro began to rise in Cuba's history.

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Guerilla War

Comments:
1- the granna expedition on November 25th, 1956 was when the invasion became worse

2- 26th of July movement made it's name becasue of the Fort Moncada attack, it was not a policital party revolutionary war

3- cuban students used their right of freedom of speech to protest

4-all the struggles an resitantance led to the death od 20,000 lives but the greatest loss was Frank Pais in 1957

5- After seeing the writing on the wall Batista fled Cuba

Questions:
1- Wy does Fidel Castro want a dictarship ?

2- Why were so many people willing to die in the war ?

3- How did Castro get the army on his side ?

4- Who will win the war ?

Vocabulary:
1- thicket: a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice

2- agrarian: relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property: agrarian laws.

3- deplore: to regret deeply or strongly; lament

Literary terms:

1-personification
2-idiom

Overview sentence:

The Guerilla war chapter is about how Castro began to trimpuh against the citizens of Cuba and was accomplist with the army in order to gain leadership. And make the Cuban government into a strict dictatorship.

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comments:

1- the background to new Cuba & how 400 years of spanish rule affected it

2-she speaks about when Christopher Columbus found Cuba in 1492

3- describes the tempatures there are usually around 24 degrees celcius depending on the time of year

4- slavery was a huge part of their economy but, in 1844 authortities thought that the "negroes" population was rising too much (conspiracion de la Escalera)

5- years 1790 - 1839 trade helped Cuba's economy stay stable (many leisures) this held to the stimulation of litertature

Questions:

1-why is Lee so interested in Cuba ?
2- Did trade with Europe keep the economy stable ?
3- When did the ten years war begin ?
4- Was John Marti a big part of the war ?

vocabulary:

1- commerce: an interchange of goods or commodities esp. on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerces) or between different parts of the same country (domestic country); trade; business

2- abolished: to do away with; annul

3-bombard: to attack or batter with artillery fire

Literary terms:

1- expostion chapter 1
2- simile to USA government

overview sentence:

Lee Chadwick speaks about how the island was first founded by Christopher Columbus and the spanish people that first ruled it. Describes the tempature of this beautiful island and how literature and trade made the land grow as well as the economy.

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5- I am reading the book Cuba Today by Chadwick, about the history of Cuba government & economic wise

4- The book is based on Lee's four month study of Cuba & observations there

3- It's filled with an intersesting look at peoples lives on the island and her observations
referring to the future of it

2- Many jobs people worked there are people's court session, children's comics, cattle
breeding, pineapple farming and then Sundays at the Havanna

1- She (Lee) talks and is most interested in learning about the inequality women had in 1975

Questions:

4- What's her observations ?

3- Can she leave Cuba (legally) ?

2- Why did she want to go to Cuba ?

1- How do people treat her there ?

Vocabulary:

1- intermxing:to mix or become mixed together
2- inequality: the condition of being unequal;
3- inadequacy: the quality or condition of being inadequate

literary terms:
1- i found no literary terms in the preface

overview sentence:
Lee Chadwick goes on a journey to Cuba to study the family code of Cuba and the inequality of women and she writes down her observations on the history of the island

ROAR book

My book is "Reading lolita in Tehran" and from what I just read the girls
from the book club are now going to start to read a book called
Washington Square in memorial of her student Razieh. The teacher was
wondering what was so good about this book; why had it intrigued
Razieh so much. So she became examining the book as if she were
putting the pieces together. She talks about how the book is straight
forward but the charcaters seems to contradict one another. I think
the teacher must have believed that Razieh felt she could some
how realte to this book. Because Catherine the herione's life was
messed up and it seems like there was many things bringing her down.
That's probably how Razieh felt because of what was occuring in
Islam at that time.

ROAR book

The book that I am reading a memoir that is called Reading Lolita is Tehran.
About 7 girls in a book reading club. Each one of the girls has some kind of
problem each one different from the other. But they all shared a common
problem. The sexism that was occuring in Iran. One of the girls Sanaz;
had an obmoxious brother who always seemed to torment her. He didnt want
her to participate in the class being he too was one of those sexist pigs
in the Islam goverenment that was preventing women from Islam to
be treated as equals. All they did was degrade them and made them
feel bad. At least all these girls had something to look forward to
when they went to the class that was beign held in Azar Nafisi's house
the "teacher" of all these girls. They were reading a western book and discussed
the plot and setting of each book they read. These girls were incredibly smart.
And deserved being in this class

ROAR 3

Since I had some difficulties with the book I was just reading
I decided to begin reading a new ROAR book called "Reading
Lolita in Tehran" a memoir by Azar Nafisi. Though I just began
to read this book I really do enjoy it. In the Islamic Republic of Iran
women aren't allowed the pleasure of reading or getting an
education of any sort. It is against the Islamic law. But a
teacher whom was completly against this decided to do a
literature class for 7 girls. They read western classics and
discuss the lovely readings. All the girls truely enjoy the
enviornment of this reading club.

ROAR book 2

This is my secong day reading my ROAR biography book
called "the upstairs room" Today I read about how Annie's
mom and grandma were speaking secretly about how they must help
the German jew soldiers. Annie listened in curiously because,
of course she wanted to know whta was happening since no one
would tell her. Annie heard her mom talk about one german soldier
that had been whipped while crossing the border because of the
fact he was a Jew. Annie's father wrote a letter to a man named Bram
to help them get away from Holland. Because he knew the longer
they stayed there the more intolerable their lives would become.
Though his wife argued it wasn't nessesarry he proceeded anyways
in making the letter. Even if he had sent the letter it was too late
already to do so. And no one else in the town of Holland
would give him the papers he needed to go to America.

ROAR book 1

I'm reading "the upstairs room" as my ROAR biography book.
This book as to do with the life of a young girl named Annie
that was only 6 and born during the time of World War 2 in
Germany. Annie was very small and couldnt understand
much of what was occuring during this time. But like any
young child she was curious to find out. So she would ask
her dad multiple questions which he seemed to never want
to answer. One question she asked him was what was the
Kristallnacht because, she had heard it on the radio as her father
was listening to the news. The kristallnacht ment that everyone
was rebelling against the Jews. On the radio they reported bad
things the jews had done to other people that lived ing Germany.
It was as if they were trying to make people believe Jews were
bad people. This was just the beggining of a true nightmare.