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.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
ROAR blog ( Cuba Today )
( 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.
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.
Monday, December 15, 2008
ROAR blog ( cuba Today )
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.
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.
ROAR blog ( cuba today )
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.
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.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
ROAR blog ( Cuba Today )
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.
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.
ROAR blog ( Cuba today )
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
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
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