Kive- Dalu from Kenye

From this www.Kive.org website I learn that these people want to start their business. You can choose the people from any country who you want to give a loan. I feel like everyone deserves a chance to get Lena and stand for themselves. However, if I had to give a loan to one those people, I would choose Dalu. He is from Kenya. He is married and has six children. He has been running for shop business for fourteen years. His money goes to food and school fees. He wants a loan of 80,000 KES to buy more items like wheat flour, maize flour, sugar, and beans in his shop. I think he deserves loan, so he could make his business bigger. I believe that are asking for help than they deserve help.

Environmental Impact Hero Sapiens

I think Environmental Impact Hero Sapiens and it was a very big deal because it is in our hands to save our creators. In the past, most people did not care much about the environment; what they care the most was making money by building factories which pollute the environment and harm other creatures. The industrial Revolution has the bad impact because of industry people use technologies to produce and technologies made it easier, but there was lots of pollution. It damages the environment. Moreover, during the Industrial Revolution people use child labor, especially in the United States and Europe. For example, they use children  to go underground to dig the coals and many people died while they were digging because it is hard to breath and sometime the mud fall down. During Indrustial Revolution many working class people suffered. However, this environmental moment has the huge impact on all the species and their environment. It changes  environment simply by living. Now, many people are working to save the earth, because of the global warming. People believe that everyone has rights to exist.

Father Greg

Father Greg is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries. He is an American Jesuit priest. Homeboy Industries provides jobs to people who are seeking to get out of gangs and do something that makes them proud. The largest number of homeboys and homegirls are young adults who have a lack of support and care from their families. Homeboys provide job training and gives free services. Therefore, these homegirls and homeboys can stand for themselves and help others gangs who are in that situation. Homeboy Industries help to bring positive change in an individual's life and the help of this organization makes a big difference in other people’s lives who is seeking help.

Many of the members of Homeboy were gang members. Since the gang members do not have support from their families, the young adults join a gang where everyone supports each other. For example, if someone beat up their gang member, then their gang will take revenge or do something to that person and support the victims. When the gang members are young, they do not have anything to lose or care about, so they join the gang and do illegal things like use drugs, commit violence and more. At a young age, they ended up in prison. However, many gang members started realizing that they needed to change for the better. Like Mohandas Gandhi said, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Many gang members get help from Homeboy Industries and other organizations. At Homeboy Industries, they welcome gang members with open arms. No one judges what happened to you or what your background is. Homeboy always gives support no matter who you are and what has happened in your life.

Homeboy provides jobs for gang members. Many times gang members are not ready for change, but Homeboy Industries are always there to help when they are ready. Homeboy Industries has helped thousands of gang members to get counseling, remove tattoos, find jobs, and move forward with positive changes in life. For example, large numbers of gang members started going to school, and now they are confident in themselves.

From Father Greg’s speeches, I learned that everyone makes mistakes, but from those mistakes we can learn the lesson to not repeat the same mistakes. The help Homeboy Industries provides makes a big difference in gang members’ lives. We should spend money on job training and schooling, instead of prisons.

Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta is one of the activist who was involved in the American Civil Rights Movement and fought for farmers to get same rights as other workers. She worked with Cesar Chavez and, the United Farm Workers’ Union. Lated she was the founding board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation and crusader against domestic violence. Huerta believe  that we have to create a world of justice and peace, so we need education for everyone to make it possible. 

Huerta believes that we should have human rights where everyone will be able to get an education. However, nowadays in developed countries like the United States, the government spends most of its money on war, instead of education. Developed country. For example, now there is war in Iraq because the US wants oil and the US thinks, “ how our oil get in their sand.” This war has caused many problems in middle class and lower class people’s lives. It is because lower class and middle class children are not able to continue their school due to financial hardship. But the children from rich families have an easy time continuing their education. For example, the rich children don’t have to worry about debt and loans, but if the lower and middle class children attend college, they have to work for a very long time paying their debt and loans. Therefore, in this country there are some people who are too rich, and others are poor and who have a hard time buying even a house or surviving. Huerta thoughts were in some way similar to Karl Marx because Marx believed that the working class work very hard, and they have very, very hard time changing the class because the upper class does not want to share the power, and they do not want to change classes. The majority of people are poor in the world, and it is in our hands to create a positive change where everyone can have a free education and similar stander of living.

In many parts of the world, women do not have the same level of education as men. Many times men tried to own a woman's body, and women could not do anything because men have all the power. In the modern era, if both men and women do not have equal power, it will be very hard to move the country forward. Without the women having full rights and safety, when half the population will not be free, then that country will be left behind. All over the world, women have similar situations. These problems might exist in the US, but they are not as pervasive. We all have to work together as a one to promote women’s rights.

After I heard a Huerta’s speech, I learned that we have to try new things out of our comfort zone. When I grew up in refugee camp, most of the time men made the decisions and women’s opinions were not as important as men. I thought that that is how everything was supposed to work. However, when I came to the USA, I learned to be independent, and it is very different than the culture I grew in up. I have still a hard time speaking up due to culture. Now, I realize that we need some change to make a positive difference. We have the power to change the world.

Putin’s challenge: The Circassians and the Winter Olympics

First Morden Genocide
The Circassians are mostly Muslim. During the 19th century the Russian Empire took their Homeland. The Circassians fought  so determinedly that the Russians decided to remove them,  by killing or deporting them. It was called the first modern genocide.

Total population of 2.5 to 3 million Circassians, 1.5 million were killed and approximately the same number was forced to leave their homeland; and in month half died of famine and disease. Younger said that hundreds of thousands of people lie under the ground. Once the Circassians were famous in the reason and Caucasia culture. However, now the Circassians are losing their language and culture.

In 2007,  President Vladimir Putin gave a speech about International Olympic Committe. He talks about Sochi as an inhabited place by ancient Greeks, but did not reference of the Circassians.

Proud of Muslim Identity
In the history of Islam, the Circassians played a certain role and they are proud to identify themselves as Muslims. Circassians conquered the ranks of the Mamluks. In the 13th century, Mamluks control Egypt and develop their culture in the Middle East and North Africa. In the 18th century, the Russian military took control over Circassia. But in 1860s, the Circassia verified unable to hold against Russia and  thousands of Circassian were killed, their lands settled by Cossacks, Slavs and others. Many children did not have a shelter and there were surviving in the cold, but they were dying of hunger. Israel was the only country that gave the Cricassians most rights.

Chronic Underdevelopment
Putin is promoting the modern and multiethnic "new Russia." For all the citizen, he must extend human rights, dignity of individual and democratic representation and economic opportunities to move the country forward.

Cold War

Military Conflict and the Cold War 

Eastern Europe fought with America and British desired for open and democratic societies with capitalist world economic. There was division between Eastern and Western Europe, but war does not happened between the two sides. However, in Asia during the Cold War, the Communist was globalizing China, Korea, and Vietnam and it led to dangerous War. In Vietnam, Communist military took control over Southern Vietnam, but the United States was helping Northern Vietnam to have democracy. Soviet and China wanted Vietnam to be Communist nation. Many many people died in Vietnam war. Eventually, Communist took control over Vietnamese in 1975. 

During the Cold War era, Afghanistan had the third major military conflict. Soviet leader were happy at this extension of Communism on the Southern border, but Afghan women isolated on this conservation that led to opposition movement. In 1989, Soviet forces withdrew Afghan into Communist. 

Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry

Nuclear Weapons was the most novel and dangerous factor of the Cold War. When World War II ended, America was the powerful nation. American control those weapons. During those decades the world moved from a ordinary handful of nuclear weapons to a global weapon stores. A single boom in single prompt destroy major city in the world. Many people around the world lived in the shadow of powerful and dangerous weapons. Cold War was the worries the Communist penetration prompted involvement. Superpower support the third world countries. Some countries like Indonesia got the aid from Eastern Europe, but they did not stopped destroying the Indonesian Communist Party. 

The United States: Superpower of the West, 1945-1975

The United States play a global role after World War II in many ways. It is the powerful nation in the world where there are strong economically and politically. The United States have had more then 1,000,000 soldiers in 30 countries. Most of the secret decision making happen in the United States with a "imperial" presidency and a "national security states." In 1919's the US has been the industrial society. Since the United export goods to abroad, "The whole world is hungry of American goods." 

Colonial Encounters

How a first wave is different from a second wave of European Conquest?
          A first wave happened between 1492 to 1700 and it was in North and South American.
Spain and Portugal were the colonies and there was a massive demographic impact. In America, there was "The Great Dying," where majority of Native people died. That is because the Europeans' introducing diseases into the native tribes. The tribes did not have immunity to these diseases, so many, many people died. The Europeans' were determined to come to American because God, Gold, and Glory. However, most of the Europeans' stayed here in America permanently. Moreover, these Europeans' influence Christianity to native people. 
      On the other hand, a second wave happened between 1750 to 1950 and it was in Asia and Africa. Germany  Japan. the United States, Italy, and Belgium are the country that got involved in second wave. The Europeans' tried control by economic power and the military force and they were likely to cause war. The interesting fact was that in a second wave there was insignificant demographic impact, but in a first wave there was huge demographic impact. These Europeans'  did not colonized permanently. The Europeans' work with local leaders, at the same time they introduce capital market, labor, and trading their natural resources. In nineteen century, the British take over Austria and  New Zealand and it was very similar to earlier colonization.

Apartheid: Apartheid was a system of racial separation which happened from 1848 to 1994, in South Africa. Apartheid was developed in World War II. The Europeans colonized South Africa. Before Europeans' colonized South Africa, the word like race or people with color, such as black, brow, and white.did not exist Later there was racial difference between people from different tribe. During that period of time the white people ruled South Africa. However, the South Africans did not had right and they had their own separate place. For example, South African needed a pass laws to work. This study shows us that the Europeans' colonized many countries around the world by force and some of the things last permanently and some did not.