Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry

1)The SPLC reseachers interviewed about 150 women who are either undocumented rr have spent time in U.S as undocumented immigrants like others.
2)The interviews of the undocumeneted immigrants took place from January through March f 2010.

1)The interviews for the immigrants were conducted almost exclusively in spanish.
2)The women were asked questions from standard surveys and based on their answer asked by reseachers to elaborate on their experiences.

1)There are an estimated 3 milion and migrant farmworkers emplyed in the U.S.
2)Each year in the U.S, there are an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 cases of physican-diagnosed pesticide from the immigrant farmwrokers.

1)In the mid-1990's the U.S Equal Employment Oppritunity Comission found that hundreds of women were having sex with supervisors.
2)In the interviews for the sexual harrasment, all women reported that sexual violence is a huge problem in their work enviorments.

Week 7 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

1)Hypothesis - Theory, Plan
This picture shows 2 adults figuring out theri hypothesis if this spider shrunk or grew .

2)Emerge - Appear, Come Out
This picture shows the plants emerging from the ground into the daylight.

3)Implicate - Connect, Embroil
This picture shows the 9-11 date when the terrorists implicated in this tragedy.

Under The Same Moon

1)What counrtries did they come from?
Most were from ireland. Most were also from the northern or western Europe.

2)Why did they come to America?
They came to establish traditions, build communities. Also cause they wanted a better life for them and there is land.

3)Were they welcome here?EXPLAIN.
They weren't welcome because immigrants from other countries made it to America too. But, they had a big dispute about who got their first and at the the some were racial immigrants.

4)What did they do when they arrived?Where did they live?Jobs?Housing?
They went out to look for jobs. They would live in basements. Most had jobs and most women did housing.

Jewish Resistance

    In this article the Jewish Resitance, it talksn about what happened when the Nazi Germans started to deport all jewish people throught out Euorpe. The Nazis sponsered persecution and they also commited mass murder by killing millions of Jews at places called "Killing Centers." The Jewish civililans offered armed resistance in over 100 ghettos. In Apri-May 1943, rumors spread that the Germans were gonna go out through the ghetto and deport the rest of the Jews.
     It was surpirsing because the Nazis thought that the Jews would be easy to capture and deport. But, the jews fought back when the Nazis tried to invade their places. They threw many molotov cocktails,hand grenades, and a handul of small weapons. It was very hard for the Germans to take control of all the Jews. It took about a whole month for the vastly superior German to completly pacify all of the remaining Germans throught out the ghettos.
       During the same year, ghetto inhabitants chose to rise agains te Germans in Vilna. Many ghetto fighters took up arms in in the knowledge that the majority of ghetto inhabitants had already been deported to the killing center face death. Also in knowledge that the Jews resistance even now could not save from destruction the remaining Jews who could not fight. But the Jews fought for he sake of Jewish honor and to avenge those Jews who have passed away. Thousands of young Jews resisted escaping from the ghettos into forests that were probably the best place to hide in.
       Soon the Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers. At Treblinka in August 1943 and in Sobibor in October 1943. Prisoners armed with stolen weapons from the killing centers attacked the SS staff and the Trawniki-trained auxiliary guards. Several dozens prisoners eluded their purserers and survived the war. However in October 1944, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau, members of the Jewish Special Detatchment mutinied against the SS guards.
      In many countried occupied by or allied with the Germans, Jewish restistance often took the form of aid and rescue. Jewish Hannah Szenes n Hungary and Slovakia in 1944. They gave whatever help they could to Jews in hiding. In France, various elements of the Jewish underground consoilidated to form different resistance groups. Many jews fought as members of national resistance movements in Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Slovakia.

2 things that shocked me the most:
1)It shocked me when i found out that the Jews actually fought back to the Nazi troops.
2)It also shocked me when i found out it tookn the Nazis a whole month to round up and deport all the Jews to the killing centers.

Week 8 Vocabulary Definitons & Examples

1) Emerge (verb)-To come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity.
Ex. The sun emerged from behind the clouds and the rain and made a rainbow.
2) Hypothesis (noun)-A proposition assumed as a premise in an argument.
Ex. Juan’s hypothesis concerning the cause of the accident was that the driver was distracted by texting.
3) Implicate (verb)-To show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner.
Ex. Smoking has been implicated to cause premature death.

Week 6 Vocab Paragraph

My family have always wanted a domestic pet in the house. So one day, my dad finally says yes that we could have only a dog. Despite the fact that he said we can only have a dog, we wanted a cat. When we get to the pet store i buy a cat instead. I took it home and my dad was on a another dimension of fuirousness towards me.

Vocabulary

Despite-
1)Despite the fact that he said no, we still went to the store.
2)My dad said no to go to a party, i left despite the fact that i would get in trouble.

Dimension-
1)Most people that do tweak think that they are on another dimension.
2)Most people believe that there are other types of dimensions in this galaxy.

Domestic-
1)My little sister wanted a domestic dog as a pet.
2)Everybody in the household loves our domestic cat.

Week 6 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

1. Domestic -
Synonyms - Local, homebody, family, servant, pet
Word forms - domesticate, domesticated
Ex: We had a domestic dog in the house and the family loved the dog very much.


2. Despite
Synonyms - even though, although, even if
Ex: Despite the fact that it is illegal to smoke marijuana, most people still do.

3. Dimension
Synonyms - aspect, extent, amount, measure, probability
Word forms - dimensions
Ex: "The Twilight Zone" is a show based on another dimesnsion.

Week 6 Vocabulary Definitions & Examples

1. Domestic (adj) - Ex. She wanted a domestic animal for her birthday but her dad bought her a polar bear instead.
Def: of or involving the home or family
2. Despite (preposition) - Ex. Despite the loss of her driver's license, she could still get to school on time with her bus pass.
Def: in spite of; notwithstanding
3. Dimension (n) - Ex. When we bought new carpet, we determined the dimensions of the room were 14x18 feet.
Def: a property of space; extension in a given direction

Week 5 vocabulary synonyms,images, and sentences assignment

1.Civil (adj)
Syonyms- public, government, public, corteous, civic
Word forms- civilian (adj, n ), civilization (n)

   I chose this beacause it shows about civil disobedience and how it's still civil disobedience.

2. Debate (n, v)
Synonyms - discussion, dispute, argument, argue, oppose, refute
Word forms -
(verbs) debates, debating, debated
(nouns) debates, debater

I chose this beacause it shows two men arguing over a particular subject.

3. Confer (v)
Synonyms - discuss, advise, negotiate, honor
Word forms - confers, conferred, conferring
  I chose this image beacause it shows president Obama discussing about something.