Legal Segregation

In the USA during the first half of the decade of 1870 the southern politicians against Afro American people freedom and rights started to win the elections in their states, sometimes by sabotage or threats, and little by little they started to take an important part in the American parliament.

So, what happened when all of this politicians against Afro American people became majority in the Parliament?  Well they created new laws that separated white people from Afro American people.

The slogan “separated but equals” was used during the decades in which the segregation laws were “legal”.

The slogan of course it’s a cruel lie, because most of the laws that separated Afro American people from white people, were based on “medical issues” like that “Negros” could have some infections that white people didn’t have, and the things and places were Afro American people could go, were in bad conditions.

Most of the laws prohibited Afro American people to be in the same room eating with white people, use the same things as white people, take the same sites in the bus as white people, go to the same bathrooms, and so on.

After a lot of death, fights and a lot of years in the decade of 1960 in most of the USA states the segregation laws were abolished and proclaimed against the constitution.  I don´t think that it’s necessary to mention that Martin Luther King was a big character during the fight for the rights of Afro American people.

It’s been more than 50 years since the laws were abolished, but, don’t we have similar laws nowadays? Aren’t we discriminating our own kind?

We have a constant struggle with the mapuches; we are treating them as terrorists, not as a community a nation that has traditions, a lifestyle, that is part of us.

We tend to eliminate the things that cause us troubles, we don’t face the things, but that doesn’t mean that we have to get rid of a culture because they are different from us, because they believe in different things and have their own past.

I think segregation is a problem that remains till these days, and we are so focused in ourselves that we cannot see how much damage we are creating, how many wounds we have opened and how many laws we will be letting get approved just because we are not paying attention to the world, our world.

Poverty in South Africa

Poverty in South Africa

Eventhough South Africa is the main economy of Africa - almost a 25% of total GDP - it is from another point of view one of the worst economies in the world due to the poverty of most of the South African people.

Now you might be wondering why is it's economy that bad if they have been able to produce a lot, and there are many answers to explain this.

1. As we learned in classes, this area was enslaved by European people, nowadays more than the 80% of the arable land is owned by their descents instead of the native people.
   The misuse of land has brought great troubles for native people, most of them are homeless or live in places they don't own.
2. A big problem nowadays in the poorest areas is the health, particularly diseases spreaded through the water, these diseases affect specially children because their body ain't strong enough to fight the disease, this problem's main cause is the lack of drinkable water due to the combination of sewer water and drinking water.
3. Another issue is the misusage of money granted by other nations in order to help them, mostly used by corrupt governments to make weapons -particularly nuclear ones- instead of using it to fix some of the problems that are affecting negatively the people.  

Perhaps the biggest problem at the moment in South Africa is the education and infraestructure, as an effect           of the problems exposed above we find these "sub-problem" which is able to succesfully mantain the poverty for native people, as long as there isn't a correct use of the money there will never be a proper condition for children to grow up, most of them die before they are adults, and when they grow up they turn into a cheap manpower instead of a chance of change.
There is no chance for education for kids, therefore there is no chance to improve as long as corrupt governments and unfair money distribution exist.

Charles Chaplin why is he a big C?

This is the famous Charles Spencer Chaplin, also knows as Charlie Chaplin. He was a genius form the Silent Movie Age, and  he is now part of the Cinema Hall of Fame.

He made movies, that today are considerded master pieces, like

 "The Kid", "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator", the last one was his first sound movie.

I want to concentrate on his master pice "The grat Dictator", and show why he is and forever will be a genius.

Synopsis: Twenty years after the end of world war one  in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state, and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish-Tomainian barber who has since been hospitalized the result of a world war one battle. Upon his release, the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto.

 The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a wish for world domination, as we can see on this part of the movie.

The barber, may be able to join forces to take control of the situation, they using Schultz's inside knowledge of the workings of the regime and the barber's uncanny resemblance to one of those in power.

As we can see, he was brave, and he recrated a historical moment.
 This movie brought a lot of critics and also the 

accusation from Senator McCarthy of been a communist, and he had to leave the USA for making such a scandall.

But through the years, this movie becomes a master peace, and that its what the Big C about, tracendental topics, and persons, who build the culture, like Chaplin did, and a lot of people inspired by his work is making know.

I want to leave this video with the final speach of "The Great Dictator", its really transcendental.

The "invincible" Armada.

The "invincible" armada.

 When King Philip II of Spain sent the Great Armada, to conquer England. That "great enterprise" was the result of Spain's battle for world supremacy in religion, trade and territory.

Catholics vs. Protestants

Religion was of prime importance. Spain remained Catholic and the fanatically religious Philip wanted to make England (and then Europe) return to the old faith.

 Supremacy in trade and sea power

  Spain's discovery of the New World opened up a huge source of trade, of which the English wanted a share. The growing expertise of English naval power was a threat to Spain's domination of the seas.

I believe in the execution of Mary Queen, by order of Elizabeth was shocked for all Catholic nations. Named by Mary Queen of Scots as her successor, Philip was ready now to establish himself as the rightful King of England (He had been King of England thirty years prior, as husband to Mary I).

Therefore war begins:

Spain	England
So, the Great Armada counted with 130 ships and more than 19.000 men of war, set sail of Lisboan; but their ships couldn`t resist the storm of the European’s sea.	The English fleet was swifter than the Spanish fleet: in the first encounter was notice their superiority in maneuver, Spain was lost.

             

                                                                  What would you think if the great armada wasn’t defeated by England?

Well, I think maybe today UK could be   catholic and not Anglican.

Maybe today Commonwealth doesn’t exist?   It Could be…

But the story was different.

 From the very beginning, disaster struck the "Invincible" Armada....

When the Spanish fleet lay anchored at the French port of Calais, the English sent fire ships and caused a general panic among the Spanish fleet. Then the Almighty blew with His wind and drove them up toward Scotland and away from England. The jubilant Queen Elizabeth turned it into a personal triumph.

 This is Portrait of Queen Elizabeth painted soon after the defeat of the Great Armada.

The unknow side of Congo.

As you may know Congo it´s a country located in central Africa, and in that continent there´s a lot of troubles with exploitation, mass-mutilations, state-sponsored slavery,murder and  genocide,

 because of that i´ll like to show you an incredible case of children´s mutilation that was uncovered, almost by accident, by Edward Dene Morel, a shipping clerk who noticed that outgoing cargoes to Congo were predominantly arms and ammunition. 
In that quest he was aided by a group of missioners who managed to photograph some atrocities, the most famous one was the picture that John Harris and his wife Alice took on their return from Congo in  August 1905.

(As you can see in the image there´s a lot of mutilated children that shows the violence in Africa and all the problems with it)

After that action lots of important people notice that all over the country millions and millions of people and children were dying for the action of the powerful countries and some of theme create campaigns to stop rapes and mutilations in the Congo, here´s a web-page where you can help with this petition: Petition

This action was one of the most important one for the history of the human rights and because of that we need to improve the photographers work and with that photos show all the horrible things that are happening in our world.

The Reform

Acts or Faith

When we talked about the legacy of Europe Empire in the last class, everyone said that was its type of economy or its language but we forgotten about the religion that Europe left. And that was one of the things that produce me more interest because the majority religion in Europe and in the world was Catholic and that reflects the huge influence of Europe in the other countries and this was also a fundamental part of the conquest by Europe. 

But the religion in Europe suffered a serious impact by The Reform and that change the entire history of Europe and obviously in the world.

The reform was a Christian religious movement started in Germany in the sixteenth century, which led to a schism in the Catholic Church to give rise to various churches and organizations grouped.

This occurred for various reasons like religious (corruption of clergy), social (excessive luxury) and political (strengthening national monarchies). 

There were two types of reform: one was the Protestant Reform and the second was a response of the above and it was the Catholic Counter-Reform.

The Protestant Reform proclaimed: the salvation by faith, free interpretation of the Bible, non-obedience to the pope, etc. Its most famous exponent was Luther.

And on the other hand there was the Catholic counter - reform who proclaimed: defend their beliefs, salvation by faith and good deeds, the main ceremonial Mass, obedience to Pope and all this by inquisition, etc.

This caused the separation of the European people and the separation of church and state, the abolition of special rights that had the clergy, allowed freedom of expression and freedom of worship.

The reform ended with the defeat of the Conservatives, who know the constitution of that time and the laws enacted by the Liberals.

Just a fight: Who is the best?

Over many years has spoken about discrimination against African Americans people. Always it has been said that African American people are discriminated, mainly by their skin color; sometimes it is true. But there is also discrimination on the part of African Americans to the Americans people, Spanish people, European people, etc. Some reasons for this is that African Americans are very talented to dance very well, to sing, they are very good athletes; in addition with that talent, they earn a lot of money; we know it, but they exaggerate, and they think that they are the best of the world.

It is plain to see that in mixed schools, African Americans separate from others by choice, because they feel higher, make groups and they say that the American people don’t have talent. normally we see pictures about them are with a lot of money, many jewels, luxuries, etc and popularly are called "Niggas".

For example, in some music videos of African American singers, only show people with same skin color.

We must end with the famous stereotype: The Americans people discriminated to African American people, because both are discriminated.