Understanding Genocide

1) Define genocide.
-The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation
2) List and DESCRIBE (2 sentences each) at least 2 seeds of genocide.
- One much-practised way of thinking one's way to violence is developing beliefs to back it up; some of them may head towards the absurd.
-It is mass murder deliberately planned and carried out by individuals, all of whom are responsible whether they made the plan, gave the order or carried out the killings.
3) There have been 8 genocides noted. List what countries they occurred in.
-1904 Nambia
1915 Armenia
1932 Ukraine
the Holocaust
1975 Cambodia
1982 Guatemala
1994 Rwanda
1995 Bosnia
4) NOT ON THIS WEBSITE - In what country is a current genocide occurring?
-Darfur in Sudan

Rwanda Genocide

1. Describe the roles (jobs) between the Hutu and Tutsi group.

-Hutu are the people who worked the land, while the Tutsi are the landowners.

2. What effect did the European colonists have on them?

- The effect that European colonists had on them was that some Tutsis began to behave like aristocrats, and the Hutu to feel treated like peasants

3. What is the RPF? What group created it?

-The RPF is Rwandan Patriotic Front . The group that created it was the Tutsis.

4. When was the Rwandan president killed? What were Hutu civillians told to do as a result?

-The Rwandan president was killed on April 6, 1994. As a result, the Hutu civillians were told that it was their duty to wipe the Tutsis out.

5. What method was used to communicate the plan of genocide against the Tutsis?

The methods they used to communicate the plan of genocide against the Tutsis were by radio or word of mouth.

Background to Hotel Rwanda

1) What are the two major groups in Rwanda?
-the Hutu and the Tutsi
2) What group is considered "superior?" Why?
-the group Tutsi were considered superior, because their skins were lighter and their features more European.
3) How was this group treated better?
-This group was treated better by  giving them better jobs, housing and educational
opportunities and charging them with keeping the Hutu ‘in their place’
4) How long did the genocide last? How many people were killed during this time?
-the genocide lasted 100 days. 800,000 Rwandans were killed
5) Define genocide.
-The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Gang Statistics

1) As of 2009, approximately how many active gang members are there in the US?
- One Million gang members
2) What percentage of gang members are under the age of 18?
-40% are juveniles
Consider - why do you think this number is so high?
-It is so high because if you recruit juveniles then it would be easier to get them into gangs.
3) Out of the boys who have been in juvenille hall, what is the ratio of them that have some type of gang affiliation?
- 9 out of 10 boys
4) When female gang members are arrested, what are their crimes usually for?
- drug use, larceny, petty theft, status offenses or domestic issues
5) What percentage of female gang members have been sexually abused?
-70%

It’s a dead end in MS-13

* Beginning of article- MS-13 is a gang that was originated in Los Angeles and their main goal is to promote the idea of being in a gang and not making money.
*One way ride- A member of the MS-13 known by the name Lucky was shot by a fellow gang member because a fellow gang member Joker thought he was snitching.
* Life is cheap- MS-13 works during the day so they can work for the gang at night. They react with violence to every little reason but the ones that are most effected by the violence are the ones in the gang.
* A deadly dis- A rival gang member David Hernandez from Sur 13 was killed by MS-13 because when he was working at a shells with his brother two gang members flashed their gang signs and Hernandez got angerd because he was shot by MS-13 few months earlier. Few moments after the fight MS-13 gave a fellow gang member a gun and told him to shoot Hernandez.
* No way out- In order to leave the gang you have to prove yourself one last tie and kill an enemy gang member with fellow gang members to witness the killing.

Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of crime

1. How many gang members are there in the US?
-1 million
2. In how many states is MS13 active?
-42
3. Summarize gang activity in Omaha, Nashville, and Maryland.
Omaha-last of 24 ms 13 were arrested with federal arms charges and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Nashville-during the last two years 14 ms 13 members pleaded guilty on charges ranging from murder to obstruction justice.
Maryland-federal authorites said that since 2005 they have apprehanded 42 ms13 members and over half were charged with racketeering conspiracy in which means the members were involved in robberies and beatings.

Mara Salvatrucha Background Information

1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
-originated in Los Angeles, set up in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants in the city's Pico-Union neighborhood who immigrated to the United States after the Central American civil wars of the 1980s.
2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara
Salvatrucha?
-It makes the whole gang wide spread to different parts of the world where the ms13 members would recruit members and make their gang more populated and wide spread.

3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect?
-On July 13, 2003, Brenda Paz, a 17-year-old female, former MS member turned informant was found stabbed on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia. Paz was killed for informing the FBI about Mara Salvatrucha's criminal activities. Two of her former friends were later convicted of the murder
-On May 13, 2006, Ernesto "Smokey" Miranda, an ex-high ranking soldier and one of the founders of Mara Salvatrucha, was murdered at his home in El Salvador a few hours after declining to attend a party for a gang member who had just been released from prison. He had begun studying law and working to keep children out of gangs.

Catadores

Suelem -She had lived in the Jardim Gramacho for 6 years. She worked there because she rather do that than be a prostitute or a drug dealer to get money.
-After the film she stopped working at Gramacho when she met someone and married him. She later had another boy and bought a house and never plans to return to Gramacho

Irma

-She was the cook in Gramacho.
-She left Gramacho and set up a food shop to sell in her neighborhood and met a 20 year man that she was with a while. But she later went back to Gramacho because she likes it there and everyone enjoys her there.

Magna
-She worked at the dump because her husbang had lost his job and thought it was an alright plan to go to Gramacho and work there to make money. And even though in the bus people may say something bad about her smell, she would tell them she is proud of the smell because she worked hard and thats all that matters.
-After the Film she did not go back to Gramacho and instead got a job and a pharamacy. She then divorced her husband and bought a house for her and her 11 year old son. Because of the film she then became best of friends with Isis.

Quarter Grade Review

*** What is your percentage?
-100%
*** How many assignments are you missing?
-0
*** Make up one blog assignments RIGHT NOW. Write in your blog post which assignment you're making up so I know to grade it.
-I dont need to make up any assignment

Why I recycle!

1. How much trash does one American produce each year?
-195 million tons
2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution
Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence.
to cut down on the garbage or waste that we produce in the first place
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.
to find ways that either you or someone else can use your unwanted items over again.
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.
when you put discarded items through a process so they can be used again.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage-In 1997, they produced 220 million tons of waste.
**Paper-they get rid of what would equal 500,000 trees every single week.
**Landfils-the amount of landfills in the U.S. is dropping
**Recycling-People have been using and recycling glass for almost 3,000 years
**Energy-Recycling can save energy.

Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-4.6 pounds
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 percent
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-251 million tons
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
-Dumps are an open hole in the ground where trash is buried and that has various animals that are swarming around. While Landfills are carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground in which trash is isolated from the surrounding environment is accomplished with a bottom liner and daily covering of soil.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-I really have no clue..... to me its better if there isn't any water near a landfill. It probably makes the trash decompose faster or easier.
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-There has to be much more extra land surrounding the actual land fill for the the support areas. This is for runoff collection ponds, leachate collection ponds, drop-off stations, areas for borrowing soil and 50- to 100-foot buffer areas
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
-I think potential problems we may encounter is that we have too much trash and no way to decompose it or the wastes go into our waters and kills many animals which is return kills of the human race because we have no animals to eat or that our cities will become filled with wastes because we produce so much wastes that there isn't enough landfills to put them in and the world becomes an unsanitary place which causes many diseases and kills many people.

Jardim Gramacho

1. What is Jardim Gramacho? Where is it located?
Jardim Gramacho is a landfill. It is located at Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas.

2. What are catadores? What has their contribution to Jardim Gramacho been?
The catadores are anarchic community of scavengers during the economic crises of the 70’s and 80’s. Their contribution to Jardim Gramacho has been removing 200 tons of recyclable materials each day.

3. How many catadores live in Jardim Gramacho?
13,000

4. How has the catadores job been formalized by the government? When does it end? What effect could this have?
The catadores job had been formalized by the government by establishing the job and rehabilitating the landfill. It will end in 2012.It would put many people out of work and homes.

White Flight, Bastards of the Party

City of Quartz summary

Reason 1 - Diverse racial composition
The reason for diverse racial composition is that by generating increased competition for the menial labor and manufacturing jobs that would have gone to them easily in a city like Chicago or Detroit and after WWII they became isolated rather than racial intergration.

Reason 2 - Dynamic economic growth Though a new wave of both very high-skill and very low-skill manufacturing industries, along with the expansion of retail and service industries, created thousands of new jobs in Los Angeles and Southern California the blacks found that they were not treated equally.

Reason 3 - Dispersive spatial arrangement
Though the whites finally became to recognize the consequences of housing people in segregated areas they agressively respnded of the flood of blacks by defending racial desegragation and whatever blacks gained from the benifits of WWII quickly disappeared in the postwar years.

Gangs in the News

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/14/preventing-gang-violence-in-san-diego/

Preveint Gang Violence in San Diego

Gang violence has been decreased in the San Diego County by the help of funding from the state and federal. They have made peacemaker programs and building that help with job opportunities, training and close monitoring for the people who have violent behavior so they could try and help them get out of the gang life. They also project safeway monitors so people wont commit violence and use Hire A Youth to give jobs so people would not have to use violence in order to get money. The San Diego are also part of the 13 Cities Gang Prevention Network that has been a good organization that has helped keep gang violence to a low. Also they have had parents volunteer in programs such as staying outside of a school to prevent gangs fighting with people after school.

1) Police chief William H. Parker
-He surved in the Los Angeles Police Department for 39 years. The Parker Center which is the former LAPD headquaters was named after him. He is known for making the LAPD a world known agency.

2) Second Migration of African Americans (out of the South --- to places like LA)
-Many African americans migrated to places like LA to work in defense industries. They were treated brutal in the south so they sought to escape from the violence. The effects of the migration made democratic changes in gaining and losing states, African Americans were unionized, and also organized Christian movements such as: Nation of Islam, and Pentecostal.

3) White Flight
-Large scale of migrations of white from mixed urban areas to suburban and eurban areas, it is also known as the migration of whites from Africa. many people felt afraid of overcrowding cities and minorities populating, so they sought to leave the suburbs with the help of GI Loans. Some people thought the White Flight occured because of large migrations of African Americans and the migration of the whites from Africa and Eastern Europe.

Background on Gangs

*** What do you know about gangs? Gangs are a group of people who drug deal, party and have helluh fun, sometimes they would kill enemy gangs or fight them for territory or respect.Many people join the gangs because they like they ideals and some people think of them as family and decide to get jumped.

*** What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc.
My Brother is a Sureno from Otay and since  i was little i have been associated with many of his fellow gang members and smoked with them. fight along side them and partied with them.

10 Myths about Immigration

1. Most immigrants are here illegally. some are allowed here legally after going through a  process and following rules
2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived. not it was easier because anyone could go into the U.S.
3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line. no they are only allowed if they can benifet the U.S.
4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse. no. our ancestors kept to their language while todays speak well or very well in english after 5 years of age.
5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”  the today immigrant have actually become americanized and most of them cant even talk to their grandparents that speak other languages other than english
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans. No because they take lower paying jobs
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime. no. theres a alot of immigrants that are hard workers and are peaceful
8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits. no since they do pay taxes. they get emergency medical care but not welfare
9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before. from 1900 to 2008 the percentage of immigrant population has actually dropped
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal. no they are a chance of deportation but the very presecense isnt being a criminal unlike in Arizona

Kite Runner - Journal Prompt

1. What is the relationship like between Amir and Hassan?
The relationship was like brother at first but after a few events it just became a master and servant relationship.

2. What is the relationship like between Amir and his father?
The relationship was good and strong. Amir looked up to his father and always respected him.

3. Where is the movie taking place? City, country
The movie takes place in the cities of Afghanistan which were Kabul and Pakistyan. Also in the United States.

Immigration Quiz

*** What question/answer surprised you the most?Question and answer of #11 suprised me the most
What was the question?
The question was: Which of the following personalities was born in the United States?
What was your inital answer?
My initital answer was Jennifer Lopez, actor, musician
What was the correct answer?
The correst answer was Jennifer Lopez, actor, musician
WHY did it surprise you so much? What did you learn?
It suprised me so much because I thought there was someone more important that was born in the U.S. and i guessed the answer. What i learned is that Jennifer Lopez was a personality that was born in the U.S.

Week 9 Homeroom Grades

*** What is your grade?
My grade is F.
*** How many missing assignments do you have?
I have 17 missing assingments
*** Are you satisfied with this grade? If so, how will you maintain it? If not, how will you improve it?
No i am not satisfied with this grade. I will not try to maintain it, I will try to improve it by making up as many missing assingments as i can.

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

Undocumented Immigrants
Fact 1) The US would make about $1.4 Trillion over a decade if they legalize undocumented workers
Fact 2) Undocumented workers give $1.5 Billion to  Medicare system and $7 billion to the Social Security system even though they do not get anything in return.

Farmworkers
Fact 1) Workers that work on the farms suffer from higher chance of toxic chemical injuries and skin disorders than any other workers in the country
Fact 2) Female crop workers earn $11,250, When male workers earn  $16,250

Poultry Workers
Fact 1) One forth of the people who butcher, process meat, poultry, and fish are undocumented
Fact 2) 250,000 labor workers in the 174 of  major U.S. chicken factories are Latino and more than half are women

Sexual Abuse On the Job
Fact 1) Out of 150 women working at California’s Central Valley, 80% said they had experienced sexual harassment
Fact 2) Almost all women have reported that they are a victom of sexual oppuse they were interviewed

Immigration & Nativism

Migrate
Definition:Move from one region to another
Migration
Definition:the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
Immigration
Definition:The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

1. What is nativism?
-Nativism is a policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants

2. What were the two main sources of nativism in the early 19th century?
-The two main sources of nativism in the early 19th century were anti-catholic strain because the immigrant were Roman Catholic and they made a large pool of inexpensive labor that threatened the well-being of native artisans and other workers.

3. What were the two main groups that resulted from nativism?
-Two main groups that resulted from nativism were Know-Nothing party and the Ku Klux Klan.

4. What has been the result of 20th century nativism?
- The result of the 20th nativsm was France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States made stricter immigration laws and controls on migrant labor

Jewish Resistance

Germans or the Nazis killed jews. Jews were sent to ghettos where which they were starved to death or put in gas chambers where they died. Though they were in ghettos and were controlled by the Nazis many Jews organized resistances and attacked Nazi's in order to escape. They revolted in Warsaw in April-May 1943, Bialystok, Treblinka in August 1943, and Sobibor in October 1943. The jewish also tried to keep their culture alive in ghettos by organizing secret schools, undeground newspapers, cultural institutions, celebrating holidays and rituals. They also kept documents of stories of many Jews that were in Warsaw so people would know what they went through.

Holocaust Overview

An Overview of the Holocaust

Using the link, http://www.ushmm.orp/wlc/en/article.php?Moduleld=10007262 (the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website), go to “Education” at the top of the page, scroll down and click on “for teachers”, then go to the left side of the page and click on “essential topics to teach”. Then click on each topic area, read the entire section then answer the question that corresponds to that particular section.

1933-1939
Dictatorship under the Third Reich
In the first months of Hitler's chancellorship, the Nazis instituted a policy of "coordination"--the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals. Which were the four goals that came under Nazi control?

The four goals that came under Nazi control were culture, the economy, education, and the law.

Early Stages of Persecution
The Nuremberg Laws did not identify a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs. Instead, the first amendment to the Nuremberg Laws defined a “Jew” as?

The Nuremberg Laws defined a “Jew” as Non-Aryan.

The First Concentration Camps
Define the term “Concentration Camp”

Concentration Camp means a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.

1939-1945
World War II in Europe
What happened on September 1, 1939, that starts WWII? Explain.

On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland after signing the German-Soviet pact of nonaggression which started WWII.

Murder of the Disabled (Euthanasia Program)
The Euthanasia Program murdered children, young adults, and adults that were considered “physically” and “mentally” disabled. They were put in gas chambers and then burned to ashes. These were not “Jews” but Germans. The families were told that their family membered died from what?

The Families were told that their family members died from natural causes.





Persecution and Murder of Jews
Others than the Jewish people, name three other populations that were targeted under Hitler’s Regime.

Other than the Jewish people, Roma(Gypsies), the disabled, and the Slavic People(Poles, Russians, Others) were targeted under Hitler’s Regime.

Ghettos
What were the three types of ghettos?

The three types of ghettos where closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos.

Mobile Killing Squads (Einsatzgruppen)
The “Einsatzgruppen” were mainly German soldiers and Secret Service German men that would go and kill Jews and anyone who was against Hitler. How did they kill these people? At first they only killed men, but as the war continued, did they kill women and children?

They killed those people by going to their homes and massacred them. Later on while the war continued they did start to kill women and children regardless of age.

Expansion of the Concentration Camp System

The goods extracted or produced by prisoner labor in the concentration camps were sold to what two German Reich through SS-owned firms?

The goods extracted or produced by prisoner labor in the concentration camp were sold to German Earth and Stone Works.

Killing Centers
What was the name of the first “Killing Center”? Where and when did it open?

The name of the first “Killing Center” was Chelmno which was opened in Warthegau in December 1941.

Additional Victims of Nazi Persecution
Among the earliest victims of Nazi discrimination in Germany were political opponents -- primarily Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, and trade union leaders. What was the name of the concentration camp that these political enemies were placed?

The name of the concentration camps that those political enemies were placed was called Dacha.

Jewish Resistance and Non-Jewish Resistance
Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers. Name two of these center and include the month and year.

Two of the centers that Jewish prisoners rose against their guards were Warsaw in April-May 1943 and Treblinka in August 1943.


Rescue
What is “Zegota” and when did it begin?

Zegota is a code name for Rada Pomocy Zydom, the Council for Aid of Jew that was a Polish underground organization that provided social warfare needs to Jews which began in September 1942.

United States
After reading this section, why do you think that the United States refused to help the people that were being murdered?

I think the United States refused to help the people that were being murdered because they could not try to help without legal actions.

Death Marches
The evacuations of the concentration camps had three purposes, what were those reasons?

The evacuations of the concentration camps had the purposes which were because the SS didn’t want prisoners to fall into enemy hands and tell their stories to the Allied and Soviet liberators. Second, they thought they needed prisoners to maintain production of armaments wherever possible. And last but not least some leaders believed that they could use Jewish concentration prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that could guarantee the survival of Nazi Regime.

Liberation
The Germans tries to destroy the evidence by destroying the concentration camps. However, what evidence was found that proved the Germans had killed an unimaginable number of Jewish peoples?

Gas chambers and some killing centers that the Soviet have found with many Jews of Poland already killed and found many people alive when they entered the concentration camp in Auschwitz.

Post- 1945
Postwar Trials
The International Military Tribunal (IMT) defined crimes against humanity as?

The International Military Tribunal defined crimes against humanity as murder, extermination,, enslavement, deportation or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds.

Displaced Persons Camps and Emigration
Define Zionism
Zionism means the movement to return to the Jewish homeland in what was then British-controlled Palestine

Kite Running

1. What is kite running? What are the roles of each person called? What do they do?
Kite running a two-person affair which they try to strike down the kite of your opponent with the
string of your kite, after which you will be called the winner. The roles of each person are called “charka gir” and the other called the “gudiparan baz.” The charka gir is in charge of the holding
the wooden kite spool, around which the wire, or “tar” is wound. The second
person, called the “gudiparan baz” actually is in control of the movement of the
kite in the air.

2. What is the history of kite running in Afghanistan? How long? Importance?
The history of kite running in Afghanistan is a significant past time for the last past 100 years. Its important because its part of their culture.

3. Kite running was not allowed during Taliban rule. Why do you think this is?
I think Taliban rule that kite running was not allowed because it was a childish thing to do.

4. What signifance does kite running play in the movie, The Kite Runner? What does it help teach us about the characters?
It helps teach us that Amir only thought of himself and only thought Hassan as a partner in Kite Running and just a person that was lower than him rather than a friend.

Kite Runner - Trailer

The Movie was about a boy named Amir who had to leave his home town because of his father and he has to undergo many hardships and continue his life in the U.S with his wife and the child of Hassan which Amir adopted to make up with Hassan who was shot in the back of his head.

Week 5 grades

32.08%= F
*** Are you satisfied with this grade?
- No i am not satisfied with this gade

*** Why is this the grade you are earning?
- I'm earning this grade because i missed the first 2 weeks of school and was late for a week and barely went to homeroom

*** How many missing assignments do you have?
- I have 10 missing assignments

*** Write down three strategies that you will try to use to raise your grade before next report cards come out. Remember, report cards come out in 5 weeks (10 week quarters) but you only have until week 7 to complete any missing/redo work. This means you have only TWO WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT MISSING/REDO ASSIGNMENTS.

-I will do all my missing assignments
- I will come earlier and do my assignments.

Background of Afghanistan

1. Who was involved in the Afghan Civil War? When was it?
- communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was involved in the war. It was on April 27, 1978

2. What was the military coup called?
-the military coup was called Saur Revolution

3. When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? Why?
-The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in  December 1979 to keep the Afghan PDPA communists in power

4. What were the Peshawar Accords?
-The Peshawar Accords was to establish the Islamic State of Afghanistan and appointed an interim government.

5. List two things the Taliban prohobits women from doing.
-The Taliban prohobits women to get treated by a male doctor without a male chaparon.
-Also from going to school

6. Who was Ahmad Shah Massoud? What were the laws for girls/women like under him?
-Ahmad Shah Massoud was the Islamic State's minister of defense . The laws for girl/women under him were raped.

7. What was the US led war in Afghanistan called? When did it start?
-The us led war in Afghanistan was called  Operation Enduring Freedom.. It started after 911.

8. Include one picture.

Taliban Rule in Afghanistan

1. What is the Taliban?
-militia group that ruled large parts of Afghanistan

2. During what time did they control Afghanistan?
-september 11, 2001 to present

3. What guided Taliban rule (philosophy/religion)? List two laws that they enforced.
-Deobandi fundamentalism
- social and cultural norm called Pashtunwali

4. What was the set of laws called that the Taliban regime used? List two prohobitions they had (things they people weren't allowed to eat/drink/etc.
-Sharia law
-guys couldnt shave
-women couldnt b treated by a male doctor without a male with them which caused illnesses to be untreated
5. What event made the US get involved with the Taliban?
-9-11

6. In 1-2 sentences, describe the treatment of women under Taliban rule.
They were allowed neither to work nor to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an. and must wear the burqa in public

Pashtuns and Hazaras in Afghanistan

) What percentage of the population do Pashtuns and Hazaras make up in Afghanistan?
-The percentage of hazaras in afghanistan are now 9% and the pashtuns are 45% of the population


2) Where do Pashtuns mainly live? What language do they speak?
-They are concentrated in the east and the south and they speak Pashtu


3) Where do Hazaras mainly live? What language do they speak?
-They live in the barren dry mountains of central afghanistan and the speak Farsi


4) What effect did the Soviet Invasion of 1979 have on the Pashtun/Hazara ethnic groups?
-The soviet invasion lowerd the pashtuns population and raised other ethnic groups
the various factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, all dominated by Pashtuns

5) From what you read, why is there a conflict between Amir and Hassan? How does what you learned explained their relationship?
-They are friends but amir is dosent want hassan always sticking up for him making hassans father disapointed in him.Hassan is Amirs servant, hassan is hazara and amir is pashtun hassan is a loyal friend to amir and amir isnt.