Thursday, June 12, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Biography on Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa, was a Mexican Revoulutionary general As commander of the DivisiĆ³n del Norte Division of the North, he was the veritable caudillo of the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.Villa and his supporters, known as Villistas, employed tactics such as propaganda and firing squads against his enemies.He robbed and commandeered trains , and, like the other Revolutionary generals, printed money supplys to pay for his cause.He was born June 5 1878– July 23 1923.
Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary leader who advocated for the poor and wanted agrarian reform. Though he was a killer, a bandit, and a revolutionary leader, many remember him as a folk hero. Pancho Villa was also responsible for a raid on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, which was the first attack on U.S. soil since 1812.Pancho Villa was born Doroteo Arango, the son of a sharecropper at the hacienda in San Juan del Rio, Durango. While growing up, Pancho Villa witnessed and experienced the harshness of peasant life. In Mexico during the late 19th century, the rich were becoming richer by taking advantage of the lower classes, often treating them like slaves. When Villa was 15, his father died, so Villa began to work as a sharecropper to help support his mother and four siblings.One day in 1894, Villa came home from the fields to find that the owner of the hacienda intended to have sex with Villa's 12-year old sister. Villa, only 16-years old, grabbed a pistol, shot the owner of the hacienda.
he had joined some other bandits and soon became their leader. Villa and his group of bandits would steal cattle, rob shipments of money, and commit additional crimes against the wealthy. By stealing from the rich and often giving to the poor, some saw Pancho Villa as a modern-day Robin Hood.It was during this time that Doroteo Arango began using the name Francisco Pancho Villa.
Pancho Villa was extremely successful, winning battle after battle during the next several years. Since Pancho Villa conquered Chihuahua and other northern areas, he spent much of his time reallocating land and stabilizing the economy.
Three years later, he was assassinated on June 20, 1923.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Mexican- American work for farm workers. he didn't have much education only up to 8th grade. Mexican, at farms travel from one place to another. Changed alot of schools for the other people can go. | Nonviolent Civil Right fighter both of them are viewed as a hero | Poor , Went to school and finished but died and made alot of changes. Middle class family Finished high school at age 15 and went to college and graduated |
was poor and a civil right fighter and never gives up but was poor died poor and won the strike , farm workers and they get paid good. | Faught for more rights and better life loved by there famiy. saved the economy. | More rights for African American. Noble price equal treatment at work, school ,etc. defended human rights. |
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
ViCtOr
Do you think the visitors know that Cody hears them?
no
What details tell you how sick Cody is?
When he said I can’t talk and I’m always in bed.
What kind of boy is Cody?
Cody is a boy with a big imagination.
What bothers Cody about his father? Why? That his father never cries because he thinks that if a child is in the hospital almost death the father would be pretty stupid not to cry.
What is the "Land Above?" Why do you suppose Cody made up this place? I think Land Above is upside of land and it is very.
What is one thing Victor does for Cody?He motivates him.
How did Cody's way of thinking about life changed after meeting Victor? One thing that victor did for cody was to make him comfortable.
What is Victor like? He is an old man