QQC#4

Quote: "with man gone will there be hope for gorilla... with gorilla gone will there be hope for man"
Question: what connection does this quote have with the death of ishmael?
Comment: ishmael needed to find a pupil so he could pass on his wisdom & the narrator of the book needed to find a teacher to help him expand his ideas. with man gone will there be hope for gorilla this quote can be interpereted in many ways but i think that it shows how dependant ishmael was of his pupil. and with gorilla gone will there be hope for man ithink that this represents how dependant the narrator was of ishamel. they both needed each other on their quest to save the world.

Interview w/ Mr. Locker

q: hello mr. locker can i ask you a series of questions regarding our environment?
a: yeah okay

q: what do you think of the current human condition?
a: i think we is all good

q: do you contribute to the environment in any way?
a: uhm...well i recycle a little bit and well i think thats it

q: do you believe in global warming?
a: no i think that people are exaggerating way too much and that its going to happen regardless

q: why do you feel this way?
a: well the world used to be in an ice age and it melted i think that the world just naturally changes climates

q: what do you think of the growing craze of environmentally safe products? are they making a difference?
a: i guess that it makes a slight difference but there are too many people using regular products to make a huge difference

thank you mr. locker for taking time out of your day to answer my questions

QQC#4

ishmael #3

Quote: "There he is in free fall, feeling wonderful and congratulation himself on his triumph. He's like the man in the joke who jumps out of a nineteenth-floor window on a bet. As he passes the tenth floor, he says to himself, 'Well so far so good!'

Question: How does this quote relate to our culture or the problem at hand?

Comment: Ishmael relates this to how our culture functions. We are constantly use up our resources all the while we are coming closer to our crash our destruction of the world by our own hand. Optimists think 'positively' and say "we've gotten this far without experiencing complete destruction therefore it will continue to go along smoothly". And others realize the problem at hand and yet none of us do anything to help solve the problem. We are satisfied with the estimates and conclusions our scientists and representatives tell us and continue our lives. We procrastinate and eventually it will lead to our demise. Or we will pass this burden onto our children and our children's children and so on. The biggest question is not how to fix the ozone or how to save the oceans, but rather a question that incorporates all our worldly issues...How are we supposed to live our lives? we take advice from our prophets and from our religious leaders but most of those only encorporate moral issues. As the book progresses Ishmael brings up the issue of finding the equation or rather the law (such as the law of gravity or aerodynamics) of how man should live their lives.

ishmael blog #2

in the book ishmael, ishamel asks his new pupil to tell him the story of the beginning of earth. the story most of us know is simply this

once upon a time the universe was created by the big bang. it was nothing but plants and organisms. but overtime the organisms slowly evolved into animals and as everyone knows darwin turned into man. and as they say "the rest is history".

this story is our urban mythology. just as greeks believed their mythology was how the earth came to be is how we believe in this story. if we were to go up to a greek a long time ago and say "your mythology is quoite interesting indeed" they might stare at us blankly and reply "what myth? this is the story of how our world came to be this is how the gods created all that the world is now" of course we know other wise. we might look at them in pitty becasue it is in our human nature to feel bad for those who seem primative and naive.

this story is the urban myth...the buzzing in the background, that ishmael was speaking of.

Thesis Statement

In the book From Amigos to Friends by Pelayo Pete Garcia, the Catholic church and the revolutionaries clash in a battle to determine whether or not communism shall prevail in Cuba.

New & Improved Research Question

This is my new question...
How did the Cuban revolution interfere with the people's religious affiliations?

QQC: Research

Quote: "Catholic radio & television programs were forced to close down."

Question: Why would the revolutionaries turn against the church?

Comment: During the time of the revolution 70-75% of the Cuban population were Catholic. Since religion heavily influenced a majority of the population, I find it odd that the revolutionaries would publicly oppose the church. During the first stages of the revolution the church and revolution lived amongst each other without conflict. But the when the revolutionaries started to deny the church information about certain operations, things started to go downhill. Things continued to digress as the years of the revolution continued and towards the end of the revolution the church and revolutionaries were not co-existing peacefully. Verbal attacks and arrests began to occur in the church. The reason behind these arrests were due to priests possessing counterrevolutionary contraband. Due to the threat of becoming a suspect, the number of priests went down in mass numbers. Personally I think that to gain more followers the revolutionary leaders should have humored the church and let them think they were fully involved in whatever actions &/or decisions were taking place. In doing so the church would have not as frequently opposed the revolutionaries tactics and beliefs. Therefore the church would have sent a positive vibe towards the revolution to the many Catholics that attended mass (Catholic service) during that time period. Therefore there would have been less counterrevolutionary activity and the revolution would have been more successful or at least their operations would've ran more smoothly.

Annotated Bibliography

This article summarizes Cuba’s different economical struggles and the government’s refusal to intervene. It also explains how different revolutions such as the revolution started in response of Porfiriato, helped encourage other revolutions taking place. This article has helped our groups understanding of what took place during the time of our particular revolution.

Citation: Todd, Molly. "War: Latin America" from The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, Volume 6, The Modern World. Daily Life Online: Exploring Everyday Life Past and Present. Greenwood Publishing Group. 12 February 2009. .

First blog assignment

From amigos to friends by Pelayo Pete Garcia
The book that i am currently reading is a biography of three young boys during the Cuban Revolution. David, Carlos & Luis live in Havana, Cuba, them and their families are drastically effected by the revolution taking place.
The Cuban Revolution is a socialism revolution that takes place during the late 1950's, led by Fidel Castro & Che Guevara.
Possible research question: "How did the revolution interfere with peoples religious affiliations?"