Saturday, May 26, 2012

Cuban Revolution: part 2

The new communist government by Castro created a more peaceful situation, more equality, and the changes in education. As you can imagine, the time when Cuba is in Batista's hand, the country is often treated brutally. The Batista did all those actions in order to keep Cuba's cities under the government control. However, after the Batista regime is down and Castro's communist is up, the brutal actions are mostly gone away. The dictatorship is gone too, and equality is granted to everyone. There's a huge changes after the fall of the Batista regime as well. Since private school were banned, the state assumed greater responsibility for children.
Judging from my point of view, the Castro's new communist government


seems to be better than the Batista's government. Their differences are the freedom, how the government do with its people, and how . The  new government has a better attitude than the Batista due to its communist system. The country ruled by a corrupted government by Batista before. The Batista often use brutal methods to keep Cuba's cities under government control. Citizens' freedom are better due to no more corruption, and a better leader.


Cuban Revolution Timeline

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Cuban Revolution: part1


Fulgencio Batista

Cuban Revolution: The Analysis Document
Cuban Revolution is a revolution happened during 1953-1959. From my point of view, it's a revolution between a man name Fulgencio Batista which is the president and also the military leader of Cuba, and a man name Fidel Castro who was in the group call the "26th of July movement". The whole revolution starts at 26 July 1953 and ends at 1 January 1959. The new government that was created by Fidel Castro begins with a guerilla attack, continued with the 26th of July movement group and ends with the victory in 1 January 1959. The first guerrilla warfare launched in 26 July 1953 on the Moncada Barracks, an army facility in Santiago de Cube. The attack was a failure and Fidel got imprisoned for 15 years. During the 15 years, people start to protest about Fidel's imprisonment. People actually hated Batista since the beginning, and they are on Castro's side. After Fidel Castro was released from the prison, the group name the 26th of July movement established according to the date of the failed attack. The group is the main support on guerrilla attacks and ways to complete their goals. For an example, the Battle of Santa Clara on 31 December 1958 is the last battle the group defeated Batista together. The victory of the 26th of July movement is the huge of the last step to accomplish Castro's goals. Batista was finally lose to Castro on 1 January 1959, and replaced by Castro's government. This government later becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.

Fidel Castro













Sunday, March 25, 2012

MWS - Infographic project

Infographics are really handful tools in teaching people due to its colorfulness and creative ideas within it, and I use it in a project in grade 9 alongs with other 10th graders. Our teacher shows us how the infographics look like, and how he wants ours to be. The project was given around a month ago before this blog is created. After all those infographics we have watched, we started off with deciding the works for each of our group members are supposed to do. There are four members in the group. Three of them takes the research roles while I take the creating and editing infographic role. Our topic was about Energy, and we got around 21 to 30 days to finish it. We mainly focus on our topic, its history, types of energy, or even energy in the future. Although we didn’t plan well at first, but we are able to produce a work with total of our effort at the end. We take around 3 weeks in researching for information and we seem to be glad about it. Some information are wrong, some are not. While we were working, we had a little quarrel as well but it keep us to be together and understand each other more. After that quarrel, the works seem to be getting fine and the researches are all done. We leave the most important job to one person in our group, creating an infographic but that doesn’t mean we didn’t help her at all. In the end, I help generate the ideas of the infographic and the whole thing was completely cramped up in the last day. My works are research and editing the infographic the night before the due date. It sounds a little funny, but we still doing it 15 minutes before the deadline(but our work is pretty good though)
What we need to create in an infographic. Infographics are the tools created by using software or online programs in order to create simple or creative shapes of arts in order to let the readers easily understand them. They are mainly created by programs and most of them takes a long period of time to create them. It being created by technology nowadays. Eventually, our infographic still has some mistakes in it. If we compare ours to the other, the shapes are not simple enough and the words are still too long. However, it has a timeline which makes it easier to understand it, and the organizations are pretty well-done too.
Infographics are now really popular among the internet world. Some of you might have guessed it already, and because its simpleness and creativity lead them to become this popular. Not only they are easy to understand, but some of them are fun to read as well. I’d recommend you who are reading this to try and create one of them. It’d be nice, and here's my infographic. We use Picktochart to create an infographic, and it'd be great if you use it too. Here's the link
http://piktochart.com/

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Shinto brother and sister






When I was a child, I used to live in Japan with my older sister. We used to be playing around and have fun like normal brother and sister do, until we got a company to move to America because of the nuclear bomb. Now I'm moving back to Japan once again to meet my sister who I've not met so long. Her name is Mamori, Mamori Shiranai. Her name came from a charm in her beliefs. She said it's worn for aid in healing and protection or for some other purposes too. I had been living in America for so long and now my sister will guide me through Japan and their beliefs also. My name is Shinto, like Shintoism the Japanese beliefs of living gods. My sister teaches me that Shintoism is about how we believe that gods are everywhere around us. Even in the trees, animals, or even in our words. The belief are also about to be clean as well. Although I'm not quite interest in this stuffs, but she tries her best to guide and introduce me to the beliefs, so I will endure it for a while (I think Christianity is better). She said we have to enter the Shrine through the Tori Gate first (which is the religious symbol). The Shrine is an important place of this religion, so the maidens have to clean it up (includes as a practice; others are offerings, praying, and dancing). She said they mustn’t be sluggish in their works so she sweeps the shrine everyday she's free. She said she doesn't want to bring blame to the teachings so she asked me not to spread Christianity too much (I was a little confuse about it). Sadly it has no historical founder like Christianity and it also has too many rules like we cannot become angry although the others are angry, or do not forget your obligations to your ancestor. She said we're the Kami's child, but I started to get bored so I asked her to guide me around the cities instead. She seemed a bit depressed though. After I've finished all the tours and the time I've spent with my sister, I've to go back to America again. Before I go, my sister dragged me nearby her mouth. She whispered into my tiny ears "we're the Japanese. Do not.. carried away ... ..reign teachings" I couldn't hear it clearly, but I will remember it for the rest of my life.