Book Cover for Chapter 17

The following picture is supposed to be for a book cover in Chapter 17, which covers the Industrial Revolution in late 19th and early 20th century

Skill, luck, hard-work, or opportunity.

Supply chain management definition

Supply chain management (SCM) is the active streamlining of a business' supply-side activities to maximize customer value and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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Smoke Signals Essay

Smoke Signals is a movie where Native Americans first struggle with their history, but eventually learn to appreciate this history and use it to their advantage. The film starts life out on a reservation in Idaho, but before long two Indians must make the trek to Arizona where they are greeted with stereotypes of all kinds. 

The film Smoke Signals, carried a heavy tone where the two main characters, Victor and Thomas, have to deal with stereotypes as well as the general history about Native Americans and are treated unfairly because of these said stereotypes. For example, as Victor and Thomas make their way to Arizona they briefly get off the bus to buy Thomas a new shirt, but when they return their seats have been stolen by two white men that look like (even though this is a stereotype) the typical racist redneck with their trucker hats and support of guns. After telling the men they were sitting in those seats, the white men insult them and tell them to move to the back of the bus. The film exemplifies how many citizens think that they can boss around Indians just like the government did, and how this leads them to be treated as second class citizens. Earlier on the bus ride, a woman from Mississippi was complaining about being only an alternate on the US gymnastics Olympic team and compares herself to Indians. This sets Victor off as he sees no way that being close to the Olympics and having to deal with the terrible treatment from not only the government but also the average everyday American citizen. This shows how the average American looks down on Native Americans for letting the government take over the culture, move them out of their homes and take over their land. The average American sees the Indian as weak, as they do not understand everything Indians had to endure, which is something many Native Americans will always have to deal with.

 Victor and Thomas however use these stereotypes and history to empower themselves and accept their culture rather than move away from it. Their are many times in the film when Thomas will tell some ridiculously long elaborate tale to get something that he needs. Whether it be a ride to the bus stop, or information about Victor's father, he embraces this stereotype of Indians passing down their stories, and uses this as an advantage by learning how to tell them through experiencing someone like his grandmother telling stories to him. At the end of the movie, Victor and Thomas are caught in a car crash with a woman suffering potentially fatal injuries, Victor thinks of all the things his father has done as well as other Indians in the past, he sets off on a 20 mile run with Indian music going on in the background before eventually finding help and getting help to the injured woman.

          All in all Smoke Signals is a very empowering film for Native Americans depicting how to let one’s culture help on their road to success, but unfortunately a person will always be met with stereotypes about themselves. The film exemplifies how a Native American needs strength to overcome these obstacles, and listening to their history will only help.

History of the Swastika

The Swastika was used by many cultures, and was even discovered being used over 5,000 years ago. The Swastika was a big fad among Americans before World War II with the American military, Boy and Girl scouts using and even Coca-Cola.  However when the Nazi's discovered it, instead of having the swastika be a symbol of peace interpreted it as a symbol for Aryans. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

Newspaers from way out west

The Carson Daily Appeal featured out of Carson City, Nevada, would often times have more ads
than actual reading material. For example, the page that I spent the most time had three and a half out of 5 columns covered by ads. These ads typically consisted of companies that instead of trying to garner new employees, would be promoting their services to the general public. The main story on this page was not written by
 The Carson Daily Appeal but by the St.Louis Democrat describing how infamous outlaw and former confederate soldier Sam Hildebrand has decided to hang up his boots and to continue a life of peace rather than crime. As well as there being an ad attempting to find a man's brother to tell him that he had died.  Insurance looked to be a hot commodity seeing as the three main ads on the page were trying to sell insurance.

The Sacramento Daily Record not only covered local stories, but gave an overview of what was happening locally, but also what was happening around the world. Covering stories about an arsonist in Colorado who was chased by a mob, as well as a criminal case in London called the Bradlaugh case. These summaries covered almost the entire front page, except for a giant ad about Weinstock's and Lupin department store which was trying to get applicants for jobs in which they would hold up to 125 adults.

Modern Slavery research

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CNN- Irani diplomat claims ISIS stealing organs, uses example of 12 doctors found murdered saying it was because they refused to remove organs, as well as other Irani civilians being found dead with organs missing. 

Organ removal Huffington Post- This basically repeats the same thing the CNN article does

Superb owl Huffington Post- This blog claims that the Super bowl is known as "the largest event of sex trafficking in the world", however this is more prostitution rather than just 100% sex slavery

Isis Slave trade Huff post- The blog talks about how ISIS makes so much money of off typically Yazidi or Sunni women, probably in the millions, by selling these women that they take from their homes, but also raping them in the time between taking and selling.

ISIS Sex slaves NYTimes- Multiple first person sources, typically rape victims of ISIS, that explain how ISIS justifies them raping little girls. One person is quoted as saying, "it's not rape, it's halal (permissible) since the girls were of different religions than Islam. Also having ISIS members claim it is encouraged that they rape "non-believers." 

The exodus road statistics/ prostitution vs sex trafficking- According to International Labor organization at least 20.9 million people are slaves today with 4.5 people being sex slaves, 2.2 million being forced labour slaves that are being forced by either a military or prison. And the rest being forced labour.