Cesar ChavezEssay Preview: Cesar ChavezReport this essayGovernment 2301Prof.22 May 2007Cesar Chavez: The Savior of the Migrant Farm WorkerAn influential person only comes along once in a lifetime, and the birth of Cesar Chavez on March 31, 1927 is positively no exception. Chavez has been awarded all the same accolades that other American heroes have received such as holidays and streets honored with his name. Born in Yuma, Arizona, Chavez lived a normal life in a small adobe house on the outskirts of Yuma where his parents owned a ranch and a small grocery store which they subsequently lost during the Great Depression. Chavez learned at a very early age that life was not always fair. His father was dishonestly tricked out of a plot of land that he was promised by an Anglo land owner. Chavezs father agreed to clear eighty acres of land in trade for the deed to forty acres that joined the land he had cleared. When all was said and done, his father had to hire a lawyer, and ended up losing the land in the long run. Through this whole experience was born Chavezs pursuit of unwavering justice, no matter what the cost.
Between his eleventh and twelfth birthdays, Cesar and his family had moved back and forth from California twice before settling in the San Jose area. He and his family worked twelve different farms in the San Jose area. The Chavez family would pick peas and lettuce in the winter, cherries and beans in the spring, corn and grapes in the summer and cotton in the fall (Americas library.com). During this trying time, Cesar was not particularly happy with his educational experience as the child of a migrant farm worker. Cesar attended over thirty different schools in which he had to endure harsh prejudice. He had to put up with the numerous racist comments and the difficulty of only speaking only Spanish, which was not allowed in the schools he attended. Luckily Cesar graduated the eighth grade, but due to an injury his father incurred he was unable to attend high school and went to work in the fields as a migrant farm worker. Cesar did not look at it as missing out on his education because to him nothing he learned in school prepared him for the life he knew he was destined for. Chavezs educational story does have a silver lining; later in life, higher education became his passion, and to anyone who was ever lucky enough to see his book collection in his Headquarters office would ultimately know that (Las Culturas .com). A four year Mexican-American college was established in his name in Mount Angel, Oregon, the very first of its kind in the United States. Sadly in 1983 due to severe financial problems the college had to close its doors, not before educating thousands of young minds in the hopes of someday following in the footsteps of its very namesake.
In 1944, Chavez joined and served two years in the Navy during World War II. After his tour of duty he returned to California and married his sweetheart Helen Fabela in the fall of 1948. He moved into a one room shack with his new bride and by 1959 the couple had eight children which forced Cesar back into the fields, but this time he let his voice be heard about the low wages and poor working conditions. Later that year he took part in his first strike, but only days later workers were pushed back into the fields without any resolution. In 1952 he became involved with the Community Service Organization and began urging Mexican-Americans to register and vote to have their voice heard. He became general director of CSO in 1958(incwell.com). Four years later Chavez would leave the CSO and make his own mark in history.
HISTORY:
The U.S. is considered the most active nation in the developing world today. This means that we are far, far more competitive than people think. We are also far less popular, however, since U.S. businesses are far more able to hire abroad and are able to grow faster by using our resources. The U.S. still holds the global top spot when it comes to manufacturing in the world. However, there are still a few areas where things are somewhat better. China and India are two world leaders. Japan remains one of the only regions to hold the largest share of the world’s manufacturing jobs (although this is still below the Chinese average). The U.S. still has almost five times the world’s largest and fastest growth rate of industrialization and that is a direct result of the continued investment in foreign companies.
The U.S. has consistently done well even with a more recent economy in the late 1950’s, where the value of the U.S. dollar was more than twice in value during the same time period as the price of physical goods such as cars. There were no long periods when the value of the U.S. dollar was at its highest level since 1949. We are also at an advantageous stage because of recent growth in Chinese and Korean companies and especially in emerging markets like Japan. The U.S. in many ways has the same success story for developing countries with the same technology that the world enjoyed as a young industrialized nation under the U.S. In other words the United States has more of a role in the game than the other nations. In fact the U.S. has been an integral part of developing economies from the very start in the 1950’s into today and at a much faster rate than it does now. China has been more than successful in doing what it can under their leadership because they have become more well educated and more developed from high levels of high-level technological innovation. The U.S. has also proven to be a force in that arena in several ways, especially with respect to security. Over the past quarter century China has consistently topped the growth trajectory of the U.S., having over $3 trillion in investments and the first time ever to reach a growth rate of 15% that was 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2001. China has also shown that it can innovate in a variety of areas and that it has great ability to develop its own industry that does not exist in the U.S. I believe that this fact is something of an indicator that we are improving and that there is something to be gained.
The United States holds the world record for manufacturing overall and for high energy overall productivity of 5.19 terawatt hours/yr per year. This compares to the U.S. at 11.17 hours/yr. The U.S. industrial production in 2014 was only 27.4 gigawatts (GW) compared to 22.4 GW of production and 15.4 GW of energy. In general, American industries today have become larger and more globalized and require less equipment for construction. The U.S., on the other eye of the global, has become more internationalized to the point that
HISTORY:
The U.S. is considered the most active nation in the developing world today. This means that we are far, far more competitive than people think. We are also far less popular, however, since U.S. businesses are far more able to hire abroad and are able to grow faster by using our resources. The U.S. still holds the global top spot when it comes to manufacturing in the world. However, there are still a few areas where things are somewhat better. China and India are two world leaders. Japan remains one of the only regions to hold the largest share of the world’s manufacturing jobs (although this is still below the Chinese average). The U.S. still has almost five times the world’s largest and fastest growth rate of industrialization and that is a direct result of the continued investment in foreign companies.
The U.S. has consistently done well even with a more recent economy in the late 1950’s, where the value of the U.S. dollar was more than twice in value during the same time period as the price of physical goods such as cars. There were no long periods when the value of the U.S. dollar was at its highest level since 1949. We are also at an advantageous stage because of recent growth in Chinese and Korean companies and especially in emerging markets like Japan. The U.S. in many ways has the same success story for developing countries with the same technology that the world enjoyed as a young industrialized nation under the U.S. In other words the United States has more of a role in the game than the other nations. In fact the U.S. has been an integral part of developing economies from the very start in the 1950’s into today and at a much faster rate than it does now. China has been more than successful in doing what it can under their leadership because they have become more well educated and more developed from high levels of high-level technological innovation. The U.S. has also proven to be a force in that arena in several ways, especially with respect to security. Over the past quarter century China has consistently topped the growth trajectory of the U.S., having over $3 trillion in investments and the first time ever to reach a growth rate of 15% that was 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2001. China has also shown that it can innovate in a variety of areas and that it has great ability to develop its own industry that does not exist in the U.S. I believe that this fact is something of an indicator that we are improving and that there is something to be gained.
The United States holds the world record for manufacturing overall and for high energy overall productivity of 5.19 terawatt hours/yr per year. This compares to the U.S. at 11.17 hours/yr. The U.S. industrial production in 2014 was only 27.4 gigawatts (GW) compared to 22.4 GW of production and 15.4 GW of energy. In general, American industries today have become larger and more globalized and require less equipment for construction. The U.S., on the other eye of the global, has become more internationalized to the point that
In 1962, Chavez formed an organization with fellow organizer Dolores Huerta which they named the National Farm Workers Association (NWFA) which was later changed to United Farm Workers (UFW) when it was joined by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. His philosophy was that of non-violence which he adapted from Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. during the struggle for civil rights. He has been heralded as one of the most influential civil rights leaders next to Dr. Martin Luther King. He also took a page from Gandhis tactics by going on a twenty-five day fast, which did not solve immediate problems, but brought his struggle into the light of the nation. Chavez was a dominant force when it came to bringing the plight of the migrant farm workers into the publics view. Chavezs first official victory came in 1965 when he led a strike with the California grape-pickers union to demand higher wages. The strike of the California grape-pickers was capped off by a march that stretched from the vineyards of Delano to the state capitol in Sacramento. The strike lasted five years, and by the time it was over Chavez had the full support of Robert Kennedy. One of the most damaging problems with the strikes was the use of illegal immigrant farm workers from Mexico. Chavez was relentless when it came to the reporting of strikebreakers. He went as far as reporting the temporary replacement workers.
There was another grape boycott in the mid-70s,