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1) I got my head bashed in a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against the world they really did not understand.

-Terry Gilliam

I agree with this phrase because the police blindly listened the men who just sat and watched the war from their seats, but the people were aware of the draft and that affected them.
Audio: http://vocaroo.com/i/s00kOrg2Mp2q

2) The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an failed military invasion performed by the USA as a counter-revolutionary measure. Although there were exiled Cuban supporting the US forces, Cuban locals were also armed. After that, Castro was completely supported by the USSR, which led to the Cuba's missile crysis.

I think my mark should be a 6 because I didn't followed the terms and my audio wasn't clear

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I think I deserve at least a 7 or an 8 because i did the work as it should be done. I didn´t neither copy-paste nor did it after the dead line but most important of all, I understood what I wrote instead of just vomiting words and phrases taken from google or random web pages. I can't punctuate an opinion but I answered all the questions that where asked and fully completed the tasks without errors as far as I saw so I think it's correct what i did and couldn´t find any improvement or correction to make.

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My mark should be 9, because i completed both activities and did a good analysis.
FOCUS ON "HOW" YOU COMPLETED THE TASK. WHAT is a "GOOD ANALYSIS"? Can you  suggest changes /improvements?

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8 Because i completed both activities and i think i explain both well. Maybe the quote wasn't perfect anlized, but it was good.
WHAT is a"GOOD " quote?
Can you  suggest changes /improvements?

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6, because it was complete and the tasks were done but they could have been done better and in a more developed way,also the quote could have been from someone more revelant(Although most quotes were already used).I chose Marthin Luther King´s quote.

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9
Although point 2 wasnt all written by my self, it wasnt just copied and pasted, it was changed and as one may see in the sources there is more than just the page the main info if given, there is a youtube video where the subject is explained,
and point one was very well executed , in my opinion.
Can you say why? Can you  suggest changes /improvements?

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My mark should be 9.
Because , I did the activity , and i explain it with my thougts . I copy some thing from the pages, but , it was equal as I wanted to explain it . The activity was well written , and I did it before the dead line.

I chose Ferreiro´s quote
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." Richard M. Nixon

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1) Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. Jerry Stiller
Audio: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1dwPRcesu8h

2) The Bay of Pig (Bahia de los Cochinos ) was an invassion of thousand of cubans supported by the USA on april 17th of 1961.Their intention was to remove Fidel Castro from the power, their were supported by the CIA. Eisenhower and J. F. Kennedy were afraid of the relation between USSR and Cuba so they insist in the attack. This invasión failed because the castro´s army and the population were ready to attack when the anticastros arrived Cuba, they sank in total three ships and more than one thousand of rebels were arrested. The invasión finished three days after. The failure of the  invasion helped to strengthen the position of Castro's leadership, making him a national hero, it was a complete failure because of the poor communication between USA and the anticastros,they didn´t analised the cuban forces very well, the cubans known that an invassion was coming,etc

Sources:
1-http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vietnam_war.html

2- Book
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1nOQ32ydJM4

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8- because i think that i follow the instructions and made my own conclusion in question number 2 and in question 1 I select a quote and  give my own opinion but it could be longer.

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Task for today:
1. Read and listen to some of your partners` vocaroos.
2. After that is done reread your work and provide yourself a mark/grade.
3. Justify your mark by suggesting changes /improvements if neccessary.
Regards,
Melisa

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1) “I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.”

John Wooden

I agree with John Wooden, because I support the idea of being against wars in general. I consider the violence between the USA and Vietnam unnecessary, although they had big differences. This left a very high number of American deaths and caused great damage to the Vietnamese territory in addition to the deaths generated in the war.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0foWzonO7Vl

2) Invasion of the Bay of Pigs was a military operation in which US-supported counterrevolutionary troops, trained and led by the CIA, attempted to invade Cuba in April 1961. Its ultimate goal was to overthrow Castro and to establish a Communist friend of the United States.

The action ended in failure in less than 72 hours. Where Fidel Castro took personal charge of the operation with the help of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Cuba. Most of the soldiers were killed or captured by the Revolutionary Army and National Militias.

This operation failed because:

- The United States was slow to recruit men because they were in election year.

- President Kennedy delayed and changed the invasion last week, from Trinidad, to the Bay of Pigs, because "I did not want it to be very visible."

- President Kennedy insisted that the invasion be at night, although the United States had never made a night invasion.

- The Cuban military had been prepared for the attack.

- The unexpected appearance of reefs where some of the ships of the exiles sank.

Sources:

https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Bay-of-Pigs.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkbAduMD_E

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vietnam_war.html

GOOD WORK; HOPE TO HEAR YOUR QUOT

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Final assignment

Activity one:

“Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.”

Quote written by Jody Williams.

I totally agree with Jody Williams, I can’t imagine the effects that can have a landmine. Apart from killing soldiers also destroy the environment. I believe that war is just a waste of time and money to get to the point where the members of the same lose thousands and thousands of people without thinking about environmental damage, the depression of the loser and above all be so stupid to self-convince that it was worth it. Surely many of those who did not participate in a war or have no family or friend who has been in that situation think that it is the survival of the strongest but I still think it is the survival of the most intelligent after all we are not animals and we can reach an agreement.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0We8W6SsGGe link of the audio.

Activity two:

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro.

The Cuban Revolution of 1952 to 1959 had forced Dictator Fulgencio Batista, an ally of the United States, into exile. He was replaced by the 26th July Movement led by Castro, which severed the country's strong links with the US after nationalizing American economic assets (banks, oil refineries, sugar and coffee plantations, etc.), and developing strong economic links with the Soviet Union, with whom, at the time, the United States was engaged in the Cold War.

US President Eisenhower was very concerned at the direction Castro's government was taking, and in March 1960 he allocated $13.1 million to the CIA to plan Castro's overthrow. Eisenhower's successor John F. Kennedy approved the final invasion plan on 4 April 1961. On the night of 16 April, the main invasion landed at a beach named Playa Girón in the Bay of Pigs. The Cuban Army's counter-offensive was led by José Ramón Fernández, before Castro decided to take personal control of the operation. On 20 April, the invaders surrendered with the majority being publicly interrogated and put into Cuban prisons.

The failed invasion helped to strengthen the position of Castro's leadership, making him a national hero. It also strengthened the relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union. The results of the Bay of Pigs invasion and events involving Cuba that followed caused the US to feel threatened by their neighbor. Some months after the invasion, the Kennedy administration imposed a complete trade embargo against Cuba.

Sorces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
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Result: (I don't change anything from the first time)
I know that the activity number one is simple for you
even if it is an opinion but in the activity number two I asked my brother for help and we do an excellent work  because it was not copy paste from wikipedia we read a lot to put the exact words and also we

made it easier because the vocabulary was not easy to understand. Probably you won't agree with me but I think I deserve a seven.

See you soon...

Ivan
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Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. Jerry Stiller.

I choose this ironic qoute because nobody relly know what was going on. if not they would not declare war

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1)“Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.” -DALTON TRUMBO.

I agree with Dalton Trumbo because it’s totally true, I mean even now most of the people just see the other like numbers, or maybe no like literally numbers but they don’t care about them. That’s what happened on the Vietnam War because as long as they were safe and sound they won’t do anything to revert the situation, people just didn’t stop this war because they were safe and the ones who weren’t, were already 10,000 miles away from home and had no voice on the USA  because they weren’t there.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1aTS4IZ0tY3

2)The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the USA. It started with the Cuban Revolution of 1952 to 1959, this forced the dictator Fulgencio Batista who was an ally of the United States to exile, being replaced by Castro who severed the country’s links with the US and developing strong economic links with de Soviet Union, which was USA enemy at that time. As a result of this, the US President, Dwight D. Eisenhower allocated $13.1 million to the CIA to plan Castro’s overthrow. The final invasion plan was approved on 4 April 1961 by John F. Kennedy. After three days of the invasion of the main invasion arrival, the invaders surrendered. Some of the reasons that led the plan to fail were that the original plan required both naval and air support and the operation only had half the forces the CIA had deemed necessary and also the Cubans knew the invasion was coming. This failure helped to strengthen the position of Castro’s leadership, making him a national hero, and cemented the rocky relationship between the former allies. It also strengthened the relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union.

Sources:
http://www.notable-quotes.com/v/vietnam_war_quotes_iv.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
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8- Because I did the assignment taking into account that I was not looking for a 10. If I wanted a better mark I would have looked for more sources to get more information than only reading wikipedia.
The point of self-evaluation is to suggest changes to your own work. What other points would you consider if you wanted a better mark?

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1)“Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions.

I've chosen Vonnegut's quote,because the war would not solve the struggle between ideologies,it would instead reinforce the upgrowth of those by
making each country retaliate with their communist or capitalist allies until someone loses.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1cJO1GmJ8Y0

2) The invasion of the Bay of Pigs was an operation planned by
a CIA paramilitary group called the Brigade 2506(1200 men),and was an attempt
to overthrow Castro's communist regime.It was a huge failure,
where the invaders were killed,and the cuban revolutionists won.
Cuba was being on the mark of the US since the revolution,and when
Castro nationalized the american companies and got aligned with
the soviet union,the US tried to sabotage,invade or assasinate cuban
communists.
On april 17th of 1961,the CIA tried to got the entire brigade
against 20000 cuban revolutionaries,and lost.The 2506 brigade
asked for help but Kennedy refused to,and it's said that the
CIA told him that so the operation wouldn't turn into an actual
war.400 americans were killed and 1200 imprisoned.Also the cubans
painted one US plane with cuban colours and the americans destroyed
their own plane and they were uncomunicated for a while.
This war was decisive in order to increase reputation with communist propaganda,
and also showed the strength of some revolutionaries against the
most powerful country.

Source:
http://www.clarin.com/mundo/invasion-Bahia-Cochinos-fracaso-cambio_0_463153751.html

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1-

“You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.”

― Hồ Chí Minh

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/vietnam-war

i know it sounds weird to say this about my quote but in fact Hồ Chí Minh (this was the person who wants to make vietnam communist from south vietnam)was right about what he said:

from 2.5 million american soldiers only die 58.000, but in the vietnam side they have a big lost 1.100.000.

the first general too see that United States was losing the war was Robert McNamara and also he said “they will keep their losses to a low level to hang on but high to tempting us to gain more forces until the top so the the public opinion of America will reject the war”.

vocaroo link:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0L5Q95hFNY4

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Basically the bay of pigs was that the US wanted to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution because he pushed out of the power Fulgencio Batista a president backed by the US . but it was a big failure,the army of the US was formed by the cubans who fled home when Castro take over. the plan consisted in senak to their tiny air force with his cuban brigade but Castro was advised and he moved the planes and for more, they want to be clandestine and successful mission however it was a radio on the bay of pigs that was broadcasting everything to listeners across Cuba  so they in a little they were surrounded and less than 24 hours they gave up.

Castro’s government was a big threat to the US because he want to make a Cuba a country without “yanquis” and also he was an ally to the soviet union.

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-13066561

VERY INTERESTING!
i wil give to myself an 8.
i complete the task but i can add more information about what was happening with cuba and the soviet union to understand the situation to the US.
i like comesaña´s qoute because im in favor of Martin luther king , they didnt care about war.

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1.“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy” - william westmoreland.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1YMOqXtjUAA

Soldiers at that moment were not recognise as they should. People didnt know that it had been a very tough war with an unconventional enemy in front of them. Thats why i agree with this quote.
2.On January 1, 1959, a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista.
April 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion did not go well: The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting.
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion
GOOD WORK

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1)

"I got my head bashed in a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against the world they really did not understand. "

Terry Gilliam

I love this quote because I do not only admire the man who said it, but also explains how the government of the United States (with nixon at the time) repressed the social movements that marched against the war.

2)

The Bay of Pigs invasion was significant because it got Fidel Castro to worry about the United States and how they might have the power to conquer Cuba.

The invasion happened on April 17, 1961 to April 19th, 1961 it lasted two days and it was against the United States and Cuban Exiles vs. Cuba. The United States then President John F. Kennedy was only a couple months into his presidency when he decided to get an attack on Cuba. The Cuban Exiles wanted to get rid of the government that Fidel Castro was in charge of. The Exiles had been trained by C.I.A. Agents in Miami, Florida.

The ones who ended up winning in the end were the Cuban people and other people started to blame John F. Kennedy and said that the country did not train enough or support the exiles.

The C.I.A. Had used the exiles to help them overthrow Castro, and the New York Times decibes it as the C.I.A. Using the Cubans as "puppets". The invasion started on April 17th, 1961 and lasted two days in the Bay of Pigs or "Bahia de los Pinos".Sources:

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkbAduMD_.

self evaluation:

i think i deserve a 7, bacuse the quote is really good and i think i work a lot in my speaking.
the second exercise is not so great.

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1)
North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

RICHARD NIXON, speech, November 3, 1969

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vietnam_war.html

I agree with this because I think in refers to the fact that many Americans were against the war and they went anyways unprepared to fight Vietnam underestimating them. So they losing against the Vietnamese it’s their own fault.

I chose this quote because of the meaning behind a short phrase.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1413x4Vt1Tu

2)

The U.S. distrusted Castro and his relation with Khrushchev so the CIA developed a plan to train Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. Its goal was to expel Castro and establish a non-communist government.

They failed to keep the plans covert; it became common knowledge among Cuban exiles, and Castro became aware of the training too.

They also failed to attack, the idea was to destroy Castro’s air force, to achieve this, the CIA used old bombers and painted them to make them look like the Cuban’s air force but the bombers missed their targets leaving Castro’s air force intact. After this the planes were exposed so the U.S. cancelled a second air strike.On April 17, the Cuban exiles invasion force, landed at beaches along the Bay of Pigs and immediately came under heavy fire. Cuban planes surrounded the invaders, sank two escort ships, and destroyed half of the exile's air support.

Over the next 24 hours, Castro ordered troops to advance toward the beach. As the situation was getting more awkward to the U.S., the President Kennedy authorized six unmarked American fighter planes to take off and help to defend but they arrived an hour late so they were shot down by the Cubans, and the invasion was crushed later that day.

Some exiles escaped to the sea, while the rest were killed imprisoned by Castro's forces.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Bay-of-Pigs.aspx

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GOOD WORK

I think my mark could be a 7, even though I successfully answered the task, i could have made a more in depth analysis about the bay of pigs.

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“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.” -  Muhammad Ali

1)The Vietnam War divided generationally the USA where the young people were against the war and the elder was in favor of it because they weren’t recruited and it’s divided it into liberalism and conservationism. Moreover the complaint of the rights of black people caused changes in the treatment from the government to the civilians. Along with this there is a rise of mistrust because there is a belief that the government doesn’t tell the whole truth which all this was strengthen with the Watergate scandal.

Another repercussions of the Vietnam War were the economic crisis of the 70’s, the ending of the forced recruitment which this included that the government started campaigning in schools because people didn’t seem to enlist by themselves and the expansion of the vote for people over 18 years.

Muhammad Ali’s quote is based on the anti-Establishment (young people saw many wrongs perpetuated by society and began to question "the Establishment"), it shows how people saw the war as a war for the government and not for the country. Furthermore he talks about the racial disparity including the black and Muslim black movements which it conclude in the obtainment of civil rights for black people.

I’ve chosen this quote because it’s represented by someone who’s comparing himself with other people like him that are 10,000 miles away but they have his same thoughts, believes and religion. Additionally it shows clearly that the war wasn’t for the wealth of the country but for the disruption of freedom and peace.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0PspU1Zq3Ns

2)  This report is worth to be read and I bolded the Director of the museum's quote because the Bay of Pigs invasion was a great failure to the USA thanks to the opposition of cubans to overthrow Castro. American government thought that they would put an end to the leader of Cuba by the support of people there and not only by the military invasion. They clearly thought wrong and this failure reinforced the Cuban nationalism and the impossibility to USA to be involved in the Cuban government again.

The 'perfect failure' of Cuba invasion

Fifty years ago, shortly before midnight on 16 April 1961, a group of some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs. The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution.Instead, it turned into a humiliating defeat which pushed Cuba firmly into the arms of the Soviet Union and has soured US-Cuban relations to this day.

The Bay of Pigs is a large isolated inlet on Cuba's southern coast. The beach at Playa Giron, a village with a small airstrip at the mouth of the Bay of Pigs, was the invaders' primary target. (To this day, it is referred to in Cuba as the Playa Giron invasion.) A simultaneous landing was planned near the village of Playa Larga, 35km away at the far end of the bay. An old, fortified concrete trench dug into the coconut palm-fringed beach is one of the only visible reminders of the historic battle. Fidel Castro had ordered defences like these to be built at key points throughout the island - an invasion was widely expected, but no-one had any idea where it was going to land.

The American plan was to sneak ashore virtually unopposed, secure the area, take the airfield and fly in a government-in-exile who would then call for direct US support. At the same time, they were relying on a mass uprising in Cuba against the revolutionaries.

It could not have gone more wrong: when an advance frogman lit a beacon to show the exiles where to land, it also alerted the Cuban militia to their presence. Reinforcements, including Cuban air force planes, quickly arrived.

The exiles had some air support, but US President John F Kennedy was determined to keep the US involvement a secret and as the initiative turned against the invading force, he backed away from providing further critically needed air cover.

At the same time, Fidel Castro took personal charge of the operation, and within only three days the battle was over. More than 1,000 of the anti-Castro fighters, known as Brigade 2506, were taken prisoner. About a year-and-a-half later, they were sent back to Miami in exchange for $50m worth of food and medicine.

There is a small museum in Playa Giron. In the forecourt are two of Fidel Castro's tanks, along with a British-built Sea Fury fighter bomber, one of the Cuban air force planes used against the invaders.The US, she believes, completely underestimated the degree of support for Fidel Castro's revolution inside Cuba.

"The secret to the Cuban victory was the ideal for which we were fighting. Our lives were very difficult before the revolution. That's why everyone came here to fight."

Among the visitors to the museum was American author Peter Kornbluh, who has written extensively on the Bay of Pigs, drawing heavily on declassified CIA documents. He describes the Bay of Pigs as a "perfect failure" for the US, which the rest of the world quickly realised was behind the operation. "It was supposed to rid the hemisphere of a potential Soviet base, but it pushed Fidel Castro into the waiting arms of the Soviet Union. It was meant to undermine his revolution but it truly helped him to consolidate it."

Half a century after the failed invasion, this Caribbean island remains the only communist-run country in the Western hemisphere. Despite countless attempts by the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro, it was ill health which finally forced him to hand over power in 2006 - to his brother, Raul. It is no coincidence that the authorities have chosen this weekend to hold the long-delayed Communist Party Congress, which will kick off with a military parade through Revolution Square. With the US trade embargo still in place, Cuba insists that it remains in a state of siege. While it is set to ratify a series of market reforms, the Congress is also set to reaffirm the "socialist character of the revolution". Political change remains no nearer now than it did following Cuba's victory at the Bay of Pigs.

Source:  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-13066561

WORTH READING!!

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1)“He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul.”

― Sabrina Fedel

I think the Vietnam war left a lot of death and Americans felt bad about this. This was one of the reasons the public opinion turned against the war in 1968. The war also exposed racial inequality in the USA because more African Americans were drafted than whites Americans. Lastly, the war also drained a lot of money that could be used to better purposes. I agree with the quote that there shouldn't have been a war.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0I0CrJTx8if
WHY HAVE YOU DECIDED TO WORK ON A QUOTE BY A CHILDREN `s literature AUTHOR?
The quote was taken from the adult novel Leaving Kent State, a book about the shooting in the Kent State University that happened because of a protest about the Vietnam war. I decided to use this quote because it reflects the thoughts of the American people about the war. They didn't want to continue war, they just wanted to stop the death and make peace.

2) The bay of pigs was a war that consisted on USA supplying arms, equipment and transport to the anti-Castro exiles that lived in America to invade Cuba. The invasion was a total failure, Castro captured or killed them all within three days. This defeat helped Castro to strengthen his position as a leadership and It also strengthen the relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union.
This war failed disastrously because:

The USA didn’t want to be involved directly in the war, and the exiles weren’t enough to attack.

The Cubans knew that a invasion was coming.

Failure on organizing resistance against Castro in Cuba.

Poor management and organisation in the CIA.

SOURCES:
Book

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/vietnam-war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30759107-leaving-kent-state

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1)
“The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the americans spirit”
-Martin Luther King,Jr.

I agree with Martin Luther King,Jr. because the americans didn’t care about the war in Vietnam because they fought without spirit and only fought because they used the territory of the south Vietnam for train troops and maintenance planes and helicopters , that’s why they gave up the war and left Vietnam’s troops alone in the war.
I choose this quoate because this was an important issue that the USA left the south of Vietnam’s army only because the americans didn’t fought for their territory

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1qPqBy4wkcc
GOOD WORK!
2)
Before his inauguration, John F. Kennedy was briefed on a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) developed during the Eisenhower administration to train Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland. The plan anticipated that the Cuban people and elements of the Cuban military would support the invasion.
he original invasion plan called for two air strikes against Cuban air bases. A 1,400-man invasion force would disembark under cover of darkness and launch a surprise attack. Paratroopers dropped in advance of the invasion would disrupt transportation and repel Cuban forces. Simultaneously, a smaller force would land on the east coast of Cuba to create confusion.
The main force would advance across the island to Matanzas and set up a defensive position. The United Revolutionary Front would send leaders from South Florida and establish a provisional government.
On December 23, 1962, just two months after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane containing the first group of freed prisoners landed in the United States. A week later, on Saturday, December 29, surviving brigade members gathered for a ceremony in Miami's Orange Bowl, where the brigade's flag was handed over to President Kennedy. "I can assure you," the president promised, "that this flag will be returned to this brigade in a free Havana."
WHY WAS IT A FAILURE?
It was supposed to rid the hemisphere of a potential Soviet base, but it pushed Fidel Castro into the waiting arms of the Soviet Union. It was meant to undermine his revolution but it truly helped him to consolidate it."

Half a century after the failed invasion, this Caribbean island remains the only communist-run country in the Western hemisphere.

Despite countless attempts by the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro, it was ill health which finally forced him to hand over power in 2006 - to his brother, Raul.

sources:
http://www.notable-quotes.com/v/vietnam_war_quotes.html
https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Bay-of-Pigs.aspx

i think that the excercise one is complete because i did what was plan and the excercise two i did copy paste because i think that the information that i took the page it is okey and it was well writing

mark: 8

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1- 'You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.' - President Dwight D. Eisenhower
YOU connected SPREAD OF COMMUNISM To VIETNAM WAT ACCURATELY in your speech
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1bgiFGMJtHp

2- The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military intervention in Cuba that was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States most commonly known as CIA. The intervention was made by the paramilitary group called Brigade 2506 on April 17 of 1961. This brigade was made by 1,400 anti-Castro exiles trained by the CIA and they were supplied with arms, equipment, food and transport by the United States government. It’s objective was to overthrow the communist government of Castro to prevent the communism to spread.

The invaders launched their mission from Guatemala and Nicaragua, they landed in the Bay of Pigs (the reason this name was given to this intervention) but they were met by 20,000 men of Castro’s troop armed with modern weapons, equipment and tanks provided by the USSR. It was a matter of time to the end of this intervention since the brigade was outnumbered by Castro’s army and after three days they killed and captured all of them.

This invasion failed because of many things:

The Cuban security services knew that a invasion was coming.

The CIA thought that the Cuban people would rebel against Castro but they were wrong.

Once they entered the Cuban territory they failed to organise resistance inside it.

There were short handed with staff that could speak Spanish.

They did not analyse enough the Cuban forces.

There was poor communication and internal management of the staff.

All of this points were analysed after this intervention and supported the failure of the Americans to invade Cuba.
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VERY DETAILED WORK!
Sources:
- Modern World History (Book)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
- http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

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Even though I think that the information was very complete and the first exercise was elaborated,

I would provide myself with a note of 8 or 9 because as I wrote the speech before-hand and I was reading it while I was recording the audio, I really wasn't expressing my words freely and I sounded like a 'robot'. But if it´s in terms of information and originality I think that a 10 would be well deserved.

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1) http://vocaroo.com/i/s0yGjGg6a5zU NICE CHOICE AND ANALYSIS! Specially what you say about video games!!
2) Before the invasion, there was a dictator in Cuba called Fulgencio Batista, who the US endorsed due to his anti-communist views, the tension of the Cold War and for economical reasons. What followed this corrupt agreement was a revolution in Cuba  in 1959 led by Fidel Castro. Although it was not originally a communist revolution, Castro’s nationalist group started taking private property owned by the state claiming it had not been legally acquired since it had been done during the Batista regime. Following this, many educated middle and upper-class Cubans migrated to the US, mainly to Florida. Americans were concerned about the spread of communism since this happened during the Cold War, and they are afraid Castro was going to align himself with the USSR. In 1961, J.F. Kennedy became president of the US and along with CIA Director Allen Dulles, he joined forces with the Cuban exiles (around 1400) to try and oust Castro, though trying to make it look like the US did not participate in this. The problem with the Americans was that the president was kept in a sort of bubble by the CIA, making him think that the Cubans would for sure want Castro to be overthrown, but this was not the case. Many of them were poor and did not own land and so for them, communism did not sound bad at all. To hide the fact that the invasion was carried out by American intelligence, they used planes with Cuban military symbols and this would cause confusion. To begin the six-day-long attack, the US launched airplanes from Nicaragua to weaken the Cuban army, bombing Havana and the surroundings of Guantánamo Bay. Then, they strategically had a bullet hole filled plane fly from Cuba to Florida, to give the impression that the bombings were being carried out by a Cuban plane. In spite of all this strategy, most people knew it was a US attack. Then, Americans sent ships near the Cuban shore that sounded like they were firing bullets, again to cause confusion. Later the actual invasion took place and the 1400 exiles arrived at the Bay of Pigs, where they were not met with the support they were promised to get by the people of Cuba, according to the CIA. Over 100 of them were killed and about 1000 were captured. These prisoners were later exchanged to the US for money and resources. This was a disaster for the US because their military, president and intelligence organizations started blaming each other and also due to the fact that Castro became more popular and openly communist after the invasion, establishing relations with the USSR and ultimately allowing them to place missiles in Cuba.

Sources:
1) http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vietnam_war.html
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/4/10/a-desensitized-american-psyche-this-past/
https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpsych.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killology
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkbAduMD_E
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C72ISMF_D0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=38

In my opinion, since I made time for this assignement and completed it not all in one day, but during the course of three days, I would think I did this consciously and corrected it a lot of times. For this and the amount of research I've done, I would give myself a 10. However, for other irresponsible choices related to this assignment, I do not deserve it and would give myself a 9 at most.

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Tomas Sessa                                                                                                                1)“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.” ― Muhammad Ali    ----                                                                                                                                               ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My opinion: I totally agree with this quotes , why a negro (as Muhammad called them) must fight 10.000 milles away from home if they are treated like dogs in their won home, a country couldn’t pretend people without human rights just give their selves to the country, this amazing boxer the main fight that he had was the total freedom of black people in the U.S.A, and I have choosen it because it came from one of the most famous person on that period of time, and he was discriminated too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://vocaroo.com/i/s0VhPd4dGgxR                                                      ---------------------------GREAT WORK!! VERY ORIGINAL   2)                                                                                                                     On January 1 of 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew general Fulgensio Batista of its charge as a president of Cuba, Fulgensio was clearly in favour of the USA capitalism, and Castro wasn’t so this was the boom for the bay of pigs plan , it consist that the CIA will trained around 1000 exiled Cubans that were in Miami, to invade Cuba and take out Fidel Castro of the charge secretly, but as we known this didn’t happened, Castro quickly make alliances  with the USSR, China and other communist countries.Finally on April of 1961 (J.F.Kennedy mandate, he received this CIA´s plan from Eisenhower´s mandate) the first part of the invasion ( 15th April )was to devastate the tiny air force that Castro has , but they knew that the USA was going to attack them, so he moved the planes from the airport to other place, so it was a failed attack , then the 1.400 Cubans arrived, 17th April,  they put up a command centre on a radio station on the beach, but all the communications that they were having with the USA were being streamed , and anyone could heard them, so the little guerrilla of the CIA´s was defeated by Castro´s one, it take less than a day to reduce the CIA´s trained Cubans , 114 were killed and over 1,100 were taken prisoner.This was one of the biggest failures of the        USA´s Government and also for the CIA.

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Tomas Sessa                                                                                                                1)“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.” ― Muhammad Ali    ----                                                                                                                                               ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My opinion: I totally agree with this quotes , why a negro (as Muhammad called them) must fight 10.000 milles away from home if they are treated like dogs in their won home, a country couldn’t pretend people without human rights just give their selves to the country, this amazing boxer the main fight that he had was the total freedom of black people in the U.S.A, and I have choosen it because it came from one of the most famous person on that period of time, and he was discriminated too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://vocaroo.com/i/s0VhPd4dGgxR                                                      ---------------------------GREAT WORK!! VERY ORIGINAL   2)                                                                                                                     On January 1 of 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew general Fulgensio Batista of its charge as a president of Cuba, Fulgensio was clearly in favour of the USA capitalism, and Castro wasn’t so this was the boom for the bay of pigs plan , it consist that the CIA will trained around 1000 exiled Cubans that were in Miami, to invade Cuba and take out Fidel Castro of the charge secretly, but as we known this didn’t happened, Castro quickly make alliances  with the USSR, China and other communist countries.Finally on April of 1961 (J.F.Kennedy mandate, he received this CIA´s plan from Eisenhower´s mandate) the first part of the invasion ( 15th April )was to devastate the tiny air force that Castro has , but they knew that the USA was going to attack them, so he moved the planes from the airport to other place, so it was a failed attack , then the 1.400 Cubans arrived, 17th April,  they put up a command centre on a radio station on the beach, but all the communications that they were having with the USA were being streamed , and anyone could heard them, so the little guerrilla of the CIA´s was defeated by Castro´s one, it take less than a day to reduce the CIA´s trained Cubans , 114 were killed and over 1,100 were taken prisoner.This was one of the biggest failures of the        USA´s Government and also for the CIA.

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GOOD!
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SOURCES:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/vietnam-war
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion <--- this one is very good
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Self evaluation: I think i deserve a mark of 9:, i use original quotes, i made a deep analisys on the quote and also found good sources , i think i could use better languaje and better word , but i effort a lot so this is my way of thinking.

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1)

“Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.”

Jerry Stiller.

I agree with this quote because, the US was trying to hide the war, and no one knew it.

So, all the American people, misunderstood the Vietnam War, and didn’t know much about it.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1MvQvxsAYVn

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion, was a failed military invasion of Cuba on 17 April 1961, a group called, Brigade 2506, tried to front the DRF (Democratic Revolutionary Front) and intended to overthrow Fidel Castro.

The Cuban Revolution of 1952 to 1959 had forced Dictator Fulgencio Batista, into exile. He was replaced by Fidel Castro the 26 of July.

Over 1,400 paramilitaries, divided into five infantry battalions and one paratrooper battalion, assembled in Guatemala before setting out for Cuba on 13 April 1961.

The failed invasion helped to strengthen the position of Castro's leadership, making him a national hero, and cemented the rocky relationship between the former allies.

It turned into a humiliating defeat which pushed Cuba firmly into the arms of the Soviet Union.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=repercussions+of+the+vietnam+war

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vietnam_war.html

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-13066561

14.11.16

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Federico Tomás

1) http://vocaroo.com/i/s1mlXmCuVoah VERY CLEAR RECORDING!
2) The bay of pigs was the name of an invasion planned by the US, more specifically from the campaign of Eisenhower’s CIA and then Kennedy was the one who decided to execute that plan. It consisted in invading Cuba with people exiled from cuba. They would first destroy their air force army since it was pretty small, then they would take of and do the rest by hand with arms. But luckily for Cuba it didn't work. Why? Because castro knew about this plan because, somehow, this leaked to the press who told everybody. After this the president prepared everything so to avoid losing. First they moved their planes to other places out of danger. After this, Cuban exiles began invading in the in the south part of an island known as the Bay of Pigs. turns out, it didn't work almost immediately Every movement from them was broadcasted to all cuban by radio so people would be aware from the invaders. Paratroopers didn't land where they should. As US ships arrived to cuba some of them sank by the coral reefs and Castro's troops cornered the enemies in less than a day fighting so they surrendered. 114 people ended dead and 1100 were taken as prisoners.
Source:
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." RICHARD M. NIXON

I agree with with this quote because the Vietnam war wasn't remembered the way it should be remembered.They hid the war because they lost it,furthermore they didn't recognise the sacrifice of the soldiers that went to the war.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1dSkFKEVp2H
HOW SHOULD IT BE REMEMBERED? WHY WAS IT MISREPORTED THEN?

2) The Bay of Pig was a plan launched by the CIA,consisted on an invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had been removed of their homes when Castro took over the goverment .The invasion did not go well,the invaders were defeated by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting.Some of the reasons that led the plan to fail were the unexpected coral reefs that sank some of the exiles’ ships, and the backup paratroopers tha landed in the wrong place.
GOOD WORK!
sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqziNV7dGY
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

12/11/16 ; 11:30

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1)

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." RICHARD M. NIXON

I agree with with this quote because the Vietnam war wasn't remembered the way it should be remembered.They hid the war because they lost it,furthermore they didn't recognise the sacrifice of the soldiers that went to the war.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1dSkFKEVp2H

2) The Bay of Pig was a plan launched by the CIA,consisted on an invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had been removed of their homes when Castro took over the goverment .The invasion did not go well,the invaders were defeated by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting.Some of the reasons that led the plan to fail were the unexpected coral reefs that sank some of the exiles’ ships, and the backup paratroopers tha landed in the wrong place.

sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqziNV7dGY
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

12/11/16 ; 11:30

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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Richard M. Nixon
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0kVUjCMHGOE

2)
The Invasion
The first mishap occurred on April 15, 1961, when eight bombers left Nicaragua to bomb Cuban airfields. The CIA used obsolete World War II bombers, and painted them to look like Cuban air force planes. The bombers missed their targets and left most of Castro's air force intact.
On April 17, the Cuban-exile invasion force,  landed at beaches along the Bay of Pigs and immediately came under heavy fire. Cuban planes strafed the invaders, sank two escort ships, and destroyed half of the exile's air support.
The Counterattack
Over the next 24 hours, Castro ordered roughly 20,000 troops to advance toward the beach, and the Cuban air force continued to control the skies. As the situation grew increasingly grim, President Kennedy authorized an "air-umbrella" at dawn on April 19—six unmarked American fighter planes took off to help defend the brigade's B-26 aircraft flying. But the B-26s arrived an hour late,  They were shot down by the Cubans, and the invasion was crushed later that day.
Some exiles escaped to the sea, while the rest were killed or rounded up and imprisoned by Castro's forces. Almost 1,200 members of Brigade  surrendered, and more than 100 were killed.
The brigade prisoners remained in captivity for 20 months, as the United States negotiated a deal with Fidel Castro. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy made personal pleas for contributions from pharmaceutical companies and baby food manufacturers, and Castro eventually settled on $53 million worth of baby food and medicine in exchange for the prisoners.
On December 23, 1962, just two months after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane containing the first group of freed prisoners landed in the United States.

This invasion failed because of several reasons, the main where:

- JFK was mislead by the CIA and the exiles, making him think that the cuban people where going to rebel against Castro.

- Soviet inteligence knew about the invasion well before it happened, giving the cubans time to prepare.

- The invasion itself was misplanned, and the exiled "troops" where badly equiped.

- USA didnt want to be related to this invasion, so the goverment dindt send more troops once the invasion seemed not to be succuesfull.

SOURCES: https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Bay-of-Pigs.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkbAduMD_E

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"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind"
JOHN F. KENNEDY.

I agree with John F. Kennedy because when man fight with each other they dont realize that they are the same and they don´t care abouth nothing they only destroy and if men don´t realize they are destroying each other the humanity will be in danger.
UPLOAD YOUR VOCAROO FILE http://vocaroo.com/i/s0JqemX8LxNd
2)The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba planned by the CIA on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained, Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of theDemocratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. it turned into a humiliating defeat which pushed Cuba firmly into the arms of the Soviet Union and has soured US-Cuban relations to this day.

One of the most important causes of it's failure is that the CIA had used obsolete World War II B-26 bombers, and painted them to look like Cuban air force planes. As news broke of the attack, photos of the repainted U.S. planes became public and revealed American support for the invasion. Also bombers missed many of their targets and left most of Castro's air force intact.

Over the next 24 hours, Castro ordered roughly 20,000 troops to advance toward the beach, and the Cuban air force started to control the skies.

President Kennedy authorized an "air-umbrella" at dawn on April 19 six unmarked American fighter planes took off to help defend the brigade's B-26 aircraft flying. But the B-26s arrived an hour late.They were shot down by the Cubans, and the invasion was crushed later that day.

Sources: http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion
https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Bay-of-Pigs.aspx
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/the-bay-of- pigs-invasion.html

8/11 14:30

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"All war is a sympton of men´s failure as a thinking animal." JOHN STEINBECK

I agree with this quote becouse war is not for humans and we as a higher race in the world we wouldn´t have to fight each other, fighting for survival or territory is just for animals.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0xy41rvaFLm

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The Bay of Pigs consisted on an invasion of a group of some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA of Cuba from the sea, shortly before midnight on April  16 in the area of "the bay of pigs"that  is a large isolated inlet on Cuba's southern coast. The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution. Instead, it turned into a humiliating defeat which pushed Cuba firmly into the arms of the Soviet Union and has soured US-Cuban relations to this day. Failed becouse Fidel castro overthrown the "president" at that time and american troops failed againts it.

Information sources: BBC news and www.google.com

8/11 14:30

mark:10
reason:
on date✔
both subjescts explained briefly ✔
sources✔
vocaroo done and normal english speaking ✔
quote chose ✔
quote adapted to the time of the subject✔
writer information at quote ✔
sources are both truthworhy ✔
non copy paste detected ✔
both subjects are explained with student words ✔
opinion of the quote given ✔
complete and brief assignment ✔

quote chosen as favourite:(Mauro´s)
“He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul.” (sabrina fedel )because it is telling thruth about war combatients, they tell the funny stories but not the war stories, making people forget that war is a hell in earth.

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1) ”A nation continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” of Martin Luther King.  “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”, also of Martin Luther King.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1pv8ZenO4iT
2) The Bay of Pigs was a internal war that consisted on USA supplying to the anti-Castro exiles, that lived in America and help they to invade Cuba. The invasion was a totally failure. Castro captured them all within three days and finished the battle. This defeat helped Castro to have strength in his position as a leadership, also strengthen the relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union.

This invasion failed because of many actions:

The CIA thought that the Cuban people be against Castro but they were wrong.

The Cuban knew that a invasion was coming.

When they entered the Cuban territory they failed to organise resistance inside it.

There were in disadvantage with speaking Spanish.

They did not analyse lot enough the Cuban army.

There was poor communication in the anti-Castro squad.

Sources:

Book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30759107-leaving-kent-state

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/vietnam-war

18/11

Autoevaluation:
In my opinion, my markit's an 8 because I wrote a synthetic work and it´s with my own words (I don't have the best english).

The quote i like it from Musolino and it says: "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind"
JOHN F. KENNEDY."
I like this quote because it's relationed with my work and it had been written like 70 years ago and it continue to be on date.

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"I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights" John Wooden

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0UPj8mKUBva
Great analysis!

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion, was an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles,who were supported by the U.S. Cuban exiles landed in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. Trained since May, 1960, by members of the CIA with the approval of the Eisenhower administration, and supplied with arms by the U.S. government, the rebels intended to foment an insurrection in Cuba and overthrow the Communist regime of Fidel Castro.

The Cuban army easily defeated the rebels. The invasion provoked anti-U.S. demonstrations in Latin America and Europe and further embittered U.S.-Cuban relations. This plan was a failure because it wasp poorly planned and executed.
GIVE EXAMPLES OF WHY YOU SAY IT WAS POORLY PLANNED
In 1962, Castro released 1,113 captured rebels in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine raised by private donations in the United States.

I think the note I deserve is an 8 (eight), because even though i answered the second point with my words, there is a little part I had to copy and paste a little bit(where i included the part with numbers). Now I realize that numbers and stadistics sometimes do not really matter at all. About my vocaroo, I think my opinion it's quite complete, but I should improve the speaking, mainly the long pauses I did.

I liked Luciano Marrone's quote:

“Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.”

sources:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vietnam_war.html
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/bay-pigs-invasion.html

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IT`s important to include the date of your work. If there are two identical answers, I can tell who has to work on originality. 

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IT`s important to include the date of your work. If there are two identical answers, I can tell who has to work on originality. 