HispanicNotesICS18MART

My notes:
 * 1) notes organized by each source
 * 2) URL of each source with the notes from that source
 * 3) annotation of each source


 * Key points in essay:**
 * everyone MUST have obstacle
 * define what establishes one as an Hispanic

List of hispanic heroes:
 * Notes**
 * Carlos Juan Finlay
 * Joan Baez
 * Franklin Chang Diaz

__**Carlos Juan Finlay**__ http://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-J-Finlay
 * Carlos Juan Finlay was born on Dec. 3, 1833 in Cuba. He was an epidemiologist and studied yellow fever. He discovered that it was caused by mosquitoes. "Although he published experimental evidence of this discovery in 1886, his ideas were ignored for 20 years."

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/history1.htm
 * Yellow fever has been a major problem for over a century. When he finally discovered that mosquitoes spread the deadly disease, he could not prove it. After being made fun of for many years, he and some others developed a vaccine and conquered yellow fever.
 * Cuban american
 * 1833-1915

__**Joan Baez**__ http://www.biography.com/people/joan-baez-9195061
 * born on January 1, 1941 in Staten Island, New York
 * today she is 75-years-old
 * she was a folk singer and social activist.
 * She is known for her songs promoting social justice, civil rights and pacifism. Baez often sang these songs to express her political and social views.
 * She spoke for antiwar and refused to pay her taxes in protest against military spending for entire decade.
 * "'I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?'”—Joan Baez
 * She married David Harris and had a son named Gabriel. She still continues to speak out for causes important to her.
 * "Baez was also arrested twice in 1967 in Oakland, California, for blocking an armed forces induction center."

__**Franklin Chang Diaz**__ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Chang_D%C3%ADaz
 * born on April 5,1950
 * Today he is retired and 66-years-old
 * He was a former NASA astronaut, mechanical engineer, and physicist. Diaz officially became in American citizen in 1977.
 * He was the third Latin American to go into space. He made the record in 2014 for most spaceflights in a space shuttle that he shares with Jerry L. Ross. He is a member of the NASA Hall of Fame (inducted on May 5, 2012).
 * His father was Chinese, while his mother was Costa Rican.
 * went to University of Connecticut then earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering.
 * one of six children

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-09-02/Mars-obstacles-for-humans/57516356/1
 * NASA was trying to cut down time when it came to space travel
 * Franklin was trying to solve that problem to reduce use of supplies
 * can cut down a year trip to 39 days using advanced high-power electric propulsion and nuclear electric power systems

http://www.azquotes.com/author/36138-Franklin_Chang_Diaz
 * "My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet." - Franklin Chang Diaz