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Still sad there's no video lecture this week as well, but I'll keep living.I think one of the most interesting components of this week's readings is how close many of the events are reminiscent of current affairs and events. A huge part of this week's ... read full post >>

This week’s readings were hard, and I honestly had a hard time keeping up with everything that the documents were saying (and that’s only if I actually managed to understand what they were saying…) So, I’m not going to go into much detail with regards to all the documents + the video, and rather, I’m going to …

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This week’s readings were hard, and I honestly had a hard time keeping up with everything that the documents were saying (and that’s only if I actually managed to understand what they were saying…) So, I’m not going to go into much detail with regards to all the documents + the video, and rather, I’m going to …

Continue reading "Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age"

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  This week topic was the Latin-American boom and how this affected different sectors of the population. I have decided to comment an essay and a book which in my opinion reflect the social context of the boom.   In Seven Essays by Aldo Mariategui, the author explains his position about “gamonalismo” and centralism. Mariategui […] read full post >>

Dawson is right when asserting that anyone who is a bit interested in knowing more about Latin America should study the Plan de Ayala. This is without a doubt one of the most fascinating historical documents I have been given to read. Drafted in 1911 by Emiliano Zapata, the document serves I would say three … Continue reading "WEEK 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age" read full post >>

This weeks material focused on crisis facing Latin America at the beginning of the 20th century, with a particular focus on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican revolution is really interesting to me because it seems to still play a role in Mexican politics and society. As Dawson mentions in the video the Plan […] read full post >>

I really enjoyed watching the video of the conversation with Alex Dawson. It made me aware of the different facets of a revolution and how one cannot really name a “winner” in the Mexican Revolution. Before reading this week’s material or watching the video, I had a romanticized idea of both Emiliano Zapata and Pancho […] read full post >>

This week I found the primary source readings in the textbook showed a very particualr opinion by each author. Their topics also reflect some of the thoughts and feelings that were going in Latin America during the early 20th century. It is clear in Ruben Dario’s poem that he is not impressed with Roosevelt and … Continue reading "Week Eight" read full post >>

This week’s reading helped answer many of my last week’s questions. One of which was: can we say that Latin America is truly modern? I found the notion of Hybridity in Latin Americans an interesting one in that a person can simultaneously have two different worldviews, an Ultramodern and a Deeply traditional one. The other … Continue reading Week 8 read full post >>

The whole revolution talk in this chapter really took me back to the days that every musical theatre kid goes through: the Les Miserables phase, specifically the reference to the revolution eating its young and young men most often being the victims of... read full post >>