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The title of this chapter says it all, this chapter emphasizes on problems that happened during modernity. In the previous chapter, we only hear about the great impacts of modernity and how Diaz was optimistic about Mexico’s future. In this chapter though, we hear a contrasting side to the story, we see how Diaz made … Continue reading → read full post >>

The title of this chapter says it all, this chapter emphasizes on problems that happened during modernity. In the previous chapter, we only hear about the great impacts of modernity and how Diaz was optimistic about Mexico’s future. In this chapter though, we hear a contrasting side to the story, we see how Diaz made … Continue reading → read full post >>

Reading about Zapata and Villa leading the way through the Mexican revolution was pretty neat. These two were key players in the Revolution, and wanted to fight for the people and for rightful land ownership. Yes, some will argue that these leaders were violent. I guess I can overlook the violence, because I’m a super […] read full post >>

Vasconcelos’ essay about the social stages of a race and the final cosmic race was extremely interesting.  The writing was dense and difficult to understand at times; however upon careful analysis, it presented some very interesting views and made some good points.  While Vasconcelos’ writing seems crude and even radical in some areas, many of […] read full post >>

This week reading’s were a mostly centered on the social impact of the ups an downs of economy and politics on different countries of Latin America. I found really interesting how the author of the book connected the previous readings with this one. I can see how they all go hand in hand with one […] read full post >>

As a female in engineering, I’ve listened to more than my fair share of comments both for and against feminism; I’ve also experienced sexism, for better and for worse.  High school technological design classes were always male-taught and male-dominated, and unfortunately my teacher seemed to hate having girls in the class, so this was a […] read full post >>

As a female in engineering, I’ve listened to more than my fair share of comments both for and against feminism; I’ve also experienced sexism, for better and for worse.  High school technological design classes were always male-taught and male-dominated, and unfortunately my teacher seemed to hate having girls in the class, so this was a […] read full post >>

This chapter was about the export boom and development of Latin America. I found it interesting when Dawson mentions that even today in Latin America, there is a mix of the traditional old world and the modern new world. I noticed this myself while traveling in Central America last year. Some Latin American people are […] read full post >>

This chapter is quite an interesting one as it goes over the people criticizing the success of the nations within... read full post >>

I thought this week’s content was very interesting and in particular I enjoyed reading the Ruben Dario Poem to Roosevelt. As Dawson says, it resembles some ideas that can be found in Jose Marti’s “Our America” of Latin American excellence and I too would agree that Marti’s message is echoed in this piece. Personally, I … read full post >>