This week’s lecture and the attached readings are definitely something I’ve never been aware of. Throughout the reading, you can see the different examples of U.S forces establishing their reign in Latin American countries. Obliviously, I think a lot of people were kept in the dark about the events listed. It wasn’t taught in the […]
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Hi! For this week’s post, I want to focus on the manifesto written by Augusto Sandino which was included in Dawson’s text. The first line of the text, “To the Nicaraguans, to the Central Americans, to the Indo-Hispanic Race:”, clearly states his target audience (this line is not included in Dawson’s writing but included in […]
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Hi! For this week’s post, I want to focus on the manifesto written by Augusto Sandino which was included in Dawson’s text. The first line of the text, “To the Nicaraguans, to the Central Americans, to the Indo-Hispanic Race:”, clearly states his target audience (this line is not included in Dawson’s writing but included in […]
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As a young adult living in the post-modern age of the 21st century, I have to admit I’m guilty of forgetting that the technology that we harness wasn’t always available to the human population. In fact, most technological advancements, especially pertaining to entertainment and communication, were introduced within the last century or so. Thus, whenContinue reading “Week 9: Power to the Audience”
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At the beginning of the chapter, something that stuck out for me, was the astounding number of workers that died while working on the Panama Canal. Although yellow fever and other diseases are the main culprit, the more than twenty-seven thousand five hundred people that perished is still a tremendous number of people. To put …
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