Week 13 – Towards an Uncertain Future
The content this week gave me a sense of a conclusion of the process Latin America has gone through, however…
Research Assignment: The Terror – Pinochet
First source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/09/life-under-pinochet-isabel-allende-day-we-buried-our-freedom/ As I was looking through articles and sites I came across two sources that caught my…
Week 12 – Speaking Truth to Power
This week was a heavily packed one with lots of things to think about. Here’s a couple points I found…
Week 11- The Terror
I feel like this week’s material was sort of like a reality check. Latin American is repeatedly described as being…
Week 10 – Power to the People
I began this unit by listening to John Lennon. It would be inconceivable to read this week’s title and not…
Week 9 – Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire
The United States has been and is commonly called an empire, and in this week’s lecture it is referred to…
Week 8 – Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age
In the lecture video for this week, “ Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age” professor John talked about the…
Week 7 – The Export Boom as Modernity
How shocking the polar opposite views of modernity are. It seems to be contrasting and in the end, ironic. Modernity…
Week 6 – Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics
Though slavery is not widely accepted throughout the Americas, the ideology behind it still exists. It exists in the way…
Week 5 – Caudillos Versus the Nation State
Esteban Echeverría, El Matadero, is a piece of conflicting persuasion. Though the way of Caudillos was not in any way…