Chocano Summary

this section of CH 29 in the old book states that Americans were made to think that after the Mexican American war the United States had become a world power when in reality they did not but one thing that the war did bring to the United States was add more prestige to the nation in the eyes of the Europeans this gave America more respect in the world stage. Another thing that the chapter stated was that America did not enter the war with imperialistic motivations but eventually they fell into imperialism and that America's new friend the British were happy with their new friendship but America's rival Germany was jealous of the advances America was making and the South Americans were suspicious of the American advances. When America took the

Govener Velaquez has asked me to lead the expedition to mexico. I will accept his offer and return with great riches.

Few historical figures from the period of colonial Mexico tower as high as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sor Juana was a criolla woman who lived from 1651 to 1695. She was born as an illegitimate child but was eventually taken in by the Mexican viceroy’s family. A voracious reader as a child, Sor Juana tirelessly pursued an educating herself. As a young woman, she chose to enter into the cloister so that she could avoid marriage and thus devote herself to her scholarship. She became a prominent writer and her works were widely read in both New Spain and Spain. However, in 1990 she published one of her most famous works: “Reply to Sor Philothea”. This critique of a sermon written by a prominent member of the Church proclaimed the ability of women to participate in intellectual pursuits. Facing intensifying pressure from the Church, Sor Juana publically renounced her work before her death in 1965. Sor Juana’s story was shaped by the societal rules governing gender, race, and class during Mexico’s colonial period and, despite the effort of many to consign her voice to oblivion, she holds tremendous influence upon modern Mexican culture and feminist thought.

“Refiguring Aztlan” means that there is more meaning to Aztlan than just a homeland. It was used as a concept to improve cultural and social issues. It was also used to recover land. It also meant that there were no borders. Aztlan was used to unite the community, but it was also used to separate. It was a concept used as an identity. Some of the issues I read on Chapter 10 on Vigil were that U.S. citizens whine about Mexicans taking away their jobs, but Americans don’t even have jobs similar to what Mexicans have to do for a living. Mexicans are paid very low wages, and have jobs as gardeners, janitors, senior- care workers, day laborers, etc. Americans don’t have those types of jobs, so I don’t see how Mexicans are taking away their jobs.

In “El Norte”, Gregory Nava states that Guatemala was dark place to live there, and that the people were pick out food with their hands. There was a lot of people working and becoming slaves for picking out the food. Another thing about El Norte is that the brother named Enrique and the sister named Rosa. Enrique was worry about his father for leaving dinner he said to Enrique “The rich came to this village from other parts looking for good land, no one fights over band land”, meaning that people only come to a rich place because the environment good, eating healthier food and they have technology. Once Arturo left enquire to meet with his worker friends, the military people can to find them, Arturo was extremely closed to escape instead the military shot. Enquire hear the gunshot and saw his father head hanging up on the tree, when enquire saw his father hanging up on the tree he was angry sad and want to kill the military people which he did three time. When they were having the funeral for Arturo everybody in the village was praying for him and other men that got killed. Everybody was dressing the same clothes and the music was sounding beautiful when Rosa was singing. The military can back to find enquire for killing them, once they were searching the place military people took his family while they Rosa and enquire were hiding inside the canyon. When enquire and Rosa find each other they both want to get out of Guatemala and head to the “North.” They both were wearing white clothes maybe representing their culture, religious or maybe their she was tired wearing the same clothes and when they left Guatemala the music was back. Enrique and Rosa are on a quest to get out of the ethnic and political repressed Guatemala and attempt to escape to the North where they can live the “American dream.” Will Enrique and Rosa live the “American dream” once they escape to the North? Can an illegal immigrant achieve the “American dream?” To answer these questions the audience you figure out what depend on the viewers.

Chapter five in the book, From Indians to Chicanos, by James Diego focusses on the how the breakup and transformation of the social order happen. There are three subtopics that the chapter covers. The subtopics are the contact enlightenment, the conflict that occurred because they wanted independence and the change that happen when they experimentation on the nationalism. These three things were important because they had to do a lot with how the breakup and transformation of the social order happened.

Robert Johannsen’s book titled To the Halls of the Montezumas, with a subtitle that reads The Mexican War in the American Imagination. This is an accurate description of what the book is about, due in part to how Johannsen decided to write his book. His account of the conflict shows that for many American’s the war was more about “flair” than “substance.” It was a war that sparked the imagination of all Americans from the busy city centers of the Atlantic coast to the rural towns of the West. Johannsen puts forward that the press had a very important role to play in the Mexican American war. The book focuses on the media coverage of the conflict, rather than the military strategies and tactics. To make the book unique and to offer to the reader

In the novel, prisoners were treated horribly and they all had different behaviors. Some prisoners were hard workers that were grateful for every small win they got, other prisoners were a no good, jerky, snitch. One prisoner was named Pablo. He was a hard worker and wasn’t afraid to stand up to authority figures when it was necessary. Pablo was also very moral and honorable. Tiurin was another prisoner in the book, and he was the squad leader. He worked really hard for his squad so they wouldn’t get the jobs that no one wanted. He was noble and he was a hard worker.

Response: “After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they saw themselves being naked and “sew fig leaves together and made themselves coverings” (Gen. 3:7 NKJV). When God sent them out of the Garden of Eden the Lord provided them with tunics of skin and clothed them (v21). The earliest clothing resources were the hides of wild animals but as time went on they manufacture clothes from vegetables fibers and wool from sheep skin. Both men and women wore tunics made of line. (Bible Dictionary, 2003:311-312).

The Chicano movement began in the 1940’s and was able to unify far more Mexican American people than previous movements. Many famous historical figures were a part of this movement including Cesar Chavez who was the leader of the United Farm Workers and Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales who explained what it truly meant to be “Chicano” in his poem Yo Soy Joaquin. Mexican-Americans who considered themselves “Chicanos” were proud of their culture and heritage and looked to achieve equality for the Mexican race in the United States. Although, the Chicano movement was not exclusive to Mexican American Catholics as according to Cesar Chavez’ “Plan De Delano”, “ We also carry the Sacred Cross and the Star of David because we are not sectarians, and because we ask the help and prayers of all religions. All

Civil Right movements have played a major role for many underrepresented groups such as, The American Indian Movement, The Black Power Movement, and The Asian American and Pacific Islanders Movement, in the fight against exploitation, racism, and oppression. In particular, The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement also known as the Chicano/Chicana Movement was one of the many who sought out to achieve and obtain equality in the midst of such an unjust and prejudice society. During this time of great social upheaval, not only did this movements become a motion for dignity and self-respect, it also served to challenge the ethnic stereotypes that existed in America about the Mexican culture and heritage. The Chicano Movement was composed of many,

It is a known fact that every human being communicates through language, but perhaps a little known fact that we communicate even through the food we eat. We communicate through food all the meanings that we assign and attribute to our culture, and consequently to our identity as well. Food is not only nourishment for our bodies, but a symbol of where we come from. In order to understand the basic function of food as a necessity not only for our survival, we must look to politics, power, identity, and culture.

Mr. Pacheco expressed that he likes to be on his cellular telephone. He also likes to use his imagination to write stories. On his free time he enjoys to play video games. The customer informed that he likes to talk to his friends often.

Mikhail Kalatozov displays the point of Soy Cuba through each individual's position in society. In the first vignette, viewers follow the life of a young prostitute Maria. A rich man escorts her home one night, oddly expresses much interest in her life outside of the club. When they arrive, the man is shocked by the unwelcoming treatment he receives. Children run to him begging for money as their parents watch from afar. The small shack in which Maria lives

Last night I dreamed that I went back in time, as I walked around I saw people farming wheat and barley as well as growing dates and melons. In the city there were artist making art using copper, bronze, ivory and wood. I learned that they were the first to make cotton cloth. Traders were trading goods with the traders from Egypt and Mesopotamia.