April 1st, 1939, the day the war ended. Across Spain, Nationalists rejoiced over their victory, but with every victory there must also come a defeat, and the Republicans were scared as to what theirs meant. For months now, people had been desperately fleeing the Francoists. Their journey was filled with suffering, scores of people died from starvation or exposure to the cold, and their arrival was no better, with the French government refusing to offer aid and herding the refugees into transit camps and holding pens on the beach. They were rightfully afraid; dark days were coming for anyone with any connection to the left, but no one knew that at the time. As three of the most influential women in the anarchist movement planned their …show more content…
They would come together after Mercedes was invited to come speak to a group of workers who didn’t take her seriously and ignored her. This incident was the catalyst Mercedes and Lucia needed to act. With the later addition of Amparo, the group founded, not only an organization, but also a journal, worked to help the women of Spain become educated, provided child care for when the women were in school or needed help, and pushed for better sexual education and birth control. Their journal, named Mujeres Libres after the group, was first conceived in response to Mariano Vazquez, the secretary of the CNT. Vazquez had become involved in a literary argument of sorts with Lucia. As their back-and-forth of articles drew to a close, he proposed that the journal he worked with, the Solidaridad Obera, dedicate a page a week entirely to women. Lucia was not flattered, however, and told him, “I am not taking up your suggestion about a women’s page in Solidaridad Obera, however interesting it might be, because I have larger ambitions. I have a plan to create an independent journal that would be directed exclusively to the ends you have proposed”. The idea was met with great public support and the first edition was first published on May 20th, 1936. It was wildly successful and sold out in minutes. Over the entirety of the journal’s run fourteen
In Spain and the Spanish colonies in South America in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, gender roles were distinct and the opportunity gap was enormous. Catalina de Erauso compares the two roles through her memoir, “Lieutenant Nun,” where she recounts her life as a transvestite in both the new and old world. Through having experienced the structured life of a woman as well as the freedom involved in being a man, de Erauso formed an identity for herself that crossed the boundaries of both genders. Catalina de Erauso’s life demonstrates the gap in freedom and opportunity for women, as compared to men, in the areas of culture, politics and economy, and religion.
Colonial Latin American society in the Seventeenth Century was undergoing a tremendous amount of changes. Society was transforming from a conquering phase into a colonizing phase. New institutions were forming and new people and ideas flooded into the new lands freshly claimed for the Spanish Empire. Two remarkable women, radically different from each other, who lived during this period of change are a lenses through which many of the new institutions and changes can be viewed. Sor Juana and Catalina de Erauso are exceptional women who in no way represent the norm but through their extraordinary tales and by discovering what makes them so extraordinary we can deduce what was the norm and how society functioned during this era of Colonial
The 1930s were a period of many changes in Spain, especially because Francisco Franco started ruling the country and the political problems that arose. Things slowly started changing for women because of the foundation of Mujeres Libres, a female anarchist organization that fought for female rights. Until then, the general view of women was that of Proudhon, which meant that women were to be seen as reproducers whose role was to contribute to the society by taking care of their household and their children . This was especially common in the rural areas of Spain, where women could even be forced into arranged marriages against their will and almost had no say in what happened to them. The main oppressor of La Casa de Bernarda Alba is actually Bernarda, the mother of
Salomé Ureña de Henríquez is one of the most influential poets of the Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century. Her roles as a daughter, writer, patriot, teacher, wife, and mother blended throughout her life, and inspired her acclaimed poems. As an advocate for women’s education, she opened the doors of higher education to the women of her period and then on.
Minvera Mirabal stood as a symbol of revolution to those who wanted to see the downfall of Rafael Trujillo. Her and two of her three sisters were advocates of the revolution until the sad ending of the story in which the three sisters were killed in a car crash. But before the ending of the Mirabal sisters can be discussed, the life of Minerva and the point she developed her political principles must be addressed.
“The Myth of the Latin Women” was writing by Judith Ortiz Cofer, a women born in Puerto Rico. Ortiz is a person who seems really Passionate about this specific subject. “The Myth of the Latin Women” points out the many stereotypes Latin women go through in their day to day lives. The things that upsets Ortiz is that there are so many people who are not a Latin background that don’t realize the importance of this issue. The main purpose of “The Myth of the Latin Women” is to get people to understand that their words will hurt someone and Ortiz convey this throughout the essay with the use of logos, ethos and pathos.
In The Mixquiahuala Letters, Ana Castillo provides us with many letters that can be read separately and have individual meanings or they can be seen as a whole. I have chosen to view the letters as a whole and through this I was able to notice a specific path that Castillo follows. I believe that she follows a path of feminism because she focuses on two strong and independent women named Teresa and Alicia. Through these women she shows us the power of Xicanisma, the strategy of writing poetry, and her use of Spanish.
The article The Ending the War: The Push for National Reconciliation by David Blight, explains how they reunite their differences through avoiding the hard work to change the Union, to actually reconstruct the social order that was needed against the confederate hostility, but only continues to embrace their white Southern remembrance, for example songs like, A Southern Song Opposes Reconstruction and war memorials. The evolution of Memorial Day during its first twenty years was even a show of differences from the Northern and Southern perspective, Northerners result was the freedom of African-Americans and the preservation of the Union and the Southern version of Memorial Day were rooted in the resistance to the reconstruction. Nonexistence
One could make the argument WW 2 was a continuation of WW1. World War 2 occurred twenty years after World War 1. WW 1 left causes leading to WW 2, like, Treaty of Versailles and the search for thorough ideas, such as Fascism, communism and militarism. It was due to the terrible conditions of different countries after the wars. I think that World War II was a continuation of World War I.
World War 2 was known as the good war. The fight for democracy was a big deal to president Franklin and it was a very well fought war. America throughout the war learns to overcome things and start to become more accepting. The war helps unite both blacks and whites to a fight for the same goal. We get our revenge of the bombing at Pearl Harbor, we work with a very brutal dictator, and we tried to stay neutral for as long as we could. For example in doc 1 the president is advised to stay out of the war that it wasn’t worth it. The president ignores and goes on because he sees how the bombing of Pearl Harbor affects Americans. He explains how this is a fight for democracy and America will always have something to do with this. In doc 2 the president says he will be on your side as long as you have the same goal, to fight for democracy. This fight focuses on the fight for democracy while putting other things such as race aside.
Wars have been ended in many ways. Some have ended in anti climatic endings while some end in total destruction of a country or a military. But World War 2 ended with the introduction to the nuclear age of war. Many peace activists say that the bombings that ended the war was very unnecessary and not the way to end a war. But others say that it ended the war quicker. In my opinion the bomb was a good way to show the Japanese who was stronger and brought the war to a quicker end.
The biggest turnaround in the history of America in the mid-eighteenth century was the end of French and Indian war in 1763. It was hard to understand the kind of conflicts that British people could see between them and the colonies in North America. It is accurate to say that the seeds of hostility and rivalry as well as subjugation of American liberties and deprivation of their properties began as a result of this war. The French and the Indian war were also known as the Seven Year War in Europe. Brits were able to defeat their French allies but this win led to a high cost for the parent nation. The national debt recorded by the British monetary unit in 1763 was approximately one hundred
The biggest turnaround in the history of America in the mid-eighteenth century was the end of French and Indian war in 1763. It was hard to fathom the kind of conflicts that British people could see between them and the colonies in North America. It is accurate to say that the seeds of animosity and rivalry as well as subjugation of American liberties and deprivation of their properties began as a result of this war. The French and the Indian war were also known as the Seven Year War in Europe. Brits were able to defeat their French allies but this win led to a high cost for the parent nation. According to sources, the national debt recorded by the British monetary unit in 1763 was approximately one hundred and twenty-two million
Where she met her husband and together they exerted and anti - Trujillo which was a group of activists against the regimen Dominican Republic was in . They had undergrounds meeting, but slowly Trujillo began to kill them one by one , he then arrested the Mirabal sisters and imprisoned their husbands as well. Years went by and people found out about the impact the butterflies made .
Not only did these women find a place in society other than by the stove, they won the appreciation and respect of men and women around them. Two of the most extraordinary of these women were Dolores Jimenez y Muro, who was an important political writer, and Hermila Galindo, who was a political speaker and advocate for Carranza’s campaign and regime. Dolores Jimenez y Muro's importance is evident in how she was able to have her voice heard and listened to by high-ranking revolutionary officials. Hermila Galindo's prominence is shown by her distinguished political career and feminist movements.