The Revolution Is Us By David C. Stone

The book “The Other America”, written by Michael Harrington, describes poverty in America in the 1950s and 1960s, when America became one of the most affluent and advanced nations in the world. The book was written in 1962, and Harrington states that there were about 50,000,000 (about 25% of the total population) poor in America at that time. The author did extensive research with respect to the family income levels to derive the poverty numbers, and used his own observations and experiences to write this book. This book addresses the reasons for poverty, the nature of poverty, the culture of poverty, the blindness of Middle Class America with respect to poverty, and the responsibility of all Americans in addressing the issue of poverty in America.

The first article “We’re a Republic”, states that we the United States of America do indeed have a republic government. People tend to walk around believing that we are a democracy, but that’s only because they think of democracy in a different way. We see democracy as in we the people get the say in what the government does, when in fact true democracy is making decisions through voting or meetings. The Framers never intended for the United States be a democracy. They believed being a democracy was dangerous and not a good idea. The constitution clearly states that we are meant to be a republic, where representatives make the decisions for us. I agree, not only do we pledge to the republic but we also elect officials to speak and make decisions for us, which is basically what a republic consists of.

This project’s purpose is to record a people who have lived through the promises and outcomes of the Bolivarian Revolution, an idea that captured Venezuela’s spirit and spread across 16 Latin America nations as the Pink Tide. The poor and working class will be a fundamental component of this story as I investigate the role the revolution has played in shaping the lives of this perpetually overlooked group of people. Simultaneously, the nature of these issues will create a portal into the world of Venezuelan heritage, traditions, and political and civic culture. What I write will be the reality of the situation; the interpretation will be left up to the reader.

The issues I focused on in my analysis of Cal students are marriage and parenthood. Specifically, I chose to compare how opinions on these issues differed by gender. Kathleen Gerson discusses the new generation’s expectations from marriage and families to a great degree in her book The Unfinished Revolution. As Gerson states, “Most of my interviewees hope to create lasting, egalitarian partnerships, but they are also doubtful about their chances of reaching this goal.” (10) This is a characteristic that also stood out in my analysis: the majority of the students interviewed hope to create an egalitarian relationship in which there is no strict enforcement of traditional gender roles. Or as Gerson says, “…the vast majority want a permanent bond, but they do not wish for that bond to be defined by rigid gender distinctions.” (104) I only encountered one exception to this trend: a female student who expressed the desire to become a full time stay-at-home mom after having children, thereby putting all financial responsibility on her spouse. One thing that was different in my findings was that with the exception of one or two, these Cal students do not think it will be difficult to find a suitable partner. This is likely because most students

Cuba is merely one example of a society. Juan Cabrera is simply an ordinary example of an individual. What The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera by J. Joaquin Fraxedas bring to light is the extraordinary effects of stepping outside the comfort zone of following the expectations of those that lead our governments. Although the situation was unlike our own it highlights what could very well could have

President James Garfield’s tragic death is brought to new life in the book The Destiny of the Republic. Author Candice Millard shows readers just how that very incident brought one nation together. This being in the middle of the Gilded Age, at times it looked like the nation had everything under its belt but in reality, people didn’t see the corrupt happenings at that time. Through poverty, war, a surprising turn in events, to downright failure in medicine, President Garfield’s life was a downward spiral and he wasn’t even aware. As much as Garfield was unaware of that, Americans at the time were unaware that they were slowly beginning to unite over the ignorance of both Doctor Bliss and Charles Guiteau. Millard didn’t just write a book of a detailed and historic biography, she wrote somewhat effortlessly of the personal yet challenging circumstances Garfield and his family were in and simply told a story.

Methods: This investigation will describe Che Guevara’s involvement in Latin American independence movements, focusing specifically on his involvement with Fidel Castro’s “26th of July” movement. His actions and words will be analyzed, and his conduct this period of political upheaval will be used as evidence in order to answer the investigative question.

At the end of Prohibition President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared, "What America needs now is a drink". 13 years before Roosevelt said that, on December 16, 1920, the United States went dry causing all breweries, distilleries, and saloons to shut down. This also prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol nationwide which is stated in the 18th amendment. This tried to decrease violence, increase efficiency in the workplace, and overall just make America better. In Prohibition 13 Years that Changed America by Edward Behr, Prohibition is a crucial event that takes place which causes a disruption in American society which makes illegal activities more normalized such as George Remus’s Bootlegging business causing him to find

Cuban Slave Culture Cuba has been known the goods it produces and for being secluded due to lack of trust from other nations. Despite what the world thinks of Cuba the country has flourished with little help from other nations exports. Until Miguel Barnet’s “Biography of a Runaway Slave” few people knew of Cuban Culture; from the slavery to the Spanish-American War. Barnet interviews Esteban Montejo, who was once a slave, to allow his readers to have a new perspective on Cuba. After the interview, Barnet publishes Montejo’s story for people who knew little of Cuban history.

Within this essay I am going to compare and contrast two rather different nationalist ideas that prevailed in Latin America during the nineteenth century. My concentration in this comparison is on how ethnicity and race are illustrated. The first nationalist thinker whose ideas I intent to discuss is the Cuban national hero José Martí, a precursor of Latin American modernism. I will contrast Martí’s ideas and writings with the Peruvian journalist and political philosopher José Carlos Mariátegui, the representative and advocator of twentieth century Latin American Marxist ideas. There are some similarities between the offered social solutions between these authors: mainly their rejection of imported models of society and politics. However, within this essay I am arguing that the humanistic points of view between them have little in common. Whereas Martí promotes acceptance of all people and all races, and considers all people equal to each other, Mariátegui, despite claiming to be racially indifferent and accepting, in fact reveals racist and discriminating arguments that undermine his claimed acceptance and embracement of the different races of America. To support my argument, I will be offering relevant examples from both authors’ most famous publications, Martí’s ‘Nuestra América’ and ‘Mi Raza’, and Mariátegui’s ‘Siete ensayos de interpretación sobre la realidad peruana’, and ‘El problema de las razas en América Latina’.

I don’t know. What type of related works are available in this collection? I think it is just radio programs, I guess. Which publishers released an audio book version of the Destiny of the Republic on a CD? I clicked on that, format, audio book, CD. Is it which publishers? So, multiple publishers, books on tape, Random House audio. I think that is it. You need an

What’s So Great About America is a novel written by Dinesh D’Souza to defend the constant criticism of the United States after September 11. Instead of looking at the negatives of this country and the struggles of terrorism, D’Souza makes clear how important patriotism in America is and how to avoid fear of future conflict. Dinesh D’Souza, who immigrated from India, was able to share his optimistic experiences of living in America. Although being a former White House policy analyst, D’Souza illustrates America for what it is rather than sugarcoating it to make it politically ideal.

It draws the viewer beyond questions of individuality and identity formation, reflecting upon the political consciousness for the conditions of work in Cuba in the 1970s. These are symbolized by the relationship between slave and master, ideology and its instrumentalization respectively. The interventions to Christ’s Last Supper shape The Last Supper into a revisionist Marxist text that reflects upon the ills of the culture of the sugar plantations. Alea’s desire is to make a film on Cuba’s slave history in order to know and understand the past: ‘[…] we needed (and are going to continue to need for some time) to know how we were, how we lived, and how we fought in order to recover the broken temporal thread of our traditions, and to enrich it in this new historical epoch’ (Alea cited in Mraz 1993).

“We are a migrant family,” she began. It was 1968 when my grandmother, Teresa Hernandez, and her spouse of seven years, Roger Hernandez, fled from the communist country of Cuba with my two-year-old mother, Maria. Fulgencio Batista ruled as a ruthless dictator prior to the well-known Castro family, driving the Cuban economy into collapse and publicly executing those who disagreed with his governing tactics. He was over-thrown in 1959 by the Cuban people during “La Revolución”, a radicalized movement led by Fidel Castro promising wonderful restoration, but it only led to the genesis of his totalitarian regime. Life on the island rapidly changed: businesses were forced to close, the government owned all, and the inhabitants owned not one thing to their names. Many, such as her family, fled the country despite the dreadful consequences to seek “un nuevo futuro”: a new future; a new life.

examples of genocide, especially as a result of hatred towards complex institutions of race, nationality, and religion. In this piece Neruda references several dates: 1925, 1926, 1933, 1940, 1918, 1905, and “thousands of nineteen hundreds”(Neruda,1). Each date representative of a significantly negative event in world history; However several dates also coincide with important years in Cuban history. For example, in the year 1925, Gerardo Machado was elected Cuba’s president, he would resist the rise of a healthy labor movement, which he would enforce using deportation and police brutality. Cuba’s economic downfall would lead to uprisings in the future, all ultimately having Cuban legislature and law enforcement being taken advantage of, while at the same time several mass killings world arise before crimes against humanity would be identified and prosecuted at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Neruda’s first-hand experiences with oppression and fascism growing up in Cuba allowed many to learn from “the Chilean because he offered a way of identifying with the masses and engaging the problems of society” (Pettingell, 3). Neruda’s use of allusion allows the hatred from these mass killings to be tied in with the selfishness and extortion of