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    In the article “Citizens as Foreigners”, reveals how dominant society views Mexican Americans in the United States as foreigners deserving of harsh treatment. An exposed case of this treatment was on April fool’s day 1996 when “a television crew videotaped the beating of a Mexican man and woman, suspected of being undocumented by law enforcement officers, after a high speed chase” (200). This defines discrimination and unjust treatment toward Mexicans. This continues to happen in today’s society

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    have defended human rights. For example, Martin Luther King who was an African American leader against discrimination; Betty Friedan who was an advocate for women's rights. Also, I have to foreground the name of Cesar Chavez who fought to improve life conditions for farm workers. Chavez won several rights among them the benefit to have breaks, clean water in the fields, and others. However, one of the most important was to receive a minimum salary for their work. To improve the life of the

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    On the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr, labor union organizer and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez writes to the magazine of a religious organization devoted to helping those in need, in order to persuade their conscientious readers that “only nonviolence will be able to achieve the goals of a civil rights activist”. Chavez establishes that violent tactics in a resistance are not effective for the cause by using juxtaposing diction in order to distinguish violent

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    Chavez continued to be an important figure in the human rights movement, undergoing multiple much-publicized fasts over the years in protest of issues like restrictive labor laws in Arizona and the expiration of grape contracts in California (Martin). In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s the UFW staged a number of other strikes related to lettuce and vegetable farms paying their workers too little, and Chavez organized a number of other less famous but

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    Every leader's goal is to better something. In Barack Obama's case, and Cesar Chavez’s case they both want to better our union from different aspects. In the “Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’”, and “What the Future Holds for Farmworkers and Hispanics” the authors make a claim that they want to better the union. Obama wants the whole Union to better Itself by working together, whereas Chavez hopes that with bettering the union comes with better treatment of Hispanics and Farm

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    The aims in the Civil rights movement was to end segregation, desegregate schools and other public facilities, the access to jobs and housing, reverse ¨separate but equal,¨ finally equality in general. The Civil Rights movement was very successful in moving America towards legal racial equality, but not very successful in moving the country towards actual racial equality. The major legal goal of the movement was to end segregation in the US. Their goal was accomplished with the Civil Rights Act of

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    Kennedy’s remarks Remarks are only reflections on things that occurred. In his news conference, president, John F. Kennedy remarks that he repeatedly calls for stable prices and wages as part of a program of national sacrifice during a period of economic distress. Kennedy develops his purpose by choosing to use a formally justified tone, by devoting his energies to economic recovery and stability, and by not making any unnecessary increase in prices. Kennedy, began his conference, by creating a

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    2). Cesar fought and became known for founding the National Farm Workers Association. He promoted the American labor movement whose purpose was to protest against the unfair farm labor treatment workers were receiving. Chavez accomplished something that seemed almost impossible for thousands who worked in the lands without using violence as a tool but rather unity

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