One thing that I have been taught in my World History classes is that humanity does not learn from its past errors. One way of reaffirming this statement/belief is with the relation between what happened during the last half of the 20th century in Boston, Massachusetts and the current crisis that we as Venezuelans are facing. Even though everything about both groups of people are different in infinite ways, our everyday problems are alike. While reading All Souls, an autobiographical novel written by Michael Patrick MacDonald based on his life in the South Boston area during the busing stage of Bostonian history, I first could relate to the author with the corruption his community faced. In the political stance, it is obvious how the corrupt law enforcement negatively affected the people from Southie, specifically his family. One of his brothers, Stevie was arraigned for alleged first-degree murder of his best friend Tommy, even though it was not true. The detectives against Stevie wanted him to look guilty, therefore they made a fake transcript of his call to the police saying ‘I shot Tommy!” on it. After this, Stevie’s lawyer got a hold of …show more content…
This resemblance is due to how both of these communities need the same things and face exactly the same problems but in different contexts. In South Boston, all of these characteristics that were originally there, were magnified by the busing crisis. In contrasts, in Venezuelan society these characteristics were also magnified, but by the actions of the government. In the first case, the government was trying to desegregate different races and in the latter the government actually tried to create boundaries between the social classes, which led to an extreme dislike between the polar opposite classes. I found very interesting that these are completely different circumstances, but they add up to the same
Chavez also makes full use of the morals of his readers when convincing them to gift him their support. Published in a religious magazine, Chavez’s article appeals to readers’ sense of religious duty by invoking god. By advocating that God has mandated that life is not something that can be taken away he sways many of the deeply religious to his side. He also appeals to readers’ sense of humanity and virtue, portraying nonviolence as something for those who don’t want to exploit the weak or poor and for those who truely care about people. His audience’s morality will not let them be a part of a “vicious type of oppression” or have victory come at the “expense of injury … and death” or even “lose regard for human beings.”
During the Post-Classic period of Mexico, the Mixtec people accumulated a great amount of wealth, and became highly talented in artistry. The development of these art practices helped reflect on their political organization, religious practices, and social structure. In particular, Tomb 7 at Monte Alban has revealed a multitude of fascinating artifacts and remains from the Mixtec peoples. Tomb 7 at Monte Alban is one of the richest and most famous archaeological discoveries made in the New World (McCafferty and McCafferty: 1994) Along with a central noble figure and a few sacrificed servants, there lay many gold treasures, such as the famous Gold Pectorals, silver artifacts, turquoise mosaics, and fine jewelry (Coe and Koontz: 2013).These Gold Pectorals discovered both show the dedicated time it took to create such an intricate design, and significance it has to its
The reading " The forgotten victim from Florence and Normandie " written by Steve Lopez has good points being said that, I agree with them . The main points I connect with was made by Fidel Lopez is and how he was unfortunate to be brutally beat in the L.A. Riots but he encouraged his family to move forward to better . Fidel Lopez's idea that nobody should be treated differently by how they appear is meaningful to me because everybody isn't always accepted equally. He didn't want the leader of the L.A. Riots to be punished too harsh because he grew from the experience he got. This shows that Fidel stood strong from the attack and while telling his story over to Steve Lopez.
Martin Luther King once said: “We are not makers of history, we are made of history.” We all can connect with this quote to a certain degree. A lot has happened in our history and as a result of that we are who we are today, even though sometimes history is not in our own hands to chose. The book, Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson tells the readers story of slavery that's took place on nineteenth-century, before the civil war on America by going away from the cotton plantations into the slave market itself which was the heart of the domestic slave trade. The story takes place on New Orleans.
Leading with Soul is both an inspiring book and a guide for becoming a better leader. The book alternates between telling the story of a leader who is striving to find meaning in his work, and regular interludes, which include summaries, reflective questions, and information regarding various spiritual philosophies. I was exposed to dimensions of leadership I had never previously considered. This paper will reflect upon how Leading with Soul helped me understand the spiritual nature of leadership, identify strategies for nurturing the spiritual side of my own leadership, expand my capacity for assisting others during challenging times, and increase my compassion while working with difficult others.
However as Bourgois’ reveals, “a poltical economy explanation for cause and effect is not so evident”. Meaning that even though Puerto Rican history reflects a reoccurring trend of oppression and marginalisation, it does not justify the degree of volence, self destructive tendences and parasitical actions that indivduals like Ray Caesar and Primo display. (53-54) However, these tendencies are blamed on personal psychological or moral failings and are rarely blamed on society. (54) Primo stresses this by saying how “if [he] has a problem it’s because [he] has bought it upon [him]self” .This
Immediately, when I have begun to live here, I could see the big differences between that’s countries. And I could note, compare, and contrast. For example, Life style before in Cuba was full of short comings, specially, for the young people. There are not some opportunities for then, even if they were graduated from college, it’s hard to face life in that corrupted, and destroyed society, in contrast, now in Miami, young people have a great opportunity
“Sorry to interrupt, but where is Stevie?” I told the teacher. “He’s at the principles office,” he said. “He said that all the times he said you did bad stuff it was him all the time. The fact that he lied so many times and got away with it made me send him to the principles office immediately,” the teacher said.
A Review of Liberty’s Dawn Since the very beginning of cognitive thinking, scholars of some form have looked to dates throughout history that have changed the trajectory of society as a whole. Whether it be a gruesome altercation of forces or social movements that have changed the world - Emma Griffin in Liberty’s Dawn, elaborates on how the people of England had evolved as people during the Industrial Revolution. One of the most eye popping things that occurs in Liberty’s Dawn is the way Griffin portrays this time period as a whole.
Chapters 10-15 Summary “Between heaven and Earth” is written by Eric Walters I think the main message of the book is that when David died that he would still be in DJ and his relatives. Hearts and memories and that Girls can do whatever Boys can. When it was getting close to 6:00 they had a meeting and they discuss what the climb would be like and they said if you climb mount Kilimanjaro.you will probably get terrible headaches, nausea, mountain sickness and lack of breathing and sometimes unconsciousness and then the next day they went to do the climb before they had left DJ read the second Letter that said BOTTOM on it.if you didn’t read the first summary then the letter are from David (The grandfather)who had climbed mount Kilimanjaro.and
19 years ago today in a Hispanic house hold two parents three siblings and the world to conquer. Screaming, laughing, learning and growing molded this one young lady to overcome all statics .Factors such as birthplace, extracurricular activities and the simple thing she couldn’t control, her origin were deciding factors for where she is present day. New York, the city that never sleeps, a city diverse in all aspects of life, the city where it all started. 18 years growing up in Harlem wasn’t all it was cracked up to be especially for a young Hispanic female. Being surrounded with drugs, violence and public disobedience were some of the easiest of distractions that I encountered every day.
The overall main similarity between both movements was the declaration of nonviolence no matter what. During the African American Civil Rights Movement, the majority of the Activist and leaders at the time such as Martin Luther King Jr. stayed with the unwavering approach of acts of nonviolent protest, marches, and boycotts. King believed that no matter what their oppressors threw at them black protesters should never retaliate with violence. The same goes for Cesar Chevez, the key activist of Latino Civil rights. Both men always stood for none violence and peace, even when scrutinized about their similar approach they stuck behind their beliefs.
The two allusions to historical figures develop Chavez’s argument as they remind him and the audience of how large of an impact nonviolence had on the world in the past and how it could be applied to the
Venezuela and United States “To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.’’ This quotation of Pauline Hanson defines how important values are, not just for one person or one community, but for a whole nation. On one hand, we have Venezuelan people, and on the other hand American people. Even though these two countries have similarities in the weather and food, there are three major differences between Venezuela and United States.
Prior to the revolution, Mexicans were unhappy under the government of Porfirio Diaz. After the revolution, many decades of one-party rule continued in Mexico. There were some similar components between the Russian Revolution and the Mexican Revolution. Both of these revolutions were influenced by a system of ideas that would benefit the lower classes. They both started after disloyalty to an all-powerful political leader.