Making of Latin America

 Hello Lexie. I too am upset about the sexualization of women in films and books. I thought that the film and book we had for Serrata's class did not do justice for the woman. The film did show them helping but after they did their job, the ones who helped it seemed were all killed off. It kind of made it seem that they were not important or strong enough to survive. Overall, I am just upset that women are not getting the respect and representation they deserve. 

In Professor Stark's part of the class, we got to talk about women who participated in the Mexican revolution. I found this topic interesting as even though we talked about women who transgressed their roles in the first semester that they even fought in the revolution. I also really enjoyed learning about their actual participation as the book and film we had for Serrata's class did not do justice to their roles. The movie, it showed women having a more domestic part in participating in the revolution. The book, while it had war paint, also didn't do justice as the book mainly talked about the violence and raping of women. Overall, it was nice to know that women played a role in the revolution and how they actually participated compared to what we see in movies and books.   

 Hello, Brooke. While I did not talk about Dario this week for my blog I also found this interesting. I have never thought about using people to describe something as Dario does in "To Roosevelt." I also never thought that it would have such an impact or work like it did for Dario. Overall, I have learned something new to possibly use for when I'm writing and I can't wait to see what other technique authors use to write. 

     "If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government," Emiliano Zapata. This week we watched the movie,  Viva Zapata!  a historical drama about Zapata becoming a leader of a rebellion against President Diaz's corrupt ruling. For class, I had the task of figuring out the point of view and answering some questions about the point of view. One of the questions was, "Is the point of view from which the story is told is the best choice that the storyteller could have made," and my answer for the class really focused on this question. I find that point of view is a very important piece in life and that a simple different point of view between people can cause miscommunications. In the movie, the point of view was third person limited as we only had Zapatas and the countrymen's viewpoint of the rebellion. This causes us not to know the whole story and not know why Diaz was doing what he was doing. One thing that we mentioned in cl

  Hello Lexie, I found this topic to be interesting as well, as I too have many years of soccer experience. I was also shocked when I found out that it was pushed to play as it would seem to take the fun out of the sport. But as we continued to talk about it it did start to make sense. But I am happy that the sport became something for everyone to enjoy and not just a sport for the privileged.

 This week, during Professor Stark's part of the class we talked a little about the background of soccer in Latin America specifically in Brazil. I found this topic to be very interesting as I have played soccer for the majority of my life. Even though I played I've never really looked into the background of it and how it influenced other nations. During this talk, we learned that originally the sport was a white privilege but as time went on it became a sport for everyone. We also learned that it was encouraged to the employees to play by their employers as it was a way to keep workers in shape. I think that being forced to play by the employers could have taken the fun out of the sport. But overall, I am happy that the sport was able to become a pass time and something fun for everyone.