Like urban music in the United States‚ bachata began as music for poor and dispossessed. Originating in the Dominican Republic‚ it reflects the social and economic dislocation of the poorest Dominicans. Derived from the Latin American tradition of guitar music‚ bachata emerged in the 1960s only to be denigrated by the media‚ mainstream musicians‚ and middle- and upper-class Dominicans‚ mainly because the lyrics often about hard drinking‚ women troubles‚ illicit sex‚ and male bravado were considered
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Essay: The inspiring life of Juana Ines de la Cruz Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is not a typical women that lived during the 17th century in Mexico. There is much more beyond her beauty and authenticity. In her early years she was already considered to be a “child genius“1‚ taking into account her intelligence‚ and “polymath“ would also best describe her‚ since she wrote various poems‚ along with plays‚ also including her studies in music‚ philosophy and natural
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The Other Americas is a source for Latin American news and culture on the Boston College campus and provides a forum for discussion of issues pertaining to Latinos. The Other Americas has been a great way to educate students on various issues. During our weekly meetings this semester the topics discussed have ranged from foreign issues‚ including
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States: Thomson Wadsworth‚ 2007. Mahler‚ Gregory S. Comparative Politics: An Instructional and Cross-National Approach. 4th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall‚ 2003. “The Persistence of ‘Dependency’ as a Useful Framework for Understanding Latin America.” Center for Latin American Studies. Feb. 10‚ 2003. Mar 29‚ 2007. http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2003/02-10-03-holloway/index.html Tessitore‚ John and Susan Woolfson.‚ ed. A Global Agenda: Issues Before the 54th General Assembly. New York:
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Romanticism in El Matadero Esteban Echeverría‚ who spent five years in Paris before returning to Buenos Aires in 1830 when he became a political agitator against the tyrant Juan Manuel de Rosas‚ is credited with bringing romanticism to Spanish America. As a poet‚ he is remember for his narrative ballad La cautiva‚ the story of a white girl’s escape from enslavemente by nomadic Indians. Echeverría inaugurated the theme of the pampas as an archetypal landscape – a place of barbarism; but also the
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Introduction South America is a continent located in the Western‚ Southern Hemisphere. It is considered a subcontinent of the Americas‚ comprising twelve sovereign states: Argentina‚ Guyana‚ Paraguay‚ Peru‚ Suriname‚ Uruguay‚ Bolivia‚ Brazil‚ Chile‚ Colombia‚ Ecuador and Venezuela and two non-sovereign areas‚ French Guiana and the Falkland Islands (Wikipedia). The continent’s cultural and ethnic outlook is a product of the interaction of indigenous peoples with European conquerors and immigrants
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little can actually be seen. While Haiti is in shambles‚ the rest of the world hasn’t forgotten its state‚ and is doing its best to help. When the earthquake shook Haiti‚ it shook the world’s heart as well. This article describes the large commitment America has already made to rebuilding Haiti‚ including statistics such as: 16‚000 U.S. forces deployed and $100 million in reconstruction money pledged from the government‚ and $500 million privately donated. This article is biased‚ in the Democratic way
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includes both realities and possibilities. -to what extent does the texts you have studied‚ support this idea? Related Material ONE: MOTORCYCLE DIARIES- Only 23‚ he begins his journey as a medical student and emerges with a new perspective of South America. This perspective informs his future as a political revolutionary. The journey‚ which had begun as a quest for excitement‚ cheap alcohol and available women‚ became‚ according to Guevara‚ a formative experience in his life. Following the trip he
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European powers intensified in the early 1600s as the Dutch Attacked Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas and in Asia. In the 1600s and 1700s the British then checked Dutch commercial and colonial ambitions and went on to defeat France in the Seven Years War (1756–1763) and take over French colonial possessions in the Americas and in India. 2. The unprecedented costs of the wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries drove
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Whose values count? Culture: any group sharing values‚ beliefs‚ customs “…isms” ethnicism/racism sexism heterosexism (homophobia) classism ageism prejudice against disabled religious bigotry Cultural Competence Familiarity with other groups culture Know thyself People including students‚ therapist‚ profs‚ are humans first and Three challenges to know about yourself Humans rarely contemplate the origin‚ validity or meaning of their value Humans underestimate the arbitrariness
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