I admired the students’
I admired the students’
The movie “Walkout” is a movie that tells the story of students who struggle in the high school rights that are given to them. The students boycotted the high schools to improve their way of education. This money was an interesting movie that showed the history of “Chicanos” who are also known as people of Mexican descent. The movie did a great job in showing the struggle that the Chicanos had to go through so they could improve the quality of education that was given to them. One part that I especially love about the movie is when the main protagonist of the movie “Paula Crisostomo” was told by her father to never join a boycotting group as it could change her way opportunities. Paula continuously tries to talk with a group of people who want…
In Magdalena's Uruguay the students are no different. They voice their opposition to government policies and American interference by way of student strikes which "were a matter of almost monthly occurrence...writing slogans on city walls, marching by the hundreds, holding up traffic and defacing government property." (pg. 160) She describes the university buildings of Uruguay as "recipients of years of anger and frustration" with walls "covered in slogans; monuments defaced." (pg. 162) The students are thus shown to be very vigorous on the political front. The students are an intelligent, motivated group who feel they have the power to enact change and therefore form groups like the Tupamaros to band together and strive for change. By inviting a revolutionary like Che Guevara (pg. 101) to the university to speak they also evidence this propensity toward liberal activism. He represents revolutionary change in Latin America and the students support him and rally to him while the American government is opposed to his ideas which would hurt their investments.…
San Diego Judge Claude Chamber was appointed to hear the case. Ten principal witnesses took the stand among those were students, the school board, and the school staff. The school board argued that the new school was built in the interest of the Mexican students in mind. In order to better accommodate sufficient space and special attention to the Mexican students a separate school was built just for them. The school had also been built on the northerly section of the town which mainly Mexican families occupied. The students had to cross the main boulevard and the railroad to get to school; it was supposedly built in this region to ensure the safety of their students. The purpose of instituting this Americanized school was to help remedial students learn English and American customs by depriving them of Anglo interaction. A teacher claimed that, “most of these children come from homes where ignorance and poverty prevailed….since health and sanitation is problems in their home it’s only natural that they have difficulty concentrating on school.” Noon argued that most of the students were United States citizens who spoke English. There was even a student who still had to attend the new school for remedial education who did not speak Spanish. American students who lived on the other side of the main boulevard and railroad were not expected to attend the new school for safety reasons either. The final argument that convinced the judge to oppose the segregation was the belief that Mexicans pupils needed the socialization of American students in order to learn the English language and customs. White children are not segregated because they are behind they are only held back a year, ironically because most of those children were born in the U.S. they were technically Caucasian, under law Caucasian could not legally be segregated from other Caucasians. On March 10, 1931 the students were legally entitled to the same…
According to the Britannica School High, “Leaders were frightened” of these demonstrations. The strikes only grew more and more because the federal army was unable to break it apart. The strikes also died…
While the movement was triggered by a series of random sit-ins, the civil rights leaders and the youths were able to strategize using nonviolence as a method of exposing the truth about segregation. By reacting peacefully to the violence they faced by the angry mob, people were moved to call for an end against racial…
Why would many marine pollution experts consider oil among the least damaging pollutants in the ocean?…
Biographically themed movie productions continue to envelop the Hollywood landscape – serving as a means to reenact and interpret a majority of history’s most memorable moments (for better or worse). In the last month alone, depictions of Bobby Fisher (Pawn Sacrifice) and Whitey Bulger (Black Mass) are just two examples of cinematic incarnations that have served to entertain and semi-education observers.…
I watched the documentary called Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary. The filmmaker named Laura Simon, was born in Mexico and her family immigrated to America when she was six. She began her career working for a non-profit organization that dealt with immigrant rights and education. Her personal odyssey and involvement with dilemmas of her students led her to the making of Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary. During 1994, California voters sanctioned Proposition 187, which denies public education and health care to all undocumented immigrants.…
I personally believe after reading the allegations the workers had written, they in every way had the right to strike. Such conditions were not meant to be able to live off of. Events like these are why we have our modern day government and economy, to prevent similar situations. In every way, I would side with the workers. This is just another example of big monopolies trying to get wealthier, while disregarding any workers’ well…
By alluding to historical violent and nonviolent protests, Chavez brings fact-based validity into his argument by demonstrating a very successful instance of nonviolence, as well as unsuccessful instances of violent protest.…
During class we saw the film “Walkout”, it was a film that made me cry not only once but twice. The film showed the stereotypes and the expectations of Chicanos. I found the film being quite interesting because I could relate to it in many ways. For instance, I was also not allowed to speak Spanish in school and I was also the first generation to apply to a University. I always thought the walkouts were peaceful, I had no idea how brutally students were attacked. It was quite sad seeing students being hit by “what we call protection”. It was much more disturbing knowing that these students were being punished for fighting the injustice they were experiencing. I have to admit I was quite surprised on the numbers of Chicanos attending college,…
History will always tell a tale and never ceases to prove to us that turbulent events, such as DPN, only occur behind the grounds of good reason. Many would argue that the American Revolution and our very own nation's Civil Rights Movement, just so happen to be the result of many years of upstanding frustration and oppression on the part of people who were misunderstood, mistreated, underestimated, and undeniably ignored.(“Deaf Heritage”). Yet again, history always repeats itself, it is evident that the oppressed reach a point where they have had enough and realize that their conditions will only change if they finally take matters into their own hands and protest. Although the United States believed enough of the hard of…
In today’s world, the fact that a student protest was held is not so surprising. Even then, mainstream America was used to seeing student’s protesting just about anything and everything. The universities and colleges of this country are known to be a place where students can learn about the world and free speech and how to use it in modern society. Some of the most significant civil rights protests of the 20th century may have started off-campus but they caught their momentum on campuses all across America. Most recently, President Obama’s 2008 campaign was significant in that it utilized social media and really spoke to the under-30 population utilizing college-aged idealists to push his message and work the campaign. What made the DPN protest significant was it was the first time…
The movement to “Take back the schools” was a movement initiated by a group of Chicano students demanding for a change in their schools system in East Los Angeles California. The 1960’s was a time when Mexican American students were suffering from neglect and discrimination in their schools. It was obvious there was a problem with the school system of education only one out of four chicanos was completing high school. Students were separated into different classes by their IQ scores. Students with a lower IQ were put into shop classes instead of being put into the academic tracking where they would be prepared for college. The dropout rate from school was really a push out rate of Mexican Americans dropping out from school how it’s mentioned in the film. Their culture was not addressed and their schools were not doing much for them. Their academic advisors would set them low for their future by advocating how service jobs like the ones their parents were doing were a practical choice for Mexican Americans.…
The Chicano Movement was started from 1960 to 1970 during era of civil justice in America. The purpose of this movement was threefold includes Land restoral, rights of farm workers and improvement in educational reforms. Students from united Mexican America and Mexican American Youth federation, were very significant part of this movement. For many years, the Chicano people were considered as a minority and they remain deprived from their rights. This situation need to be changed in start of 1960, felt by Chicano people (Marx 1971). In 1968, Members of these associations arranged many walkouts from school in Denver and Los Angeles. They raised their voice for Eurocentric Curriculum, high dropout rates and to ban the Spanish language.…