property. Seeing my city in bad shape sparked something in me & I knew I wanted help better the city & give back to it but wasn’t really sure how to contribute up until high school. Sophomore year in high school I joined Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán‚ MEChA‚ I was introduced into this club by a friend that was actively involved in it. MEChA’s main focus in the community was to help the Spanish speaking people within the community that were in need of help in school. Another club that I joined
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emphasis on time. We find evidence of the emphasis on time in the origin story of the Aztec and Maya. In the Nahua myth where “age is self-destructing based on a cosmic mathematical plan; the Mexica magicians will return to the place of their origin in Aztlan‚ only to find out about their own future demise” (114‚ Read & Gonzalez). Meanwhile‚ the Popol-Vuh tells the story of Hunahpu Posum and Hanahpu Coyote‚ the Maya twin heroes play the role of day keepers even though they were not born until the following
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Did you know that in 1996 a sheep named Dolly was cloned? It is true‚ scientists have been working on cloning living things. But they aren’t able to clone a human because that is not yet legal. In the book The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer a boy named Matt is the clone of a powerful drug lord named El Patron. He is living with a woman named Celia when he got hurt and had to be taken to the Big House‚ then he ends up meeting El Patron and living in the Big House. Throughout the story Matt
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AMERICAN STUDIES 301 MIDTERM Please include a title for the midterm‚ TA name‚ and staple Description of assignment: Compose an anthology of thirteen quotations drawn from the materials assigned for the first three sections of this course (Parts I‚ II and III). The anthology will consist of a preface‚ short commentaries on each quotation‚ and a conclusion. The anthology should be governed by a theme (or a set of two topics aligned to the concerns of the first four sections of the syllabus)
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despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.” (CITE) As a firm believer in love‚ as well as a hopeless romantic‚ I am deeply intrigued by Bells Hooks writing. Bell Hooks born Gloria Jean Watkins was born September 25‚ 1952 in a black neighborhood in Hopkinsville a small‚ segregated town in rural Kentucky. With her father who worked as a janitor‚ and her mother‚ Rosa Bell Oldham Watkins‚ who worked as a maid in the homes of white
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Bra-burning also became associated with the movement‚ though the actual prevalence of bra-burning is debatable (Harding‚ 2004:153-154). One of the most vocal critics of the women’s liberation movement has been the African American feminist and intellectual Gloria Jean Watkins (who uses the pseudonym "bell hooks") who argues that this movement glossed over race and class and thus failed to address "the issues that divided women." (Henry‚ 2004:83) She highlighted the lack of minority voices in the women’s movement
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Chicano Studies 141a U.S. History/Chicano Perspective Mike Ornelas STUDY GUIDE I I. Be able to identify and give the significance of the following: Popé Aztlán hispanophobia el requerimiento Toypurina Juan de Oñate Fray Marcos de Niza Great Southwestern Revolt Aristotelian theory Jeronimo de Aguilar “conspicuous exoticism” Malintzin Tenepal Echeveste Regulations The Spanish Colonie The Black Legend Gonzalo Guerrero “plague of immorality” microbe shock "uto-Aztecan" Book
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The Aztecs were a powerful‚ strong‚ intelligent civilization. Who reigned most of Central America and what is now Mexico. Then all of a sudden the civilization fell. Do we know why? The Aztecs had a very good life since they had many crops to be able to survive. They also had animals to hunt and eat. Aztec crops included maize (corn)‚ beans‚ tomatoes‚ potatoes‚ and avocados. Animals they hunted are: turkey‚ snakes‚ rabbits‚ deer‚ and coyotes. Dogs and turkeys were mostly domesticated. Aztecs mostly
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American History I Midterm Study Guide Terms and People to Know- Aztecs: the Mexica took the name Aztec from the name of their original homeland‚ Aztlan. They created a mighty empire by conquering neighboring cities. The Aztec demanded tribute‚ or payment‚ from the cities they conquered. Maize: known in some English-speaking countries as corn‚ and is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels
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landmark victory for the European settlers. Following the Spanish arrival in Mexico‚ a huge battle erupted between the army of Cortes and the Aztec people under the rule of Montezuma. The Aztecs are a tribe‚ according to their own legends‚ from Aztlan somewhere in the north of modern Mexico. A major part of their life was religion. A polytheistic people‚ they often practiced human sacrifice to please their gods . The Aztecs had good wealth from trading and heavy payments of tribute from conquered
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