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    1940-1945 ( Social ) Mexican- Americans experience on the home front during WWII.....In Los Angeles‚ California a series of riots broke out that involved whites and latino youths running around wearing zoot suits. Army men stationed in Southern California did not like Latinos roaming around in suits that weren’t seen as suitable during wartime. Los Angeles‚ with the highest concentration of mexicans outside of Mexico‚ were separated into the worst and oldest parts of the city. In addition to that

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    Plays from African American‚ Latino-American‚ Asian American and European American cultures often deal with important and relevant issues pertinent to that culture but they also connect to all cultures in a universal way. Throughout history in America people of all races have been discriminated against. Immigrants have dealt with experiencing new ways of life and struggled with the tough decision of holding on to their culture or adapting to change. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about an African

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    Tiburcio Vasquez is show case to be more realised humans than another other character in the Play “ Bandido” as this character can be view as whether the Protagonist and the antagonist of the story. The author Luis Valdes’s Valdez is giving a prospect of a human being that is given a choice to live is life as a thief that robs but has a kind nature and lives y his own code‚ “ which is The purpose is to steal‚ not to kill. It’s always hurts the gingo more to lose his money than his life” (P.117)

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    Aki Mae Munoz Part 1 Timeline of Gangs in America 06-23-2013 Part 1 Timeline of Gangs in America Gangs started out as a way for people who were socially distinct to come together as a unit; most consisted of people who were of the same ethnic background‚ unfortunately crime was a way for these groups of people to even the odds. One of the first gangs recorded was in 1820 in New York and through time gangs have become most predominant in four areas; New York‚ Chicago‚ Los Angeles and Mexico

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    Presidents of the Philippines PRESIDENT YEAR LEGACY FAMOUS TAGLINE Emilio Famy Aguinaldo January 23‚ 1899[ March 23‚ 1901[L 2] “this country will be great again” Manuel Luis Molina Quezon November 15‚ 1935 August 1‚ 1944[L 5] "Pro Patria et Jure: For Country and Law" Jose Paciano Garcia Laurel October 14‚ 1943 August 17‚ 1945[L 6] Sergio Suico Osmeña August 1‚ 1944 May 28‚ 1946 “immediate independence” Manuel Acuña Roxas May 28‚ 1946 - April 15‚ 1948 "Our noble aspirations for nationhood

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    white man is the devil(History). X disliked whites due to his childhood and the events that occurred to him and his family. His dad killed himself because of white men when X was very young. He started protesting as a young teen in the zoot suit riots. The zoot suit riot were a riot between cops and servicemen and the riots were about different minority groups trying to get their rights. In eighth grade‚ X was told by a teacher after saying he wanted to be a lawyer‚ ¨A lawyer? That’s not a realistic

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    Rayan Apelian Racism “A Raisin in the Sun” is about a family‚ The Youngers‚ that lives in the south side of Chicago. Lena Younger (Mama) is the oldest in the family. She has a son named Walter and a daughter named Beneatha. Walter has a wife and son. The Youngers are a poor family. This is easily realized because five people are living in a small one bedroom apartment. The hopes of the family gets a boost when they get a 10‚000$ check from life insurance of Lena’s husband. Lena wants to buy a big

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    exclusive but limited to murals‚ paintings‚ music‚ and fashion‚ and that during the breadth of the Chicano movement these forms of artistic expression were an integral part of forming the cultural identity of the Chicano people. Jazz music‚ the Zoot suit‚ and urban graffiti also added to this formation and these elements combined created the revolutionary Chicano Movement. The search for the Chicano “identity” started around the 1920’s. The Mexican government commissioned Diego Rivera‚ David

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    clear‚ and does not make clear?" Samuel Beckett 8. Flashbacks that are not clearly framed as such‚ shuttling instead between time zones without narrative warning‚ are examples of nonlinear theater 9. Founded by Luis Valdez in 1965‚ which contemporary Chicano theatre was created to dramatize the farm workers’ situation in California through didactic actos? Teatro Campesino 10. Generally the playwright is more intelligent and better informed than the

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    The 1940’s were heavily influenced by the occurrences that happened during this era. Some of these events including World War II‚ Recession; Revolutions‚ the ongoing feminism movement‚ Dior – The New Look and the Parisian Couture house. The 40’s era was where the fashion houses of Dior and Chanel ruled according to Style.com. They dictated the austere style‚ which was strict and plain; yet at the same time sophisticated yet masculine. The forties decade opened up an extensive variety of original

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