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Colonial Latin America is a very important time period that shows us where the roots of social and cultural prejudices were created. Women in particular have faced challenges fighting constraints and prejudices, like the preconceived notion that women are inferior to men; however, there are many women that fought against those normative ideas that grounded central themes in social rights that are still important today. In the hispanic culture, women learn how to cook, clean and are seen as more…

Throughout the comic, Captain America and his team believe that the government shouldn’t have a say in the way they are run because it limits their ability to do good. On the other hand, Iron Man and his team believe that they should be regulated by the government and elected officials. The Civil War demonstrates what happens when a society is stripped of their civil liberties. In the today’s society we are facing the same problem that the Avengers are facing in the comic, some people want…

Latin America has faced a plethora of solitude. The deliberate striking of solitude has damaged their culture as a whole, and has made them relentlessly hold back. Magical Realism has helped them cope with their blant reality. Latin Americans have been concealing every emotion of seclusion behind a story. Time upon time again, behind the stories creativity, laid cavernous meanings; far beyond what the naked eye could interpret. Gabriel García Márquez, a writer who has done an efficient job…

Race in colonial Latin America was different from race in the United States of America. In colonial Latin America “race” was measured in terms of appearance, rather than in terms of “ancestry”; whereas it was the opposite in the U.S.A. Peter Winn states, “Andean people have straight hair, so to avoid being ‘Indian’ with straight hair, they would go to a beauty parlor to get a perm.” In Bolivia almost everyone had some kind of Indian ancestry, but they wanted to ignore this and so they did…

power. It’s as if they have the capability to step into another person’s shoes, live their life, and face little to no consequences when doing so. Twenty-eight years ago, Eddie Murphy released his ambitious and now beloved comedy, Coming to America. Coming to America follows Prince Akeem and Semmi’s journey to the unfamiliar place of Queens, New York from Zamunda, Africa in hopes to fulfill Prince Akeem’s desire to blissfully fall in love. Overall, Coming to America’s ensemble cast did an…

Religion was a large part of North Americans’ lives during colonial times. Many different groups moved to North America to escape religious persecution in their home countries. However, “freedom of religion” did not always exist in the present-day United States. While many groups came to North America to escape religious persecution, they only wanted the freedom to practice their own religion and did not necessarily want everyone to be able to practice their own religion. Until the Bill of…

stocked up on milk, sugar, lunchmeat, chicken legs, hamburger meat, and most importantly, coffee. We also got plenty of non-perishable food from a local food pantry. Living this way for so long has convinced me that no person has to go hungry in America, no matter how poor she is. In the past, however, hunger was not so easily…

South America, especially faces crisis in regards to their water supply because it is severely hampered by loss of the forest canopies and root systems. “When forests are replaced by pasture or crops, this water recycling process changes, leading to reduced atmospheric humidity and potentially suppressing precipitation", according to researchers from the University of Leeds and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Spracklen 1). As water is not only a major energy source for South America, but…

The mining industry in Latin America is one of the many extractive industries that constitute the export-driven economies of the global South, and to entertain the notion of abandoning these industries is both fiscally and socially irresponsible. Furthermore, the rise in leftist government regimes in Latin America has opened up a path for a more progressive approach to extractivism to rise to prominence, albeit, not completely abandoning extractivism in the traditional sense, this…

“Sometimes I Want to Punch You in Your Perfect [Movie]” Captain America: Civil War is more than just another superhero movie. It’s more than a two-and-a-half-hour special effects smorgasbord/fanboy wet dream (although it is that too). It’s more than Captain America vs Iron Man. Captain America: Civil War is a consequence. A consequence of almost a decade’s worth of films and the events that have spanned them. For years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has existed under the assumption that the…