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    must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”, people like him are the ones that fight to obtain peace and eradicate unnecessary wars. Great people as these, inspire others generation to become leaders and create change. Cesar Chavez an individual inspired by this civil…

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    response, especially in the African American community. Cesar Chavez, an American labor and civil rights activist, urged societies nationwide to instead achieve significant progress through nonviolent resistance. Chavez employs repetition, juxtaposition, and anticipating objections to develop an effective argument that validates the use of nonviolence instead of violence as the means to create change. In an effort to emphasize his claim, Chavez employs repetition, in turn drawing attention to…

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    Dolores Ferdnández also known as Dolores Huerta was born April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her parents divorced when she was an infant and moved with her mother and siblings to Stockton, California. She did however still keep a relationship with her father Juan Fernández. Her father later proved to be a(n) inspiration to Dolores. Dolores was both an activist and labor leader. She created the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA). In 1955 she and a friend, Frank Ross started the Stockton…

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    On the tenth anniversary of MLK’s assassination, Cesar Chavez released an article in a religious magazine asserting his stance supporting nonviolence. Chavez exudes his beliefs supporting non violence and convinces his audience through the use of diction that unites his audience, and appealing to the audience's emotions. Channeling his audience's sense of national pride and promoting unity was effective in Cesar Chavez’s process of persuasion. Chavez strategically uses diction, such as, “we”…

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    elsewhere. This was shown in the Cesar Chavez movie. In the movie I learned that in 1964 a movement was on its way up and the union United Farm Workers Association (UFWA) was formed with 1,000 members, mostly from the workers in the grape farms around Delano. The farm workers wanted better wages and better working and living conditions so, in August 1965, a strike of Mexican and Filipino grape workers in Delano caught the leader of the United Farm Workers Association, Cesar Chavez’s attention.…

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    an activist Cesar Chavez speaks out to his audience that believes violence is the answer, and don't take violence seriously to better society's problems. In fact, Cesar wants to show it worsens the lives of many innocent people because threatened violence creates frustration on both sides. Chavez presents to his audience by proving being resistant, and not fighting back has proved to shown success. Chavez uses moralistic logic and crucial juxtaposition in his magazine he is…

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    referred to Cesar Chavez as “one of the heroic figures of our time.” At age 10, Chavez began life as a migrant worker. Chavez learned many things from his mother. She believed that selfishness and violence was wrong. Chavez and his family moved to California to find work harvesting crops. Chavez realized that pesticides were making the workers sick and chose to do something about it. Chavez used his own life experiences to better the lives of the migrant workers. By looking at Cesar Chavez’s…

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    someone who is proud of who they are and defend their own for a fair treatment. A Chicano is a Mexican-American who is proud to say that they are a Chicano. For example, to me, Cesar Chavez defended all Chicanos and himself from the unfair treatment and payment that the Chicano got from the plantations. To me, Cesar Chavez is a true Chicano because he accepted who he was and defended his own people from others who saw them as unworthy and useless farmers or grape pickers. • Marin, C. (2012,…

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    In this way sacrifice can be something like making a change by making speeches or riots, instead of waiting your time and let it be. “The fight is never about the grapes, or the lettuces, it is always about the people” (Quotesgram).Cesar Chavez's stated that it’s not about the cause, it’s about equal rights, because Chavez’s was fighting for the rights of Mexican-Americans, and Philippine-American. In the same way “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the rest of…

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    States, he and his family struggled to find jobs and relocated so often from camps to camps that his education was halted quickly. Forced to work at a young age under the grueling conditions of long hours, breaking their backs in the Californian heat, Chavez obtained an exposure to the working conditions that his people and others had to endure in order to provide for their families to survive. This experience along with poverty he faced during childhood would then shape his later career as an…

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