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    Cesar chavez Mexican americans and the church Final draft In the speech that Cesar chavez presented himself at a mexican american celebration conference talks about of how he sees the church and mexican americans during the strike.The conference was about the annual discussion what is going on in the hispanic/ latino community. Chavez was committed to carry out his movement with no violence toward the crowd who doubted him and movement, sadly others did try violence on them, for…

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    In “Struggle in the Fields”, it presents the injustice existing in that period of time and shows the fights of farmer workers, the Mexican American labors. Even the the labors were living in a poor condition and not treated as a regular citizen, they untied together to fight back, started small and ended up influencing thousands of people. In general, political and societal of Chicano/a’s equality improved higher and higher over the struggle which giver their offspring a better condition to live…

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    4- Ways the least powerful can also impacted the course of environmental injustice and /or racism: Despite their limited resources and power, the United Farm Workers(UFW) led by Cesar Chavez has considerably impacted the environmental injustice and/or racism. Cesar Chavez has succeeded where many have failed to create the UFW organization that today include thousands of farm workers(UFW, 2016a). In 1968, the boycott of California Grapes around he nation has been an important step that the…

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    anniversary of his death, in 1978, Cesar Chavez published an article about Dr. King's nonviolent resistance and pleads to his audience to see the reason that being violent will not promote significant change. Chavez use of juxtaposition, literary devices such as bandwagon and historical allusion, and form of ethos. In the first third of the article, Cesar Chavez juxtaposes the use of nonviolent and violent protesting to appeal to his audience moral understanding. Chavez exclaims, “We are also…

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    the movie Cesar Chavez is based on a true story, the movie is about a labor organizer and activist man of the civil rights. Cesar Chavez was an American leader and activist who organized the strike for farm workers in Delano, California in 1965. Cesar Chavez was the son of an immigrant workers who work in the field. Cesar after the eighth grade stop going to school and also himself as well started working in the field and he saw all these discrimination against the workers. Cesar Chavez…

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    When I think of a leader, some prominent name come about: Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and Malala Yousafzai. These leaders have impeccable integrity and arduous competence, also, they’re tirelessly passionate and inspiringly visionary. My personal definition of leadership is: the ability to empower others to unify through the credibility of a person. The credibility of a leader is the vital reason for their followers; it is based on their integrity, competence, passion,…

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    In Cesar Chavez’s speech, he really wants to get across the point that they cannot resort to violence because it will cost the lives of people as well as exploit them and he doesn’t want that to happen because he believes that every life is important and a gift. In order to get this point across Chavez uses allusion in his speech to connect with the audience and better persuade them. At the beginning of his speech he alludes to Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., saying “ [his] entire life was an…

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    Chavez was an Mexican American and became a Latino American civil rights activist. Chavez fought for the rights of immigrant workers in America. Immigrant workers were being abused in labor because they had limited rights causing them to have low wages and tough hours. Chavez saw this and fought for the rights of the laborers. Chavez saw the need for change and influenced others to help make the change happen. He help…

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    What does it mean to be of hispanic descent? Being hispanic descent means that your ancestors are from countries once colonized by Spain for example Mexico. “I will say to you that americans of hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had” said by Marco Rubio. This quotation shows that most hispanic parents want the best for their children. They wanted them to have the life they didn’t get a chance to have. Loads of Mexican/ hispanic parent’s move to the…

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    Prep Assignment Part One: Introduction: Civil Rights leader, Cesar Chavez, in his magazine article, addresses violence in society. Chavez’s purpose is to convey that violence is temporarily successful, however, it exploits people. He adopts an impassioned tone to convey his message that violence is never the answer. Supporting Points in Chronological Order: “If...we respond with nonviolence, we attract people’s support.” (Paragraph 3) “Violence… is temporarily successful, it replaces one…

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