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Last week, we looked into the writing of Esteban Echeverría in the Slaughter house. I was very confused by the story and its meaning. I picked up the sarcasm against the federalist, but what threw me off was I sensed an overall theme of just the chaos of the politics of Argentina, including the unitaritans because of the metaphor of the bull. I saw the bull as a representation of the unitarians and in the story, the bull, in all its chaos, killed an innocent child. This caused me to think of how although he did use it to show the calluousness of the federalist, he also did this to show the effect that politics has taken because of their mass hysteria on each other. Obviously it was still shown that the federalist were in much worse light, this scene did confuse me when trying to decide if Esteban Echeverría was just showing the terrible side of federalist, or the overall disaster of Argentina's politics.

Response to Jacquiline's Blog 2

You bring up some great points that I did not even consider. I overlooked that passage in the readings about how it says they dealt with ones who were barbaric. The fact of the genocides that happened to the Argentinians is a great example of what does being civilized really mean. The fact that you brought up the Holocaust is interesting as a comparison because this travesty happened in Europe, so the fact of Europeans being Civilized is an interesting one.

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Blog #2

The movie "The Jungle Book" has the song "I want to be like you". This relates to the reading because it talks about the monkey who is seen as inferior than the human boy. In this metaphor, the orangutan are the elitist of Argentina, and the human boy is seen as the Europeans and Americans. This can also be seen as the monkey will never be the human, no matter how much he wants to be exactly like him because he is a monkey and that will never change. Just like the Argentineans, no matter how hard they try, they will never be exactly like the United States of America, or like Europe. This is because they are totally different people, so what may have worked in Europe or the Americas, may not exactly work for the people of Argentina because of the different circumstances they are under.

Blog #1

Hi guys! It's Stephanie and I'm currently undeclared, but possibly looking into computer programming. I'm from Chicago and decided to come to Grand Valley for a change of pace. I miss my dogs the most since I left. I did track and cross country in high school and did a huge part in my school's ceramic/3d art department and love wheel throwing with a passion.
 I took Latin American Civ because I was never great at history, so I figured I could challenge myself by taking a civ class. I also am half Mexican, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to learn about where my mom came from and more about my culture. I also thought it would be a great change of pace from the constant history of our own country that is repeated into our heads every single year.