In a paragraph, tell us what "Independence Period' means.
The Independence Period is after the Colonial Era in Latin America and is around 1810-1830 for most countries. This was when the countries gained their independence from Spain. This time period was also known as the Latin American Revolutions. After the revolutions, Haiti, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil were recognized as independent countries in Latin American.
Tell us why you chose the topic:
I actually chose to do “The Virgin Guadalupe” first but after researching for a while and just coming up with all this other information on Juan Diego I decided to switch my research towards him. The reason why I chose the Lady was that I had always heard about her and know many people who were necklaces and bracelets that are dedicated to her. I thought it would be interesting to learn what she stood for and I think that I did accomplish that in my research.
Tell us 3 interesting facts about your topic in 3 separate paragraphs:
The reason why Juan Diego is known is because of one day in his life that changed his life forever. On every site that I look at this story is pretty much the only thing they talked about. The story starts out on December 9, 1531 when Juan was walking to mass he passed Tepeyac Hill and heard heard music and saw a glowing cloud encircled by a rainbow. A woman's voice called him to the top of the hill. She said she was the Virgin Mary and asked Juan to tell the bishop to build a church on that site. The bishop was kind but skeptical so he told him to bring some proof. When Juan met up with the Lady again she told him to climb to the place where they had first met. Juan did that and was amazed to find that there were flowers growing in the frozen soil. He gathered them in his cloak and took them to the bishop. Juan told the bishop what had happened and opened his cloak. The flowers that fell to the ground were Castilian roses (which were not grown in Mexico at that time). But the bishop's eyes were not looking at the specific flowers they were on the image of the Lady imprinted inside Juan's cloak. Soon after, a church was built on the site where our Lady appeared, and thousands converted to Christianity. Lady of Guadalupe was declared the patroness of the Americas.
Another interesting fact that I found was in the middle of the story that I talked about above but I left it out because I thought it was interesting by itself. After the Bishop had told Juan to go find proof Juan got distracted from going to meet up with the Lady because his father was very ill. The Lady cut him off in his path and told him that his father was cured and that he should go back up to the place where they had first met to find his proof.
There was also some interesting things that I found about what happened to Juan Diego after the church was built. He deeply loved the Holy Eucharist, and by special permission from the Bishop he received Holy Communion three times a week, a highly unusual occurrence in those times. Also Pope John Paul II praised Juan Diego for his simple faith nourished by catechesis and pictured him as a model of humility for all of there people.
Cite your sources used for this component and tell us why these sources are credible:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=73
I thought that the source that I found on catholic.org was very credible. Just from looking at the website you could see it was very professional and with a link like that I couldn’t help but believe what they wrote they must believe to be true.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Assignment 4C
I found a few definitions all on the same site and I think that if you put them all together you have a pretty good definition of culture as it relates to this class. Culture is defined as a particular society at a particular time and place, for example: "early Mayan civilization". It can also be defined as the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group or acculturation (all the knowledge and values shared by a society). This pertains to our class and these projects in particular because we have been looking at different eras of latin america and there society and art.
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
For assignment 3a I chose Gabriella Tessum’s writing because I liked the way she formatted it and the information was very interesting. I learned more about the Mayan history which was cool for me because I had done them for my assignment. I learned that the Mayans main sources of economy was agriculture and that they grew maize, cotton, beans, squash and cacao. This assignment is just another example of Freire’s theory because we are learning in different ways about our subjects. Also we get to chose our own topic out of a group so we were able to use or own minds and knowledge of the groups to decide what we wanted to learn more about. Gabriellas writing on the Mayans related to our studying of the Pre Columbian era in Latin America.
For assignment 4a I chose to review Melanie Hall’s work because she had a lot of interesting information on Junipero Serra that I had not found in my research. I learned that when the Spanish empire sought to control the indigenous people and use them as a workforce the priest's mission was to bring salvation to as many non-Christians as possible. Father Junipero Serra confirmed 5,309 people who were mostly Indians. As I said before in the last assessment I did of a similar assignment, our ability to chose our own topics to research as long as they pertain to the era we are studying is a good example of Freire’s theory. A student should want to learn about what they are studying and make their own choices when it comes to their education. Also it increases there learning the information when they are interested in their subject and with our assignments it is up to the students to chose what best suites them to learn about.
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
For assignment 3a I chose Gabriella Tessum’s writing because I liked the way she formatted it and the information was very interesting. I learned more about the Mayan history which was cool for me because I had done them for my assignment. I learned that the Mayans main sources of economy was agriculture and that they grew maize, cotton, beans, squash and cacao. This assignment is just another example of Freire’s theory because we are learning in different ways about our subjects. Also we get to chose our own topic out of a group so we were able to use or own minds and knowledge of the groups to decide what we wanted to learn more about. Gabriellas writing on the Mayans related to our studying of the Pre Columbian era in Latin America.
For assignment 4a I chose to review Melanie Hall’s work because she had a lot of interesting information on Junipero Serra that I had not found in my research. I learned that when the Spanish empire sought to control the indigenous people and use them as a workforce the priest's mission was to bring salvation to as many non-Christians as possible. Father Junipero Serra confirmed 5,309 people who were mostly Indians. As I said before in the last assessment I did of a similar assignment, our ability to chose our own topics to research as long as they pertain to the era we are studying is a good example of Freire’s theory. A student should want to learn about what they are studying and make their own choices when it comes to their education. Also it increases there learning the information when they are interested in their subject and with our assignments it is up to the students to chose what best suites them to learn about.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Assignment 4B
Contains a title
La Malinche by Rosario Marquardt
Contains a web link to the actual piece (art, photo, architecture, pottery, etc.)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/appendx/dev/issue2/marquardt/5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/appendx/dev/issue2/marquardt/index5.htm&h=420&w=307&sz=21&hl=en&start=8&usg=__ytXUPvLA-h2dD_P8H4gdkJsVazs=&tbnid=JFduoTEJQ_E5DM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=91&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLa%2BMalinche%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Contains a brief paragraph of reference to components A and B, how you came across this piece, how it connects to your study of humanities.
Well I didn’t come across this piece in my research of the the previous assignment but I went back and did some image searches for the subjects we were looking at last week and this image came up. This painting relates to our studies because it is a portrait of La Malinche who we learned about and some students chose to study more intently about last week.
Contains the following analytical elements:
Observation:
This piece is a portrait so you see just La Malinche from her chest up. The subject of this piece is La Malinche and the artist interprets her in his own way. This painting was made from oil pastels and it is on paper. The colors are earth tones and the artist uses red to boldly show the difference from her lips and shirt to her skin. All of the colors are realistic which makes the painting that much more interesting because her faced is not realistic, it is morphed.
Interpretation:
This painting is about the split of La Malinche and how she was the one person communicating and merging the divide between many cultures.
Judgement:
I just thought it was really strange looking and different than a lot of the other pieces I had seen. It really intrigued me and made me want to learn more about the story behind it. Also all of the other pieces of art were so complicated and this one was so simple but so bold at the same time. All it really is is the face and shoulders of a women with a lizard in her hands and her facial features a little screwed. It is just so simple but intriguing and strong at the same time.
Questioning:
I have learned that she mastered the Mayan and Aztec languages, and in only a few months she learned to speak perfect Castillian. Also that she was the figure in whom all communication between the opposed cultures was concentrated. But what I would like to know is if in the painting the small white clouds that appear to coming out of her mouth were to symbolize the languages she spoke and the communication she was known for or if there was some deeper meaning that I don’t know. La Malinche was a crucial figure in the conquest of New Spain and I don’t know if this is remotely relevant but she looks so average in this painting. It makes it more obvious to me that even though she was this great help to the cultures she was still just an average women. Another thing I would like to know about is why she has a lizard in her hand? What does that symbolize? Overall I enjoyed during this research and hopefully after a little more research I can find some of these answers.
La Malinche by Rosario Marquardt
Contains a web link to the actual piece (art, photo, architecture, pottery, etc.)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/appendx/dev/issue2/marquardt/5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/appendx/dev/issue2/marquardt/index5.htm&h=420&w=307&sz=21&hl=en&start=8&usg=__ytXUPvLA-h2dD_P8H4gdkJsVazs=&tbnid=JFduoTEJQ_E5DM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=91&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLa%2BMalinche%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Contains a brief paragraph of reference to components A and B, how you came across this piece, how it connects to your study of humanities.
Well I didn’t come across this piece in my research of the the previous assignment but I went back and did some image searches for the subjects we were looking at last week and this image came up. This painting relates to our studies because it is a portrait of La Malinche who we learned about and some students chose to study more intently about last week.
Contains the following analytical elements:
Observation:
This piece is a portrait so you see just La Malinche from her chest up. The subject of this piece is La Malinche and the artist interprets her in his own way. This painting was made from oil pastels and it is on paper. The colors are earth tones and the artist uses red to boldly show the difference from her lips and shirt to her skin. All of the colors are realistic which makes the painting that much more interesting because her faced is not realistic, it is morphed.
Interpretation:
This painting is about the split of La Malinche and how she was the one person communicating and merging the divide between many cultures.
Judgement:
I just thought it was really strange looking and different than a lot of the other pieces I had seen. It really intrigued me and made me want to learn more about the story behind it. Also all of the other pieces of art were so complicated and this one was so simple but so bold at the same time. All it really is is the face and shoulders of a women with a lizard in her hands and her facial features a little screwed. It is just so simple but intriguing and strong at the same time.
Questioning:
I have learned that she mastered the Mayan and Aztec languages, and in only a few months she learned to speak perfect Castillian. Also that she was the figure in whom all communication between the opposed cultures was concentrated. But what I would like to know is if in the painting the small white clouds that appear to coming out of her mouth were to symbolize the languages she spoke and the communication she was known for or if there was some deeper meaning that I don’t know. La Malinche was a crucial figure in the conquest of New Spain and I don’t know if this is remotely relevant but she looks so average in this painting. It makes it more obvious to me that even though she was this great help to the cultures she was still just an average women. Another thing I would like to know about is why she has a lizard in her hand? What does that symbolize? Overall I enjoyed during this research and hopefully after a little more research I can find some of these answers.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Assignment 4A
In a paragraph, tell us what "Conquest/Colonial' means.
The Colonial Period was from 1492-1810 and it stands out as being the era that did the most to shape what Latin America is today. From the source that I found there was six major points that should be known about this era. The native population was wiped out, native culture was forbidden, the Spanish system promoted exploitation, existing power structures were replaced, native history was rewritten, and the colonists were there to exploit, not develop. This era in their history has made their evolution as a country very hard and they are just now starting to see some change.
Tell us why you chose the topic, tell us about the sources you used (eg if video, what can you expect to see on the video clip you viewed)
I chose this topics because out of the 4 videos we watched this one was the most interesting to me. Nothing in particular stuck out to me but for some reason I like it in the best. This video’s speaker has a monotone voice that is not that intriguing but the information that he is giving is very interesting. The speaker talks about Junipero Serra of Mallorca and it gives the listener a very brief biography of his life. Mostly he talked about his work, and what he did before and after he founded the first mission in California. In my other sources, they pretty much just gave short biographies of his life and tell the reader what they think is most interesting or important to know about Junipero Serra.
Tell us 3 interesting facts about your topic in 3 separate paragraphs. (organize into 3 separate, delineated paragraphs for reader ease)
In the video I learned about Juniperos deeply reverent, persuasive, and dramatic speaking style and how that made him a sought after speaker. He had an oratorical style of speaking that was extremely dramatic and included chest beating, flaming torches to the bare skin, and hitting the back with whips. The endurance of pain and shedding of blood exemplified piety.
Another interesting fact I found was that it was Junipero’s second trip to California when he founded his first mission here. The first mission was in San Diego and then after he founded San Carlos Barromeo he remained there as president of Alta California missions. Over the years, under his presidency there were many missions founded by his people in California. Those missions were San Antonio de Padua, San Gabriel Arcángel, San Luis Obispo, San Juan Capistrano, San Francisco de Asís, Santa Clara de Asís, and San Buenaventura.
In the last source that I found I found some very random facts but I thought they were interesting to share. Junipero was widely recognized for his strong will. He suffered from severe asthma, yet he walked the entire distance from Vera Cruz to Mexico City when he first came to California. He later traveled up and down the California coast on foot or on the back of a donkey, and coming from a person who has severe asthma that is insane. I cannot imagine what he went through.
Use two sources for your work. Cite your sources used for this component and tell us why these sources are credible.
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/coloniallatinamerica/p/colonialera.htm
Junipero Serra clip 2
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Serra-Ju.html
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h304.html
I know that the video that we saw in class was credible because our professor assigned it to us and for the other sources I typically go off whether they sound legitimate or not. Also if I find a lot of the same information in more than one source I tend to think it is true. All of my sources sound like very credible and legitimate websites and I did truly believe they were all factual.
The Colonial Period was from 1492-1810 and it stands out as being the era that did the most to shape what Latin America is today. From the source that I found there was six major points that should be known about this era. The native population was wiped out, native culture was forbidden, the Spanish system promoted exploitation, existing power structures were replaced, native history was rewritten, and the colonists were there to exploit, not develop. This era in their history has made their evolution as a country very hard and they are just now starting to see some change.
Tell us why you chose the topic, tell us about the sources you used (eg if video, what can you expect to see on the video clip you viewed)
I chose this topics because out of the 4 videos we watched this one was the most interesting to me. Nothing in particular stuck out to me but for some reason I like it in the best. This video’s speaker has a monotone voice that is not that intriguing but the information that he is giving is very interesting. The speaker talks about Junipero Serra of Mallorca and it gives the listener a very brief biography of his life. Mostly he talked about his work, and what he did before and after he founded the first mission in California. In my other sources, they pretty much just gave short biographies of his life and tell the reader what they think is most interesting or important to know about Junipero Serra.
Tell us 3 interesting facts about your topic in 3 separate paragraphs. (organize into 3 separate, delineated paragraphs for reader ease)
In the video I learned about Juniperos deeply reverent, persuasive, and dramatic speaking style and how that made him a sought after speaker. He had an oratorical style of speaking that was extremely dramatic and included chest beating, flaming torches to the bare skin, and hitting the back with whips. The endurance of pain and shedding of blood exemplified piety.
Another interesting fact I found was that it was Junipero’s second trip to California when he founded his first mission here. The first mission was in San Diego and then after he founded San Carlos Barromeo he remained there as president of Alta California missions. Over the years, under his presidency there were many missions founded by his people in California. Those missions were San Antonio de Padua, San Gabriel Arcángel, San Luis Obispo, San Juan Capistrano, San Francisco de Asís, Santa Clara de Asís, and San Buenaventura.
In the last source that I found I found some very random facts but I thought they were interesting to share. Junipero was widely recognized for his strong will. He suffered from severe asthma, yet he walked the entire distance from Vera Cruz to Mexico City when he first came to California. He later traveled up and down the California coast on foot or on the back of a donkey, and coming from a person who has severe asthma that is insane. I cannot imagine what he went through.
Use two sources for your work. Cite your sources used for this component and tell us why these sources are credible.
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/coloniallatinamerica/p/colonialera.htm
Junipero Serra clip 2
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Serra-Ju.html
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h304.html
I know that the video that we saw in class was credible because our professor assigned it to us and for the other sources I typically go off whether they sound legitimate or not. Also if I find a lot of the same information in more than one source I tend to think it is true. All of my sources sound like very credible and legitimate websites and I did truly believe they were all factual.
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