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Johnson, Loch K. “Congressional Supervision of America’s Secret Agencies: The Experience and Legacy of the Church Committee.” Public Administration Review 64, no. 1 (2004): 3-14.

Author and political scientist […]

What does Luis Cervantes represent in The Underdogs?

This time in Mexico was one with an incredible riff between the rich and the poor. The introduction of Luis Cervantes was a strategic move on Azuela’s part […]

Mexico has been making global headlines recently for an issue that has been festering within the country for generations: femicide. There have been an increasing number of female murders within the past year. As […]

This novel talks about one Mexican farmer Demetrio from the countryside participating in the Revolution . We could see his travels and interactions with different characters from various backgrounds. The […]

For this post, I read a Wikipedia article written on economic discrimination. This highlighted animosity in the workforce and how this has been derived from colonial attitudes as “economic discrimination is u […]

This time around, I decided to read a wikipedia article entitled The Culture of Nicaragua. I have been interested in Nicaragua ever since I traveled there my junior year for about two weeks. I would like to learn […]

What role do women play in
the revolution? How does their role reflect the Spanish ideas of honor that we
learned about in the colonial era?

In The Underdogs,
the role of women is primarily a domestic one. […]

My discussion question: What is the profile of the men fighting for the revolution?

As the article from class you gave
us stated and which readers can observe in the novel, the men on the
revolutionary side […]

My question is: what does Palomo represent and how is the treatment of Palomo representative of the Revolution?

Palomo is Demetrio’s dog in the beginning of the book. In Spanish, Palomo means pigeon or dove, […]

I picked the article “Mexican Drug War” to evaluate. Part of the article focuses on the history of Latin America regarding the Mexican drug war. Based on the nature of the topic, the history of it has been rig […]

How do the male and female characters treat Camila
differently from each other throughout the novel?

The men in The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela primarily
treat Camila as an object that can be one, discarded, […]

My discussion question is: What motivated Demetrio and his men to join the revolutionary cause?

Throughout the novel, Demetrio and his men offer several different reasons to explain their motivations behind […]

For my chosen Wikipedia article, I looked at the article about the encomienda system, specifically about the development of the system and it’s use in the colonization of the Americas. Although at first glance, […]

To begin class, Peyton discussed the story of two people that had been found dead at butterfly reserves in Michoacan, Mexico. The first man, Homero Gomez, was found dead in the bottom of a well with blunt force […]

My discussion question for Azuela’s Underdogs is How do Demetrio and his men’s views of Luis Cervantes change throughout the novel?

Cervantes is first introduced on page 20, in which he describes himself as […]

I picked the page “Argentina-United States relations” on Wikipedia. This page describes the relationship between the United States and Argentina over time. This is related to our course theme of Latin American his […]

My Wikipedia article is titled “Church Committee,” and as the title suggests, it is a comprehensive overview of the creation of the Church Committee and its purposes. It does not dive deeply into the significance […]