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Welcome to the course site for History 216 Modern Latin America.  Here you’ll find our readings, topics for discussion, information on how to contact me, and details about some of the research projects well be w […]

refuge I love how she connects the lost of birds by the water level with the loss of her love. The chapter of Whistling swan. This chapter suggests […]

silkwormThere were always old ladies selling baby silkworms outside of my primary school. As an 8-year-old child, the happiness of seeing these cute […]

Blog 3I love the chapter Solitude the most. I love how Thoreau expresses his feeling of loving to be alone. He said it said straightforwardly, “I love […]

I sit here in mid-December with the thermometer holding steady at 19 degrees F (-7 degrees C) and all the frogs, snakes, salamanders and lizards in Ohio are down for a long winter’s nap. Only a few weeks ago, h […]

Blog 4 my adventure with mushroomsI hate rainy days. The one thing I do like about rainy days is it gives me an excuse to stay inside the whole day. I hate when the weather is […]

nature in our school I generally love the environment on our campus. I love how greens are always around every teaching buildings in a very casual way. Even though I […]

I learned the extent to which things can go wrong.  I went to sleep last night having set my alarm for 7:30 thinking my exam was at 9:00, I plugged in my phone to charge and went to sleep.  I woke up to my r […]

I learned that if you study a category like revolutions, wars, or causes for a political change involves patterns. An analysis can be made of similar events to see the similarities and differences of cause and […]

The first important thing that I learned was synthesizing primary and secondary sources. I feel that this is an important skill because they are both equally important when studying history. Primary sources […]

I learned that many revolutions followed similar patterns throughout Latin America, but each one had specific differences that made them unique.
I learned of the massive influence of the United States on […]

I got to learn about the Mexican Revolution which was something that I was very intrigued about. It was interesting to see how everything played out between the different factions during the revolution.
It […]

That revolutions can follow a similar formats, and that there can be similar causes and trajectories.
There are different forms of protest, and some of these forms can be feminine.
How to write a primary […]

Latin American political ideology is very distinct from other places in the world, and that uniqueness has played a big part in the history of the region.
 International and domestic politics during the […]

The theories on what it takes to make a successful revolution. DeFronzo’s factors are a very interesting way of quantifying the steps needed (though it seems to only apply to popular revolutions).
A […]

The three most important things I learned in Latin American Revolutions this semester are as follows.

Wikipedia has a much more extensive process than I first thought.
There are many different career […]

Differences in the political left and right in Latin America from that in the United States. Some usual associations (nationalism vs internationalism for example) I have with each do not hold true in the Latin […]

One of the things that I learned from this course was that the United States was more involved in the Latin American governments than I had imagined. 
Women were very involved in the various […]