Voices | Abby | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/abbyd/activity/ Activity feed for Abby. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:12:56 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 2ac6c3a2132850d0e64eb22b3c30f13d Abby wrote a new post on the site COW Latin America https://cowlatinamerica.voices.wooster.edu/?p=893 Mon, 04 May 2020 21:25:30 +0000 Introduction

Beginning in 1492, conquistadors from the Iberian peninsula arrived in Latin America. They encountered the indigenous peoples who had been living on the land for centuries and deemed them barbaric […]

]]> fe27dd11b00c1d8514f44fdd2b7f3162 Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 https://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3890 Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:30:39 +0000 What is the symbolism of Mate and how is it mentioned throughout the book?

Mate is a traditional Argentine drink. It is a tea-like beverage and sees its first mention on the third page of the book. It […]

]]> 74c96f5e4d32629acf4e5af82e8e862d Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 https://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3822 Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:02:02 +0000 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. […]

]]> cec8403b83bb00196464ea57753fd547 Abby commented on the post, Student Research Idea: The Life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, on the site Modern Latin America 2020 http://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/2020/02/04/student-research-idea-the-life-of-sor-juana-inez-de-la-cruz/#comment-31 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:05:15 +0000 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is an extremely influential person when discussing colonial Mexico as well as the role religion played in colonization. We talked a lot about her in Colonial Latin America last semester […]

]]> a2ae256f7b7317ecc20fc079a5dcb1c4 Abby commented on the post, Narrowed Research Post: Gender and Argentina's Dirty War, on the site Modern Latin America 2020 http://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/2020/02/16/narrowed-research-post-gender-and-argentinas-dirty-war/#comment-30 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:01:48 +0000 This seems like a really interesting topic to explore, I think I have heard of this movement before but I don’t know much about it. It could be interesting to look at social media to see how the movement is b […]

]]> 8094043f54c763dba3300bd857d6e9a8 Abby commented on the post, Narrowed Research Focus: Chile's Protests, on the site Modern Latin America 2020 http://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/2020/02/17/narrowed-research-focus-chiles-protests/#comment-28 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:58:49 +0000 This is really interesting! I feel like I don’t know much about the protests that are going on in Chile right now so I look forward to reading about them. I think it would be helpful to look at media coverage b […]

]]> b721b28fadd1a513096709f14d31c48b Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 https://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3765 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:56:08 +0000 For my research project, I want to look at the racial and social hierarchies or the casta system created by the Spanish in Latin America and the long term affects it had on Latin American countries. Racial […]

]]> f78de633494e2de249b3b45a27951848 Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 http://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3646 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:12:15 +0000 For my research , I am interested in looking at the “caste system” and how that has impacted the political structures throughout history, even reaching into recent times. This system was originally put in place by […]

]]> 601b7de38d819a306826ba0b1e5222d4 Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 http://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3643 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:21:48 +0000 Over the past few days, 47 people have died, 4 are missing and 18,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes because of severe weather. In the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, landslides […]

]]> 8d6c23597b5947c0341efe42ac1b714c Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 http://mla2020.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3563 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:45:28 +0000 Class Notes 1/24/2020

A one or two paragraph summary of the day’s activities.  What historical questions did we discuss in class?  How did the assigned readings for that day hold together?

We began cla […]

]]> 96e44fee6c12ef4106c56fafa2dcbd29 Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3914 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:15:25 +0000 What kind of rhetoric was used by those who opposed the slave rebellion and how do you think it effected the perception of the revolution?

The rhetoric surrounding the revolution on the opposing side is very […]

]]> 0f371c85e434e4d70e86aef9b44ad83e Abby commented on the post, Revised Research, on the site Colonial Latin America https://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/2019/09/25/revised-research/#comment-75 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:45:28 +0000 I think comparing the views of both parties is very important when researching topics in Latin America since there is often a gap in sources from the indigenous peoples. Comparing rituals and events would also be […]

]]> dc7a29808ae582fd5f25ba71f361b90d Abby commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America https://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/2019/09/25/revised-research-idea-4/#comment-74 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:42:00 +0000 This is an awesome research idea and seems like it will be fun to research! I would do some background work into what music was like before and after colonialism. Looking at specific instruments could also be […]

]]> 795376a130b80d8c2e87b254bcc82182 Abby commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/2019/09/25/revised-research-idea-3/#comment-73 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:36:16 +0000 I really like this research topic and I think it has important long term effects in modern day Hispanola. I spent a week in high school at a school in the Dominican Republic and one of the things they mentioned to […]

]]> 28ef179a624ba59287a5256f377cfe47 Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3768 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:03:42 +0000 After looking at sources and briefly discussing my project with Professor Holt, I have decided that I would like to focus on religious women in the Andes. I have found many sources that detail life in convents in […]

]]> 33e0f103073795c1504cf23204406c86 Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3720 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:57:25 +0000 The class discussion for 9/18 was focused on early colonial perspectives as the two groups we have been studying up to this point, the Iberians and the indigenous peoples of Latin America had recently met. The […]

]]> a322387c544ff09b60e680e65f6cf837 Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3660 Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:11:47 +0000 One area of research I am interested in is how colonization impacted gender roles in Latin America, specifically in the Andes. In our book we read that before colonization women and men in the Andes had separate […]

]]> 266c225514ce9c4f049213319069d960 Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3578 Sun, 01 Sep 2019 18:55:59 +0000 Throughout my academic career I have spent very little time learning about Latin America which was my main motivation for taking this class. I vaguely remember reading about the conquistadors in elementary school […]

]]> 31a25681d90c6ed430be09f66cc92026 Abby became a registered member https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/5832/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:01:56 +0000 0