Voices | Joseph | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/joseph/activity/ Activity feed for Joseph. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:25:51 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f0580c384b945afc7b7b9f1e8e85bb93 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4403 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:06:35 +0000  

Honduras is currently going through its presidential election. Salvador Nasralla, a former television host and sports journalist, is running against the incumbent Juan Orlando Hernández. Supporters of b […]

]]> 369f2e2a804e1d8ef1ef611c8127b6d8 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4362 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:22:59 +0000 It is clear after reading the article that the Virgin of Carmen festival plays an incredibly important role in community identity for the Cabaneños. For Cabaneños abroad, the funding, planning, participation in, a […]

]]> cb9706739051d085c07941a7b56f86f6 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4322 Wed, 15 Nov 2017 02:50:48 +0000 This was a long article with lots of information, so I will try to sum it up as best I can. Dr. Esperanza Cerón, head of the organization Educar Consumidores, was working to promote a tax on sugary drinks t […]

]]> 72b7417d0ae1ae36c5a67223714eeebd Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4266 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:29:42 +0000 Currently, Argentina is having some issues with its flights. Two different airlines, Austral Líneas Aéreas and Aerolíneas Argentinas (a state-run airline), are dealing with strikes from workers demanding salary […]

]]> 2f040ab8fd8478d9b8b6b2e271dd602c Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4214 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:06:58 +0000 My peer reviewer mentioned a few things about my sources which I think are incredibly important. Dr. Holt noted that two of my sources are not very scholarly though they have interesting information. My peer […]

]]> deddb242b616dbfe59fe2b44add15e10 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4164 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 02:49:22 +0000 In this chapter, Rivera-Rideau argues that the racialization of reggaetón creates negative stereotypes that apply to all people of Latin American descent. The author seems to be incredibly frustrated with the way […]

]]> 8f65ce4fda55ddbbbe6158c857aeab1d Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4143 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:40:22 +0000 A man believed to be a leader of the Mara Salvatrucha (aka MS-13) gang has been arrested in Guatemala recently. Ángel Gabriel Reyes Marroquín, or Blanco, as he is known, was found in a town 31 miles west of Gu […]

]]> 55b440211b89aa3c74bb5439c59e947a Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4107 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:25:44 +0000 Read the posts by Brooks and Kyrsten on the current crisis Puerto Rico and how it is being handled by the American government and American celebrities.

Discussion Questions:

How does the response time of […]

]]> 34de8501edbb501d8378ebc4c544b934 Joseph commented on the post, Wikipedia Article Edits, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/24/wikipedia-article-edits/#comment-23 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:23:16 +0000 Keira,

I think your best bet may be to focus specifically on FARC as a rebel group instead of as a political party. From the little I know about FARC, it seems as though they have not worked hard to make the […]

]]> 8140afe9ca5786b1ddf05f5bcabe84e5 Joseph commented on the post, Tackling Wikipedia Articles, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/25/tackling-wikipedia-articles/#comment-22 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:11:08 +0000 Cesar,

I love your topic! For one of my Noticias posts I actually wrote about how 10 members of an indigenous group had been brutally murdered by some Brazilian miners. Now, obviously you’ve chosen to focus on […]

]]> ffa469bcd296a541f02a7a7c451bfbdb Joseph commented on the post, Fashion Trends in Latin America, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/25/fashion-trends-in-latin-america/#comment-21 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:51:32 +0000 I think you have found an incredibly interesting topic indeed. My only concern is that you may find it difficult to talk about the many different types and styles of clothing that originated in Latin America. I […]

]]> c845116d3da0c621a1902419395a5478 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4016 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 04:05:13 +0000 I may be able to complete my Wikipedia assignment on this article about Sports in the Dominican Republic. In the baseball section there is a lot of good information about the history of baseball in the country. […]

]]> 48d7fdfe65a74d1af794aef736ef1447 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3942 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:11:03 +0000 A location scout by the name of Carlos Muñoz Portal has been found dead in Mexico. He was scouting for locations to shoot scenes for the popular Netflix show ‘Narcos’. The 37 year old’s body was found riddled […]

]]> f124b0fe336f782ca14b03c3098db766 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3901 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:02:13 +0000 The rights of Indigenous peoples in Latin America
The prevalence of baseball in Latin America, specifically the Dominican Republic

With the first topic, I look to continue researching what I learned from […]

]]> 919692db202afd550307f9ee42e5c6eb Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3825 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 23:23:51 +0000 Darlington, Shasta. “‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Reported Killed in Brazil.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 10 Sept. 2017, http://www.nyti […]

]]> e5fc8deac05897043f102b16d31d1dbd Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3778 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 22:01:31 +0000 According to the Mexican historian Andrés Reséndez, the four travelers “felt greatly disturbed and saddened that other Christians had already reached these remote lands and were causing so much harm to the n […]

]]> 64526f109d1caf34546ac66f097d88e2 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3767 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 06:49:07 +0000 I agree with Reséndez’s arguments about culture and hospitality because each group of natives treated the outsiders differently, based on the circumstances. The outsiders became enslaved by the natives on the […]

]]> adfb22fdff2a1e59d779782138140577 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3732 Mon, 04 Sep 2017 16:14:14 +0000 The Wikipedia article on Estevanico seemed like it was of decent quality. I would say that everything in the article is relevant. It has four subsections after the main introduction: Estevanico’s Early Life, his N […]

]]> 4c8426a897b15d1a592dad6157888e8d Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3613 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:59:25 +0000 In the introduction of A Land So Strange, Résendez gives a brief description of Cabeza de Vaca’s journey and its consequences in historical and modern times respectively. Cabeza de Vaca, two other Spaniards, and E […]

]]> d9554a18ca9d3e6e4f5fc70977b47966 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3566 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 03:59:22 +0000 From my perspective, historian William Cronon’s main argument was, in simple terms, that the goal of a liberal education is ‘only connect’. Throughout the article, he lists a series of ten qualities that he […]

]]> 1e57b5f1e47dd811dee463e14ca182e8 Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3551 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:27:00 +0000 Hello everyone, my name is Joseph. I’m from Cleveland, OH. I love playing guitar and skateboarding. One surprising thing about myself is that I was awarded an Emmy certificate for my work on a short documentary I […]

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