Monday 16 December 2013

Hindu Pandit


Hindu Pandit
Discuss this issue with respect to the all of the following individuals you encountered in your readings.
A) Tanty Jaff who is Muslim but lives among Hindus and visits the Hindu Pandit with remarkable results; Chap :1 Changing Times Nadine Ramharack, “Resilience: Life in Rural Trinidad;”
B) Francisco who waits for work on street corners in Staten Island — a man who is fearful of morenos, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, in chapter 16, “The Hardest Place,” in The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place;
C) Lila’s marriage with Jose and her parents’ response in “A Defiant Woman in Post Revolutionary Mexico;” Chap: 10 Changing Times María Elena Hernández “A Defiant Woman in Post Revolutionary Mexico,”
D) Richard Lanns whose journey home is recounted in “From Plantation to Tourist ‘Paradise’ in St. Lucia;” Chap: 3 Changing Time Richard Lanns, “From Plantation to Tourist ‘Paradise’ in St. Lucia;”
E) Demitri’s life in the village of Mt. Moritz, Grenada
Chap: 5 Changing Time Ashleigh Phillips, “Race, Class, Revolution and the US Invasion of Grenada”
2. Strategies of resistance may differ dramatically, running the gamut
from personal to collective,
from silent to highly expressive,
from passive to active or even violent,
from highly organized to totally spontaneous.
What were the forms of resistance that were employed by the following people?
A) Luis, the very first character you meet (in the Prologue of The World of Mexican Migrants)
B) Stanley in “East Indian in the West Indies: Resistance in Trinidad”
Chap: 2 Changing Time Alyssa Sewlal,
C) Gabe Guzman the Dominican doorman on the Upper West Side in Chap 6: Changing Times and Changing Lives in the Caribbean and Latin America
3. Abandonment and fear of abandonment is a theme that runs through many of our readings this term. Discuss the way in which the following people fear abandonment or deal with abandonment.
A) Luis in the “Prologue” of The World of Mexican Migrants
B) Elena (the border crosser) in chapter 7, “Absolutely Still” (Part II “Journeys” ) of The World of Mexican Migrants
C) Dolores in chapter 5 “We only Speak on Sundays” in The World of Mexican Migrants
D) The town of Nopal Verde in chapter 2 in The World of Mexican Migrants
4. Of the individuals below discuss the nature of their experience either with the military or with war, or both.
A) Demitri in Grenada
Chap: 5 Changing Time Ashleigh Phillips, “Race, Class, Revolution and the US Invasion of Grenada”
B) Gabe in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic
Chap 6: Changing Times and Changing Lives in the Caribbean and Latin America
C) Miguel Gonzalez in Nicaragua
Chap 7 Changing times and Changing lives
D) Lila in MexicoChap 10 Changing times and  Changing lives
E) Don Jesus in El Salvador
Chap 9 Changing times and Changing Lives  CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THIS TOPIC

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