America’s poor
미국은 10대 부국중의 한 나라이지만 모든 사람들이 American Dream을 다 꿈꿀 수 있는 것은 아니다. 13~15 퍼센트의 인구들이 최저생계에 필요한 소득수준에 미치지 못하는 삶을 영위한다. 그들의 수입은 일년에 15,000달러가 되지 못한다. 가난한 사람들의 다수를 이루는 미국인들은 노인들이
* More than 10 million people have been brought people to the Plantations.
The number of black slaves in the Civil War, mobilized
*North : 400,000
*South : 3,500,000
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
Muddy water->gold
: The change may represent the improved status of
African Americans after the Civil War.
Personification: “the singing of the Mississippi,”
“muddy bosom,”
“Dusky rivers”
The final line reaf
Part 1. Chicano American
The past : U.S. citizen of Mexican descent
José Limón : the first documented use of the term to 1911
The present : a wide range of meanings
Chicano Civil Rights Movement in 1960s
Deal with various issues
ex) farm workers' rights, education, voting and political rights
Socially, the Chicano Movement addressed negative ethnic stereotypes
The Maya is a Mesoamericancivilization, noted for its language, art, architecture, mathematical and astronomical systems.
the Pre-Classic period (2000 BC to 250 AD)
the Classic period (250 AD to 900 AD)
the Post-Classic period until the arrival of the Spanish
The Maya civilization extended throughout the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatán
It also extended throughou