I have chosen an article called,’’These Women Lived To Tell The Tale Of Argentina's Dirty War. It is about those women who have survived the dirty war. One of them is Victoria Donda, 38. She was born in a clandestine maternity ward in the ESMA. It is a former illegal custody center in Buenos Aires. As soon as she had delivered the baby Victoria’s mother Maria Hilda de Donda was shifted. In other words, she was drugged and thrown out of a plane into the River Plate during a “death flight’’. Which basically was choose by military way of the disappearing people. Victoria’s father ,Jose Maria Donda, experienced the same fate. In the meantime, the orphaned Victoria was given over to a military family to be raised up as their own. According to the …show more content…
"I want everybody to know that. I don’t want to portray the sad, serious face of somebody who’s suffered. I want to celebrate life.”Her festivity of life, since realizing her true root a decade ago through a DNA test, has directed her career. In today, she is a congresswoman trying for socially minded change in Argentine politics. she is one of the few outspoken politicians supporting pro-choice reproductive rights legislation. There is another one Miriam Lewin, a survivor of the 1970s detention centers, at her home in Buenos Aires. Miriam Lewin, she is 58 and she was supposed to die. Luckily, she is the survivor. when she was a teenager, she was taken by juta death squad off the street .she was trying to swallow suicide pill that she use to carry with her always.they have no idea what happened to the female when the military took them away, one thing for sure they won’t see them again. The first
The story ‘Norma’ is written by Sonia Sanchez, who describes in the story that how she used to look up to another girl in her school named Norma. Norma was intelligent, attractive, and everything that made a person perfect. But then as they grew up, Norma started doing drugs, and got pregnant while she was still in high school. She got kicked out of school, and wasn’t seen for a long time. Then after a few years, Sonia and Norma met again, and agreed to get together often. After leaving, Sonia vows to herself to never agree again, as she did not accept Norma as her role model anymore.
Alfredo Corchado — is the author of the book named " Midnight in Mexico:A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness”. We are, probably, all interested in finding out the facts, news, and gossips about Mexico. This country was always associated with something mysterious. For me personally, the title of the book seemed to be very gripping, I was interested in revealing the secrets of life in Mexico, thus I decided to read this book. I was really curious, what can Alfredo Corchado tell me about the life in this country, the country, where the constant massacre is the picture, people used to see. In his book, the author tells the reader about the real situations, which took place in Mexico, reveals the secrets of the people’s lives and tells the story from the “inside”. He describes the way he lives his life, and does his work. The " Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness” is a memoir. Author tries to transform his own experience into the story line. Corchado shows the reader the darkest episodes of Mexican society, while relying on his own experience.
This article is written in the first person's point of view. The style is informal, almost chatty in spite of the morbid topic it deals with. The author uses this style to tell the reader a story, like telling a friend an experience. The author's feelings and thoughts are freely expressed. This helps to put the reader into the author's shoes, to see through her eyes and feel through her heart.
In Sandra Benitez’s novel, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, we get to know the lives and struggles of the residents of a small town in Mexico. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The conflict I chose was the conflict that Marta was with her child and how her anger about the child made her do things she wished she could take back. It all starts with Marta and her sister. Marta is pregnant and thinks she can't take care of the kid so she wants an abortion. Then once Choyo Marta’s sister husband found out he insisted to take the kid once he is born. So then Marta decided to take care of the baby until it was born but then after time went by the husband of Choyo said that he wouldn't be able to take the kid because he was already going to have a child with Choyo. Once Marta was told this she let her anger get the best of her which then lead her to
History usually forces itself into the present in Juan Jose Campanella’s film “El Secreto De Sus Ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes). Although it was filmed in 2009, the story is an attempted memorization of the violent reality in 1970-1980s Argentina, an era in which the country was rapidly sinking into military rule-ship. Campanella offers flashbacks into Argentina’s dark days, a period where violence homicide, rape and injustices ruled. Through memory, the film narrate a era in which it was impossible to be an innocent person as the innocents were falsely accused, tortured and even murdered for crimes they never committed, all these for the whims of those in power. Even though, the film is set in the 1970s, it does not call immediate attention to the animosity, the hopeless feeling and the constant struggle between the desire to forget vs. the attempts to remember the chaos and confusion of these years. However, through the use of memory Campanella allow the views to portray an almost perfect picture of what happened in Argentina.
This research paper talks about a very well know author known today as Isabel Allende. She is a very interesting person who has a really interesting life and background. She was born in Lima a city in Peru. Today she lives in San Francisco with her American husband and one daughter and one son. She is very well known for books that she had written in the past and for books she has written today.
The Mirabal sisters are recognized today for their bravery and courage not only in the Dominican Republic but in other parts of the world. They sacrificed their life for what they believed in: women’s rights. Because of their bravery, they were killed by their leader, Trujillo. It was said that they were killed in a car accident, but Minerva’s daughter, Minou said that they were tortured or beaten to death by some of Pena’s men. Trujillo was assassinated six months after the death of the sisters. In honor of the Mirabal sisters, November 25th is marked as the International Day against Violence against Women.
La autora Puertoriqueña Rosario Ferré sin duda pertence a ese grupo the escritores que critícan la sociedad en la que les tocó vivír en sus creaciónes literárias. Ferré nació en Ponce, Puerto Rico la ciudad mas grande y poderosa del sur de la isla. Su familia es una de las mas importante economicamente y politicamente poderosa. Su padre fue gobernador de la isla durante los años del 1968 al 1972. Como todas las mujeres en esa época se casó y comenzó una familia, destinada a una vida como dama elegante y ociosa. Pero se dió cuenta que su vida pertenecía a la literatura. Ella rompió un taboo y molde cultural, que convertía a las mujeres de clase media alta, en muñecas. Esa generación de mujeres exigiendo cambios en la sociedad se encontraban en el medio de la revolución femenina. Cualquier mujer que quisiera cambiar su vida o trabajar era considerada extraña o loca. Esta opreción se convirtió en su inspiración. Ferré nos comunica a travez de esta novela, la realidad de la mujer puertoriqueña a mediados de siglo. En La Bella Durmiente, Rosario Ferré muestra la mujer como sujeto y objeto. Esta obra es un manisfiesto de los derechos de la mujer y del inconformismo femenino que eventualmente lleva a la mujer a rechazar la realidad. Analizare y demonstrare por medio de este ensayo, los papeles que le toca jugar (a la mujer) en esta sociedad, la corrupcion moral y social que le rodea y su reacción ante todo esto resultando en un trágico final.
The Mirabal sisters or Las Mariposas, are three revolutionaries, who were greatly involved in the overthrow of Rafael Trujillo, the dreadful dictator in the Dominican Republic. These courageous sisters at a young age observed countless flaws in Trujillo's regime, including his overpowering nature and the establishment of numerous unjust laws. Moreover, the Mirabals strongly felt that it was their duty to take action in order to terminate this terrible regime, so they joined the revolution as Las Mariposas. The sisters were obligated to abandon their children and even lose their own lives for this rebellion. However, the sisters are viewed as selfish by numerous people because they abandoned their own children, although risking one's life for their country and future is definitely not selfish. Evidently, it was justified for the Mirabal sisters to sacrifice caring for their own children and their lives, to engage in the revolution against their unjust government.
Throughout the novel, Nunez’s readers are told two stories between two women, Rosa and Zuela, and the men who abuse them, along with other happenings on the island of Trinidad. During Rosa and Zuela’s childhood, they witnessed an act; sexual violation of a young girl. After a long separation, Rosa and Zuela are brought together again through another act where a female was murdered. Nunez used Trinidad and all the villagers to show the damage of European colonialism in the way that the villagers reacted to Rosa and Zuela’s stories. ...
The inability for the first wave of feminism to impact Latin America is reflected in Clara. It is assumed that having a politician in the family often results in many discussions in politics a...
Between the years of 1976 to 1983, the period known as the ‘Dirty War’ was in full force in Argentina. During this period, thousands of people mysteriously went missing, and are referred to now as the ‘Disappeared’. It is believed that many of the disappeared were taken by agents of the Argentine government, and perhaps tortured and killed before their bodies were disposed of in unmarked graves or rural areas. Whenever the female captives were pregnant, their children were stolen away right after giving birth, while they themselves remained detained. It is estimated that 500 young children and infants were given to families with close ties to the military to be raised. Within this essay I would like to touch on the brief history of the Dirty war and why the military felt it was necessary to take and kill thousands of Argentina’s, and also the devastating affects the disappeared, and stolen children are having on living relatives of those taken or killed. It is hard to imagine something like this happening in North America relatively recently. To wakeup and have members of your family missing, with no explanation, or to one day be told your parents are not biologically related is something Argentina’s had to deal with, and are continuing to face even today.
They’ve set a shining example of how the will to make a difference can have drastic and incredible results effective or not to the immediate situation at hand, it encourages the surrounding people to question the value of their freedom. After the dictatorship fell, the trial of the murderers was on T.V. for a month, and they admitted to killing the Mirabal sisters and Rufino by strangulation. Although they died however, their sacrifice had not gone unnoticed. The memory of their sacrifice is honored today, by a national holiday and monuments, and through these closure is found, but their story is not lost. “Las Mariposas” leave an important legacy that enforces the ever existing
This paper is not to show the reasons why a woman would have an abortion, but simply what would happen if they did not have a choice. But abortion is not just a medical procedure; it affects every woman who has ever been in that desperate situation. A woman should be able to decide for herself what her life should look like. No matter the reason or cause, politics should not be involved in a woman’s medical procedure. The matter of opinion should be just that, an opinion.
Her advances in women’s rights proved to be victorious, as well as providing a strong female leader to aspire to become. Moreover, Evita’s non-profit organizations improved citizens’ lives by decreasing poverty and providing hope for a better future. Correspondingly, her advances in healthcare proved to extricate Argentinians of their various illnesses and injuries. For these reasons, Evita became the woman who saved the lives and stole the hearts of