1. FOR WHAT AUDIENCE WAS THE DOCUMENT WRITTEN
a.This document was written for Nonfiction lovers. The article, “John Rollin Ridge and Joaquín Murieta” has life learning experience that you can implement in your life. Joaquín is an innocent and honest man which results being punished for his honesty. Being an honest individual doesn 't always get you far in life but instead you can be persecuted which result of turning into criminal in society.
2. DOCUMENT INFORMATION (There are many possible ways to answer A-D.)
A.List three things the author said that you think are important:
i. If you were guilty of a crime and about to be hung. You have little chance of disproving that you are not quality of your crime. Before you have a saying,
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At the end of article they describe the pain Joaquín Murieta endured for being a honest and innocent man: “His soul swelled beyond its former boundaries, and the barriers of honor, rocked into atoms by the strong passion which shook his heart like an earthquake, crumbled and fell” (1). At the current time it didn 't matter if you were honest or not with law. If you weren 't white in 1850, you were considered an outsider. Since Joaquín Murieta was Mexican, he was not persecuted because of his transgression but because he was Mexican. The writer wanted to give you an idea of what it felt to be a Mexican and the mistreatment they got from the white …show more content…
List two things the document tells you about life at the time it was written
i. Being guilt of your crime in their lifetime was harsh. If you were guilty of a crime you were to be hung in front of people in your town. In today 's world that would never happen, especially in California. You have the opportunity by the law to get yourself, an attorney whether you 're poor or rich. There’s a system that the government has placed to see if you 're guilty of your crime or not. You also don 't have people screaming and yelling at you that you deserve to die for your crime. The last thing you want to hear or see is people celebrating your death before you die.
ii. If you were white you had an advantage. You could easily steal, kill, or hurt an individual and blame on the other race. The writer explains at the end of the article, Joaquín Murieta, was innocent of his crimes. They tied him up on tree and embarrassed him in front of the public which included lashing him for stealing the horse. They killed his brother, friend, wife, and punish him for stealing horse that was his friends. Whites did not have consequences for their action whether they were right or wrong. They were above the law which included killing, hurting, and stealing from anyone that wasn 't
In Richard Rodriguez’s “Proofs,” Mexican immigrant’s destination is described, as well as their perceptions and expectations of America. Rodriguez describes the passage to the United States as difficult, yet worthy. He states: “The city will win. The city will give the children all the village could not- VCR’s, hairstyles, drum beat. The city sings mean songs, dirty songs. But the city will sing the children a great Protestant hymn.You can be anything you want to be.” He also states: “Mexico is poor. But mama says there
In the essay, Mr. Soto spends a good part of the paper thinking whether he should continue his relationship with his new Japanese girlfriend. An example of his struggle was a conversation between Mr.Soto and his mother, “ But the more I talked, the more concerned she became. Was it a mistake? ‘Marry a Mexican girl.’ I heard my mother in my mind” (pp. 220). All Mr.Soto doubt about his relationship stems from the beliefs of his family. He was raised with the notions that a Mexican wife was the best and only option for him. It was only through visiting her family, his inner qualms were calmed: “ On the highway, I felt happy, pleased by it all. I patted Carolyn’s thigh. Her people were like Mexicans, only difference” (pp 222). From the experiences of meeting people he properly never would 've met, Mr.Soto found that race has no bounds, one
One of the many characteristics that a hero needs to have is bravery. Cortez of course didn’t want what happen to happen, but he had the bravery to stand up to an Anglo sheriff to defend his brother. At the time that this happened, Anglos intimidated many Mexican-Americans who were living in Texas because of the tension that was there from the war. Mexican American were abused and mistreated because of the language barrier that wasthere was between them. This...
This book was published in 1981 with an immense elaboration of media hype. This is a story of a young Mexican American who felt disgusted of being pointed out as a minority and was unhappy with affirmative action programs although he had gained advantages from them. He acknowledged the gap that was created between him and his parents as the penalty immigrants ought to pay to develop and grow into American culture. And he confessed that he got bewildered to see other Hispanic teachers and students determined to preserve their ethnicity and traditions by asking for such issues to be dealt with as departments of Chicano studies and minority literature classes. A lot of critics criticized him as a defector of his heritage, but there are a few who believed him to be a sober vote in opposition to the political intemperance of the 1960s and 1970s.
6. Love, Edgar F. “Negro Resistance to Spanish Rule in Colonial Mexico.” The Journal of Negro History 52, no. 2 (1967): 89-103.
The essay compares the Mexican American struggle to the African American struggle and even points out how some Mexican Americans did not want to join in the fight the get legal protection for the fear of being on the same level as an African American 12[12]. The student’s essay recognizes that although Hernandez was clearly guilty his lawyer Gus Garcia was fighting for the over all civil rights of Mexican American people when it came to trial by jury. The article further
The plight of Chicanos as an oppressed people was not in the: public spotlight”(The Struggle). The struggles of the Pachucos have influenced the Chicanos by being a group they can look up to as a group of people who have made themselves acknowledgeable and different. The Chicano population have witnessed that they can represent they're different and represent themselves through their own name. In relation to the Pachucos, the Chicanos have formed gangs and still show hostility. The Pachucos were proof that chosen self-identity is something that is possible, which to the Chicanos was assurance that their own group would make a difference. Both groups were representing and made themselves the public spotlight. They saw that there is a way to get away from becoming listed as a Mexican, so they followed in the Pachucos footsteps. The Chicanos have gone further than the Pachucos in fighting for their rights and opportunities even though they are part of their own world. Therefore, the Pachucos struggles have reflected the Chicanos because they both fight to represent themselves as a different culture, not in a Mexican-American
The character of Demetrio Macias proves to be quite ironic. One facet of his character reveals his determination to find Pancho Villa’s army, while the other side of his character parallels the extraordinary qualities Pancho Villa had as a hero. People viewed Pancho Villa as a revered hero who pushed out foreign "proprietors" and fought for the common man. On one hand, there is the compassionate man who helped those in need and rescued orphans providing them with food, education, and a home. On the other hand, there was the ferocious general who destroyed villages and killed innocent victims. Villa was generous and helpful to his followers, of which he insisted on loyalty and trust, but to those who violated his trust and authority, he was merciless and cruel. We can clearly see the similarities of these two leaders when we analyze their noble actions. Demetrio’s reluctance to stop ...
The wealthy white men had money and recourses, and the poor immigrants did not, so the white business men virtually controlled the city and the courts. When Jurgis found out about Connor raping his wife, he attacked him. Jurgis was arrested, and because the poor immigrants didn’t have a voice in the court system back then, The Judge would not believe him when he explained that Connor raped his wife. Instead, the Judge sided with Conner with no proof at all, and Jurgis was put back in jail, and he had to pay for the costs of the trial. It would have been easy to send the immigrants to prison any time they stepped out of line because they could not afford lawyers, and did not have much of a say in the court system because they weren’t white. They were seen as less than whites and that they needed to be put in their
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...hey did commit, but were punished much more harshly because of their ethnicity. One of the men comes to the conclusion that, although they are in fact guilty, they are not being tried based on their crime, but their beliefs and because of their roots (B). Immigrants were unfairly and bitterly judged for things that they didn’t do because of people’s own fear and ignorance leaving them isolated within the country during this period.
John Rollin Ridge, author of The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta share similarities with his character. Character Murieta, is symbolized as a man who turns to violence after the lynching of his brother, and a gang rape of his young wife. Author Ridge, who also turned to violence when his father and grandfather were murdered by wrathful Native Americans who had to give up their land due to a treaty his family agreed and signed on. The relocation of the Cherokee’s. Ridge's family was blamed for signing the treaty, which is known today as, the "Trail of Tears".
It has been demonstrated the one in seven people, or fourteen percent, who are put on death row were innocent of their convicted crimes. The American society is outraged when an innocent person is killed, the fourteen percent would not have to suffer if the death penalty was illegal throughout the country. There is no way to tell how the more one thousand people, possibly more, executed since 1976 may also have been innocent, courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Wrongful convictions and executions can be made from many of the following factors: mistaken eyewitness testimony, faulty forensic science, fabricated testimony or testimony from jailhouse informants, grossly incompetent lawyers, false confessions, police or prosecutorial misconduct and racial bias. Many of the people who are resentenced from death to life imprisonment may be innocent and rotting behind bars, since without the imminent threat of death, no one will take up their case to exonerate them. Along with the con of the death of innocent people, the elimination of the death penalty proves as a more effective way to deter
Caciques like Pedro did not disturb the system because it benefited them because for the most part they were fairer skinned white people. The Mestizos, half Spanish half Indian, also did not challenge the system because although they were awarded very few opportunities they did not want to lose them, allowing the Encomienda system to continue without opposition. When a system like the Encomienda system goes unchecked corruption is allowed to occur because it marginalizes a less powerful group to benefit a more powerful group in this case the Spaniards. When the Spaniards first came to Mexico, they found new lands free for them to claim in the name of God. However, this land was inhabited by the Native Americans who tended the land and were their for years before the Spaniards ever set foot their. Those first Spaniards share the same opinion as Pedro: “What law, Fulgor? From now on, we’re the law”(40). They came to a land where their was no written law, and used that lawlessness to their
Secondly, many believe that capital punishment is right because of the justice given to the victim’s family. These family members feel l...