In this reflection I will be focusing on the way that I have been impacted culturally by attending Davidson. I come from a small town in NC where the majority of the people that I see daily are minorities. I went to a school where the majority of the students are black and a small …
The following was the description on this image posted on instagram by the account @brownissues…. Chicago police shot and killed a 13-year-old boy on the city’s West side early Monday morning and haven’t provided many details about the shooting in the four days since.The boy, identified by the Cook County medical examiner as Adam Toledo, …
Watching this film, the initial thoughts that came to mind were that it was about a documentary about an event that had happened in Brazil and it was something that would impact the lower social classes. The event from the film was probably one that happened times before, but this one was recorded and streamed …
For this reflection post I will be taking a moment to reflect on my community and the issues that are not being highlighted in the media. We see a lot about the Black Lives Matter Movement and supporting Asian Americans that are in the US, but we rarely see things that are happening within the …
This semester I am taking two LAS courses and as I mentioned in my previous post, I intend to major in LAS, so that is part of the reason for the classes. Aside from taking LAS 101 I am taking HIS 163, Place and Nation in Modern Latin America. There have been times where I’ve …
My idea of Latin America as we start the course is that it is its own continent where the countries that exist today were created mainly because they were conquered by either the Spanish or the Portuguese, which includes the islands that are in the Caribbean. Latin America is filled with richness due to the …
