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 A Documentary Photographer White Angel Breadline, San Francisco Dorothea Lange, 1933      Looking through the Google Arts and Culture website, the form of art that stood out most to me is the photograph White Angel Breadline taken by Dorothea Lange. This photograph, as a gift from Dorothea Lange's second husband, is now part of the Oakland Museum of California, a photograph taken in the year 1933 during the era of the Great Depression in the United States that started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930's. Having learned of the Great Depression era, this picture was really captivating in that the artist was able to capture what poverty and struggle looked like. This photo was taken outside of a soup kitchen where a lot of hungry people gathered in hopes of getting a meal (Google Arts and Culture). The kitchen was run by Lois Jordan the "white angel" hence the title of the photograph the White Angel Breadline . Dorothea Lange was an artist most known for her Depr...

Landscapers Google Images For this blog post of today, I listened to a podcast from Latino USA called "The American Dream Daughter: A conversation with author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio" aired on November 3rd 2020. I listened to this program hosted by Maria Hinojosa with guest speaker Karla on November 18, 2020. From listening to this podcast I learned about Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, a DACA student born from immigrant parents who is the poster child for having achieved "The American Dream". I like this topic because it's a story I can relate to in many ways. Guest speaker Karla was able to tell the audience about herself and how she came to be who she is today. She is a Harvard graduate working on her Ph D at Yale, she has achieved success many can only dream about. With hard working immigrant parents she was fortunate to have the opportunity to gain success. I really enjoyed this podcast because I felt I can relate in many ways to the hardships she went thr...

Latino USA For this blog post of today, I listened to a podcast from Latino USA called "Alzheimer's in Color" aired on September 11, 2020.  I listened to this program produced by Maria Hinojosa from Latino USA in collaboration with Black Public Media on October 21st 2020. For this blog post I listened to the host of the show, Latinx, Black Dominican, Yvonne Latty a journalist and university professor tell the story of her mother, Ramona Latty and her struggle living with Alzheimer's. During this pandemic, Yvonne talks about the difficulty of keeping in touch and being there for her mother. I liked this podcast especially, because it touched on the issues of health care for people of color. When Ramona Latty got diagnosed with Alzheimer's Yvonne mentioned that the doctor told her to "Google" the disease. Most of the people in that waiting room where she found herself with her mother were people of color about to receive in adequate health care. If you are...

The Book of the Maya For this blog post, I finished reading the book the Popol Vuh, the book in the image to the left. This is a translated book from original Maya text by Allen J. Christenson. This book is about how the Maya believe the world and everything came to be, everything from Gods to the first animals and the first people to exist. The book begins by stating "We shall begin to tell the ancient stories of the beginning, the origin of all that was done in the citadel of Quiche..." (Christenson 59). Quiche referring to the land, the nation, the capital city, and the people themselves.  There are a lot of key characters in this story that help bring understanding to this book. But of the most important characters talked about in this text is a set of twins that are called "The Hero Twins". These twins names are Hunahpu and Xbalanque. These twins are heroes because they seek to protect all. Referring to the twins the book states "They were simply gods. As ...

Olmec Colossal Stone Head San Lorenzo Maribel Ponce Ixba   For this blog post, I have watched an hour long video and read an article provided to me that both present the topic of the Olmec people. The man that did the video got to visit multiple sites where the Olmec people were said to have lived. He visited these sites and got to see many artifacts and monuments that were created by hand thousands of years ago. An example would be the image on the left of one of the many  Colossal heads from San Lorenzo, Vera Cruz. He got to visit museums where he was able to get exclusive viewings of pieces not displayed to the public and was able to film. He was able to discuss with archeologists what the meaning and beliefs of the Olmec people could have been (Lost 13:30-15). The article goes into detail about the lands these people lived on and the structuring of their city, La Venta. These people were living well for their time, "Excavations at these sites have recovered remains o...

Illustration by Alex Charner Latino USA   For this blog post of today, I listened to a podcast from Latino USA called "After the Mississippi Raids" aired on August 7, 2020. I listened to this program hosted and produced by Maria Hinojosa and Miguel Macias on September 2nd, 2020. In this podcast both of these host were able to go to Mississippi and interview immigrants that were affected by the poultry factory raids that took place in Mississippi August of 2019. I chose to write about this subject because I come from immigrant parents and those misfortunate events could have been a shared experience. During and after listening to this podcast, although I know how fortunate and blessed I am, I was feeling even more grateful for everything I have. I have parents that have a green card after 22 years of living in fear that they could get deported. And listening to this podcast gave me more insight into other immigrants stories and they're struggles to get to where they are no...