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Dirty Wars & Democracy (F15): Avatar Project

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Month: December 2015

Final Reflection

December 26, 2015December 26, 2015 Rocío1 Comment

I got a lot out of this project. When studying history, I learn best when I can connect to the subject on an emotional level, and the avatar project provided me with the perfect way to do so. This project also helped me process a lot of the more challenging material we… Read more“Final Reflection”

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November 2, 2008 (Final Reflection)

December 26, 2015December 26, 2015 Rocío1 Comment

It’s Flor’s birthday today, she’s turning 25. I can’t believe my kids are so grown up already. I’ve been reflecting a lot, thinking about what my life was like when I was Flor’s age. University was a chaotic time with all the violence in our country before the coup. I can’t believe… Read more“November 2, 2008 (Final Reflection)”

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Final Reflection

December 19, 2015 catalina1 Comment

Before taking this class I had only studied history in high school, which was a very different experience. To be honest, it was always my least favorite subject, just a list of names, dates, events, arbitrarily selected, with no sense of connection and no acknowledgement of the broader themes of… Read more“Final Reflection”

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Reflection on Avatar Project

December 19, 2015 catalinarodriguesmorales1 Comment

I admit that I had my hesitations about the avatar assignment when it was assigned. I suspected that some of the description of people’s attachment to it was hyperbole. That while some people might be particularly connected to their character, I might just think of it as any other assignment. I’m pleased to say… Read more“Reflection on Avatar Project”

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Death of a Dictator

December 17, 2015 renatam1 Comment

  Today as I walking with my friend Gloria, we past a group of people mourning the death of Pinochet. I tried to avoid eye contact, and completely ignore them. I was scared to see my mother in that crowd, as I know she is probably crying somewhere, complaining about… Read more“Death of a Dictator”

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Final Reflection

December 15, 2015 malena1 Comment

I’ve tried in my own way to fight for a history–that of Argentina’s Dirty War–that is constantly denied and has never been dealt with fully. I feel pain still. I do not subscribe to the idea that we must, or that it is even possible to close that chapter of… Read more“Final Reflection”

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Dec. 29, 1990

December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 malena1 Comment

  Dec. 29, 1990 An injustice has been committed today. Menem pardoned members of the junta, architects of horror Videla and Massera themselves. This is why I cannot find it within myself to trust our systems of governance. Throughout my formative years, as a teenager and young adult, I was… Read more“Dec. 29, 1990”

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Dec 10, 1983

December 15, 2015 malena1 Comment

Dec 10, 1983 The news of Alfonsin’s swearing in has been clouded by that of my father’s passing. I heard early this morning. He died in his sleep of a heart attack. I hadn’t had a real conversation with him in years. He was never explicitly unkind to me, but… Read more“Dec 10, 1983”

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Reflection

December 15, 2015 antoniovitali1 Comment

I found this assignment incredibly moving and provocative. Your class in general has made me rethink and question what it means to be a history major. I am so comfortable with readings and historical accounts, papers and analysis. Throughout it has dawned on me how clinical my experience with history… Read more“Reflection”

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The Juries are Fools

December 15, 2015 leonoral1 Comment

My whole life it has been a question of whether to speak or not. It has never been that I couldn’t. Only that I was risking everything in doing so. And I wasn’t consistent. On some level I wish I had stuck to my principles. Fought. If I had only… Read more“The Juries are Fools”

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