Instructions:

This is the RA Reading Log. Here you will write down the texts that you read for the log using the correct APA Style Format. You need to log in at three texts from the course. The texts can be from the readings or readings found through the links in the module. You can just type it into the boxes and upload it to Etudes.

Text I:

|EVIDENCE from the text. |INTERPRETATION: |
|I read in the text… |I think/I wonder about /I made a connection |
|1."The Mexican Senoras and Senoritas write, read and play a |1.In this quote we get an insight of what the life of a Mexican woman |
|little, sew, and take care of their houses and children. When I|was. The author sees Mexican women as someone who is very dedicated to |
|say they read, I mean that they know to read; when I say they |her family, loyal and lovable. And also the way the author describes |
|write, I do not mean that they can always spell; and when I say|Mexican women tells us how respectful he was toward Mexican women. |
|they play, I do not assert that they have generally a knowledge| |
|of music." (Frances Calderon de la Barca, Women and War in | |
|Mexico, pg. 196). |2.The Revolution in Mexico was actually long and bloody. Some people had |
|2."Revolution in Mexico! or Pronunciamiento, as they call |no idea how long it was going to take and how horrible effects it was |
|it.The storm which has for some time been brewing, has burst |going to have on them. The author explains the horror and damage that the|
|forth at least….Some say that it will end in a few hours- |war has caused.During this period everything was scattered and nothing |
|others, that it will be a long and bloody contest" (Frances |was in place. People were being killed brutally. Mexico was going through|
|Calderon de la Barca, Women and War in Mexico, pg. 200). |a hard time but ,fortunately, they were strong and after all those |
| |difficulties they were able to keep their identity and survive. |
| |3.The rural lands were divide into different section. The majority of the|
|3." The farm laborers worked poorly. They were furnished only |Indians were separated from national population.Whatever The Indians had |
|with bad food, little clothing, and a hut made of sticks and |was taken away from them. They were living in very poor conditions.They |
|straw" (Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Liberals and the Land, |were payed very little for their work,kept hungry for days and punished |
|pg.244). |much for doing nothing. |

Text 2:

|EVIDENCE from the text. |INTERPRETATION: |
|I read in the text… |I think/I wonder about /I made a connection |
|“And they did not even have the opportunity to become |Each ethnic group spoke in its own way, but most spoken language was |
|educated. The children of countryside did not attend the urban|Nauhati. The Indian did not speak Spanish which was the main reason why |
|schools, while a school in the countryside was an |they were not able to attend schools. Even after the passage of |
|extraordinary thing”(Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Liberals and |educational law, the Indians were not able to go to schools as the |
|the Land, pg.245). |schools were very far from them and they were physically unable to walk |
| |there. |
| |This quote shows that the author is very proud to be Mexican and to have |
|“The good sons of Mexico have shed their blood with sublime |the Mexican blood in his veins. He shows how much he appreciates the |
|patriotism, making every sacrifice, for they would never |efforts of Mexican leaders who would have even given their lives for |
|consent to the loss of the Republic and of their freedom” |their freedom- for the freedom of their country. |
|(Benito Juarez, The Triumph of the Republic, pg.271) | |
| |3. In the “Plan of Ayala” the author stresses out the idea that people |
| |were not happy with the current laws and thought that Francisco I. Madero|
|3."Due to these consideration, we declare Francisco I. Madero |had lied to them to “rise to power”. They saw Francisco I. Madero as |
|incapable of realizing the promises of revolution of which he |someone who did not have any respect for people and who betrayed them. |
|was instigator, because he has betrayed all of the principles,|They turned against him as they thought he was incapable of governing. |
|mocking the will of the people in his rise to power" (Emiliano|Inn the eyes of Mexican people he was someone who failed to keep his |
|Zapata and others, Plan of Ayala, pg.341). |promisses. |
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Text 3:

|EVIDENCE from the text. |INTERPRETATION: |
|I read in the text… |I think/I wonder about /I made a connection |
|“Now we know what we were fighting for- Land, Water, Forests |In “ Oscar Lewis” Martinez describes the revolution as something horrific|
|and Justice. That was all in the plan. It was for this reason |that people had to go through. One of the reasons Pedro became a |
|that I became a Revolutionary” (Oscar Lewis, Pedro Martinez, |Revolutionary was that they were fighting for “ Land, Water, Forests and |
|pg.380) |Justice”.People were treated brutally during this period.Their houses |
| |were burned,people killed and shoot, women and girls were violated. |
| | |
| |Because of the crisis Mexican people had no choice but to steal and kill |
| |for their survival. Even though people tried hard to improve their living|
|2." For several years now, Mexico has been in a crisis which |conditions, they still had to fight for normal living and "the crisis |
|worsens day by day; but , as in those cases in which the |worsens day by day". |
|patient is morally ill, the members of the family will not | |
|talk about it, or they do so with an optimism that is | |
|tragically unreal. The crisis stems from the fact that | |
|the goals of the Revolution have been exhausted, to such a | |
|degree that the term revolution itself has lost its | |
|meaning"(Daniel Cosio Villegas, Mexic's Crisis, pg.470). | |
| | |
|3."On January 1,1994, the very date when the North American |3. The Zapatista demands on the Mexican government include an end to |
|Free Trade Agreement was supposed to enter into effect, Mexico|illiteracy, the right to education, the right to dignified jobs, respect |
|was shocked by an uprising in Chiapas led by a group calling |for indigenous peoples and cultures, the creation of hospitals, freedom |
|itself The Zapatista Army of National Liberation"(Zapatista |for an independent press, a cancellation of debts for the poor, an end to|
|Army of National Liberation, pg. 638). |hunger etc. Basically, all they are fighting for is to have equal rights |
| |and freedom. |