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Before we watched Joe Biden's inauguration, I didn't know what an inauguration was or why they did it as I was about 12 the last time we swore a president into office. I now understand that it is key and it Biden's speech needed to be heard.  Same goes for Angela Gorman's poem, The Hill We Climb. Gorman's poem was dedicated to her childhood and troubles as a young black women in America. Her poem taught me that even if we have a million obstacles to get through, we can make it if we just push along.

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I think this lesson was very important in helping me understand the Latino/Chicano culture because Biden's inauguration was like a stretching hand who was there to help migrants from everywhere after the Trump administration worked hard to rid the States of as many immigrants as possible in horrible and inhumane ways. In addition to this, Amanda Gorman spoke to many in her poem not only to the black community but to all people of color.

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The 13th documentary allowed be to better understand discrimination and how it personally affects people's lives. The focus around Black History Month was not to be taken lightly and was, in my opinion, a great topic to cover as it taught me different perspectives and how the justice system serves more than it protects.  Aside from this, the analyzing of Donald Glover's song, This is America, was a great way to see how America hides away many impurities and acts of hatred against people of color in order to preserve its image.

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I don't think this assignment was key to help me understand the Latino/Chicano culture but I do think it was important to cover. I think it helped me connect better to the discrimination that people of color face as my own people go through it as well.

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Before reading the book, The Devil's Highway, I didn't know that many migrants crossed through such a huge and deadly desert. I knew they walked for hours but The Devil's Highway created such an imagery that allowed be to see more clearly the tragedies that many go through for the chance of a better life. I now know so much more about the desert that kills for fun, the sun who bakes people out of boredom, and the guias who kill others because of greed. I now know some of the people who received justice and were lured to their deaths.

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I whole heartedly believe that this assignment was important in helping me understand the Latino/Chicano culture. This assignment brought light to so many thing's I was blind to and I think many others would benefit from reading this novel.

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From this assignment, I learned that communities could write to Migrant kids who were separated from their families at the border. Reading from the immigrant experiences like the photo essay we looked at also helped me learn that many women carry their children for miles and miles and risk their lives to save their lives. The boat wreck in San Diego that we looked at helped me learn that some people travel by boat. That is something that I did not know at all and was very surprising to me.

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I think this topic and assignments helped me better understand the Latino/Chicano culture. They were important and taught me many things that I never would have thought of. I mostly believed that the detained kids would be cut off from any contact with anyone outside so it was a little surprising seeing that they were asking communities for letters for the kids and I really liked that.

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The Latin American Poetry unit taught me so much about the poets we looked into. I had knowledge about poets such as Pablo Neruda and Jose Marti but I had no idea that Neruda was very intertwined with the women he loved. I learned that he left his wife for another woman and then left that women for her niece. While I loved his works, I think that disturbed me a little.

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I think this unit was pretty important in understanding the Latino culture. It was not very connected to Chicano culture as that came much later but I do think that they both played very important roles in forwarding many to become proud of their origins.

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The unit in which we wrote our own poems was very nice.  I loved it and before we did it, I didn't know that I could write poems on my own. I have trouble writing the song version but I think it was a little fun. I fell in love with free verse and I didn't have much knowledge of that style before and while it isn't traditional, I think it is beautiful and can be used to create amazing poems.

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I don't think this assignment was important to help me understand Latino/Chicano culture as much as others but it did allow me to see why poets like Neruda and Marti wrote. I know see that it was one of the only ways they could speak their minds and share with the world how they felt.