World History since 1500: The Payne Book Blog

Answer the following prompt. U se at least six specific pieces of information total and at least three specific pieces of information no one has yet used in their blog posts, ONLY from pages 54-102 of Persepolis , with a page citation for each; also, use at least 300 words in your answer.  1) How has the revolution's turn to the Islamic Republic changed the life of Satrapi (the author)?  How does the war with Iraq change her life? How did these violent changes alter ordinary life for others Iranians as well?

Persepolis is an autobiography by Marjane Satrapi told in the form of a graphic novel. While some in the United States associate cartoons with infantile humor, don't let this fool you: Satrapi uses cartoons to tell a story of a child living in a time of revolution. The story juxtaposes the ordinary struggles of a child trying to learn her role in the world while tremendous violence and social change rush around her. Answer the following prompt. U se at least six specific pieces of information total and at least three specific pieces of information no one has yet used in their blog posts, ONLY from the Introduction of page 53 of Persepolis , with a page citation for each; also, use at least 300 words in your answer.  1) How do Satrapi's emerging religious and political beliefs agree with and differ from her family, and why? What are some of her heroes growing up, and how are they similar to and different from your heroes growing up? How do cultural contexts and distinct

Answer the following prompt. U se at least three specific pieces of information no one has yet used in their blog posts and at least six specific pieces of information total, ONLY from Part 3 of The Underdogs , with a page citation for each; also, use at least 300 words in your answer.  1) How have the attitudes of soldiers and civilians altered since the beginning of the novel? What do these changed attitudes tell us about how sustained warfare changes people? And, having seen the end of this story, what do you think is the author's attitude towards the "underdogs" who fought in the Mexican Revolution? In short, why do you think the author--who fought in the Revolution--wrote this book?

Choose one of the following prompts to answer. U se at least three specific pieces of information no one has yet used in their blog posts and at least six specific pieces of information total, ONLY from Part 2 of The Underdogs , with a page citation for each; also, use at least 300 words in your answer.  1) Discuss three actions or violence, cruelty, or greed that you found particularly memorable to you in Part 2 . For each act, discuss who did it, to whom did they do it, why do you think they did it, and how others reacted to it. What do these stories tell us about how having power other others without fear of consequences changes people, especially those who had been oppressed their whole lives? OR 2) How do War Paint and Camila illustrate for us both the opportunities and limitations of women in the Mexican Revolution? OR  3) Who do you think the three most interesting (not necessarily likeable) characters in this chapter are, and why? How does each character tell us

Of all our books in this class, The Underdogs deals most with death, chaos, and disillusionment in the face of revolution. The author , Mariano Azuela, himself participated in the Revolution and wrote this book in 1915, in the very middle of the fighting. While the characters are mostly fictional, Azuela based them off of people he knew and fought alongside--or against.   The Mexican Revolution started in 1910-1911 with the overthrow of the tyrant Porfirio Días by the popular Francisco I. Madero . By 1913, however, Madero himself was deposed and murdered in a coup by one of his generals, Victoriano Huerta . By 1914, Huerta was also defeated by another popular uprising, but these revolutionaries were not united. So, fighting would continue for 6 more years, mainly under four factions: Pancho Villa (a bandit from the north), Venustiano Carranza (a politician from the north), Álvaro Obregón (one of Carranza's generals who turned on him), and Emiliano Zapata (a peasant from th

Choose one of the following prompts to answer. U se at least three specific pieces of information no one has yet used in their blog posts and at least six specific pieces of information total, from Part 3 (chapters 20 to 24 ), with a page citation for each; also, use at least 300 words in your answer. 1) How has the tribe of Umuofia fallen apart? What do you think are the three main factors contributing to this falling apart, and which is most important? OR 2) How does the shift of perspective from men like Okonkwo towards certain white men radically change the narration from the beginning of the book to the end? How does this demonstrate how the sources of information we draw from deeply influence what kind of history we tell?