Latin America Essay, Research Paper
Latin America
For my creative piece I was wanted to write a poem. My inspiration for this task was tropicalism. Webster defines tropical as ?Of relating to, the characteristic of a region?. Tropicalism in Brazil is ?The idea to take the Brazilian values the trashy ones as well as the good ones, the ugly ones as well as the beautiful ones and incorporate them into its art?. In attempting to write this poem I wanted to bring up five aspects of Brazilian culture. Using the Tropicalism take on this poem; to illustrate the good of the country I focused on family structure and the issue of race, to illustrate the bad/ugly values of the country I wrote about the methods used in colonization, for the beautiful aspects of the Brazilian I used the carnivals that are popular in Brazilian culture. My sources of information were a Brazilian Popular Music web site ( http://www.maria-brazil.org/mpb1.htm), movies The House of the Spirits and Black Orpheus, and the American encyclopedia.
Stand
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Once we stand for equality,
among everyone
And know that we are all people
We can unite and beat our opposition
We must stand until our children have better land
So join me and stand for what is right
If I had my way life would be just fine
But the
Sometimes I feel like running
and turning my back, but we have worked to hard
And we can?t turn around
We out number the enemy so lets be wise and start a revolution
Now who will stand with me?
and risk everything
Because a real man will die fighting
Than to live this status quo
So stand stand stand and we will own better land
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We have come along way
From the days of plantations
And we struggled with the dictatorship of our early days
But the ball is on our side now
We have been successful
So let us drink to our successes
But not till the point we are drunk, and forget thee
Let?s use the energy we have for carnival
And make the future bright
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Remember that the family is sacred
Family is the number one priority
Men let’s be men and women lets be women
Lets everyone unite from the
preto to the pardo and the mulatto and the white
Let?s celebrate our differences
Our work is not done until we forget what it means to be poor
And everyone obese with love and affection and security
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