Evil Hour In Columbia by Forrest Hylton Journal Entry 2

Five comments
1. A lot of violence existed in Columbia, Columbians were thought to be violent people
2. The things that happened during the nineteenth century has to do with what has been going on during the twentieth century
3. Columbia had two democratic parties, one of them was the quasi-cooperate group
4. Columbias political parties have lasted the longest, than any other political party 
5. In the late nineteenth century coffee frontier was settled

Four questions
1. Why was there so much violence in Columbia?
2. Why were the democratic parties based on social class?
3. Why were the people that were in government in the higher class?

4. Were the Afro-Columbian mistreated?

Three words
1. Innate: existing in one from birth
2. Oligarchy: a form of government in which power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class
3. Regionalism: devotion to the interests of ones region

Two literary devices
1.Metaphor - "... It is often argued that Columbia suffers from a culture of violence, as if Columbians had an innate propensity to shed one another's blood" (Hylton 8).
2. Personification - "When it reared its head again in the 1970's and 1980's, it was decapitated by state and parastate terror" (Hylton 10).
One sentence summary
1. The violence that is going on today is has been going on for a long time Columbia and it has to do with the corrupt politicians that have come to power.