Sunday, December 7, 2008

Evil Hour In Columbia by Forrest Hylton Journal Entry 5

Five Comment
1. The thing that united the people of Columbia was language and religion
2. Clientenism was strengthened by the coffee export
3. Constitution of Columbia was written in 1886
4. The president now has the power to appoint provincial governors because of the Constitution
5. The creoles were at the of the social class

Four Questions
1. Why was the authoritarian project overseen by the Catholic Church?
2. What does the Conservative Antioquia have to do with Columbia's progress?
3. How was the country "ideologically imprisoned"?
4. What did the subalterns do for the creoles?

Three Word
1. Authoritarian: favoring or enforcing strict obedience towards authority
2. Implementation: a tool, utensil or other type of equipment
3. Subalterns: an in the British army below the rank of a captain

Two Literary Terms
1. Imagery: "... symbolized by the light-skinned, property owning frontier settler, became the measure of national progress, in contrast to the dark-skinned tenant, sharecropper, or communal landholder in Cauca" (Hylton 23).
2. Simile:" Hispanofile grammarians like Miguel Antonio Caro - the architect of the 1886 Constitution - were its guardians" (Hylton 24)

One Sentence
1. Columbia is beginning to make progress as an independent nation.

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