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

Bridge

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 world is too cold and it makes me cry

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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