Creative Writing Assignment Examine the pictures from the slideshow and then select one photo as your prompt to create a diary entry about your experience as a Mexican-American living in the 1930s during the Mexican-American Repatriation. Use the photo and the other sources about the Mexican-American repatriation to inform your writing. First person diary entry, You are a character in the photo Describe what has been going on, how did you get to this situation, what happened to your family or friends, etc. Must be 2 paragraphs in length

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

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being given a fair trial before a jury