Here are three separate assignments. Each group will do one of them.
Group Four: Please do the following
The Economics of Exploitation
Please locate three passages which contain an economic analysis of exploitation in this novel.
Study them carefully. Your goal is to understand what they say, and to be able to relate them clearly to Domitila's experiences in life, as well as to the economics and politics of imperialism and capitalism in general.
Groups One and Three:
Religion and Anti-Communism as Ideologies
Please find
- TWO passages in which religion is clearly used as an ideological justification for attacking the struggles of the Bolivian miners, and
- TWO passages in which anti-communism is clearly used as another ideological justification for attacking those same struggles.
Please write 300 words comparing the use of religion and the use of anti-communism. How are they used in a similar way? How are they different?
For example: who is "religious" in LMS? Who is "anti-communist" in this book?
Groups Two and Five:
American Neo-Imperialism in Bolivia
Please find at least THREE passages in which the role of the United States is dealt with seriously.
Note: do NOT include the passage on pp. 29-30.
In each case, please write at least 300 words on the role of the United States, analyzing the passages you chose.
Email to your group and to me.