FINAL WEEK
It's been a good run, everyone. I can't say the note we're left on is the brightest of notes, that's for sure. Though that's the case, I felt there were slivers of optimism. The way I see it, the final lines of the chapter we're given (barring the the document entries) are the perfect way to end the course. "And if, indeed, they are loyal to mother nature, we all might be the better for it." This line informs us of a potential that we experience at several points throughout the term. A potential where we're able to see that there are people who are still willing to fight for a sense of order. The reading displays a dichotomy between two distinct concepts: the loyalty to state and a loyalty to mother nature. I initially thought that "Mother Nature" strictly mean the natural aspects of Latin America, the land that they adopt. But I suppose that the conception of "Mother Nature" in the context of a place to fight in adopts many o