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DYMPNA UGWU-OJU

  1980-2000 Hello Beautiful People Today's post is bittersweet as this is, unfortunately, the last post on this blog 😢My next semester in college is quickly approaching, and I am really excited to take the next step, but I have also really enjoyed writing these blog posts. If you remember from the first ever post, I was completely confused on the history subject. I was not excited for this class considering its the subject I struggled with the most throughout school. The more I progressed throughout the course and the more frequent these blog posts I made, the less confused I became.   To end the course on a strong note, we're going to be discussing Dympna Ugwu-Oju, and her family. Dympna is a woman from the Igbo community in Nigeria, who eventually moved to America. She starts a family with her husband, but eventually they run into some issues. The women of this era were always taught to cook, clean, and take care of their homes, just as Dympna was. So, when her daughter Deli

Carlos Bulosan

  Hello Fellow Blog Readers and Bloggers,                                         1939-1979 I'm actually excited to talk about today's lesson. Alot of interesting topics are discussed in this section, including the cold war, America's involvement in the war, and even Hitler's reign in Germany. I feel like I say this in every post, but this module is truly my favorite. In keeping with our traditional method, we will review our reading from the book " Essays on Immigration" before connecting it to our module. This week we’re going to talk about Carlos Bulosan. This module is so interesting, even the immigration story was intriguing. Out of all of the other immigration autobiographies we have covered, he is the most honest, and blunt about the issues in America.  Filipino immigrant Carlos Bulosan, like thousands of other immigrants before him, had hopes and dreams for the future. He felt what better place to do this than “Great America”. Bulosan quickly learned t