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The Mexican Revolution, José’s Journal, By Alex Ma

My character is called José, he is from a small town in Mexico, he loves photographing and traveling before the revolution started. During the revolution, he with his trusty horse, traveled places to places, recording and taking pictures of some of the battlefields. At the beginning of the revolution, he was seeking for better and more equal opportunities. He was half supporting the revolution because of the new changes, and half against it for all of the destruction caused by the battles fought. Throughout the 10 years of complete chaos, José had been through and mostly lived through all of these crazy events. The photographs he has took during this 10-year period has now became history. He still had negative feelings against the revolution, but seeing what the revolution has brought Mexico, after some times, he had slowly letting go of the past.

The Mexico Revolution has brought down a lot of new changes, like the constitution of 1917, which was used years after the Mexican Revolution. It provided separations of Church and state, and the government’s ownership of the subsoil. The word “landowner” has been deleted, the land were spread to the people, and the living conditions had improved. Public Education and new social reforms were also brought into the country. There were also a bit of continuities after the revolution, like the territories that the Mexican Revolution was fought on, there was no foreign invasions so the landmass was not changed. The guns that was pasted down by the revolutionaries were also uncontrolled after the revolution, so some of the citizens today still has guns.

5 different presidencies within 7 years of chaos and bloodshed? This is the Mexican Revolution In Plain English!

When you think of Revolutions, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Chaos? Violence? New governments being replaced by another? Well, the Mexican Revolution is the combination of all of them. Can you believe it?  Throughout the 10 years of absolute chaos and bloodshed, there were 5 different presidents! Just like in the picture, the whole entire Mexican Revolution was filled with power-hungry dictators and revolts/battles that was lead by people who were angry with what the dictators were doing.  During the 10 years of fighting, major reforms were also established. For example, new and better educations for the people was established, there were also new social reforms made after the Revolution. But on the other side, a lot of the continuities were also pasted down after the revolution which also shaped the Mexico we know today. For example, the guns given to the people during the revolutions were not immediately taken back, therefore leading small problems after the Revolution. In this video, you will learn all about the chaotic, yet interesting Mexican Revolution in just 6 minutes!

The Mexican Revolution In Plain English Video:   https://tube.isbonline.cn/video/The-Mexican-revolution-in-plain-english/01e98238d35a3569f680f741724f9533          (Sorry, I could not upload the video into this post, there seemed to be some technical difficulties… Please copy and paste the link into search to see the video, sorry for the inconvenience.)

photo citation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Next%21_%28Homer_Stinson%29.jpg

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