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History Senior Course Projects

I intend to use my motivation to resolve that problem about lack of historical information regarding the Ruben Salazar death and american Cold War films and their involvement in the Russian sterotype. Researching the reasoning, location, circumstances, and explaination will be my approach to figure out the death of Ruben Salazar and weather race played a role for his killing in Los Angeles. Finding primary sources to fill the gap in history regarding both histroical research topics will be my preferred method as not many secondary sources are available for my targeted subject matter. The results from my research will be curated and well documented as to inform the scholarly community of my analysis to resolve aforementioned gap in historical data for my subjects. A conclusion, for whether the implications have solved the point of issue or not, will be made available to the scholarly community for further research.

MY LATEST RESEARCH

Ruben Salazar:

The story of Ruben Salazar is an interesting historical event during the Chicano movement. He was killed by police in the 1970s and is viewed as a martyr although he has no record of activism (he was a journalist).

The Cold War Era:

This topic includes both the sentiment and profiteering of Hollywood during and post-Cold War era. So what, how did the Cold War affect American society? Well, we had, and still have, movies depicting Russians as the go to bad guys for plots and arcs in motion films. This will be a survey of the how and why this was good business for the film industry. Thesis: "How does the stereotyped motif of 1980s Cold War films characterize Soviets and why are these portrayals accepted by an American audience?"

Course project for the History department at the Univeristy of Houston-Victoria

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