Chile 1973 essays

Chile 1973 essays What is past is not dead; it is not even past.(Christa Wolf) Discuss the influences the past has on peoples ideas and behaviour. Use examples from your study of literature and/or Topic Options. Every thing we do has a consequence; a smile, a huge, an heroic act, the things we say, etc. Every single and tiny thing provokes a reaction from the person envolved, thing or element. For example: K+ reacts with water causing a kind of explosion, and an heroic act can save somebodys life, this normaly generates an emotional respons; gratitude. The one that has been saved feels greatfull to the person that risked (for example) his physical integrity for him(or her). We can see that every event that has ocurred in our life lives a mark, perhaps a scar, that we carry for the rest of our lifes if it has ment something for us. This facts, events, scars and consequences may be positive or negative and sometimes both. If you hit somebody, probably you wont have a positive respons, though the misundertanding can be solved and then have a possitive consequence.This are all examples of every day life that we usually dont pay attention to, even though they are somehow very important for human beings. What is past is not dead; it is not even past.This is absolutely true and we can see it clearly in the chilean society. Probably the best example is to talk about the events that ocurred in Chile in 1973. Salvador Allende was supported by the socialist and communist and then elected to power with 36.2% of the vote in 1970. During these years the world was in the middle of an ideological war between Comunism (URRS) and Capitalism (EEUU), called the Cold War. Because of this the fact that Allende got to the presidence represented the triumph of a battle and the capitalist orbit was shocked and worried about the posibility that the comunism in Chile could spread to neighbour countries such as Bolivia, Arg...