Andrew Pelayo
ENGL 1310.101
Professor Kristen Jackson
Terry Tempest Williams, "Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, California, and the Future" in The Hour of Land, pp.351-367
Thesis:
Williams uses historical and current events in an effort to validate why an individual would feel a connection to “utopian based” group and celebrate their successes. Human beings collaborating as a whole to better society, and overlooking cultural differences, can achieve equality and conserve the earth.
First Body Paragraph:
The author, Terry Tempest Williams (“Williams”), begins with a personal story of him and a friend visiting the Cesar Chavez National monument, which leads to the author’s primary claim: he has helped understand why it is important for people to participate in these movements and why might someone leave one. Williams highlights Cesar Chavez’s achievements and quotes, “Together with Dolores Huerta, he founded the National Farm Workers Association (pp.351)” This ultimately developed the United Farm Workers Association (UFW). Williams seems to be directing his comments toward possible students, individuals who care about equality, also individuals who are active in politics and could possibly be conservationists or naturalists.