Week One
Hello, I am Yuriah Lydon, an exchange student from Northern California. I come from Humboldt County, but go to school at University of California Santa Cruz, studying Robotics Engineering. I am taking this class because I thought it would be interesting and it fulfills a General Education requirement at my home university. The videos I liked most of the student videos were "Independence in Latin America", "Caudillos", "Towards an Uncertain Future". Independence in Latin America: I really like the flow of this video. It had a very informal feel to it and it gave the information in a way that felt more like I was being guided through a museum as opposed to watching some video and having a disembodied voice try to tell me so strange facts. I also liked that the people giving the information were often able to give a bit of personal insight as these events had occurred in their home countries and they had seen the direct results of the Latin American revo...