One
important perspective to consider is from the documentary film Life and Debt by Stephen Brown because in
its depiction of Jamaica’s national debt experience with austerity we see riots
over cuts to services like education. The experience of austerity is the
relevant idea to the nineteenth century riots because we see similar kinds of conflicts
between the government and the rioters. The documentary shows how Jamaica’s
experience with international loans brought the country into chaos and a
dependence on American markets as a result, for example. In the film, we see
riots after they did hard labor and then were fired from their jobs. The film
shows [summarize key scene]. One rioter says, “blanky blank,” meaning she
really believe4s asl;jfsdakl;fsda (Life
and Debt). Paraphrase [in your own words] the quote. The rioter in the film
reminds me of 1877 because___________. Al;ksdjflsdkafjsadkl;fsdakl. Asefsladjfsdlkfsd
. asdflkjasdfsadf.
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