The rule of Salvador Allende was short but wasn't sweet. In this essay, I am going to talk about the events surrounding the rise and fall of the Allende government. I am going to discuss the reign of the 1970-1973 Chilean President and I am going to include the research path that I took to obtain the information that I found about the Allende government. I then will discuss what I actually found out about my research topic. Finally I will use my own opinion to connect the relationship between my research and Freire's text, "The `Banking` Concept of Education.".
Finding information about the Allende government wasn't difficult, but finding the information that I needed in a book of 500 pages or so wasn't too fun. I first set out searching for information on the Allende government through the Internet. Once I established enough information from the Internet, I then headed off to the library. In the library, I searched the library database on the computers and searched for any books containing information about the Allende government. I found four or five interesting titles and went off and started my search for the books. As my luck would have it, all the books that I was searching for were already checked out, so my first thought was that "I am so screwed." The next class meeting, I found that one of my partners had checked out four of the books that I was searching for in the Library.
My group members and myself got together at the library last Sunday and had the opportunity to search through the books and find valuable information that we could use. Since these were the only books left available in the library that we needed, we had to use each book as a source. When I felt that I had enough information, I now was ready to start writing my paper, starting first with the rise of Allende.
Salvador Gossens Allende was often called the first democratically elected socialist president in world history (Foran, Internet).