Barbero's Influences

Time and history has shown us over and over again the power of words. Great leaders of the world obtain that magnetic pull with words that enable them to reach masses of people throughout the world. It’s all determined by how the speaker or the writer tries to convey his or her message and what they hope to achieve with their words. The Cuban writer, José Martí evidently establishes his political views through his written piece, “Our America”. Martí’s written work is manifested by his political choice of words and distinct approaches that speak to both his fellow Cubans and the higher nations of Spain and the United Sates throughout his essay. Martí saw this as an opportunity to demonstrate the effects of imperialism of other nations in Latin

Juan Gonzalez uses Chapter 12: “Speak Spanish, You’re in America!: El Huracán over Language and Culture” of his novel Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America to introduce a truly polarizing argument that has plagued the Latino community in the United States of America. Gonzalez is quick to point out that English is the common language in this country, though he is quicker to note that it should not necessarily be so. This author is so incredibly biased in this chapter that it is nearly impossible to disagree with his opinion without feeling like one is completely shutting out the entire Latino community. However, speaking as a member of this community, perhaps it is this unique insight that allows for not only a contending opinion, but also the framework to make the opinion relevant. Gonzalez makes brash claims with little supporting evidence and relies heavily on argumenta ad passiones to manipulate the reader’s emotions instead of focusing on rationalism and sound judgment. Quite possibly, it was the abundance of this logical fallacy that made it difficult to sympathize with his argument; though, it lays the basis for this chapter analysis.

With the signing of NAFTA in 1994, Mexico’s economy destabilized and shattered which caused increased dependence on foreign powers, like the USA, to invest in the economy. This put an emphasis on the globalization of the exchange of goods, services, and ideas. During my trip to Pilsen, I went to a bakery called “Xurro” and found that the whole place was a collection of products from Mexico, the USA, and other countries. They had not only traditional Mexican deserts like churros and Fresas con Crema, but also banana splits and Flaming hot Cheetos (a known American product very popular in Mexico). I also noticed they had an item on the menu called “Mocha Mezcla” which was Abuelita Mexican hot chocolate with a shot of expresso in it. These products are the physical representation of globalization through food; the mix and match of cultures introduces new combinations of goods to be sold and consumed. I observed that the menu was both in English and Spanish; the merging of two languages is indicative of the globalization of language as well as products. Also in the gift shop of the Art Museum, many products were made in China or other nations, although they were meant to represent Mexican heritage; this satisfies customer’s desire to be more “cultured” without being aware of the history and journey that the product has made. However, globalization is anything but a seamless process. Throughout the Museum, I perceived there were many images of American culture mixed with Mexican culture in a negative light. For example, there was a 3D sculpture of the famous Sun Maid Raisins, an American company, logo but the friendly girl on the box was replaced with a skeleton smiling with the words underneath, “SUN MAD Raisins: unnaturally grown with Insecticides, Miticides, Herbicides,

The performances by Zachary, Ariana, and Denice are not just critical to the superstructures of society but are oppositional readings to the preferred labels put on the Latinx community. “Althusser argued that social relations create ideology as much as economic relations” (Brummet, 171). Louis Althusser, is

The Department of the Army (2014) defines culture as a “Web of meaning shared by members of a particular society or group within a society” (p. 3-1). In a previous version of Field Manual (FM) 3-24 the Department of the Army (2006) defines culture as “A system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that members of a society use to cope with their world and with one another” (p. 3-6). Culture can mean many different things to many different people and societies. To put one definition on it will not work. Over the next couple of pages an attempt will be made to explain culture further as well as consider the culture of Mexico by looking at the Mexican physical geography, military conflict history and their impact on the

He wanted to tell the story of each industry in the United State, its different divisions, and the specific distributions of labor. It was the social structure of the American working class, and Rivera wanted to capture all of it. He expressed himself so well and in a way that almost brought a sense of lightness to the demanding and tough work that came along with working in a factory. It's still rather fascinating to me, the process of trying to depict the meaning behind an artists’ piece of artwork. This paper has presented the history behind Diego Rivera’s famous mural paintings “Detroit Industry” and the influence it made on both Mexican and American artwork in the modern world. Rivera has been such an influential and inspirational artist, and in modern times that is sometimes hard to come by. I would definitely like to learn more about him and his wonderful artwork in the near

Every single individual on this planet has their own distinctive identity and culture. Our culture helps us identify who we are and where we come from. In today’s world, it appears that cultural diffusion has become a normal part of everyone’s life as cultural trends, beliefs and customs spread quickly from one culture to another. In his poem, “Coca-Cola and Coco Frio,” Martin Espada provides his readers with a great example of cultural diffusion that a boy encounters when he visits his native country, Puerto Rico. The “fat boy” mentioned in the poem is none other than Martin Espada himself (3). By sharing his childhood experience in Puerto Rico, Espada tries to prove that acceptance of other cultures can have a negative impact as people incline to neglect their own cultural values and begin to bear a resemblance to other countries.

The books The Jungle (Sinclair, 1906) and Fast Food Nation (Schlosser, 2001) make a fine portrayal of the American civilization as industry expanded and a great influx of immigrants introduced new and different cultures. Both The Jungle (Sinclair, 1906) and Fast Food Nation (Schlosser, 2001) show how industry and immigration in America has come to shape its civilization as changes come about through cultural diffusion and innovations in industrial systems. Each book has a drastically different way of looking over these subjects simply because of the setting of them, but the overall premise of each is similar as they both are implicating of the relations between the innovative aspects of industry and the cultural aspects of society.. These books demonstrate the relations between cultural diffusion and industrial innovation and the importance of their effects on American society.

In the mid-1970s the New York Media warned the public to a Latin Boom in New York City. Back then it was the Salsa Craze, the coming into view of a new wave of politicians and (people who use action and strong words to support or argue (against) something), and the going past of the one million (dividing lines/points where things begin or change) in the Latino population. Since then, each passing ten years has brought on new statements of an (exciting and new) moment.

The significance of the Mexican revolution lies not in the repercussions this insurrection exerted on the international level, but rather in the way it served as a precursor to the direction the 20th century would follow. For while Mexico had gained significance internationally by being a leading exporter of raw material under Porfioro Diaz, it was not the only Latin American, or Luso-American country to follow this route. One must also bear in mind that the materials being exported out of Mexico were not exclusive to the region. Even within it’s geographic hemisphere, the Mexican revolution did not lead to the massive changes that the American Revolution had caused. Yet that is not to say that the Mexican revolution is not a significant

Exam Question 2 Thesis: Jose Enrique Rodo was a Hispanophile who believed that that United States was a reluctant and inferior empire because they had inherited a barbaric society from the Anglo-Saxon tradition (Chambers, Lecture). He was staunchly Anti-American and believed that in order to defend against United States imperialism, that Latin America should build its culture from Spanish and Catholic values (Chambers, Lecture). Rodo’s writings and shifting conservative views would influence future Latin American intellectuals to emphasize education, and it instilled a belief in Latin-American cultural superiority.

Galeano portrays this moment in Latin American history as the instant U.S investors took control over the industries. He details the dangers they went through when producing one item to export for the benefit of foreigners, and how they later imported the processed goods from those same foreign countries, injecting money only overseas. The fact that Latin America needed imports to survive initiated the imperial link the U.S has upon it. As stated by Galeano, “The growing dependence on foreign supplies produces the growing identification of the interest of U.S. capitalists operating in Latin America with U.S. national security”11, bluntly showing the relationship between the United States and Latin America. “With petroleum, as with coffee or meat, rich countries profit more from the work of consuming it than do poor countries from the work of producing it”12. Because profit was not being retained in the Latin American countries, nationalization of the industries became of importance. The United States offered intervention in order to protect everyone’s interests with the proposal of free trade, but this was no more than another manipulation to continue having power over Latin America and its resources: “Latin America’s big ports, through which the wealth of its soil and subsoil passed en route to distant centers of power, were being built as instruments of the conquest and domination of the countries to which they belonged, and as conduits

Twelve years after the last session of the Council of Trent initiated the slow transition to the Baroque period, Guido Reni was born. The boy from Bologna would grow to become one of the predominant figures of this period that came into existence when he was a teenager. As a classicizing Baroque artist, the almost divine grace and elegance that Reni is able to portray in his artwork marks his presence and contributions to the Baroque era essential, even as his style and the expectation of artists developed and changed. Born to Ginevra Pozzi and music master Daniele Reni during the Holy Year of 1575, Guido Reni was thoroughly immersed in the arts from a young age.

There are two crucial moments that need to be reiterated here. First, it is necessary to distinguish between what Laclau calls the field of discursivity and discourse; while the field of discursivity refers to all possible relations between various discursive elements like statements, discourse is a relatively fixed structure of them, as in the case of populist discourse that Podemos tries to develop. Second, given this distinction, all identities including political ones are build upon relations and not essences and should be viewed as linguistic phenomena. Whereas the primacy of relationality as opposed to that of pre-defined identities and essences is considered to be a great advantage of Laclau's theory, his exclusively language-based approach to politics is characterized as

Durante este ensayo defenderé la tesis que los intelectuales de la época si hicieron un gran labor con respecto a los cambios políticos que se presentaron en esos momentos, esto será representado a través de una introducción del escenario que se estaba viviendo en Chile antes de los cambios principales de la sociedad Chilena , luego con un desarrollo en donde explicare los motivos que me hacen pensar que mi tesis es cierta y luego concluiré.