Book Analysis : The Queen Of Water

Colonial Latin American society in the Seventeenth Century was undergoing a tremendous amount of changes. Society was transforming from a conquering phase into a colonizing phase. New institutions were forming and new people and ideas flooded into the new lands freshly claimed for the Spanish Empire. Two remarkable women, radically different from each other, who lived during this period of change are a lenses through which many of the new institutions and changes can be viewed. Sor Juana and Catalina de Erauso are exceptional women who in no way represent the norm but through their extraordinary tales and by discovering what makes them so extraordinary we can deduce what was the norm and how society functioned during this era of Colonial

Station Eleven explores many viewpoints to further the plot of the novel. This method of explanation begs the question - Who is the main character?

Aristotle once theorized, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” The book, “The Color of Water” describes the lives of James and Ruth McBride and their journeys to find this happiness. Both of these characters, among other characters in the book struggled for the majority of their lives with the issues of race. They felt as if they were caught between two different worlds; the world of blacks and the world of whites. These struggles left all of the characters feeling forlorn. In McBride’s memoir it is made clear that in order to find happiness, the characters must first be able to confront and then overcome the racial divisions that were so prominent in their lives.

Culture makes up who we are, what we believe and how we behave. About four years ago, I had the opportunity to live in Ecuador. I found the relationships and communication perspective to be very interesting and after spending two years there, I was able to notice several distinct intercultural differences between the American and Ecuadorian cultures. Since my analysis of Ecuador is only based off of my personal experience, I’ve also invited my friend Luis Salas from Quito, Ecuador who is currently attending Brigham Young University to give his own insights. By gaining his perspective of what it’s like to live in America as an

In the book The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros presents a series of vignettes that involve a young girl, named Esperanza, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza Cordero is searching for a release from the low expectations and restrictions that Latino society often imposes on its young women. Cisneros draws on her own background to supply the reader with accurate views of Latino society today. In particular, Cisneros provides the chapters “Boys and Girls” and “Beautiful and Cruel” to portray Esperanza’s stages of growth from a questioning and curious girl to an independent woman. Altogether, “Boys and Girls” is not like “Beautiful and Cruel” because Cisneros reveals two different maturity levels in Esperanza;

Ecuador is a multicultural and multiethnic nation. Ecuador is the fourth smallest country in South America. The country is divided into three main regions. Resulting in Ecuador not have one single culture, it instead has a whole spectrum of cultures that are intertwined to make up a stratified community. Ecuador lies on the equator which is how it received its name (from the Spanish word for equator).

A deeper examination of Cisneros’ famous short story, “Woman Hollering Creek” will highlight the liberation of those barriers. In this particular short story Cisneros speaks about the main character, Cleofilas, and her struggle with her abusive husband, Juan Pedro. Cleofilas had to live in a society where the women were simply there to assist their husbands, and God forbid she second guessed him. Living and struggling with the everyday battle of stereotypes, she decided to leave her husband at the end of this short story. This all developed the strong independent female role Cleofilas took on by the end of the story. The main character was forced to believe by her family and her husband that she wasn’t worth anything without a man; this made her doubtful of her abilities and her human capital. In the interview by Martha Satz, Cisneros says, “I think many of my stories come from dealing with straddling two cultures, and certainly it's something I'm going to deal with in future stories” (Cisneros 30). Here, Cisneros agrees that her stories have to do with the endless topic about coming from two cultures and the stereotypes it brings along. From firsthand accounts the Mexican American culture is embraced by “machismo”, or that male superiority. “Woman Hollering Creek”

The world is not always fair, but don’t let that hold you down. Make the best of the cards you are dealt. In the Sandra Cisneros novel, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza, the main character, struggles to find happiness on Mango Street. In her youth, Esperanza moved from place to place quite frequently. Before she lived on Mango Street, she lived on Loomis, Keeler, Paulina, and in several other homes on several other streets. The story is about Esperanza’s experience on Mango Street and her self-discovery. She tries to figure out who she is in the light of the stereotypes of the Latina women she is surrounded by. Growing up in the barrio, Esperanza learns that Latina women are treated poorly by men and marry at an extremely young age.

As a woman, Angela Vicario is the epitome of a traditional Colombian woman. A traditional Colombian woman is expected to be virgins when they get married; but Vicario defys this social custom causing Vicario to get “softly pushed his wife into [her house] without speaking,” (46). These details emphasize the idea that women are given different standards than men. The details help highlight Marquez’s criticism of how the traditional Colombian woman is treated as and thought of as. From a very young age Vicario and her sisters were taught “how to do screen embroidery, sew by machine, weave bone lace, wash and iron, make artificial flowers and fancy candy, and write engagement announcements,” (31). These skills were taught to better prepare the girls for marriage; displaying the difference in gender roles. Marquez uses parallel structure to emphasize the amount of skills one has to learn before they can be considered as good and pure. Many years after Bayardo San Román returns Vicario she still does “machine embroidery with her friends just as before she had made cloth tulips and paper birds, but when her mother went to bed she would stay in her room until dawn writing letters with no future,” (93). The diction of the words “no future” and “still” suggest that Vicario’s life is stuck in

The country of Ecuador is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean and is located in South America.The important cultural knowledge to work with the Ecuadorian population is that most of the people are indigenous and there is a great lack of medical care and medical/health awareness.The dominant religion in Ecuador is Christianity and they speak Spanish as the primary language although they also speak various other dialects. The 2nd most common language spoken in Ecuador is called Quechua. The population of Ecuador consists of white Ecuadorians and African-Ecuadorians. Ecuadorians are warm and friendly and they hold family values in high regard. Not everyone can afford medical care in Ecuador therefore families work together and pass down natural remedies and cures to their relatives. Lack of education is common in Ecuador especially in villages with lack of infrastructure and schools and therefore it is vital to be able to connect

The film, Maria full of grace and the book, Open Veins of Latin America share a plethora of similarities and differences, however, what these two substances do is substantially support each other. Although the film is a work of fiction, the movie does an excellent job in supplementing the information that is offered in the book which will be explained further in the essay. A major difference between the book and the film is that the film seems to be more personal while the book is more impersonal.

Since the beginning of time, society has cast women into a subordinate position, reinforcing their lesser status with negative stereotypes of them as sinful, overly emotional, and above all, sexually tempting. But in the mid-fourteenth century, the chaos caused by the Black Death and the crumbling of the feudal system created a shift in power dynamics that gave lower-class Europeans, including women, the opportunity to redefine the power hierarchy. While nobles tried to maintain their power, the new level of social fluidity gave non-noble classes the possibility of gaining socio-economic power. With less rigid class restraints, people had more control over their societal standing. A focus on powerful women in literature reveals the social changes

FIELDER’S CHOICE is a very enjoyable sports dramedy that centers on the idea of a man, who could have lived a different life if he had made different life choices. He’s given a chance to see both destinies and must choose one. The tone combines drama with fantasy and a bit of humor. It’s also considered a classic “fish out of water” story. The script examines the themes of second chances, making the right life choices, and on the idea of destiny.

Schooling in Esmeraldas replicates this ideology. Historically, the accomplishments and validity of Afro-Ecuadorian culture have been absent from national curriculum. This is primary due to Ecuador’s national policy of assimilation based on concepts of mestizaje (Johnson, 2009). However, there have been major repercussions to assimilation policies in Ecuador. In 2006, a government-sponsored publication stated that the government has not considered Afro-Ecuadorian communities sufficiently, and scholars suggest that such policies have made Afro-Ecuadorians virtually invisible, stigmatized, and marginalized in contrast with mestizoz and whites (Redvers,

People often want to discuss and write about Ecuador, but nobody knows the actual reality to attract your readers. If you are going to write about it, you must develop how it will only get attention through your text because it is just another country full of suffering. While you     are writing about Ecuador, just remember that the people have mediocre rights whether it is a female or a male, a light skinned or dark skinned person. Your text shouldn’t include speech verbs such as exclaim, demand, and declare because they are too strong of words. Instead utilize words like whimpered, wailed, and wept which describes better their freedom of speech. The Ecuadorian freedom of speech is the one in which criticizing the president will cost you everything you have. Who in the world would not desire voiceless freedom of expression? Also, do not forget to describe its world of crime. A level of crime founded upon the corruption of the government that expands into drug dealing, prostitution, and an insane number of robberies. Do not call Ecuador a high point in the world based on height but instead a high place with crime in the world.