Compare And Contrast Amigos Mexicanos And Mayan Dusk

Throughout the humanities course, I have been intrigued by a vast amount of information on different cultures. However, there was a particular section that truly caught my attention, and has piqued an interest in me that has caused me to do my own research aside from this paper. The culture of the Mayas, and the Aztecs has been extremely fundamental in understanding my ancestry, being that I am Mexican American. I took an interest in their beautiful architecture, their ritualistic and sacrificial religious practices, as well as their history and how they began. Throughout this paper I will outline the similarities and differences of these two cultures, as well as articulate an understanding of the humanity disciplines outlined above.

Acclaimed American author Richard Rodriquez’s autobiography “Days of Obligation” conveys that his feelings for both Mexico and the United States can be expressed through contrasts. Rodriquez uses pathos, tropes, and schemes to articulate his feelings. His purpose for writing about the contrasts between Mexico and California is to help readers understand the differences that affected his life. Rodriguez’s relationship with his literate audience is personal, since he is opening about his personal life and his views on it.

The Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations each contributed major accomplishments to the world today. These accomplishments established them as a advanced societies during their time. The Incans built a large road system, devised a complex irrigation system and developed their own language. The Mayans constructed the largest structure known until modern times, made drastic accomplishments in mathematics, studied organized cities and developed a writing system based on pictures. So pretty much the Mayan, Inca, and Aztecs have come a long way to build a new life for them to live in. they built a road system to send messages to the soldiers who were stationed over there the can now trade and walk along the road they can hide when they is a war going on and they have people with bow and arrows to hide in the

Moreover, an accurate portrayal can show a shift in how American film companies put effort into making their movies historically and culturally up to date, compared to previous American produced films that reinforced the Latin America stereotypes as seen in movies Viva Zapata! and

In history we the people have found to realize that the Maya, Aztec, and Inca culture was one of the most incredible findings of their accomplishments. The Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations were really smart in topics of engineering, writing, agriculture and astronomy. Also all three had their beliefs, and good with agriculture. All three cultures used great technologies in their agriculture like slash and burn, terrace farming. They all hunted for religion, they had a huge belief with the people spread throughout each region. They all had a lot of interest in the use of chocolate in the region, and cultivation. They all were pretty much the same just different beliefs.

Caminero-Santangelo, Marta. 2007. On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

According to the movie The Bronze Screen, I understand that the Spanish people started acting in US cinema and specifically in Hollywood from early 20th century. The Spanish cinema started with black and while movie. At the first they act with just Spanish representative, because they want control the American cinema and precisely Hollywood. The Spanish movie was in the first representation without the voice. After that they added the voice. The Mexican movies was increased in Hollywood cinemas because American people like it. However the Mexican actor was good with acting. Hollywood films was increased their Mexican market after the Spanish people participated in the American cinema. Also the people who watching Spanish movies was increased. After that Hollywood America has introduced representatives of the participating representatives Spanish and this was new to the world of cinema reserve America and some people surprise of the piece. Also this changed the way of the Hollywood cinemas also came a new world of movies and actors that is good for the Hollywood cinemas. To conclude that I thing the Spanish movies is good before and now because it give new ideas for movies and the new world of cinema, also a new color for All cinemas.

The story illustrates the overlapping influences of women’s status and roles in Mexican culture, and the social institutions of family, religion, economics, education, and politics. In addition, issues of physical and mental/emotional health, social deviance and crime, and social and personal identity are

Overall I feel that both the Mayan and Aztecs had a deep respect for nature and the universe, they found a lot of meaning intellectually and spiritually, which helped them move forward to become a larger and more powerful civilization. Both the Mayan and Aztec were polytheists who believed in many different gods that were based on nature, for example the Sun god. Due to their religious beliefs, they also practiced human sacrifices, which were mainly prisoners of war that were tributes for their gods. “The city lived more by trade than tribute, but trade had been stimulated and focused by war.” (Gilbert, pg. 62) Being an Aztec warrior was a position of respect, especially if you were in a high rank, which will play a huge part in the Aztec civilization.

Every immigrant has a personal story, pains and joys, fears and victories, and Junot Díaz portrays much of his own story of immigrant life in “Drown”, a collection of 10 short stories. In each of his stories Diaz uses a first-person narrator who is observing others to speak on issues in the Hispanic community. Each story is related, but is a separate picture, each with its own title. The novel does not follow a traditional story arc but rather each story captures a moment in time. Diaz tells of the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the struggling urban communities of New Jersey.

The Native societies had a rich culture and organized societies. These societies were either fully sedentary, semi-sedentary, or non-sedentary. These societies had a large range of different cultures which were later destroyed as the European forces settled in the Americas. Some of these European settlements included people from Spain and Portugal which followed multiple consequences from the "Reconquest" of the Spain, to the Caribbean, to Mexico and Central America to Peru and of what became Portuguese American conquest and settlement in Brazil. Besides the military conquest, the Natives experiences spiritual conquest.

Jennifer Glaser touches on many topics in her analysis “Picturing the Transnational in Palomar: Gilbert Hernandez and the Comics of the Borderlands,” such as, sex, love, sexism, gender, violence, and much more. While these areas are all explored in some way throughout Hernandez’s stories, Glaser ties them all in by discussing how a small Central American town named Palomar views itself versus how outsiders, such as Americans view it. Glaser further explains how the stories Hernandez tells are used specifically to humanize Latinos and provide a different view and perspective into the Latin community from what is normally showed by pop culture. Hernandez not once labels Palomar as a Mexican city in an effort to allow any Latino to feel as if they can belong there. In her analysis, Glaser explains this by discussing how:

Amores Perros, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu is a dark, multi-plot film never seems to lose it’s hold on you. The grime within the film, carried by it’s subject matter makes for a very compelling watch. The three storylines we see interlink excellently, constantly showing you the way these characters lives link up with one another. From the beginning, we see the life of the Mexican characters seem to represented by some form of conflict. The intense action of the

I enjoyed that Martinez made “Blood and Sand” about more than just the work of the cartels in the Southwest. He made it personal, about the lives that have been lost to the drug trade and sex trafficking, but also global, as he describes the way he sees the desert as a metaphorical place of restoration, healing, spiritual encounter, but also loss and death.

“Popol Vuh” and “Mito de los Cinco Soles” are relevant texts because they emphasize the importance of sacrifice in their culture. The Mayan book, “Popol Vuh,” is a broad text that contains the myths of earth, humanity, and life creation; as well as it emphasizes the influence deities had in their life. The “Hero Twins” myth found in the book