Cristero War Revealed In The Film, For Greater Glory

The impact of one single speech can essentially affect the entire world. Granted, there are different degrees of impact felt: those present at the speech, those who watched/heard the actual speech from somewhere else, those who heard some things about it from someone else, and so on and so forth. As the speaker’s message experiences a sort of ripple affect, it calms and becomes less and less dynamic. The main point, or gist, of the speech endures but potentially valuable details; those pertaining to the speaker himself, the location, the timing, current social, political, and economic climates, flake off. Understanding the context

Following the successes of Hernan Cortes with his conquest of the Mexica-Aztec Empire of Mexico and Francisco Pizzaro with his conquest of the Inka Empire in the Andean Region of South America, many other Conquistadors embarked upon expeditions to discover and conquer wealthy Native American civilizations. Among this new wave of conquistadors was Lope de Aguirre who accompanied an expedition led by Gonzalo Pizarro, a brother of Francisco Pizarro, to find the lost city of gold known as El Dorado. The film Aguirre: The Wrath of God is a work of historical fiction that provides additional insight into the motives and behaviors of the Spanish and Aguirre during this expedition, Spanish-Native American Relations, Spanish-African slave relations, the status of role of women within colonial society, the role of the Catholic Church within Spanish society, and the nature of Spanish society within the context of Aguirre’s excursion. Aguirre: The Wrath of God provides insight into the desire for a wealth of gold and glory by the Spanish when undergoing these harsh expeditions, the abuse and subservience Native Americans were subjected to by the Spanish Conquistadors, the African slaves served the Spaniards and had to complete exhausting and humiliating work, the inferiority of women compared to Spanish men and how easily they were dismissed by Spanish men, the desire for not only conversion but gold and wealth for the Catholic Church by allowing the Conquistadors to commit atrocities in the New World, and the Spaniard belief in the righteousness of their conquests in the New World due to the successful Reconquest of Iberia from the Moors.

La Lengua de las Mariposas, directed by José Luis Cuerda, is a marvelous and powerful film that explores Spain’s past through the lens of education. Cuerda does this by exhibiting the contrast between the 1931-1936 Republic and the dictatorships that ruled the country just before and after the Spanish Civil War through the relationship between Moncho, a young boy, and Don Gregorio, his teacher. The film depicts the Republic’s aims for a liberal education and the pressures this produced within the more conservative region of society. Overall this film portrays both the freedom of this short period in Spain’s history and the beginning of Franco’s oppressive dictatorship.

The Mayan people do not want to be associated with the Latino culture and decides to defend their right to their own traditions. In “Three Dirges” the conflict is immediately started, "Don Lazaro, you've got five boys in Comitan teaching the campesinos how to read. That's subversive. That's communist. So tonight, you have to kill

That impostor of Cortes brought the plague that is killing my people. They shouldn’t be suffering for my mistakes; stupid mistakes that only a fool would make. A fool like me… my lord give me the strength and

1. Was the Spanish American War in fact a "splendid little war"? What was splendid about it?

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela is arguably the most important novel of the Mexican Revolution because of how it profoundly captures the atmosphere and intricacies of the occasion. Although the immediate subject of the novel is Demetrio Macias - a peasant supporter of the Mexican Revolution -, one of its extensive themes is the ambivalence surrounding the revolution in reality as seen from a broader perspective. Although often poetically revered as a ‘beautiful’ revolution, scenes throughout the novel paint the lack of overall benevolence even among the protagonist revolutionaries during the tumultuous days of the revolution. This paper will analyze certain brash characteristics of the venerated revolution as represented by Azuela’s

In The Underdogs written by Mariano Azuela, we are introduced to a character that strongly symbolizes the fuel of the Mexican Revolution. Heroes like Demetrio Macias brought the Serrano’s hope of giving them what they felt they truly deserved. Although Demetrio Macias, the general (colonel) of a rebel army is hunting down the army of Pancho Villa, he seems to have the same ideals as the enemy. In addition to Demetrio Macias, we meet women like Camilla and War Paint who represent the different roles that women played during the Mexican Revolution.

The 2004 film Voces Inocentes directed by a Mexican filmmaker Luis Mandoki, seeks to tell a story about embattled childhood of the co-writer Oscar Torres. This embattled childhood is portrayed in the film regarding the civil war that occurred in El Salvador in the 1980s. The account of what took place in the civil war is told from the perspective of an 11 year old boy named Chava played by Carlos Padilla. According to Chasqui 2007, The El Salvador civil war commenced when the farmers who were a part of the political party, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN, a leftist guerrilla organization, organized militarized opposition to the dispossession of their land. This confiscation was regularly practiced by the right-wing

This passage from Alessandro Beneditti’s account of the Battle of Fornovo highlights the absolute loyalty of the French army to their king, Charles VIII. This is significant because the soldiers’ common loyalty is one of the reasons why the French army was incredibly formidable. Because the majority of soldiers were nobles and gentlemen who were subjects of the king, “they had no other ambition than to earn their King’s praise” (Guicciardini, 548). This lack of self-serving ambitions mitigated internal conflicts, including greed and competition, within the king’s army. Partially as a result of that, the French army functioned like a well-oiled machine, operating with incredible discipline, demonstrated by how they always returned to standard

People are known to be very curious and intelligent individuals. With the new developments every year, people are becoming more involved with new research and discoveries. The thirst for knowledge has become very strong for scientists especially. Although having knowledge can be a good thing it is also a very powerful weapon. It could be used for good or for evil, but most of the time people go too far and without intending to, uses their knowledge for evil. People are not known to be perfect and they make mistakes, but they learn from their mistakes so that they do not make the same fault they did the last time. But can people make the same mistake twice, after seeing the results of their first mistake? Are people really just Einstein’s monsters – not fully human and always bringing destruction among their own kind? A good example would be the film “War Games”. The film “War games” serves as a metaphor that the United States have not learned anything from their mistake, despite having dropped the atomic bomb and knowing its effects on Japan and its people.

It’s safe to say that, even if someone claims to know little to nothing about Spain’s history, the names Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini ring a bell in their mind. Simply being able to recognize these names proves some knowledge on the subject of the Spanish Civil War, lasting from 1936 to 1939. For those who are unsure as to what qualifies as a civil war, dictionary.com defines it as, “a war between parties, factions, or inhabitants of different regions within the same nation”. In the case of the Spanish Civil War, the fight was between the Spanish republican government and the Nationalist military. Representative of the impeding power struggle between extremists in support of fascism and communism, the war began on July 18th, 1936 as an uprising by several Spanish officers. This uprising would spark the three year Spanish civil war that ultimately resulted in a 40 year dictatorship.

I love classic war movies, so when I decided to watch The Guns of Navarone I could not help but to be extremely excited! The Guns of Navarone are two tremendous Nazi Cannons placed on the Aegean Island located under enemy lines. In the movie a British commander is assigned by the mission commander to take a task force. The British commander is directed to take the guns down in order to rescue trapped troops on Kheros. The movie can be categorized under fiction, action, and thriller. When I watched this classic film, I couldn’t help but feel excitement, sorrow, and happiness!

St. jose Maria Robles Hurtado suggested to put a cross in the center of mexico, because it was a violation of the constitution he was hanged by his own friend. He was only able to place a cornerstone and make a ceremony for it before he got killed. Where the corner stone is located now there is a shrine called Cristo Rey and it is on El Cerro del Cubilete in Guanajuato, México. He wanted the shrine to be in the center of the Country which ended up being in the state of Guanajuato. He wanted the cross to show how Mexican people saw Christ; they

The film started by showing when Pancho Villa was young and saw how the killers beat his dad to death when he was protesting after he lost his land. At that moment, Pancho Villa as a revenge he stab one of the killers and then he head off to the Hills of Chihuahua. As the time passed Pancho Villa with a band of rebel bandits started to killed wealthy land owners and he became the hero for a lot of poor people that admired him. Then, Don Felipe, a wealthy aristocrat, knew about Pancho Villa was the hero of a lot of poor people arrange for him to meet Francisco Madero. In the meeting with Francisco Madero, he convinces Pancho Villa to help him fight for the liberty of Mexico because he didn’t agree of what Mexico had become with the ruling of Porfirio Diaz. Pancho Villa agreed to help him to fight for the liberty of Mexico. In the course of the fight to obtain the liberty of Mexico as Francisco Madero dream, Francisco Madero was killed. Pancho Villa decides to fight