Essay On El Predio

Through the voice of Palo Alto, a mesquite tree, Elena Zamora O’Shea relates the story of one Spanish-Mexican family’s history, spanning over two hundred years, in South Texas, the area encompassing between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. As the narration of the Garcia’s family history progresses through the different generations, becoming more Mexican-American, or Tejano, peoples and things indigenous gradually grow faint. In her account of South Texas history, Elena devalues the importance and impact of Indians, placing a greater precedence on the Spanish settlers.

     Francisco Pizarro was a conquistador born in Trujillo, Spain in about 1471. His father, Gonzalo Pizarro, was an infantry captain and he taught Francisco how to fight at an early age. Francisco Pizarro never learned to read and write but he was full of adventure.

Don’t Eat the Bear: A Spanish adventurer named Gaspar De Portola in 1769 passed through a region what is now Santa Barbara. In the near by sand dunes he found a lake where he crossed passed with an “oso flaco”, a skinny bear. They were dying of hunger and ate the skinny bear not knowing it was poisoned.

This paper is about Bernardo de Galvez and his support of the patriots. He led battles, he helped the Patriots in many ways and was an awesome guy. Bernardo was a very interesting man his early life, adult life and the way he was important to the Revolutionary War.

On Sundays after Mass- every single Sunday, Latinos gathered on parks to play soccer and have carne asada something that is very traditional in Mexican families my family could be an example of that. These parks were built with the money taken from the Japanese which speaking of now a day’s use these complexes too and this is where the two cultures met.

Mark Danner, an editor for the New York Times magazine, recounts in The Massacre at El Mozote a horrific crime against humanity committed by a branch of the Salvadorian army. He gives multiple points of views and cites numerous eye witnesses to try and piece together something that has been tucked away by the government at the time. In December, of 1981, news reports were leaked to major newspapers in the united states about an atrocity committed and a total massacre of a hamlet in El Salvador, known as El Mozote, or the Thicket. At first, the account was of over a thousand civilians, women men and children with no guerrilla affiliation were massacred. Danner pieces together the testimonies of the survivors, and interviews with

Guzmán was born on April 4, 1957 to a poor family in the hamlet of La Tuna near Badiraguato, where he sold oranges as a child. He had two sisters: Armida and Bernarda; and had 4 brothers: Miguel Angel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. Little is known about Guzmán's early years. His father was supposedly a cattle rancher, as were most in the area; it is believed, however, that he also grew opium poppy.[2][7] Fortunately for Guzmán, his father had connections to higher-ups in the Sinaloan capital of Culiacán through a relative, Pedro Avilés Pérez, Joaquin Guzmán's uncle. Aviles was a key player in the Sinaloa drug business, seen as a pioneer for finding new methods of transporting the rural produce to urban areas for shipment by way of

Have you ever watched a movie and thought if it was actually true? Well there are some movies that are based on true events but are not showed historically accurate. In the movie El Dorado there are two spaniards called miguel and tulio who got their hands on a map to a hidden tribe of aztecs call El dorado known for the city of gold. They used the map to find this hidden tribe but what they didnt know is that cortes a conquistador was looking for the same tribe. After being lost at sea the two spaniards are brought upon a island where el dorado was.

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ depicts the story of a little girl, Ofelia, and her adventures in a world that is intertwined with both reality and fantasy. The film is set five years after the Spanish Civil War, during Franco’s dictatorship of Spain. Franco’s dictatorship was a period of mass repression on all scales of society; any political opposition was immediately crushed. Guillermo del Toro uses the monsters in ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ to reflect and criticize aspects of Francoist society and draw parallels between the monsters and the humans.

Marker’s absence of traditional moving images leaves the audience of La Jetée trapped in the stillness of each image. ¬¬La Jetée’s use of still imagery makes it all the more haunting and provocative. It’s use of still photos, to its complex time- shifting organisation, La Jetée is overwhelmingly preoccupied with time and memory, which underlines the significance of particular moments from the past. Memory has always been a major preoccupation in Europe and beyond. Marker is trying to make a statement about the human condition. How we all have memories, and that we spend too much of our time living in the past, when really we should be living in the

Many crimes were happening in Argentina where many women were kidnapped while pregnant and kept in cells later to be murdered after giving birth. Thousands of innocent civilians, men, women, and children who were unconnected with the government vanished without a trace. The term “desaparesidos” brought grief to many families because it brought hope that one day they would see their loved ones again. In Argentina socioeconomics, social justice and political stability was very poor. This film relates in many ways to Juan Jose Campanella’s

There are three central sections within the film. Although they are consistent in character and often in circumstance, they should be seen as separate narratives. Each narrative represents the changing nature of the favela over a decade and contains its own visual style and mise-en-scene. It is through this structure that I

Cautiva, a 2003 film directed by Gaston Biraben, is about a young girl named Christina who lived an ordinary life until she was sent to see a judge who altered her life entirely by revealing the truth about her real parents and identity. She embarks on a journey in pursuit of the truth in which those who she believed were her parents and her family by blood decide not to reveal. Although this film isn’t based on a factual story, it is based on real cases that have occurred to many individuals in Argentina due to the “dirty war”. It addresses different points in history, such as the disappearance of numerous activists under the rule of the military during the 1970’s and how the military would take the babies of those disappeared and hand them

Juan Domingo Perón is known as the greatest Argentinean politician of all time. However, he is also one of he most controversial. His tactics and alliances are often criticized as are the changes and developments he brought about in Argentina. The one thing that can be concluded by all is that this man led a very complex and important life.

In The Motorcycle Diaries, Guevara’s discoveries of the devastating effects of US neo-colonialism in Latin America are only fully understood upon his rediscoveries of the equally harmful nature of not only tourism, but also his own vagabond traveling. Through their encounters with farm labourers, Guevara’s initial discovery of the Araucanian race’s “deep suspicion of the white man who… now continues to exploit them” is shown through the prominent motif of sharing mate, which highlights the early understanding between them. However, this understanding is expanded upon reaching Cuzco, where the symbolic juxtaposition of the three layers of the city emphasises his reassessment of how “a hesitant tourist [also] pass[es] over things superficially”. Even further, in Guevara’s encounter with the Chilean communist couple, graphic imagery accentuates his rediscovery of the “parasitic nature” of not