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Miguel Leon-Portilla author of Broken Spears- The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, tells the story of the Spanish conquest over the Aztecs from the Aztec point of view. It is more familiar in history that the Spanish led by Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztecs with a powerful army and established an easy victory all while having intentions to gain power and greed. However, Leon-Portilla focuses on the Aztec Empire and their story. Leon-Portilla does a great job giving readers the real occurrences and events from Aztec members. This paper argues that history must be told from all sides. It is more common to hear about the Spanish conquest

What do The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum have in common. The Cask of Amontillado’s theme is that one man hates the other and will do anything to kill him. This leads into him bringing his enemy into a cave and chaining the enemy to the wall and making it impossible for the enemy to escape by building a wall. The Pit and the Pendulum talks of a man that is sentenced to a prison in Toledo and doesn’t believe in until he is in it. I am going to show The Cask of Amontillado’s and The Pit and the Pendulum’s similarities and differences.

Malintzin had an important role in the ancient history and colonization of Latin America. She would rise from just a simple servant girl and slave, to become one of the key factors of the Spanish colonization of the indigenous natives in the New World. She helped translate for the Spanish conquistadors and even Hernando Cortés himself. Malintzin’s interpreting skills would prove crucial in the dealings between Hernando Cortés and the Aztec emperor Montezuma. Camilla Townsend uses the story of Malintzin to display the conquest of Mexico in a different aspect and first person point of view.

Leon-Portilla based the stories told in this book upon old writings of actual Aztec people who survived the Spanish massacres. The actual authors of the stories told in this book are priests, wise men and regular people who survived the killings. These stories represent the more realistic view of what really happened during the Spanish conquest. Most of the history about the Aztec Empire was based on Spanish accounts of events, but Leon-Portilla used writings from actual survivors to illustrate the true history from the Indians’ point of view.

This particular story is like a complementary to the note lectures about the Aztecs. Also, this lecture help to understand

In literature, the concepts of foreshadowing, symbolism, personification, and similes convey specific meaning within a novel . Foreshadowing is an important aspect in literary concepts because the passage that accentuates this term indicates or affects what is to come in the future context of the novel. Symbolism has a significant role as well because it is an applied use of iconic representations and allows content interpretation. Furthermore, personification and similes are forms of poetic styles that expresses life of inanimate objects and adds descriptive details. As such, in the novel In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez combines a variety of rich details and significance in the passage, “ [...]

Because Schreffler is arguing that Díaz, López de Gómara, Solís and González created a misconstrued view of Aztec painting, imagery is a vital component of this essay. The visuals strengthen his argument by giving viewers a clear sense of the difference between typical Aztec panting and the painting that the accounts describe. For example, Schreffler includes two images of paintings done by the

Julia Alvarez uses a strong vocabulary to show the violence in the book. A lot of hidden violent diction is represented in Chapter Six: when Enrique Mirabal leads Minerva into the garden down the driveway, "The moon was a thin, bright machete cutting its way through patches of clouds." (89) The use of the moon symbolically seems to indicate the level of violence. This metaphor is a foreshadoiwing about Minerva getting a "sharp" slap, as she describes it, from her father. The usage of metaphors in the book is very frequent. Author tries to describe the violence not through the direct telling. But in the Chapter Twelve, Trujillo says :«My only two problems are teh damn church and the Mirabal sisters.»(281), which shows his open distaste for theMirabal sisters. This is a rare example of the direct quote from the character that openly shows

A resistant reading of the poem uncovers the idea that religion, specifically the Judeo-Christian religious tradition, is intrinsically harmful and retrogressive in nature. If the ‘snake’ is interpreted as a synecdoche for Judaeo-Christian religious tradition as a whole, a profoundly negative opinion of such an ideology is formed throughout the poem. Without the ‘snake’ that is this religion, there would be no “pain and suffering”. The poem asks, “what could bear such a weight”, interrogating the conscience of religion, implying guilt on its behalf. Furthermore, the imagery suggested in the second stanza surrounding the snake’s “shadow” evokes negative ideas concerning the nature of the religion, which is further bolstered by its ability to “separate itself” from this shadow, and to “move on

Taking into account the previous descriptions and the definitions of horror and terror we will try to identify which of these stories presents horror and which one may be said to go deeper by portraying terror. The Pit and the pendulum is characterized by having a narrator who seems in absolute use of his mental faculties. As it is mentioned above, this character is aware of what is happening around him and by having a peak of his logical thoughts and feelings the reader experiences the struggle of the narrator to stay alive in a much more personal way. The fact that this character is sane, integrated and coherent in his thinking is one of the reasons why the reader may sense the terror of the story on a whole other level.

One of the foremost themes of the novel is the concept of belonging to a place, in particular the connection to a homeland. A disturbance in the main environment signifies as the stimulating factor for the disruption of the man’s sense of belonging. There exists an fragmented sense of existence in the old land, something that is established primarily by the ominous, malicious serpent like figures that

The article Asian American Mental Health: What We Know And What We Don't Know by Stanley Sue was about Asian Americans and how they deal with their mental health. There are about 4% of Asians in the United States and because of this small percentage; it is hard for researchers to find people to help conclude their studies. What some have found out is that Asian Americans are offered mental health services but rarely use it. They find other ways such as asking their family for help or making an herbal remedy to help with their sickness. A researcher named Kuo has studies that show Asians are more depressed than Caucasians. According to a researcher named Leong the high depression rate is because Asians have problems with adjusting. I think what these researchers have studied is a great topic but it just needs more information. According to the article since it is such a low population of Asians in America it is hard to find people to do the research on. I think if they keep looking they can get more information about this topic.

In the article “Applying Behavioral Theory to an Innovative School-Based Program for Preventing Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving,” it applies both the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) and the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). The behavior that is being studied is the combination of drinking alcohol and driving among teenagers. The authors collaborated with Shattered Dreams, a preventative program that instills teenagers with the potential negative consequences of underage drinking and driving. The purpose of the collaboration is to formulate evaluation criteria, and help make the program more effective by applying behavioral theories and models.

I have decided to do my thrid quarter project on “El Chupacabra”. El Chupacabra is a myth or legend centered from Puerto Rico. I have grown much interest in this folktale. The mysterious and puzzling creature brings great interest to me. I’m eager to learn more about the Chupacabra. So with interest I believe this topic would be the correct choice for me.

Using certain literary techniques and poetic devices, the poets of “Identity” and “The Road Not Taken” have created a way to see different analogies, personification, and extendable imagery. To begin with, the poets have helped the readers to understand literary techniques and poetic devices by utilizing different analogies. The poet of “Identity” has regained the specific way of using analogies. A very well planned analogy is in the lines containing the following statement: “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench/ than of sweet, fragrant lilac” (Julio Noboa Polanco Lines 19-20).