La evolución de la ciencia a través de los años

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is best known as the first Spaniard to explore what we now consider to be southwestern United States. His nine-year odyssey is chronicled within the book The Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition. His account is considered especially interesting because it is one of the very first documents that illustrates interactions between American natives and explorers. However, when examining the exploration of the modern United States, there are many arguments that have to do with the entitlement to the land and the motivations behind settling in the first place. Most explorers were obviously in favor of their own conquests and Cabeza de Vaca is of course no exception. In Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition, Cabeza de

In her novel La Linea, Ann Jaramillo tells the story of fifteen-year-old Miguel, who leaves his home in Mexico to illegally cross the US-Mexican border. He leaves for California, where his parents and two of his sisters have lived for the past seven years. His parents left first, in order to make money for their children to cross la linea later. Miguel and his younger sister Elena thus live with their grandmother on a rancho in the small Mexican village San Jacinto. On his fifteenth birthday, Miguel receives the letter he has waited for his entire life. A letter from his father tells him to go see Don Clemente, a rich and successful immigrant smuggler. Don Clemente provides Miguel with

In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de Las Casas vividly describes the brutality wrought on the natives in the Americas by the Europeans primarily for the purpose of proclaiming and spreading the Christian faith. Las Casas originally intended this account to reach the royal administration of Spain; however, it soon found its way into the hands of many international readers, especially after translation. Bartolomé de Las Casas illustrates an extremely graphic and grim reality to his readers using literary methods such as characterization, imagery, amplification, authorial intrusion and the invocation of providence while trying to appeal to the sympathies of his audience about such atrocities.

I am going to tell you about a famous, yet kinda eerie celebration that takes place in mexico. This is a tradition celebrated by the Mexican Natives, most Mexican Americans (including myself) don’t even acknowledge this day, unless they happen to be visiting mexico at the time of this event.

I never expected Enrique’s Journey to be such a personal work. Being a journalistic book, I expected a lot of research in it, but not to the level Nazario’s gone to. Definitely, the way she introduced herself into the enduring situations that migrants go through when they try to reach the US gave me a new perspective of what to expect from the book. She comes from a migrant family too, so she can sort of relate to the characters in the book. However, as she confesses herself, her journey was nowhere as arduous as what these children go through to find their mothers. And the way in which she involved herself into the situation increases her empathy for Enrique en other numberless children.

“Aguantando” means holding on. In the very first paragraph we see how important it is for the narrator, Yunior, to hold on to his father’s memory. Yunior lives with his mother (Mami), grandfather (Abuelo) and brother (Rafa). They live in a house where anything of value, including furniture, food, clothing and even Mami’s Bible is stained from a leaky roof. As a Hispanic male, believe me when I tell you there is nothing more sacred than Mami’s Bible in that home. Yet it is clear how important Papi’s pictures are because they’re always in a plastic sandwich bag to keep them dry. It’s also clear that Papi leaving was the

My article choice was this: "Todos Vamos a Jugar, Even the Teachers- Everyone Playing Together." It was published in the early childhood education journal entitled "Young Children" in May of 2014. It summarizes how important play is, and how beneficial it can be to children from multicultural backgrounds. There is so much arguing these days among childcare professionals and teachers as to what the definition is of play and how it should be scheduled into a little one's school day. As most elementary schools are losing playtime and switching to more rigerous academic curriculums, it remains critical to incorporate this ever-dwindling phenomenon we've labeled as "play." It has been proven both scienticfically and logically that children need

Brian Doyle's Joyas Voladoras first appeared in The American Scholar in 2004 and was later selected for Best American Essays in 2005. Doyle’s intended audience is the general population, though his writing style attracts both the logical reader and the hopeless romantics who seek metaphors pointing to love in any way. The beginning of the essay provides insight to general information about the hummingbird, which holds the smallest, capable, and fragile heart in the world. He then explains the significance of the blue whale’s heart with comparisons, indicating that the blue whale holds a heart the size of a room. He ends his essay by expressing that a human’s heart is always closed due to the fear of it breaking, remaining constantly

The Cantigas de Santa Maria is one of the largest collections of monophonic songs from the Middle Ages and is branded by the mention of the Virgin Mary in all 427 songs. The Cantigas are written in Galician-Portuguese, a poetic language in Castile at the time. The musical forms within the Cantigas, are still being studied. There is a plethora of variations, but no musical forms have been considered standard.

Crónica de una muerte anunciada by García Márquez centres on the death of Santiago Nasar, murdered by two brothers in an act of revenge for their sister’s modesty. Set in Colombia, the novella takes on a semi-journalistic style of narration as its narrator attempts to discover the truth behind what really took place before Santiago’s death. The choppy, nonlinear structure of the story explores the differing accounts of various members in the community, almost all of whom had foreknowledge of the brothers’ plans before Santiago’s death, bringing into question the ideals and the true nature of a community as they did nothing to prevent it.

Spain during the 16th century has been described as a time of oppression, a time of exploitation of the subordinate class. For example, in the text of The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes a gluttonist priest offers Lazarillo scraps of an Eucharist bread, that was nibbled by mice. The priest tells Lazaro to take the bread, stating “There, eat that. The mouse is a clean animal.” This shows the how the higher class sees the lower class, it shows how they believe in offerings coming from them should be taken as a gift, even if a literal rodent has tampered with it. Most who could live during this this time usually were those who held high levels of intelligence and were also devious. Due to this, Lazarillo, being a man who holds the fore told

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz a mind ahead of her times, in a male dominated world where women were excluded from learning higher education and intellectual aspirations. However her destiny had something prepared for her greater than anyone could have ever imagined. From a very early age she had this insatiable hunger of learning. She grew up with no father and substituted that need with knowledge. Born in 1651, Sor Juana lived in San Miguel Nepantla with her single mother and later on moved to Mexico City when she was around seventeen years old. Octavio Paz’s book, “Sor Juana or, The Traps of Faith”, is a study of the enigmas that surrounded this young and beautiful woman with amazing intellectual powers but at the same time a mysterious woman

Sandro Botticelli painted La Primavera between 1477 and 1482 for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, a member of the powerful Florentine family. While many Renaissance works depicted scenes of Christianity, this work as well as the others in its group – The Birth of Venus, for example - are focused around tales from classical mythology. Designed to hang in a private room, the painting did not need to be made accessible to large audiences like other works of the time, such as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. An educated family with strong Humanistic ties, the Medici would have had the necessary knowledge to interpret the painting’s subject, while the common people would not have. Now located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence,

I am quite dissatisfied with this translation. At the time when I was checking it, I felt very frustrated because I thought I could have never considered some of the versions which the author gave. I mean, before correcting the translation, I was quite pleased with some of my sentences. Nevertheless, as in every aspect of life, there is always room for improvement. My translation needed considerable improvement! I found that there were many inaccuracies as regards lexis and stylistic variations as well as the use of choppy sentences. One of the difficulties I had was whether to leave the word branding as is since I was not sure about this term in Spanish. Another thing that caught my attention during the correction was the difference in usage of the definite article in English in the title The Beginning of the Brand and the plural definite article in its Spanish version – Los Comienzos de la Marca.

¿Por que hay tantas clases de seres vivos? ¿Porque la Tierra es el habitat de millos de especies, desde bacterias hasta plantas u organismo marinos, que a veces parecen seres de ciencia ficcion? La busqueda de una explicacion para la gran diversidad biologica tomo impulso en el siglo XIX, cuando Charles Darwin propuso la teoria de la evolucion mediante la seleccion natural. ¿Charles Darwin es considerado el primero cientifico que studio la evolución? La evolucion sin embargo, ya habia sido el centro de discusiones academicas mucho antes de que Darwin formulase su teoria.