Los De La Luz Y La Oscuridad

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.

Since of the history is only written by the winners and contains bias, the views of “other side” are barely recaptured. As this suggest, the credibility of some historical events taken from one perspective can be questioned. Therefore, the majority of the histories can be considered as incomplete in the view of the fact that only unilateral views from the winning side were being shown. As a matter of fact, the conquest of Mexico has always been one of the historical events that lots of historians like to talk about. Along with the book Victors and Vanquished, Stuart B. Schwartz has carefully provided readers with the perspectives from both Spanish and the Nahua on the fall of Aztec and allowed us to interrogate the real history behind.

     As a young child, Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds. Spanish, is his family's' intimate language that comforts Rodriguez by surrounding him in a web built by the family love and security which is conveyed using

Una de las principales fuentes de riesgo que presenta Pecom ante este escenario, es sin duda el

Within the works of “Fiesta, 1980” it takes us in the lives of a Latin American family. We are described a traditional style Latino family were there is a dominate father figure, a submissive mother, and obedient children more or less. There are two boys the eldest Rafa and the youngest Yunior and their younger sister Madai. During the transgression of the story it is conveyed through the eyes of Yunior. And like any typical family it has its own story to tell.

With a great reputation for its historical significance, ‘Los olvidados’ (1951), a film shot in Mexico City, directed by Luis Buñuel, endorsed the defining point of his profession. Having studied the given excerpt of the script from a scene of the film, this report will not only portray intriguing political, historical and social aspects, but also the phonological, morphological and lexical aspects and how they influence the given content. The geographical location of this film has also proven to be of relevant influence. Buñuel succeeded to attract the wider world's interest into his work as it was his intention to make everyone realise the truth. Ironically, Buñuel being a surrealist director, Los olvidados was not a surreal film. It was the first film directly addressing not only the issues identified with the Mexican society but also Mexican cinema itself. From here, the attributes of Mexican cinema were perpetually replaced.

The author argues that the Spanish were completely at fault for the total destruction of the Aztec Empire. In Broken spears, the author explains how many factors other than Spanish power contributed to the downfall of the Aztecs. Not only did the Spanish have many advantages over the Aztecs, but also they also exploited them and took advantage of the cultural difference. The main key aspects to the Spanish victory, is that the Spanish were viewed as gods at first because of their appearance, the Aztecs welcomed the Spanish with gifts and festivities, which showed the Spanish had total control of people. The Aztecs also held a ritual ceremony for the arrival of the “god” that included a human

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the culture and beliefs of four Hispanic groups. The groups I have chosen to cover are: Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican and Cuban. Included in the paper will be each group’s linguistic, social, economical, political, familial and religious ties or beliefs.

Rojas details the role of geopolitics and Mesoamerican political tradition in the demise of the Mexica and includes maps of Aztec and Spanish conquest in the Aztec region. This offers insight into how the Spanish accomplished colonization and why the indigenous accepted them as their rulers, showing the content’s value. Rojas’s failure to focus on the importance of the extensive tributary system central to the capital’s political power and ultimate demise is the content’s

Social concern and the prejudice of the society, as seen through the eyes of children, is another major theme which runs like a leitmotif in Matute’s tales, underling the poverty, the hierarchy based on relations of strength, the every day pain and agony provoked by lack of communication, indifference, loneliness-a portrait of a hard life described by Matute using her own experiences as a child while she was staying with her grandparents. The childrens’ world is divided in her stories in normal children and the others, ’de otras tierras,…que vivían en la parte vieja del pueblo’ y ‘que hablaban un idioma entrecortado, desconocido’. The society treats them like outsiders and this attitude of superiority is often embraced by children, (because they were told by the adults that the others are different), illustrating ‘the shock which the adult hypocrisy gives to youthful minds’. The acute consciousness of poverty and social division is remarkably portrayed by Mature through the images of the ‘other’ children who are rejected by the society because of their background and human condition. They are described as ‘chicos como al diablo, con los ojos oscuros y brillantes como cabezas de

In the secondary source, Beezley talks about some of the old Mexican traditions such as burning of Judas, bullfighting, and cockfighting; in a way, these traditions stood as the metaphor of the political and social divisions in the Mexican society. The primary source is a compilation of correspondence between Oreste Sola and his family; he is traveling to Argentina for job opportunities, he writes about the places and his impression of those places.

1. Three arguments’ that Juan Gines de Sepulveda used to justify enslaving the Native Americans were for gold, ore deposits, and for God’s sake and man’s faith in him. 2. Three arguments that Bartolome de las Casas gave in attacking Spanish clonial policies in the New World were the Indians eating human flesh, worshiping false gods, and also, he believed that the Indians were cowardly and timid. 3. For comparisons that Sepulveda used, in lines 1-7, to express the inferiority of the Indians was their prudence, skill virtues, and humanity were inferior to the Spanish as children to adults, or even apes to men. Comparisons he used to dismiss the significance of the Indians

The city El Nigromante is located Veracruz. The population is 2453 people, and 89.86% of those people are indigenous, and 50.77% of the inhabitants speak one of the indigenous languages. There are only 632 households and from those households, 142 are without a floor, and 57 are one room only. What makes EL Nigromante attractions are the beaches of the River of Playa Vicente. They have a place called “The Necromancer” that is where the held dances and meeting. On February 25, the all the people gather here a feast. This city is not in an economical way developed, and they only have a minimum technology, like TV, radio, and cars, those things are usually very old. This town has a more natural feeling them Xalapa. This city doesn’t have many tourists. The best way to get to El Nigromante from Xalapa is by car, it will take you at least 5 hours.

The practice of bloodletting and human sacrifice ritual is undoubtedly important in the life of the Mayans. The bloodletting allows the ruler the ability to communicate with the Gods and their ancestors. While the human sacrifice is connected to the continuation of the cosmos and the resurrection of the agricultural seasons. A summary and a discussion of the book Popol Vuh is presented, on the topic of reassurance theme of human sacrifice is addressed in this paper. The examination of how bloodletting and human sacrifice is crucial to the Mayan culture, and how these rituals provided the stability of social and political aspect of the Mayan society.

This poem was published on December 14, 2012 but, it was created in the Modernism Era on the 19’s by Pablo Neruda. The poem might be about the effect of blood, death, injustice, etc. Massacre the nightmare that is happening today day, dead, torture, or missing people. In the first place the biggest problem is the government corrupt not to mention who complicity with the cartels to hide the entire true from the citizens and no only citizens if not from all others countries. The poems are amazing having an excellent connotation like Irony. Irony was used to cover the things that the government make like “the blood was hidden behind the root, washed and denied” that mean the government said another thing that is not true as if nobody died. Additionally the imagery connotation is “nobody knows where he buried the murderers the bodies, but they will come out of the blood drop in the resurrection of the people” that mean the famous karma. The problem was that today day the massacres continue and like the poem said “in the middle of the plaza was not hid scrub the pure blood of the people….. Nobody hid this crime. This crime was in the middle of the patria” that was happening right now in many countries like Mexico, Chile, Colombia,