Miguel Cervantes

     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.

Juan Nepomuceno Cortina was a man who was a rebel and a soldier who fought many battles that he believed was right for Mexicans in Texas and in Mexico. He took part of the Cortina Wars, where he fought Anglo or white Americans by stealing from them after how they treated Mexicans in Texas. He even took part of the War when Mexico went against the French invasion with Emperor Maximiliam, and he even helped out the Union in the American Civil war around that year. Cortina was on top of the in ranks and became Governor of Tamaulipas in Mexico. This man had many battles that he has faced in many years of violence he seen in wars and even during his own childhood. He would be known to many Mexicans as a folk hero and has Cheno Cortina, which was

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was born in Jalapa, Veracruz Mexico, on February 21, 1794. He belongs to a “criollo” middle class family. His parents were from Spain. He was a Mexican politician and military leader who was President of Mexico eleven times from 1833 to 1855. He was president officially six times, and unofficially five more. He was also a disastrous president of Mexico because he lost Texas and much more of the current American west in the United States. However, by far he was an important figure of his generation in the Mexican history. Many people love him during his first years of president, and he was remembered for two major conflicts, the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 during the Texas Revolution, and as a restored Mexican leader during the Mexican-American War in 1847 (tshaonline.org).

To begin, the protagonist Clemencia is like a chameleon, who can blend into any social event and with any class of wealth when she says ““I’m amphibious. I’m a person who doesn’t belong to any class. The rich like to have me around because they envy my creativity; they know they can’t buy that. The poor don’t mind if I live in their neighborhood because they know I’m poor like they are, even if my education and the way I dress keeps us worlds apart”(Cisneros 71,72). Clemencia is a woman who knows how to talk and have a good time. By nature she is a very creative being who loves to impress by wearing the best clothes, and show off to anyone to make herself seem better than others. (Cisneros 71). Clemencia is poor and does not have much being that she works for the school system as a translator, and other various positions. But acts rich and very wealthy to all of her friends (Cisneros 72). This connects with the myth of La Malinche, of how the character is a bad woman who sleeps with lots of men.

Francisco Pancho Villa was a popular Mexican guerilla and revolutionary leader that won the hearts of many by fighting for the poor. He was part of the uprising of Francisco Madero against Porfirio Díaz in 1909, who was then the Mexican President. Villa later graduated to become the División del Norte cavalry’s leader and Chihuahua’s governor. Villas life was filled with rebellion and violence. Villa killed over 30 Americans in several attacks after conflicting with Venustiano Carranza who was his former revolutionary ally. Villa was able to evade capture eluded capture and was pardoned by Mexican President Adolfo de la Huerta in 1920 where he lived until he was killed. Pancho Villa is remembered as a folk hero by most Mexicans due to his

The nations of Europe set out to explore the world during the 1500s. They were looking to expand their empires and convert the masses to the one true religion, Catholicism. The wealth that was to be found in these new lands was beyond their wildest dreams. These men, the explorers were out to make a name for themselves and get rich while doing it. Hernan Cortes was one such man. He set out to conquer the world, in the name of Spain, and collect the spoils from these new lands.

This morning we went exploring in Georgia and found a village to stay in. When we first arrived, the Indians were being extremely aggressive and made it clear that they were not happy about our presence. That’s when Hernando de Soto did something that I did not approve of, and he led the Indians to believe that he was a god so they would allow us to live there for a few months. Personally, I believe it is selfish to trick people simply to get what you want out of them.

Juan Luis Guerra was born in Santo Domingo, DR. He is singer and compositor. He became famous in the world from 1985 until now for his beautiful songs. He founded 440 orquest also he has sold more than 20 millions of copy.

Ignacio Ellacuría, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to help liberate the poor and oppressed in Latin America. He spent most of his life working in El Salvador. He was born on November 9th, 1930 in Portugalete, Spain located in the Biscay province. He was educated at “ the Jesuit school in Tudela, Navarra.”1

During my time surfing through the vast waves of the internet I had actually found one really interesting project that was funded by the World Bank. So apparently the World Bank had funded this project to pave a 900 mile road that opened the western Amazon to the rest of the people of Brazil, the road was known as BR-364. In the article I read we followed the life of one Antonio Carlos de Santos and a whopping 34 of his relatives who somehow fit all of them and their belongings on a truck headed for a chance at a better life. Now, back to the story at hand, things sound pretty dandy so far. The less fortunate people of Brazil would have a chance to go and make a living for themselves by using the land for farming, even the government along with some small private companies could use the enriched grounds to their advantage too.

The author, Edgar Allan Poe, was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts to traveling actors David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. He was the second child of three children or otherwise stated as the middle child. His older brother, William Henry Leonard Poe also became a poet and his younger sister, Rosalie Poe taught penmanship at Richmond girls’ school. In 1810, Edgar’s father David Poe Jr. left the family, leaving them in poverty. His mother, Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died of pulmonary tuberculosis when Edgar was at the age of three. Poe was sent away to live under the roof of John Allan, who was a considerably wealthy merchant and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia. His siblings were sent to live with other foster parents.

When reading Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville for the first time, it is portrayed as a story of a Spanish slave ship lost at sea until being found by an American ship whose captain, Amasa Delano comes on board to assist, and his strange encounter with the ship’s captain Benito Cereno. The events and conversations that take place during his several hours onboard lead Captain Delano to see Cereno as a capricious man, at times very weak and others almost cruel and because the focalization of the story is only told in a third person narrative and Delano’s thoughts, the reader is likely to see what Delano sees without being able to understand Benito’s motives. When the end of the book reveals the true events of the story, that the slaves had revolted and took control of the ship, it dramatically

It is a conventional story where nothing is said that "might offend the general public or be considered a lapse of taste" (Arner 2). Conventional thinking is shown when the heroine, a beautiful and voluptuous Spanish girl who represents the "bad" woman, gives up the idea of marrying a wealthy rice planter and marries a man she does not really want. Alcée also conforms to this thinking, and instead of marrying the hot, beautiful, full-bodied Calixta he desires, he takes the more conventional wife-figure Clarisse.

The purpose of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios is the differences in ways that people react to stress. At the start of the film, Iván ends his romantic relationship with Pepa Marcos which stresses Marcos and when she hears his voice at work, she collapses to the floor in grief. This scene demonstrates how Marcos reacts to their breakup. In the middle of the film, the audience learns that Candela harbored terrorists in her apartment which causes her stress because she believes she will be arrested by the police. Candela attempts to commit suicide, however, Marcos and Carlos rescue her. This scene shows how the stress affected Candela. At the end, Carlos tells Marcos that Lucía was in a mental hospital after Iván left her. Throughout the film, Lucía often focuses on her relationship with Iván which causes her stress. This stress causes her to attempt to murder her husband.

Many authors like to write fantasy novels, stories that detached themselves from reality, novels that tell us about magic, parallel dimensions, between others. But even in these fictional stories there is still the presence of the universal themes that can be touched not only in this kind of novels but also in the simpler ones, themes like the fight between good and evil, love, between others.