Spanish-Excursion Paper
November 8, 2013
Excursion Paper
My tour around El Museo Del Barrio in Harlem, New York was a very memorable visit and I got in touch with my Spanish ancestors. There was mix of positive and negative Spanish history but none the less a very knowledgeable trip. One part of Hispanic culture that I feel is at the top of importance is the reign of Fidel Castro. To live under his rule must of have been terrifying and a childhood testimony of it is a in depth view of the dictatorship. The author of a piece of art whose name is Bernardo Navarro
Tomas. He made 3 paintings of fidel castro. The first one was a picture of four images of fidel castro and he is speaking through microphones. The next
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He was not a type of artist to hesitate the reality of showing what goes on in his land. From paintings of drug use to relieve stress of an evil dictatorship. Another painting of leaving the motherland can really make you feel the stress of living in cuba at La Marina. At the museum there was this robe, that looked like a Ku-Klux-Klan robe and it was purchased from upstate New York. The people who bought it was a group of undocumented workers in Chinatown.
Something that I found symbolically important was that the number of stitches in the robe was the number of undocumented workers which is 500,000. Ignacio Gonzalez Lang was the artist of this robe and even though he was not there, the tour guide made an interesting point. He told us to take a good look at the robe and see what it reminded us of. It took a while but it came to me eventually. The robe looked like the pope or a cardinal’s robe. The tour guide also made another resemblance which was a samurai warrior. It was a little mind-boggling that all three had the same robe. Another painting that caught my eye was a series of 50 mug shots of perpetrators that were drawn. Ignacio felt some type of way due to the fact that the witness’s verbal testimony could be wrong especially if it is drawn on paper.
The drawings could potentially ruin someone’s life especially since it’s obvious that most of these men were hispanic looking. In
Compare and contrast the manners in which two authoritarian leaders [Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet] established and maintained their rule during their respective reigns.
linen, and a cloth around his face. This demonstrates that miracles occurred in the bible.
Over the spring break, my parents decided to take me to visit colleges. Of the two colleges we visited, one of them is located near Washington D.C. We were supposed to visit Georgetown University, but we had one day to relax, so my family decided to visit the National Gallery of Art. My dad originally suggested the Smithsonian Museum, but my said that on Yelp, the National Gallery of Art was ranked 1st in museums in Washington, which is much better than Smithsonian, which was ranked 12th. So, we left our hotel and arrived at the museum just as soon as it opened.
Consequences—the result that almost always follows the actions committed by someone and in one such an incident as failing a course the consequences could set off a ripple of smaller reactions that could be detrimental to the person’s student career.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born out of wedlock on August 13, 1926. His father, a sugarcane farmer, was a Spanish immigrant. Fidel had a fairly simple childhood. At age eight, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church, which enabled him to attend the La Salle boarding school. After repetitive bouts of bad behavior, Fidel was sent to the Dolores School, and was then transferred to El Colegio de Belén in Havana, Cuba. Finally, his journey through the school system led him to studying law at the University of Havana. At this university, Fidel was embroiled in student activism, and was inducted into a gang. Due to his affiliations, Castro was subjected to violence perpetrated by the Cuban government, mainly against dissenting students. As a result, this led him down the path of a revolutionary. In
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, near Birán, in Cuba 's eastern Oriente Province. He was the third of six children, including his two brothers, Raúl and Ramón; and three sisters, Angela, Emma and Agustina. Castro grew up in wealthy circumstances even though most of Cuba was in poverty. From an early age, Castro showed he was intellectually gifted, but he was also something of a troublemaker and was often more interested in sports than studies. He attended Colegio Dolores in Santiago de Cuba and then El Colegio de Belén in Havana. After his graduation in late 1945, however, Castro entered law school at the University of Havana and became immersed in the climate of Cuban nationalism, anti-imperialism and socialism, focusing his energies more exclusively on politics.
Mr. Castro was an important leader to appear from the Latin America since wars of independence in the 19 centuries. He was influential to Cuban history. The Cuba society was transformed and had an impact in the region with exception of the Mexican revolution in 1910. The legacy of Fidel Castro was 57 years old “revolution” that once weight in world events in Latin America. It became a museum piece of Soviet style of authoritarian political
The lighter gold on the painting focuses on a single man. The man is dressed in dark brown robes, the kind monks wear. The done comes around the neck and covers the chest of the man. Resting on the back of his neck throb is a dark brown good connected to the robe. Looking through the robes is
Most prominently known as the face of a repressive dictatorship, Fidel Castro governed Cuba for nearly five decades (1959-2006) achieving both successes and failures throughout the course of his rule. His rise to power as Prime Minister in 1959 saw Cuba become the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere, improving relations with the Soviet Union but at the cost of a trade embargo with the United States. During the period of the Cold War, Castro played a significant role in allowing missiles to be placed in Cuba as mishaps during the crisis may have resulted in mutually assured destruction. Despite providing universal education, almost guaranteed employment and free healthcare, the failures far outweighed the benefits as many Cubans have attempted to flee the internationally isolated dictatorship with the economy and standard of living has plunged drastically under Castro’s regime.
Fidel Castro is considered to be one of the world’s most controversial human figures. On one hand, many people say he is a ruthless and evil dictator. While many others say he is the man who saved Cuba and is their national hero. In the biography Fidel Castro by Volker Skierka, Castro is portrayed as a national hero. While looking at the cover the readers are able to see Castro smoking a cigar, which set a tranquil tone for the rest of the book. This hagiography tells the story of Castro’s entire life from adolescence until his vast rein of being dictator of Cuba. The biographer Victor Skierka portrays Castro as a good family man who loves his people and feels a certain amount of responsibility for the country he loves. The bias biography gives
The Shroud of Turin, called “[the] icon of love, of Christ’s great love for humankind” by Pope Francis, is one of the most debatable human artefacts of which has gone under the most extensive and scrutinising research in human history – still to this day. The shroud is a rectangular linen cloth – around 4.37 metres long and 1.13 metres wide – and is centuries old. The main highlight and mystery of the shroud is that it contains two appearances of a disfigured, naked man. This image however is not visible to the naked eye and required a negative photograph to be taken so that the appearance would be clearer. The cloth is believed, by Christians, to be the burial shroud of Jesus, many claiming that the face on the shroud is the Holy Face of Christ – however many scientific research has indicated that it cannot be. Even so, the wounds indicated on the man resemble those of the crucifixion and those inflicted of when Jesus was on the cross (as told in John 19:34).
The central idea of the passage was Fidel Castro’s life journey and conflicts with the U.S. the author develops the central idea by stating all the facts and events of Castro’s life in order. The central idea is also developed by stating how Castro came to power in Cuba.
The Spanish language is one of many languages spoken in the world. It is spoken by around 470 million people around the world plus a few more that speak Spanish as their second language. The history in the Spanish language is considered one of the richest and longest of any other language that there is. Spanish evolved from the Romance language that was derived from Latin, which belongs to the subfamily of Indo-European Italic. Spanish is also known as Castilian it was developed from Vulgar Latin which spread in Spain around the late of the 3rd century. Spanish is spoken in about 23 different countries among them there’s Spain Andorra, Argentina, Belice, Bolivia, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
My skin was shimmering, intricate designs painted on my face and over my arms and legs, the dark, robes that looked like leaves fell flatteringly over my body, not revealing, but flattering. It was so perfect, it didn’t feel real. There’s no way that the outfit could have been made to fit so well, to accommodate… everything different.
The Hands: The hands symbolise that god/ Jesus had sacrificed himself for everyone, that is why you can see the holes where the nails were pierced into his hands.