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Argentina experienced a period of intense violence ruled by a culture of fear from 1976 until 1983. The military overthrew President Isabel Peron on March 24, 1976 in response to building tension over the guerrilla threat and economic troubles. The coup was not extraordinary in a nation that experienced twenty six military coups and twenty four presidents in the span of fifty years (Samples 2008:9). The armed forces subsequently took control of the government and ruled under a junta of the commanders

Don Giovanni is an opera performed by Mozart where the main character Don Giovanni murders a man, seduces women, and in the end receives his awaiting fate. The sextet, which is when the remaining of the characters sing, takes place at the finale of the opera. “Everybody else runs onstage…and there is a quick lively finale, where each character announces what he or she will do next—find a new master, join a convent, get married. That, they sing, is the end for those who do evil.” (Pg. 199). This finale

Christianity has become, in over two millennia, the world's largest religion, spreading to almost every corner of the world. Based on this fact, it does not come as much of a surprise that Juan Rulfo's 1955 Mexican novel, Pedro Paramo, and Robertson Davies' 1970 Canadian one, Fifth Business, are both largely affected by this pervasive religion. What is interesting, however, is that despite the vast differences in culture and time, a comparison can be made of the authors' treatment of Christianity

therapy. Throughout his writings and life history there is much evidence to suggest that his poetry was greatly influenced by his mental instability. In many ways, Byron seems to use his work as an escape from a difficult reality. The lengthy poem Don Juan

“In just seven years, from 1532 to 1538, eight million Indians were converted to Christianity.” Whether one believes the Virgin de Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego on the hill or believe that Guadalupe was created to convert the Indians to the Catholic Church, the legend of Guadalupe as we know her today begins at this time. As a placebo for a changing guard, La Virgen de Guadalupe proved highly successful

Pedro Paramo is a novel that cannot be fully understood without consideration of its rich cultural background. It is this Mexican background, which informs so much of the novel, providing the main conflict. The narrator of the tale remarks “some villages have the smell of misfortune” while describing the locale of Pedro Parámo, the small Mexican town of Comala where the story plays out on many levels (83). On the surface level, this story is merely about a tyranical man who ruins his hometown of

Maria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos Argentina. She was the youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress Juana Ibarguen. Eva had a difficult childhood, her father had his own wife and children, and he gave Juana’s Ibarguen children his last name and would visit them once in a while. When Eva was seven her father died living them in very poor conditions, all the family, her mother and the five children lived in a tiny one room and in order to pay the rent and have

Ramsden and Jack argue over who will care for Ann and her sister and who will eventually marry Ann. There is also the problem that comes with Violet, as she is secretly married and pregnant. Later in the play, Jack encounters the famous womanizer Don Juan in a dream, who he confers with about the idea of marriage. Throughout the duration of the play, the viewer is able to dissect the playwright’s mind and the directors and actors choices. The play focuses on the idea of “Ubermensch”, which is German

Article #1 first discusses how the piece uses a tilma, or a woven cloak, as the canvas for the creation of the Virgin of Guadalupe painting. The tilma uses two different types of fabric and could be described as a cape-like due to its length. The native painters used tempera and oil to create the painting on the cloth piece. Guadalupe's skin color and black hair are both important factors to consider during the interpretation of the painting, as no other image in the Spain had depicted Mary in this

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