Luis Cruz

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz became president of the United States of Mexico in 1964, years before the massacre, that took place in October 2, 1968 at ”la plaza de las Tres Culturas” in Mexico city, better known as “Tlatelolco Massacre” (“Mexico 's 1968 Massacre”). It was supposed to be an unarmed peacefull protest, but at sunset the police and military forces equipped with armored cars and tanks surrounded the plaza and began firing into the open crowd. The police fire hit not only the protestors but also

tale of my character, Lucy, and how she is off to fight a war in place of her younger brother, Luis. She has an immense love for her younger brothers, but they are all of fighting age and they have all been selected for the draft. Lucy has a choice, as stated in one of the lines. ‘To save one or save none.’ Of course, she cannot prevent all of her brothers from going into the war, so she takes the spot of Luis because he has created a life for himself already. Despite her Father’s pleas, Lucy ends up

government faced a movement that could not be controlled through the same tactics. The Student Movement of 1968 represented a changing in the political system where those who felt suppressed voiced their discontent, in spite of government suppression. Luis Echeverria, the president following the Student Movement, faced political turmoil and instability during his presidency; he instituted reforms that were considered “left” during his time. Although Echeverria did this because he felt the need to reform

Literature often has a meaning that is not expressed outright to the readers. While the Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca may be understood as a rollicking tale about shipwrecked school boys and a tragic play about an entangled love story between four youngsters, the two works in fact implicitly criticize the societies in which the stories are set that are directly related to the social contexts of their production. While both the Lord of the Flies

The 2004 film Voces Inocentes directed by a Mexican filmmaker Luis Mandoki, seeks to tell a story about embattled childhood of the co-writer Oscar Torres. This embattled childhood is portrayed in the film regarding the civil war that occurred in El Salvador in the 1980s. The account of what took place in the civil war is told from the perspective of an 11 year old boy named Chava played by Carlos Padilla. According to Chasqui 2007, The El Salvador civil war commenced when the farmers who were a part

Advocate Illinois Masonic has a rich history in how it became the hospital it is today. Before it was called Illinois Masonic, it was the Chicago Union Hospital. The Union Hospital was organized during the time of rebuilding post the great Chicago fire in 1901. Belden Avenue Baptist Church Steadfast Sunday School organized the union hospital. Amongst the board members of the hospital where some Masons who formed an association for the purpose of providing free medical and surgical treatment for master

mind, a concise yet profound analysis of a small business in Buckeye, Arizona will consider how an entrepreneur owned business truly works. Twelve years ago, three brothers, Martin, Luis, and Ricardo Ortiz, opened Ortiz Mobile Service, LLC. After previously working twelve years at a large semi-truck company, Luis Ortiz pondered the idea of operating his own

Would you tackle an adult to save your friend, I mean a trusted adult like a coach? Well Paul Fisher from the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor did just that. He tackled his former coach to save his friend. You’re probably wondering “Why did he do that?” Well his friends Victor and Tino came for revenge after someone murdered Tinos brother. They attacked the murderer and his friend who told him to attack Tinos brother in the first place. Victor got away but the coach got Tino, as they were passing Paul

Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 surrealist film directed by Luis Bunuel, and written by himself along with Salvador Dali. The film has lived in infamy for its bizarre, dream-like atmosphere, gory (by 1929 standards at least) imagery, and sexual allusions. Typically, film analyses like this one, start by offering a synopsis of the plot. In the case of Un Chien Andalou, this is a difficult task, as it really has no plot. It jumps backward and forward in time, place to place, character to character, and

Dominican Music and Film The Caribbean island nation of the Dominican Republic is little known by most Americans, but America is ever present in the Dominican consciousness. Until Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire went head to head in the legendary homerun battle of 1998, few Americans were aware of any American-Dominican rivalry in western hemispheric culture. Nothing gave Dominicans more pride than to see Sosa hold Major League Baseball's homerun record, albeit for less than 24 hours before McGuire