Luis Echeverría

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

Land Without Bread by Luis Bunuel There are numerous ethnographic surrealist films that have an intriguing relationship to aesthetics and politics. A film that exemplifies this relationship is “Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan” (Land Without Bread). This film is only 27-minutes and is directed by the infamous Luis Bunuel in 1933. Bunuel was a Spanish filmmaker of the 1920’s to the 1970’s. He is often attributed to being one of the major contributors to the surrealist movement of the 1920’s. “Ethnographic

of Luis Cruz. On page 211 of Tangerine it states, “Arthur reached Luis, turned, and whipped the blackjack around with a loud whack against the side of Luis’s head.” Paul’s close friend Luis was smacked across the head with a blackjack by Erik and this caused Luis to have an aneurysm. Luis was smacked on the head because Erik had hit Tino, Luis’ brother in the face with a blackjack, so Luis got involved, and confronted Erik and Arthur. Paul is devastated because the aneurysm sadly caused Luis’ death

Magical Realism in The Garden of Forking Paths While there may be some debate as to whether the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges was technically a Magical Realist, some may feel that his works definitely do have some of the characteristics of what is considered Magical Realistic literature. Among his various types of works are poetry, essays, fantasies, and short fictions. Often referred to in essays that discuss the history and theory of Magical Realism, "The Garden of Forking Paths" is

in short stories and novella. “The Jolly Corner,” was about a man who once lived in the United States and migrated to Europe to pursue the love he once had for art, and reject a life in his family business. “The Aleph” later was published by Jorge Luis Borges in 1945, he wrote a story about, an aspiring sphere that, the author 's character, Carlos had in his basement, that allows one to see all places in the world at all at once. Although these were two different stories they both had many similarities

“The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.” (Berger, 8.) I have a six year old sister and three year old brother. The distance between us while I am away at school was daunting to understand at first, since I am accustomed to seeing them every day. By using computer mediated communication I am able to see the little things that you miss while being away. (Like the rainbow fish construction my sister did after school, or my brother’s new Power Rangers move he’s