Luis Guzmán

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

Tuesday by Luis Montalvan, the author faces numerous struggles during the times he was fighting and the times he was facing PTSD. Throughout the hardships of dealing with PTSD, Luis felt betrayed in many different aspects through his experiences. Luis feels betrayed due to the fact that the media was portraying false ideas and didn 't let Luis take action, the unfair treatment he dealt with in his own country and that his parents did not help nor accept him back even though he needed help. Luis throughout

Although women are roughly equal to men in number, many different stories across many different cultures have chosen to focus on the roles and contributions of men. Women are often included only as a way to further a man’s story, rather than as the protagonist in her own journey. One way in which women can impact the narrative, regardless of whose story is being told, is in giving birth. The act of creating a new life forces a change in the world around the characters. However, even this role can

Postmodernism was a period that challenged the validity of accepted knowledge as social constructs through explorations of different possibilities. Most of Borges’s work follow similar patterns and themes that capture the essence of Postmodernism by examining various philosophical ideas of time and space. Specifically, in “The Aleph” and “The Garden of Forking Paths”, Borges plays with the idea of the infinite in various ways throughout each narrative in order to plant a similar idea in the readers’

The Name of The Rose is full of twists and turns. It is mostly based on the idea of a labyrinth. It is a book taken from another book, found by the author that contained a 14th century text by Adso of Melk, that talks about another book, which is Aristotle's book on comedy. Also other books were mentioned in this novel like, Sherlock Holmes Arabian Nights, Don Quixote, and Inferno. These texts are a magnificent example of how words speak of words and represent the idea of intertextuality that is

The works of Renaissance thinkers, writers, and artists share many traits, but one feature, a doubtful attitude toward authority and orthodoxy of their time, stands out in particular. Michel de Montaigne’s criticism of the hypocritical European ethnocentrism in his essay Cannibals, stands out as one example. Moreover, the broader conflict between the established Catholic Church and Protestants exemplified the change in mindset from strict adherence to the existing order to one that involved questioning

In “A Modest Proposal” Jonathan swift’s choice of ridicule is the ignorance of the wealthy and of the politicians. The satirical technique used to establish this is socratic irony. This is presented when Swift proposes that children of poor Irish families should “contribute to the feeding, and partly to the clothing of thousands” to revamp Ireland (Swift, paragraph 4) . In all Swift forces the people of ireland to take a good look at the reality of what their society's economic conditions. The

What happens when our ability to process information is impaired and we are reduced to mere facts? Humanity is a fragile thing, as it can be summarized by the ability to hold compassion and exhibit sympathy. Jorge Luis Borges’ “Funes the Memorious” questions the idea of how the brain may process information. As a narrative, it is written for a memorial to Funes, who was a young man that tragically passed away. The narrator felt obligated to write something about him because of his strength and resilience

In the book, Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez, we learn through the eyes of the author you cannot live life trying to run. It has been said a numerous amount of times that the minute you join a gang, expect to be in it for the rest of your life, and that the only way out of a gang results in death. The choices and experiences that were made by Rodriguez proved that fact wrong. Luis Rodriguez began being a part of gang life around the age of eleven. By age twelve, he had seen as well as experienced