The novel, Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario is about a 15-year-old Honduran boy named Enrique, that traveled 1704 miles to reunite with his mother again, but with the journey, he would have to leave his girlfriend and family and risk his life to reconnect with the only person that understands him the most.The author of the novel, Sonia Nazario, was encouraged to write the novel, “Enrique’s Journey” to demonstrate to people that the journeys we take, will be worth it in the end. Throughout the whole novel, Enrique's journey will be worth it because, even though he risking his life to go from one place to another, he knows that being a family again is the best thing he can ever have.…
In the excerpt, “Ship Breaker,” by Paolo Bacigalupi, the main theme shows that family doesn’t always mean blood. Sometimes, parents are never there for anyone then, there are friends who are there for when someone needs one. “The man was a drunk and a bastard, but still they were blood. They shared the same eyes, the same memories of his mother, the same food, the same liquor...…
In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, a legally blind 7th grader named Paul Fisher, moves to Tangerine County, Florida and has to deal with many new situations. Paul had made some decisions that made a huge impact on his life as a middle schooler. Paul made the choice to defend himself against a soccer defender and stand up to his parents, neighbors, and even local officers.…
In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts, to develop one of the main characters, Maniac Magee. In the book, Jerry Spinelli described Maniac as a myth or legend. For instance, the book stated “ I heard about it,” said another, “ but I didn’t believe it. ”It wasn’t a trick. It was true.…
To analyze the gender stereotypes through the female’s traits and male’s traits in OLX Indonesia television commercials “Household” version, as the main theory, the writer uses Simone de Beauvoir’s critical thinking about the construction of gender by the society in feminine’s point of view and how women become what society wants to be because of the social construction about femininity and masculinity. She asserted that, “One is not born but rather becomes, a woman” (Beauvoir 1953, 273). In her book “The Second Sex”, Beauvoir stated about women that actually become women as what society expect them to be because they are taught to do so; women should be like this and not should be like that. Moreover, it told about how men become the ‘Subject’…
“Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me my first life line.”…
This provocative book seeks to study the philosophy and practice of the colonial architecture of the towns, cities, and churches in Latin America, referring specifically to the Viceroyalty of Peru between 1535 and 1635. It focuses on the significant identity and characteristics of the architectural projects as influential instrument to define the European traditions of art and architecture by the native context and native laborers and craftsman who were responsible for building the churches, towns and cities of the Spaniard. In addition, the consolidation and organization of laborers and their built environment have been shown in order to display the overlap between the spaces of natives and…
Pizzolatto, a mystery writer, establishes setting as one of the most important components of his craft. He introduces his characters’ happy times using the sun or bright colors in the sky. Through the setting he develops his world, and with it, his emotions of the characters within hiss stories.…
Richard “Dick” Gregory was born in Saint Louis, Missouri 1932, who was a stand up comedian at the Playboy club during the early 1960’s. October Twelfth, Nineteen Thirty-Two Saint Louis, Missouri Richard Gregory was born. Gregory was born second of six children, Gregory’s mother worked many hours as a maid to provide for her family, because Gregory’s father had left his wife and children. Gregory would be bullied at school, the only way he was able to defend himself was by comedy. Gregory was also apart of the civil rights movement of the Nineteen Sixties, also became friends with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gregory was arrested many times for being an activist. Gregory ran for Mayor in Chicago, and was unsuccessful. Gregory also ran for president,…
I though the people profiled in Without Pity: A Film About Abilities represented a fair cross-section of disabled individuals struggling against the world's obstacles, to gain control of how they will eventually live.…
“In the blink of an eye everything can change.” These words perfectly describe the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. In this short story, Mrs.Mallard’s world is turned upside down when she finds out that her husband has died. Within that hour Mrs.Mallard’s life continues to drastically change as she comes to realize that she is free to live her life how she wants. Mrs.Mallard only grieves the loss of her husband for a little while then she can’t help but say over and over that she is free. Although Mrs.Mallard was going to be sad at Mr.Mallard’s funeral she was looking forward to the coming years where her years would belong to only her. Despite the fact that Mrs.Mallard quickly got over her husband’s death her life changed…
In the artwork The Immaculate Conception (Figure 1) painted by Antonio de Palomino y Velasco, the viewer is immediately drawn towards the most prominent figure in the painting. The features of Palomino’s work all direct the viewer towards the illuminated woman and the bird flying overhead in the center of the canvas. This painting utilizes creative elements such as perspective, lighting and colors, and shapes to accentuate the significance of the central characters in the foreground of the artwork.…
- People that could partially see guided the blinded children to learn the whole village…
It was not only the United States and Europe that were touched by Modernism; Latin America was also feeling the effect of this shift in the art world during the beginning of the 20th century. While beginning to achieve some level of independence from its European occupiers, Latin American and its artists were embracing Modernism which fit well with the mixed race cultures of this region. The indigenous peoples of Mexico, for instance, endured a brutal occupation by the Spanish starting in 1521 by Hernán Cortés(1485 - 1547) until the Mexican revolution(1910-1920) after which the indigenous peoples were honored and encourage to become educated. One of the artists discussed in this paper is Diego Rivera(1886-1957) who was a champion of these native peoples. This paper will compare Zapatista Landscape (1915) by Diego Rivera and Three Musicians (1921) by Pablo Picasso(1881-1973).…
Panos Ioannides wrote a story about loyalty, friendship and irony, which he called, simply, "Gregory." The story takes place in Cypriot prisoner of war camp, during their war with Britain, from the perspective of a Cypriot guerrilla. An English prisoner named Gregory develops Stockholm syndrome, where the captor and captured form a positive bond. When his execution is ordered the guerrilla's must choose between their friend and their loyalty to their country. The irony of it is that no one ever checked up on the orders to have Gregory killed. Gregory had two separate opportunities to escape, but he didn't take either of them. The situational irony of it is that that cost him his life. The first opportunity to escape was when the guerrilla's leave the camp and the sentry falls asleep, they returned to find Gregory was still there. The soldiers joke later asking why he didn't run away. "Where would I go in this freezing weather? I'm OK here." Gregory replied. Ironicaly that decision cost him his life instead of saving it like he thought. This also shows that Gregory is developing Stockholm syndrome, because he thinks he's "OK' with the guerrilla's. The second opportunity is after they got the execution order. The guerrilla's sent him, alone, to do laundry while they decided what to do with the orders. Subconsciously they sent him out in hopes that he would run away and they wouldn't have to kill him, but he was naive and did their laundry as asked believing they wouldn't kill him. In this part of the story the narrators loyalty to his country is being tested as well as his friendship with Gregory. Another example of situational irony is when a scorpion is crawling up the narrator's leg and Gregory kills it with his bare hands. If he hadn't killed that scorpion he might have lived because the executioner would be dead. The story "Gregory" is a test of one man's loyalty and friendship in an ironical situation. Before he shoots Gregory the narrator makes a statement…