Jose Arcadia Limon, a modern dance choreographer, was born on January 12, 1908 in Culiaca!n, Mexico. The eldest of 11, Limon was born to father Florencio Limo!n, a musician and conductor, and mother Francisca Traslaviña, a devoted Catholic. Living through the Mexican Revolution of 1910 had a traumatic effect on the Limon family. Limo!n would often watch friends and family members die from sickness or the hostility of the soldiers. His father and mother decided it would be best to raise their family elsewhere, so they moved to other cities in Mexico, such as Hermosillo and Nogales. The family was still surrounded by hostility, as Limon personally witnessed his uncle's death by gunshot. Eventually, the family decided it would be best to leave…
Jose Guadalupe PosadaJose Guadalupe Posada is one of the most celebrated popular artists of the Americas. He greatly influenced the generation of Orozco and Rivera, who both admitted in Posada 's time to admiring and following this notable famous artist. Over his lifetime, Posada is said to have created over 20,000 original prints and in fact prints are often called posadas after him. Posada is in the distinguished tradition of cartoonists who double as political and social commentators.…
Freturned back to Spain. Even though he did not find was he was seeking, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado still managed to discover some pretty interesting things even if he didn't even know it.…
Jose Manuel Figueroa, better known as Joan Sebastian, was a Mexican singer and songwriter, as well as an actor. Throughout his career he wrote over 1,000 songs, most of which were a mixture of Latin pop and rancheras. He was known as “El Rey del Jaripeo” or “the King of Mexican Rodeo,” for his romantic and sentimental ballads and his memorable performances; most of which consisted of him performing on horseback. He was a passionate and energetic performer who didn't let his bone cancer stop him from doing what he loved. Joan Sebastian influenced the lives of his fans by reminding them to do what they love and to never give up on your dreams.…
Rey Azteca Mexican Restaurant serves authentic Mexican cuisine with hometown flavors of Mexico, some ingredients come directly from the country, capturing amazing true flavors. The achiste paste and chorizo are made fresh daily, preserving the traditions of the dishes it serves.…
Saint José Ramón Agustín Pro Juárez, also known as Saint Miguel Pro, was born on January 13, 1891, in Guadalupe, Mexico. He was one of eleven children, the oldest boy. Sadly, four of his siblings died as babies or young children. From an early age, he was heartily spiritual, as well as mischievous; he constantly entertained his family with his humor and practical jokes. St. Miguel was a dauntless child and sometimes took his pranks and fun too far, putting him in several near-death mishaps. The third oldest in his family, St. Miguel was unquestionably very close with his older sister. After she entered a convent at age 20, he started to recognize his own calling to the priesthood. Though his father wanted him to continue with the family business, Miguel lived for God and entered the Jesuit novitiate in El Llano, Michoacán in 1911. He had been studying with the Jesuit priests for only a year when a religious revolution broke out in Mexico and by 1914, the Jesuits were forced to flee the country.…
the region we know as Mexico had something like papel picado before the Spanish came it was called amatl. the Aztecs had their own why of making papel picado which was the amatl or the amate as the Spanish called it. they would have bark from trees and have melted rubber on them. they would them in ancient games or in their religious beliefs. they would use obsidian knives to make ceremonial cuts in the paper. they would even make certain types of cuts to certain gods and goddesses and make them into banners. what happen to the amate is that it is used in painting…
A myth told by the early Spanish explorers of North America about the Seven Cities of Cibola was that it was “a legendary place of beautiful and precious metals and jewels” (Coronado 1541, 5). Over the years historians have proved many of myths to be either true or false statements undergone by evidence. That is exactly what Francisco Vazquez de Coronado had set out to do. Upon Coronado’s expedition to find this tale of a country ruled by a lord, filled with riches and large villages, he encountered a various sort of people and limited resources. To this being known Coronado began to question whether or not if Spain could conquer and establish a higher power settlement within the Zuni Cibola.…
Juan Seguin was born in San Antonio on October 27th, 1806. Seguin was the eldest of the two sons. He didn’t have a lot of formal learning but was encouraged by his father, Juan Jose Maria Erasmo Seguin, who was a political ally of Stephen F. Austin. When Juan grew older, he helped his mother run his father’s post office while he and other people served in Congress from 1823-1824. Three years later on December 1828, Seguin was selected as alderman which had shown great potential. He served on different electoral boards until he was elected alcalde, also known as mayor in Spanish, on December of 1833.…
Crete-Monee High School is a high school located in Crete, Illinois, for teenagers in ninth through twelfth grade. All public schools in Crete are managed by Crete Monee Community Unit School District 201U, which is a unit school district which combines elementary, middle, and high schools. Serving the village of Crete are:…
Who is Ishmael Beah? Ishmael Beah is an activist known by many and has contributed so much of his time and effort to try and help prevent children from experiencing what he has experienced. He has donated and been involved in many organizations-such as his own- and has learned over time that to make a change, we have to take a stand and have our own voices.…
What would you do if u were forced to complete a year of high school not only worrying about what people thought about you, but also having to worry about staying alive? Melba Patillo was forced to live with this overwhelming pressure throughout her junior year when on May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas saying that public schools for whites and blacks were illegal. So when Melba’s teacher asked if anyone who lived within the Central High district would like to go to Central with white children Melba was more than eager to volunteer and explore all those opportunities she had missed out on. Three long years later when it came to the 1957 fall term Melba would be attending…
“Everything I have done in my life has been to provide for my children.” That’s what you’ll hear my dad say if you ask him about anything he’s accomplished in his life. He is a very proud and hardworking man. Even now, at 60 years old, he works harder than most 20-year-olds do. As a father he has always told us, “Nothing is handed to you; everything you have must be earned.”…
“I Grasped the poor beast by the throat and deliberately cut one of its eyes out of its sockets.”-The Black Cat. Edgar Allan Poe is an author who wrote poems and stories in the 1800’s. The narrator wanted to solve problems, but he went about it the wrong way so people died and he gets hurt. In Edgar Allan Poe's short stories the theme is think before you act the theme is shown through conflict,plot,and character.…
“The Cask of Amontillado” was first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book, a monthly magazine from Philadelphia that published poems and stories by some of the best American writers of the nineteenth century, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story next appeared in the collection Poe ‘s Works, edited by Rufus W. Griswold, Poe’s literary executor, in 1850. By the time Poe wrote this story, he was already nationally known as the author of the poem “The Raven” (1844) and of several short stories collected in a book called, simply, Tales (1845). These earlier stories were widely reviewed and argued over by critics who found them brilliant and disturbing, and their author…