Cuba is filled with color‚ contrast‚ and ideology‚ not only in their art‚ but their way of life. Below are a couple of photos that speak to the processes of art from the photo itself and what the photo is illustrating. Mural de la Prehistoria Contrary to the name‚ this painting is not thousands of years old. In fact‚ it’s not even hundreds of years old. This mural‚ one of the largest in the world‚ sits outside of Vinales‚ Cuba and explains the biology of life from the island. This piece of
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Glorifying War and Death With all the media available these days‚ everyone is familiar with the drug war in México‚ the damage it has caused‚ and the thousands of innocent people left dead in its wake. Every day hundreds of innocent people are killed because of this war‚ and media is misrepresenting the moral idea or it. What most people do not know however‚ is the culture surrounding the narco-trafficking war. Singers and songwriters are making “art‚” that glorifies this horrible war‚ their songs
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Panorama de la Administración Caso 1 CASO 1: ¿QUÉ ES UN GERENTE? TRANSCRIPCIÓN DEL CASO Al hacer su entrada al salón de conferencias‚ el señor Rivera‚ gerente de división de una compañía de gas que sirve alrededor de 200 pueblos‚ notó que todos los miembros de su equipo gerencial estaban presentes. La reunión especial fue convocada con el propósito de organizar un club de gerentes. Sentados en la mesa estaban la supervisora de contabilidad de la división‚ el supervisor de ingeniería‚ el superindentendente
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The Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua The text is about a woman who is a victim of her culture. A culture where a female are inferior to the superior males and limits their choices of whatever they want to be in life. This belief pushed them to the lower depths of society with no one to cling to but themselves. Men are always powerful while women are often weak and helpless. This culture press people to follow the rules the conventional way and judge and deprive people of their own freedom to choose
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Economic theory generally assumes that people solve important prob- lems as economists would. The life cycle theory of saving is a good example. Households are assumed to want to smooth consumption over the life cycle and are expected to solve the relevant optimization prob- lem in each period before deciding how much to consume and how much to save. Actual household behavior might differ from this optimal plan for at least two reasons. First‚ the problem is a hard one‚ even for an economist‚ so
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warm weather‚ and pesos. However‚ when you take a closer look at their culture it is clear that the Mexican people are very religious. More specifically they are very connected to the Virgen de Guadelupe. The Virgen is depicted all over Mexico and is one of their most celebrated and loved saints. The Virgen de Guadelupe originates from Coatlicue The Aztecs‚ a 12th century CE civilization‚ were very religious and worshiped many gods and goddesses. The ritual sacrifices that took place in the Aztec
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Don Quixote de La Mancha Author: Miguel de Cervantes The novel Don Quixote de La Mancha was written by a Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes‚ it is considered one of the greatest works of fiction. The story of Don Quixote starts off like any other adventure novel with the exception of the protagonist being an old man instead of the usual young man who sets off for a journey. Alonso Quixano is a man who becomes so obsessed with the chivalrous examples led by the knights in the books he read
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La Madres de la Plaza Mayo Argentina‚ the second largest and most populated country in South America‚ was discovered in 1516 by Juan Diaz de Solis. As a result‚ Argentina developed under Spanish colonial rule. Buenos Aires‚ the country’s capital was settled in 1580 and by 1600 the country already had a booming the cattle industry. Later‚ from 1806 to 1807‚ invading British forces were expelled from Argentina. In 1808 Napoleon conquered Spain and two years later Argentinians created their own government
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Walter de la Mare (1873 – 1956) Silver Slowly‚ silently‚ now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way‚ and that‚ she peers‚ and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel‚ like a log‚ With paws of silver sleeps the dog; From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep Of doves in silver feathered sleep A harvest mouse goes scampering by‚ With silver claws‚ and silver eye; And moveless fish
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Bartolome De Las Casas writes to the King of Spain about the treatment of indigenous peoples by the Spanish conquistadors. Being a Spanish Dominican priest‚ he was appalled by how Christians were treating these people. He writes‚ “The Christians seized all the maize the locals had grown for themselves and their own families and‚ as a consequence‚ some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger‚ some mothers even killing their own children and eating them” (Las Casas‚ 1992‚ p. 39). Las Casas has
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