El Velador‚ or The Night Watchman‚ is a 2012 documentary directed by a Mexican-American photographer and filmmaker named Natalia Almada. Almada’s works mainly focus on Mexico’s history‚ politics‚ and culture. In El Velador‚ she observes how the Mexican drug wars has affected the city of Culiacán in Mexico. She not only displays the violence caused by the war‚ but rather what it means to live in violence. Throughout the documentary‚ the overall theme of violence is displayed and indirectly spoken
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about the issues that our government currently deal with in regards to immigration are pretty much the same. Even at the time of this war‚ there were still people giving up everything they had just to come here and try to make a better life. In “Paso Del Norte‚ Rulfo” describes a man who has decided to leave his own family in hopes that he can give them a better life. I think this goes without saying that the Hispanic culture is willing
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The El Paso community can be said to be peaceful in terms of violence and drugs. In certain aspects however‚ our community suffers. I live on the Far East side of El Paso which is now currently growing at a huge rate. Because of this‚ streets as well as restaurants and stores are getting more and more populated. Along with this is the fact that since we are growing so fast‚ construction is taking place in order to allow a “better” flow of traffic. The result from this is catastrophic. Instead of
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soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s select‚ American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote‚ where they murdered hundreds of men‚ women‚ and children‚ often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and photographs of its victims -- appeared in the United States‚ the Reagan administration quickly dismissed them as propaganda. In the end‚ El Mozote was forgotten. The war in El Salvador continued‚ with American funding. When Mark Danner’s reconstruction of these events first
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El Chapo Good or Bad? El Chapo has been transporting drugs since he was a young kid. Chapo was born into this world of the drug cartels‚ when his dad use to transport drugs and take Guzman on his trips to take the drugs. In recent discussions people are debating on if El Chapo should be extradited to the United States on his charges that are drug charges. Most people say he should be able to stay in mexico because he is seen as a robin hood like figure. El Chapo should be extradited to the United
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The Massacre at El Mozote was the killing of hundreds of Salvadorans by the Atlacatl‚ an American-trained battalion. They Atlacatl entered the town of El Mozote and massacred estimates as high as 1‚000 people‚ including men‚ women‚ and children. A war was being fought in El Salvador between the government army and guerrillas‚ with funding from the American government being sent to the El Salvadoran army. The United States is at fault for the lives lost at the town of El Mozote and those surrounding
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Jesse BurnsProfessor‚ WolfeEnglish 102Essay 220 October 2014 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Trading Company The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven written by Sherman Alexie and A&P written by John Updike are stories that represent the social constraint’s felt by each of the protagonists. Alexie’s story and Updike’s story complement each other in their context and have a very similar theme. Alexie’s story is about a young man who is held down by the racial indifferences he has encountered
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Marisol by José Rivera premiered in 1992 it is set in New York City at about the same time. They play starts out with Marisol almost being killed on a train by a madman wielding a golf club but she had an invisible protector. She lives in the Bronx surrounded by desperate people who are vocal about what they want; one neighbor begs for heat while another wants their boyfriend back. There are multiple examples of desertion in Marisol’s life from the people that she has met to the neighborhood she
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decide escribir un libro para ella con el propósito de ayudarla en su clase de filosofía. El libro se trata de una Niña que se llama Sofía‚ Sofía quiere decir sabiduría‚ este personaje es tomado de Hilde‚ son iguales‚ y Sofía también esta apunto de cumplir 15 años cuando se enfrenta con esta a ventura. Todo empezó un día cuando Sofía y su mejor amiga estaban jugando guija se apagan las velas y se oye y se ve la sombra de un perro. Al día siguiente cuando despierta el perro esta sentado afuera de su casa
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