The sea is … a lion’s roar a shark’s restaurant a quilt of blue a surfer’s paradise The sea is … a leaking ink cartridge the eyes of a fair haired child the sound of the crashing waves a shiny blue sheet hugging the shore a blue lagoon blue nothingness God’s tears a deadly suffocating machine a mermaid’s kingdom water‚ alive a flooded land occasionally death when oil tankers spill a fish’s home white horses riding on a blue carpet a bowl of salty water
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Gilberto Freyre’s Casa Grande & Senzala (1933) has been described as one of Brazil’s ‘founding fictions’. Discuss this concept paying particular attention to questions of race and to the impact of the book on Brazilian culture and society. When interpreting a work that is deemed a ‘founding fiction’‚ it is crucial to examine the social environments in which the given work was constructed as well as the author’s predecessors and external influences. When studying Gilberto Freyre’s Casa Grande & Senzala
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Truly the Americas’ First Feminist? Failing to Set a Precedent In Estela Portillo Trambley’s play Sor Juana the main character Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was considered to be one of the earliest feminists. Sor Juana’s eternal struggles to study and unshakable craving for knowledge and wisdom‚ from whatever source it may be‚ support this attribute. In my opinion however‚ there are also significant elements of the play that suggest that Sor Juana would not be considered a true feminist. Of these
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Colon ENGL 1302 Instructor Betsy Toms 6 September 2011 Columbus vs. Cabeza de Vaca The Columbus Letter and The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca differ in many ways. The main dissimilarity is in the motivations of each of these great explorers. Both accounts are about the New World and its inhabitants but each tells a vastly different story. Columbus’s wrote his letter to gain further support for exploration of the new land while Cabeza de Vaca writes about the difficulties he and the natives experienced
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The Frente Unico Por Derechos de la Mujer (Sole front for Women’s Rights‚ FUPDM) was organized in 1935 after the 1935 “Comintern congress in which the PRN and the PGM women came together” (Olcott 111) “and it succeeded where earlier efforts to create a unified feminist organization had failed‚ This first effective mass feminist organization in Mexico united feminist from the Left and Right‚ liberals‚ communist‚ Catholics‚ and various factions from the women’s sector of the PNR” (Ramos Escandón 203)
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Oppression of Latin Colonial Women in You Men In the lyrical poem‚ You Men by Sor Juana de la Cruz‚ she attempts to unveil the patriarchal society in the 1600’s that women were confined due to societal beliefs and values. During the 1600’s Latin women were valued for childbearing and traditional roles in the home. Therefore‚ Cruz had difficulty in her personal life with the roles assigned to women and joined the convent. At the convent‚ Cruz wrote as a woman of the upper class and used the protection
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guidelines for people to live their lives by. John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu both helped to build our constitution and we borrowed some of their ideas for how we live our lives in America. John Locke had the idea that people were born with the three natural rights: life‚ liberty‚ and property. We as an early country borrowed that idea but changed it slightly. We chose to use: people have the right to life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. The Baron de Montesquieu said that the government’s power
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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur‚ a French aristocrat‚ wrote this essay after the Revolutionary war for all the world to read‚ most importantly the European nations. He wrote this essay to persuade people of other nations to immigrate to the Americas. Throughout this essay he uses strong diction and metaphors to persuade these people to move here. He begins his essay by stating that “a country that had no bread… no harvest…” He uses this statement to show the world that a nation that does not provide
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Cinderella vs. Danielle de Barbarac Throughout history‚ women have been portrayed as the weaker sex. Truthfully‚ many women are just as physically and emotionally strong as men. Cinderella’s strengths have been shown in the movies Ever After and Cinderella. In Ever After‚ a woman lost the only person that she ever really loved‚ but later found true love through the hardships of her lonely life. In Cinderella‚ a woman eventually found the love that she had always dreamed of throughout her slave-driven
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novelas that contained storylines that were unique. El Rostro de Anahi (The Face of Anahi’s) became the first novelas to grab the audiences attention from Univision. The telenovela is a mystery/thriller and it entails about two women‚ Mariana‚a successful business owner‚ and Anahi‚a secret agent that get into a car accident. This telenovela is a very loosely version of the blockbuster film Face- off. After the success of El Rostro de Anahi‚ more mystery novelas started to become produced in Telemundo
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