There is a myriad of historical ideas that surprised me during this reading. My top three surprising historical highlights are The Globe‚ Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz‚ and the Spanish theatre‚ corrales. Throughout my whole learning experiences‚ I have never come across the corrales. Usually‚ I would learn about how Spanish is very religious based and how they are very well-known for discovering New Worlds. I would always hear Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. I never really learned about
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OSCAR WILDE - Biography Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright‚ novelist‚ poet‚ and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays‚ one novel‚ a number of poems‚ short stories‚ and essays. He was born on October the 16th‚ 1894 in Dublin to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. Oscar ’s mother‚ Lady Jane Francesca Wilde was a successful poet and journalist also (Gregory Brdnik 2012). Oscar had an elder brother‚ Willie‚ and a
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República Bolivariana de Venezuela Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador Instituto Pedagógico “Rafael Alberto Escobar Lara Lectura y escritura I Traffic Accidents Author: Cadenas‚ Jesús Maracay‚ Febrero de 2013 OUTLINE I. Thesis: Traffic accidents keep increasing in numbers in big cities due to high speed and careless driving‚ drunk driving and not obeying the traffic laws. II. Perhaps the first serious factor which causes traffic accidents in Venezuela
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when it got to the part that Oscar thinks that the faceless man he saw was joining his beating down. Maybe that’s a representation of how other citizens started to concede to Trujillato’s rule and hurt others just to protect themselves. Next‚ personally‚ I think the mongoose represents the anti-fukú of the de Leons because it always shows up in times of need. But then I thought‚ hey that’s not a symbol! And so‚ I started to think it actually represents them‚ the de Leons. Somehow. I just don’t know
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rebirth of antiquity. It was a time in which learning was transformed‚ and became an age of daring experimentation. Some of the most important literary figures in Spain’s history came from this golden period‚ one of them being the famous Garcilaso de la Vega. His sonnet‚ Sonnet XXIII‚ perhaps one of the most significant sonnets of this epoch‚ focuses on the relationship of beauty and time. The message is successfully conveyed through the careful use of structure and poetic devices. This particular
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by virtue of the doctrine set forth in the ruling Number 322 dated 19-11-09‚ in ref. "Tulosai Alberto Pascual w/Banco Central de la República Argentina". The gratification or annual bonus is similar to the legal nature of the supplementary annual salary‚ as both concepts are of an undeniable wage nature and the payment is made in annual or biannual periods‚ so that if the disassociation
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was an exceptional seventeenth-century nun who set precedents for feminism long before the term or concept existed. Her "Respuesta" is a maverick work outlining the logical sense of women’s education more than 200 years before Woolf’s "A Room of One’s Own." Her poetry‚ meanwhile‚ states in bold language the potency of the feminine in both love and religion. Juana Inés Ramirez was born out of wedlock to Isabel Ramirez and Manuel de Asbaje in a small village in Mexico
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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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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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HIST 3005 Ghazanfar Raja Professor Gureghian Bartoleme de Las Casas‚ Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies. (1542) – Based off of this reading‚ it can be assumed that the conditions in the Indies during the time this text was written were not humane whatsoever. The actions of the Spaniards were very much barbaric‚ and completely contradict the religion which the Spaniards were trying so desperately to impose upon the natives of the Indies. Without having to go
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