“Cat’s Eyes” by Luisa Valenzuela 1. Fear of Power 2. Reversal gender roles 3. The strength of a woman Thesis/ Analysis: In “Cat’s Eyes”‚ Luisa Valenzuela challenges the roles of both the female and male gender. What is known as the dominant male figure‚ Valenzuela gives to female character in her story‚ this causes what seems to a dysfunction and an uncertain reaction to both the female character as well as the male. It is as though a power has shifted unto the woman using her eyes as the
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Luis Alfredo Garavito “The beast”. From early 1992 to 1999‚ Colombia experienced a period of terror and anguish. Hundreds of families were victims of disappearances of their sons‚ who was being kidnapped‚ raped‚ tortured and killed by the hands of a heartless unscrupulous man‚ whose name is Luis Alfredo Garavito better known as the Beast. The most famous serial killer in Colombia. Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was born in January 25‚ 1957 in Génova‚ Quindío. He was the oldest brother
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After becoming utterly brainwashed Juan ends up taking his own life because he has become too far into the system that he censors his own letter without thinking. In “The Censors” written by Luisa Valenzuela‚ Juan sends a letter that might cause harm to a friend‚ so he takes a job and his goal is to move up so he can send it. He goes from moving up in the job to send his own letter to becoming too focused and brainwashed by the government and the job and doing it well to get a raise that he ends
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History of valenzuela Valenzuela was named after Pío Valenzuela‚ a doctor and a member of Katipunan. The town preceding Valenzuela that was originally called Polo was formed in 1621 due to religious separation movements from parishes of Meycauayan (Catanghalan). Polo has been occupied twice by foreign armies other than colonial powers Spain and United States: first during the Seven Years’ War by the British and by the Japanese during the Second World War. In 1960‚ President Diosdado Macapagal ordered
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The authors of “The Censors”‚ a short story by Luisa Valenzuela‚ and “Cairo: My City‚ Our Revolution”‚ a journal entry by Ahdaf Soueif‚ both reveal the tragedy and suffering they faced with the living conditions in their countries of origin. Valenzuela uses a story to display this. Soueif‚ however‚ specifies her perspective in her writing. As Soueif pinpoints her outlook of the Arab Springs protests that took place in Egypt‚ she discloses the fear as well as patriotism that she experienced in her
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Luisa Valenzuela’s short story “The Censors” was that 4th story we read in my English honors class. In her story we follow the main protagonist juan’s mission to get his letter pass the censors. censors are the the people who work for the Argentinian government‚ who are suppose to find the “secrets” that are hiding in the letters coming to or from Argentina. At the start of the story the author wrote “Poor Juan! One day they caught him with his guard down before he could even realize that what
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an extremely big responsibility for anyone that has it because with freedom‚ comes power. And if used properly‚ it can shape the world and the citizens within it. As reported by‚ Malala Yousafzai‚ Maya Angelou‚ Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ and Luisa Valenzuela‚ to be free means to be unattached from any form of oppression and to be an independent citizen‚ determining the course of one’s own life. Next‚ a free citizen is able to live throughout the course of their life equally with others. We recognize
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In The Forest by:Angel Valenzuela Have you ever saw a talking bunny? The kid parents all died. A family of birds hate the kids. A family of bunny’s take care of the kids. The forest is the setting.The birds are mean to the kids. The kids parents all died. AJ’s parents died in a car accident. JJ’s parents died because of a disease. Jewl’s parents got killed by robbers. They were all left omn the streets. AJ was wondering
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was originally created in the town of Polo‚ Valenzuela. Putong Polo literally means native steam rice cake (puto) of Polo (the town where it originated) as food to appease hunger and a means of generating income thus inspiring the lives of the unfortunate. According to Rita C. Carlos‚ president of We Care Foundation‚ Inc.‚ the week-long Putong Polo Festival is celebrated in connection with the feast of San Diego de Alcala‚ patron saint of Polo‚ Valenzuela City and known as the
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Maria Luisa Flores was a child out of seven siblings. She is the daughter of Jeronima Echeverria‚ also known as Mama Mina who was the sun of the family. She was born and raised in Morazan‚ El Salvador. Life in El Salvador wasn’t very perfect‚ it was very poor. Not so poor that you see homeless people on the street. Having a family was a struggle to grow because of the lack of resources that were not provided in these countries. Unfortunately‚ Maria was forced to grow up really young and was very
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