it recaptures the essence of the struggle including La Causa‚ strikes‚ life in the barrio (low income residence)‚ and everyday life of the Chicano activist. The introduction of Chicano Theatre has mostly been attributed towards one man‚ Luis Valdez. Valdez’s credits include‚ founder & artistic director of the internationally renowned El Teatro Campesino‚
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Texts can be modified or appropriated to suit different audiences or purposes‚ yet still remain firmly within the genre. Discuss Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and at least one of the films you have studied. FW Murnau’s 1921 film Nosferatu is an appropriation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Despite it being an appropriation‚ explicit gothic conventions remain evident‚ which explore societal fears and values. These fears and values differ from Dracula‚ due to distinct contextual influences of different
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In your opinion‚ are women given enough freedom to choose the role models that best suit them? Are they pressured into choosing career-driven women as role models rather than women who prefer to focus on family life? Before several decades‚ women are weak‚ rely on men‚ obedient in society in country. Seems like everything women do that is for men. Women do not have freedom or choose to do what they want to do. However‚ as time change‚ people have high education‚ modern technology development and
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Both Lydia Mendoza and Selena Quintanilla Perez are well known as “the queen of Tejano”. In a music heavily dominated by man‚ Lydia Mendoza was the first star of recorded Tejano and Norteno music. According to Lydia Mendoza: the first lady of Tejano‚ the author explained thanks to her 12-string guitar and her clear‚ heartfelt voice which made her become a sensation throughout Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. She is representation of the early recording industry researched pockets of regional
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For you‚ m’ijo!...How can you just come back here and tell us you’ve quit? Just like that...Do you know how many Chicanos get the chance to go to Harvard?” (Valdez 177). Sonny knows education is valuable‚ but the pressure to succeed destroys him. He shouts‚ “If you’re not white‚ you have to be brilliant‚ just to be considered acceptable” (Valdez 208). Connie wants Sonny to pursue education so much because it is what she clawed for but could never attain. To many in the proletariat‚ education is a distant
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Associations Assessed Coursework Question 1 (a) Essay “…The courts can and often do‚ draw aside the veil. They can‚ and often do‚ pull off the mask. They look to see what really lies behind. The legislature has shown the way… the courts should follow suit”.[1] When a company is incorporated‚ it is treated as a separate legal entity‚ distinct from its promoters‚ directors‚ members and employees and hence the concept of the corporate veil‚ separating those entities from the corporate body has arisen
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The Zoot suiters would wear high-waisted trousers‚ and a long coat with wide padded shoulders. The aryan community felt threaten like how it does now they viewed the Zoot suiters as African Americans with baggy jeans and black hoodies. The chicanos faced discrimination in Los Angeles and the white sailors used their “superiority” to harass
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one may live. This is a problem that society has not addressed or given enough attention to being solved. In the play “Los Vendidos‚” written by Luis Valdez in 1967‚ Luis attempts to send a message to our society that stereotyping has gone out of line and has made individuals feel dehumanized in most cases. In the short play “Los Vendidos‚” Luis Valdez does a great job specifying details with the costumes and gestures the characters use in the play to give us a better understanding of the message
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riots" rooted in long-term discrimination against Mexican-Americans. This led to an outraged response by the Los Angeles Times‚ which in an editorial the following day accused Mrs. Roosevelt of stirring "race discord."[5] 1^ American Experience | Zoot Suit Riots | Timeline 2^ Historians and WWII page
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fictionalized account of the founding and rise to power of the Mexican Mafia in the California prison system from the 1950s into the 1980s. The story opens by taking the viewer on a journey back in time to the Zoot Suit era of World War II before the birth of Montoya Santana. Santana’s parents were Zoot Suitors. It is here that Santana’s destiny began. Because of the wartime labor shortage of this era‚ the American and Mexican governments agreed to a program by which braceros (contract laborers)
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