Vincent Castro Mr. Tretyak AP Literature and Composition 7 April 2024 Title Intro Culture. Culture plays a huge part in how men convey their emotions. Culture can be defined as a complicated concept with a subjective element linked to cultural group membership that highlights similarity in identities between competing groups and the various ways that culture influences an individual’s identity (Lenard, Stanford, 2020). The way that songs shape people's moods, provide an expression of their culture which reflects the cultures values, the way people identify with themselves and reveal the cultures beliefs in society. Vicente Fernandez, according to Maria Garcia from New York, is a person who absorbed “his persona was not unlike the idols that preceded him, Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete,” and his music is significant to human emotions. Vicente Fernandez, a Mexican artist that many consider to be eminent in his profession who truly needs no introduction, rose to fame in the late 1960's. Through his heavenly vocals and the …show more content…
The “object petit a” is one of Lacan’s concepts that explains the reasons behind why people are discontented when they achieve a form of happiness, creating an unattainable object of desire, laying a foundation for seeking to comprehend why Fernandez idealizes the idea of loving someone. Fernandez paints a picture of loving someone in the lyrics to expand the source of beauty and affection within the perspective of a man, whose presence traditionally in masculine culture satisfies Fernandez with a trace of longing and desire. However, the image of love that Fernandez idealized remains difficult to grasp. The image of love symbolizes the perpetual pursuit of fulfillment in the face of inherent
Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and who also introduced color television to Mexico,
“We are never more truly and profoundly human than when we dance.” Jose Arcadio Limon was a dancer and choreographer born and raised in Mexico. He was inspired to begin his studies in modern dance when he saw a performance of Harald Krutzberg and Yvone Georgi. Limon enrolled at the dance school of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. He continued to work with Humphrey until 1946, when he founded the José Limón Dance Company. His most successful work is called The Moor's Pavane and it is based on Shakespeare's Othello. The Limón Dance Company still exists and is part of the Jose Limon Dance Foundation, an institution dedicated to preserve and disseminate his artistic dance work and technique. Jose Limon is important in the American Dance History
Many countries have the pleasure of celebrating Independence Days. These historic holidays are filled with nationalistic celebrations and delicious traditional food. In Chile, the natives celebrate their break from Spain with Fiestas Patrias. In Mexico, the president begins the celebration by ringing a bell and reciting the “Grito de Dolores” and he ends his speech by saying “Viva Mexico” three times.
Marcario Garcia was not born in Texas; rather his parents carried him across the border from Mexico to Texas as an infant. The family settled in Sugar Land, Texas, where they worked as lowpaid farm workers and raised ten children. The land was originally owned by the Mexican government and was part of the land grant to Stephen F. Austin. Very early, sugarcane stalks from Cuba were brought to the area and a
The most preeminent quality of Sonia Sanchez “Ballad” remains the tone of the poem, which paints a didactic image. Sanchez is trying to tell this young people that we know nix about love as well as she is told old for it. In an unclear setting, the poem depicts a nameless young women and Sanchez engaged in a conversation about love. This poem dramatizes the classic conflict between old and young. Every old person believes they know more then any young person, all based on the fact that they have been here longer then all of us. The narrative voice establishes a tone of a intellectual understanding of love unraveling to the young women, what she comprehends to love is in fact not.
SAN MIGULE ARCANGEL The San Miguel Arcangel is unique among the twenty one Spanish missions of California. San Miguel Arcangel was the sixteen of twenty one missions and there by shorten the long distance between the San Antoino and San Luis Obispo missions. In 1806, many of the mission building and all of the supplies destroyed by fire. Mission San Miguel Arcangel is named after Saint Michael the Archargel.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, born as Juana Ramirez de Azbaje, is a well-known extraordinary figure from the colonial period. Sor Juana had a desire for education at such a young age. In the seventeenth century, it was the intellectual midpoint of Spanish colonial America. During this time Mexico City was politically and religiously the center of New Spain; the terrains went from California to Central America. In Latin American history the church and state defined women’s roles, which eventually change over time. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz articulated her experiences though writing, she broke silence about racial and gender inequality, and her legacy remains today.
The traditions my parents instilled in me at a young age are important to me. They are part of my Latin culture and identity. One of the most important traditions that I value the most is our devotion to “La Virgen de Guadalupe” (The Virgin of Guadalupe), and although I don't go to church or share a specific a religion, I believe in La Virgen as a protector and a guardian figure and maintain her presence in my daily life.
The story of Inês de Castro may not compare to that of the Petrichor potion or the Cure for Dragon Pox at a glance, but is none the less important in illustrating how potions can affect a large population in a short period of time.
Today some people say that love is blind, but in William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” and Pablo Neruda’s “My Ugly Love,” they understand and see its honesty. Inside their poems they tell love like it is: imperfect and full of flaws. Needless to say, Shakespeare and Neruda had no apparent trouble conveying the true meaning behind beauty and love through their usage of reflection against positive and negative imagery, the usage of an orderly structure, and usage of sensory devices. If there is one thing that someone could learn through the work of these poets, it’s that beauty lies further than just the appearance on the outside; once someone else can realize this, only then will they discover the true significance that beauty brings to love.
In keeping with my stated course goal to learn more about Cuban culture and the influences on its development, I chose to focus my project on the 1998 documentary Buena Vista Social Club. While this film primarily focuses on the bringing together of a group of mostly aging and forgotten artists to produce an album reflective of a bygone musical era in Cuba, there are several identifiable underlying issues that reveal a variety of ways in which political events and social issues have played a role in the isolation of these artists. Indeed, the film points out that many of these once famous musicians were living in relative obscurity some 40 years after the Castro led Cuban Revolution. Many were well into their eighties and nineties when the film was made. Singer Ibrahim Ferrer was shining shoes and selling lottery tickets to support his family. Others had long stopped performing their craft in order to be able to continue to support their families. What follows is my analysis of how this film has given me valuable insight into not only the demise of these special musicians, but also how that demise is a mere representation a larger issue of change in Cuban culture since the 1950’s.
The violent crime is presented in the YouTube video about the tragic killing of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz. The violent crime described in the video is a complex event and it can be best explained using theories and concepts discussed in chapter two as well as chapter ten of the book. Co-offending, substance use, and robbery as a motive are analyzed in this essay to discuss possible causes leading to Junior’s murder. By analyzing these elements, it is possible to enhance knowledge about societal and psychological precursors of such bereaved outcomes. This paper will focus on an important factor that played out with Junior’s murder – the issue of co-offending, the likelihood of which holds, as stated earlier, high pervasiveness among various crimes.
Hector Fernandez is a restaurateur running a successful Mexican restaurant in Taos, New Mexico. For his restaurant, Hector created an own salsa, which is different than the salsa available on the market (and superior in the eyes of his customers). He got encouraged to start selling his salsa regionally in the state. Thus he contacted a marketing agency to assist him with setting up a new brand to promote the salsa.
Overview of “Musics of Latin America and the “Oye Como Va” Phenomenon” Chapter 11 in the textbook covers the complex dance and music genres linked to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States, and the international track of development. The main focus of this unit was the development of the Cuban Cha-Cha-Cha, including its roots and development. While we did talk about other types of Latin American music, it was brief and not more important than the Cuban development. For these reasons the main study points for me in this unit is the history of Cuban dance music and the artists who played “Oye Como Va” we discussed in class.
“Litany” is a poem inspired by a quote from Jaques Crickillon, this free verse poem describes the feeling of a man to a girl with the use of nouns. This poem has two different tones during its development, a serious tone and a mockery tone, that change from stanza to stanza, for example the first stanza using a metaphor compare the nature with the beauty of the woman, Crickillon express “you are the dew on the morning grass/ and the burning wheel of the sun.”(7-8). Also, the speaker in this poem change the traditional love poem of portray a woman or lover by focused on what the woman is not in the second stanza, in this lines the author is making fun. Nevertheless, the readers shock when the speaker admits that he is he is not like her, in the sixth stanza, the shooting star and paper blowing represent that how unpredictable the men is .