...Jacobo : un peregrino, un rey africano Owen- un vendedor/mago Eric - un peregrino, un rey africano Mateo - un hospedero Jorge - un cambiador de dinero Jacobo: ¿Enrique, piensas que este lugar es suficiente para dormir esta noche? Eric: El hospedero es muy amable. También, podemos desayunar en nuestro cuarto. Jacobo y Eric walk over to Mateo. Mateo: ¡Bienvenidos a mi posada! ¿Cómo puedo ayudarte? Eric: Necesitamos un lugar para dormir y comer. ¿Qué tiene? Mateo: Tengo bastante camas para todas y sirvo comida por el día. Sólo cuesta diez maravedís para cada noche, y este precio incluye las comidas. Jacobo: ¡Ai, no tenemos maravedís! ¿Qué podemos hacer? Mateo: Pueden ir a Jorge, el cambiador de dinero. Eric: ¿Dónde está Jorge? Mateo: No sé. Pueden explorar el mercado por él. Eric and Jacobo walk away. Mateo leaves. Jorge enters. Jacobo: ¡Mira por allí! ¡Es Jorge! Jorge: Hola peregrinos. Estoy el cambiador de dinero. Antes de cambio tu dinero, necesitas escuchar a mi cuento. Eric: Bueno. Vamos a escuchar porque necesitamos a obtener maravedíes rápidamente. Jorge: Mi abuelo está muy enferma. Él era en el ejército de Francia, ya través de su lucha se obtiene los dolores de su cabeza. Cuando ella fue a esta tierra, conoció Owen, el vendedor, y le dio agua mágica que sanó a todos sus problemas. ¿Qué tipo de dinero tienes? Eric: Tengo dinero africano. ¿Qué es la conversión? Jorge: Quince dólares africanos por un maravedí. Eric:...
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...In many South American countries, the twentieth century is known for its political instability and the dictatorship under dishonorable and deceitful rulers. Despite vast natural resources, many countries continue to struggle with the social consequences of widespread poverty and social depression. To top that, the countries Chile and Guatemala had to deal with the overthrowing of their government and leaders which ultimately led into a disruptive society and economy. Both leaders Salvador Allende and Jacobo Arbenz Guzman were viewed as deceiving and disorderly by outer countries, specifically the U.S. which helped with both rebellions. Salvador Allende and “the Road to Socialism” Salvador Allende’s original plan was to become a physician....
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...Prisoner without a name, cell without a number By Jacobo Timerman "Jacobo Timerman was detained because he was charged with being a communist and was ultimately released when he demonstrated that he was not. The Argentine military did not like that he was Jewish, but this was not truly what put his life at risk." Timerman was being interrogated by the President of Argentina during the time he was accused of being a communist. The questions arose first from him being a Zionist. Zionism is national liberation, and is a Jewish political movement. This generally meant that the political movement had supported the self-determination of the Jewish people seen in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. This was seen since the establishment of the state of Israel where the Zionist movement continued due to the advocates on behalf of the remaining Jewish state; this addresses the threats which continued to be prominent in its existence as well as its security. A Zionist, can also be seen in a less political term, also; this is known as cultural Zionism. It was in 1975 when the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution which stated that Zionism is a form of racism as well as racial discrimination. This was only two years before the abduction of Timerman. Zionists can be seen as liberals, because of its ideology of being a national liberation. Timerman was abducted because he was seen as a communist through his liberal and leftist newspaper; however, he was kept detained...
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...Chronicle of a Death Foretold Essay Reading Chronicle of a Death Foretold was quite an amazing story because the story is not really finished because you wonder what happened to the other characters in the end, but what I really want to get into is how the use of magic realism did for the narrative aspect of the whole book. First let’s introduce the characters of the story starting with the main four that I want to talk about today. First is Santiago Nasar, he is the one that everyone talks about being handsome and wealthy. Second is Angela Vicario she is the one responsible for Santiago’s demise. The next two are Pedro Vicario and Pablo Vicario, who are related Angela Vicario, even though they aren’t the main people of the story they still are part of my explanation to how does magic realism play a part in narration. Last is the mysterious narrator whose name is a mystery. A perfect word to describe magic realism is make-up because it hides the truth. Make- up is a mask for women so that they can wear; it can make them feel good about themselves, but once the mask is off where is the real treasure at? Santiago Nasar is an Arab man supposable handsome and wealthy. Sure we read about him but his character never appeared in the first place. All the audience gets is to nibble on small information and never got to eat the big cheese. He is the make-up because we never got to physically know him and we only get our images about him through other people’s perspectives. For example...
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...M. M. J. Professor Becker Hist 140-01 November 1, 2012 Primary Source Analysis: Declassified Message vs. Memory of Fire Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire starts with a brief description of United Fruit and how it “can seize whatever land it wants – enourmous unused tracts – and owns the railroad, the telephone, the telgraphs, the ports, and the ships...” (Chasteen 210). Sam Zemurray is appearently the head of United Fruits and “did not believe it was possible” for the Guatemalan government to try and revold from United Fruits which started with the unions right to strike (Chasteen 210). The president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz takes back his country's land and distributes it to the many people families in Guatemala. This action enraged the U.S. And accused Arbenz of communist conspiracy. But Galeano writes that Arbenz's inspiration did not come from Lenin, if came from Abraham Lincoln's agrarian reform (Chasteen 211). When Galeano says that United Fruit owns “...the railroads, the telephone, the telegraphs...” (Chasteen 210), I feel that the Declassified Message by the CIA takes over those telegraphs and radios to broadcast either a misunderstanding, or blasphemy against Arbenz. The Declassified Message is riddled with “COMMIE”, “COMMUNISTS” and “ARBENZISM”. It seems as if the U.S. Basically framed this Guatemalan president that was trying to do good for his people, of Communism so that they could bombard him and prove to the people of Guatemala and other Latin American...
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...Jacobo, Emmanuel Joseph 03/09/15 Rizal Bayaning 3rd World (Reaction Paper) Bayaning 3rd world is a complex film done through the form of investigative journalism wherein it attempts to explore the myth around our national hero Jose Rizal. It attempts to answer questions about Rizal’s life that are uncommonly found in Philippine history books while simultaneously investigating his influence on modern Philippine history. The film emphasizes on the fact that most of the Filipino people only sees Rizal as our national hero, our nation’s icon and not the physical reality of the man underneath it. Throughout watching the movie, I couldn’t help but agree to what the movie is trying to depict. I thought what I know about Rizal was enough to understand his life, works and writing but it made me realize that we blindly revere him as our national hero while knowing so little about him. Growing up, we were taught to regard him as our national hero, being given positive facts such as the books he wrote, his feats and accomplishment and how he died a martyr, to the point of blind veneration. Never had we questioned the negative things he has done throughout his life. And that’s what’s this movie is trying to present. Contrary to the movies which immortalized him as hero in the silver screen, it wanted to show us Rizal the human and not Rizal the icon or hero. The movie emphasized on myths/stories and arguments in which reflected upon will surely create doubts about him...
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...The United States took action to make sure their would be no communist nations in the Western Hemisphere. For example in 1954, in Guatemala, “When Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman attempted to nationalize the United Fruit Company [UFCO], a US-based corporation that controlled much of Guatemala’s agricultural land, a CIA-sponsored coup d’etat replaced him with a brutal military dictatorship” (1954: Coup d’etat and Civil War in Guatemala). The Guatemalan president attempted to buy out UFCO but the two sides could not agree. Therefore, UFCO made a propaganda scheme backed by the CIA claiming their were communist interests in the Guatemalan government. To avoid the spread of communism, the United States overthrew President Arbenz and set up a new government in Guatemala. In the following years, Fidel Castro became the ruler of Cuba in 1959 and transformed the nation into a communist state. Then according...
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...the leaders of Latin American countries were viewed as having some communist ways of leading their people. In the Born in the Blood and Fire reading it talked about how Latin Americans would often accuse one another of being communist which led to fighting, especially Indian land owning groups. This scared the United States because they and the NATO were trying to stop the spread of communism and the Soviet Bloc. In order to prevent this the United States would spend a ton of money trying to influence the outcome of political elections in Latin American countries with leaders they liked. In Venezuela in 1947 the U.S endorsed dictator Marco Revez Jimenez won the election with the help of the United States government. And in Guatemala when Jacobo Arbenz was the leader the U.S prepared a coup in order to overthrow him and replace him with someone they approved of. The Americans declared this a victory for democracy. In the reading Born in the Blood and Fire it led us to believe that the Americans had no real proof there was any communication between Guatemala and the Soviet Union, but the United States was so paranoid during this time about the spreading of communism they would...
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...Códice Vadiano (Badiano) El Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis (Librito sobre las hierbas medicinales de los indios) también conocido como Códice De la Cruz-Badiano, Códice Badiano o Códice Barberini, es el primer tratado que describe las propiedades curativas de las plantas americanas empleadas entre los mexicas. Este libro fue obra del médico indígena Martín de la Cruz, originario de Santiago Tlatelolco y asociado al Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco quien dictó varios remedios contra las enfermedades y posiblemente registrado originalmente en náhuatl y que, posteriormente, el xochimilca Juan Badiano, estudiante del Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, traduciría al latín, esta obra se terminó el 22 de julio de 1552 Jacobo de Grado, fraile encargado del Convento y Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, tenía en su posesión el texto creado y traducido para Francisco de Mendoza, hijo de Antonio de Mendoza, primer virrey de Nueva España. Mendoza envió el texto a España, donde fue depositado en la biblioteca real. Es probable que haya permanecido ahí hasta el siglo XVII, cuando apareció en posesión de Diego de Cortavila y Sanabria, farmacéutico de Felipe IV. De Cortavila pasó al cardenal italiano Francesco Barberini, quizá a través de interpósitos propietarios. El Libellus permaneció en la biblioteca de Barberini hasta 1902, cuando ella misma pasó a formar parte de la Biblioteca Vaticana. En 1990, el papa Juan Pablo II devolvió el códice a México, donde es custodiado...
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...3. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart is a good portrayal of an African society in a pre-New Colonialism era. Focus your study on Okonkwo's relationship with his society, which formed his values and traditions. Compare those norms with the arrival of Christian missionaries and the introduction of the European laws and values. (In an essay explain with concrete examples the political, social, economic, judicial, and religious structures of the village of Umofia from Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart. Also, state why Europeans were so determined to bring changes to this society and what kind of action Okonkwo took to defend his village.) 4. Examine the decline of the Ottoman Empire. What factors explain this process? What attempts at reform did the Ottomans undertake? (Bentley & Ziegler, chap.31) 5. Learn how and why Japan became industrialized (make sure you review your notes on the movie; Meiji Transformation). Learn also about hollow modernization of the Latin American countries. (Also Bentley & Ziegler pp. 724-728, 634-636 & chapter 30) 6. Definition, causes, and geopolitical scope and the result of the New Imperialism. (Class notes and read also, Bentley & Ziegler, Chapter 32) 7. African and Asian responses to Western Imperialism: Armed resistance and modernizing efforts. (Class notes) 8. Learn about the causes of World War I. How was it a global and modern war? Major consequences of the war for both Europe and the wider world. (Class notes...
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...Eliodoro Jacobo English 112 Lori Kupczynsk Paul Walker In my community one of the greatest actors in Beverly Hills to admire and look up to is Paul walker for not giving up in his dreams and going beyond what he expected to be in life. Paul Walker called himself the father of speed. He said, "If speed one day kills me don't cry because I was smiling." Paul walker accomplished his dreams before dyeing which was becoming a famous actor, having a wonderful child, and funding the greatest donating corporation for Mother Nature disasters reach out worldwide. What he loved more than anything in the world speed was what killed him making him leave everything behind including his daughter. Walker began his early career guest starring in several television shows such The Young Restless and Touched By The Angel. He would then gain prominence with breakout roles in the coming of age and teen films such as She’s all that and Varsity Blues. In 2001, Walker gained international fame for playing Brian O’Conner, one of the lead protagonists in the street racing action film The Fast In The Furious, that’s what gave him the big boost up in the world of fame. He also acted in various films such as Eight Below, Into The Blue, Joy Ride and Takers. But what changed his life really were all the versions of The Fast In The Furious. Walker lived in Santa Barbara with his dogs...
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...Through his first-hand observations of poverty, oppression, and powerlessness of the masses, Guevara soon became highly influenced by his informal Marxist studies. He concluded that the only solution for Latin America's economic and social inequities lay in revolution. His travels also inspired him to look upon Latin America not as a collection of separate nations but as a single entity, the liberation of which would require a continent-wide strategy; he began to imagine the possibility of a united Ibero-America without borders, bound together by a common 'mestizo' culture, an idea that would figure prominently in his later revolutionary activities. After completion of his formal studies, Guevara traveled to Guatemala. Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán headed a populist government that through various programs, particularly land reform, would attempt to bring about a social revolution. Explaining his motive for settling down for a time in Guatemala, Guevara wrote, "In Guatemala I will perfect myself and accomplish whatever may be necessary in order to become a true revolutionary." Guevara's main political contact in Guatemala was Hilda Gadea. Gadea introduced him to high-level politicians in the Arbenz government. Gadea was a member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), a political movement led by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre. While in Guatemala he also renewed...
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...He suffered from asthma. At an early age he read history and sociology books and was influenced by the writings of the Chilean Communist poet Pablo Neruda. At 19 Guevara entered the medical school of the University of Buenos Aires. In 1952 "Che" Guevara ("Che" is an Argentine equivalent of "pal") broke off his studies in order to set out with a friend on a transcontinental trip which included motorcycling to Chile, riding a raft on the Amazon, and taking a plane to Florida. He returned to Argentina to resume his studies, graduating with a degree of doctor of medicine and surgery in 1953. Late in 1953 Guevara left Argentina, this time for good. He moved to Guatemala, where he had his first experience of a country at war. He supported the Jacobo Arbenz regime, and when it was overthrown in 1954 Guevara sought asylum in the Argentine embassy, remaining there until he could travel to Mexico. It was here that Guevara met the Castro brothers. At the time Fidel Castro was planning an expedition against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and Guevara agreed to go along as a doctor. On Dec. 2, 1956, the expeditionaries landed in eastern Cuba, becoming the nucleus of a guerrilla force which operated in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. The guerrillas contributed to the crumbling of the Batista regime on Dec. 31, 1958. In January 1959 Guevara was one of the first rebel commanders to enter Havana and take control of the capital. He held several posts in the Castro government: commander of La...
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...Katie Kavanagh 27 July 2014 The Information Age: Assignment #2 America is constantly developing as a nation along with the smaller communities that have formed within it, and information technologies have proven over time to create communities, both real and imagined. Although there are many different kinds of technology that have helped developed the nation and the world, one tool especially useful in disseminating this community-building information is the newspaper. Benedict Anderson, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies at Cornell University first created the term “imagined community”. Originally, the phrase was mostly used when referring to nationalism, but now it can be used to describe any group of people who share a common passion or interest. There are several different types of information that newspapers distribute; therefore, there are many kinds of imagined communities that they have created in the past and have the potential to construct in the future. By definition according to Anderson, a nation is “an imagined political community”—a widespread consciousness shared by its members who may never come into contact with one another. Consequently, the first way newspapers built an imagined community was by sparking the emergence of a national identity amongst American citizens. Alexander Ziegler conducts a study on the involvement of newspapers in the development of an American national identity in which he states:...
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...World History Dr. Mahdavi History 101 Fall 2015 Study Guide For Final Examination The examination will consist of 6 essay questions of and you may choose any four questions to write about (25 points each.) You will receive both a numerical score and a letter grade. In reviewing for the examination, focus your study on the following general topics: 1. Examine the process and the transition from the more traditional "putting-out" system to the rise of the factory system (make sure you learn all about the spinning and weaving machines.) What would be the economic and social implications of this change? (Class notes and Bentley & Ziegler, chapter 29) 2. Discuss the population explosion, urbanization, and other demographic factors of the industrial Revolution. Also, discuss the growth of huge industrial cities during the 19th Century. (Bentley & Ziegler, chap.29) 3. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart is a good portrayal of an African society in a pre-New Colonialism era. Focus your study on Okonkwo's relationship with his society, which formed his values and traditions. Compare those norms with the arrival of Christian missionaries and the introduction of the European laws and values. (In an essay explain with concrete examples the political, social, economic, judicial, and religious structures of the village of Umofia from Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart. Also, state why Europeans were so determined to bring changes to this...
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