Title of the book: What Can You Do with a Paleta? Author: Carmen Tafolla Illustrator: Magaly Morales Brief Summary: This book shows the joy of a paleta. Shows the traditional Mexican popsicle treat sold from the wagon with the twinkly bell that brings children running from every direction. The paleta is their kind of dessert that comes in many different flavors and tells something about their culture. Child Development Theory: Dynamic systems theory Reason for Selecting the Theory: This is dynamic systems theory for is has values or culture and attitudes on what is a paleta.
In the altar’s center is “a plaster image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, quarter-life size, its brown Indian face staring down on the woman” (Paredes 23). The implication of the stare is of criticism as the Virgin, symbolic of an ideal Mexican womanhood, looks down on Marcela, whose Anglo features starkly contrast with the Virgin’s, and whose actions are in opposition to the values that she represents. This carefully constructed scene is meaningful. Marcela’s lifeless body lies between the bed and the altar, and opposite to the altar is Marcela’s shrine dedicated to Hollywood movie stars. These are the visual images of the opposing forces that characterize the Mexican-American struggle for resistance against American cultural hegemony.
The films “The other conquest”, “Jerico”, and “I the Worst of All” are all a depiction of what life would be like during the Spanish Conquest. These films give different point of views during the Spanish Conquest. The films give a person a well-rounded view of how the world really changed for different people during a historical movement. After watching these films, one is able to assess and determine their own truth about what exactly happened to Amerindians and Spaniards during this time.
How is this purpose conveyed? The audience for this piece are people who are interested in Rodriguez’s childhood and education and seeing how scholarship children can become successful. The writer’s purpose is to explain why and how he became a scholarship and academically successful in a bilingual household with the family’s main focus on Spanish. This purpose is shown as the writer takes the reader on a journey through his childhood.
One of the area of conflict that rose in the book involves the usage of the English language in relation of the family’s native language, Spanish. As a Mexican-American raised in the States the exhibition of the English language, whether the use of the tongue is fluent or not, cause a strain in the Mexican culture as the culture takes in consideration of their romance and richness of history in their native tongue (Rothman 204). Language represent the supporting backbone of a person as the progress in life as the ability to communicate without misunderstands, however a person can cause the loss connection to the past romance of the culture and art of cultivation that brings the language to lifes from their inabilities to comprehend the ability/asset to its fullest potential (Rothman 204). To fully understand the true meaning behind a spoken chain of words can be understood by the method of trying to first comprehend the cultivation of the word and the definition behind them. Cisneros embeds the use of Spanish in fragments depicting a sense of reality within a fictional novel, Caramelo, as well with the use of interchangeable dialogues with spanish phrase to express the illustration of Celaya’s family and the culture in which is translate in of importance of pride.
Lastly, Cortez venerates the Aztecs as a people that are on the same cultural and societal par as the Spanish, as their physical civilization was explicated as magnificent. By molding the Aztecs this way, Cortez did not only level Spanish prestige with that of the Aztecs, but also created an enemy that was adversarial, exponentially elevates the prestige of Cortez himself. Instead of promulgating Spanish identity, Cortez focuses on proliferating the myth of himself to gain personal
This relates to Fernandez’s book 1874 because the comic book or graphic novel serves as his platform for telling a story. By comparing these two sources more can be discovered about the influence that comics can have on consumers and, Fernandez’s work can specifically be analyzed for any undertones or messages that he may be trying to convey through his work. This could provide a better understanding of the purpose behind the production of graphic novels in Mexico in the present, compared to their purpose during the
There are approximately seven billion human beings in the world, each having their own culture and traditions. Coincidentally enough, “The Tequila Worm” is based on a small town in Texas, with a family who shares the same family traditions as mine. Viola Canales, the author, talks about the main protagonist, Sophia, and how she celebrates her culture. The making of Easter cascarones, celebrating Dia de Los Muertos, and her connection with her father, Sophia’s life is not so different from mine. Therefore, Sophia’s life and experiences are uncanny similarities to mine and that is what this essay will focus on.
Always try to find the theme of a story. In the stories “La Bamba”, written by Gary Soto, and “Medusa’s Head”, retold by Olivia Coolidge, the themes compare like peaches and plums. However, the characters, Manuel and Perseus, and their personalities, contrast like apples and oranges. In the story, “La Bamba”, Manuel, the main character, is proposed as an average person, and looked like others in his community.
Before the Internet and the invention of technologies that allowed us to discover artifacts of the past, oral and literary sources of knowledge were the basis of recorded history. To truly understand history, though, is to understand memory as a source of history and how it can be constructed to preserve the past. Memory can be defined as a recollection of information from the past, and while it can be fabricated, memory, especially in literary texts, is most useful when it overlaps historical findings. Memory serves as a central theme to the story of Dreaming in Cuban. From Celia’s letters to her Spanish lover to Pilar’s desire to remember Cuba, memory is what ties the del Pino women together throughout the novel.
Given that phonological characteristics could vary from different languages,speakers are likely to carry over the phonemic habits of their mother tongue into their second language,resulting in a particular and distinctive accent. This essay would give justifications to such proclivity by evaluating 'German Mother' in 'The Book Thief' who is a L1 speaker of German yet L2 speaker of English through contrastive analysis. There are three phonological elements that are presented throughout the excerpt of the movie. The first one is the deliberate pronunciation of /ɹ /in English as /r/ in German before vowels ,as marked in 'dragging' (00:01:03), 'true'(00:01:12) and 'dressed'(00:03:21) .In
Cofer addresses the cultural barriers and challenges that Latinos experience through emotional appeal, anecdotal imagery, parallelism and the use of effective periodic sentences. In her article, Cofer assesses the difficult cultural hurdles of Latin Americans with emotional appeal. She provides insight on her cultural barriers by first conveying the way she had to dress and her struggle, as it shows in this piece of text, “That morning I had organized… which to base my decision” (Cofer 5). This poignancy works to stress an agonizing feeling of uncertainty and restraint towards the author.
The Copan Sculpture Museum by Barbara W. Fash published fifteen years after the museum’s opening. Narrates how the museum was designed and built, it is an insight not only to the Mayan culture but also to the painstaking work of those involved in its development. The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone aims to guide readers through the Mayan culture, helping them understand the ancient Maya world, from a broad perspective. The author focuses on the sculptures, architecture, and history to open the doors of an ancient environment.
CHANGING SELVES AS A MODE OF SURVIVAL: TRICKSTERISM AND SHAPESHIFTING IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S THE MISTRESS OF SPICES Dr Sulagna Mohanty (Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University, Coimbatore,Tamil Nadu) sulagna2008@gmail.com ABSTRACT In the scenario of socio-economic, political, and cultural globalization, myth is used as a postcolonial tool to connect various Native cultures together from a regenerative perspective.
To Heal and to Hurt: The Importance of Words in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak “Words do two major things. They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.” This quote by Jim Rohn highlights the two major things words do, indicating they have a power, an important role in everyday lives. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is an outstanding representation of many topics including the most crucial one, the importance of words. It is the late 1930s to early 1940s in Germany during the World War II, and the main character, Death, cannot help himself but to be intrigued by Liesel Meminger’s story, a girl that lives in Munich, Germany on Himmel Street.
