In the excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes the protagonist Estrella goes through various changes as an outcome from prior experiences. To convey those changes Viramontes uses some literature elements such as tone and paradox. Things starts when Estrella comes upon Perfecto’s red tool chest. When she opened the box she was disoriented because she did not understand what were the functions of the the tools.
David Román creates excellent perspective into the haven and necessity of theatrical arts for homosexual Latino 's in Chapter 6 of Intervention entitled "Teatro Viva!" Román reveals that progressing as a community requires gay Latino men and women to use the theatre as a tool to break the socio-silence surrounding the idea of homosexuality and the AIDS virus. In this case, the region of Los Angeles, California is accounted for as having an enormous amount of input having to do with the de-marginalization of homosexual Hispanics in the world. "Teatro VIVA!" is the name of a Los Angeles county short-skit theatrical outreach program that provided a bilingual education of the gay Latino community confronted with AIDS during the early nineties. This chapter helps by providing the reader with a detailed record of many such performance acts in the Los Angeles around that time.
Have you ever feel motivate from someone? Some people struggle to find motivation in life because they want to be someone in life. They want to find a possible to keep going and change their life to be better, they want to prove that no matter the background they came from to be successful in life. When I read the story “from Bullet to Blue Sky” by Yesenia de Jesus, it reminded why I am here to be someone in life. My mom was my inspiration, she is the reason why I am in colleges, and she motive me to work hard for my goals and to be
When the inherent curiosity of a child is fostered in an encouraging environment, they flourish and become exceptional enthusiasts for knowledge. In the except from the novel, Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena Maria Viramontes, Estrella, a young migrant child, struggles to grow in a oppressive setting, and learns how to achieve understanding and knowledge on her own. This excerpt illustrates Estrella’s growth from a curious child to a passionate learner through the struggles that she faces in different aspects of her life. At the beginning of the excerpt, Estrella is curious like any other young child, and the reader is introduced to the way her curiosity is different than other children.
In El Norte and Maria Full of Grace, border and border crossing are the key themes. These films provide not only a vivid image on how people cross the ‘physical’ borders, but also reveal the other ‘abstract’ borders, racial, cultural, and classed, that intersect lives. The siblings in El Norte, Enrique, and Rosa Xuncax, have travelled through the abandoned tunnel in Tijuana, Mexico to go to the Promised Land, the U.S., in the hope of getting a better life. In the same boat, Maria in Maria Full of Grace is risking her life as a drug mule successfully crossing the U.S. border. Again, her decision to commit such a risky act is because she wants to improve her family’s economic circumstances.
It is the basic law of humanity, to say that no man woman or child should be subjugated or degraded by another human. In Flora Jessops (2009) book “ Church of Lies”, we are shown the absolute horror and maltreatment that one must endure when held captive in a hostile polygamist group. Flora Jessop, a former member of the Church of Latter- Day Saints Flora tells her story of numerous captures and her escapes in retaliation, and finally her life after she managed to get away for good. ‘Keep sweet or you will go to hell’, a phrase that nobody in the polygamist groups of FLDS will ever forget, for perfect servitude results in perfect faith. According to the leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FDLS) women
After pain, grief, sorrow, desolation, misery, depression, over her daughter’s death, mother search down deep in her soul to find a way to forgive. Some teens like to show off shoes, clothes, maybe even money but in this case Jordyn Howe just wanted to show off his step-dad gun on the bus. It could have been anybody, just sitting on the bus as an innocent bystander, but the gun just happens to be pointing at Lourdes Guzman-DeJesus unnoticeable. November 20 of 2012 is the date that Lourdes Guzman-DeJesus passed away. What makes this story rare is that the murder is actually innocent.
Elaine Pagels uses The Gnostic Gospels to consider the relation between gnostic teachings and what would become orthodox teaching. Pagels uses both texts to analyze the theological differences in terms of issues of religious authority. The orthodox and the Gnostics had very different ways of understanding what constituted truth, as they had incongruous ideas about who was entitled to preserve and teach that truth. The theological meaning of Jesus ' death and resurrection, the importance of apostolic succession, the position of women vis-a-vis men in the early Church, the question of whether Jesus and the apostles after him had passed on a secret teaching in addition to the teachings known from the New Testament--these are some of the thorny
Donna Woolfolk Cross presents her novel, Pope Joan, in a time in which people remain trapped in a fixed traditional belief system, and uses Joan´s priesthood to reveal the dangers that come from looking beyond it. For instance, while completing her duties at the monastery, Joan realizes that diseases could be transmitted by physical contact, and departs from custom by dipping a piece of bread in wine. This infuriated Abbot Raban, the archbishop, who confronted Joan about her actions with grim disapproval. While trying to deliver an explanation about why she broke tradition, Abbot Raban cut her off by telling her, ¨Such observations are useless, for they come not from faith but from physical senses, which are not to be trusted¨ (229). As can
Church lady is similar to Silence Dogood because both are made up characters. Church lady is made by Dana Carvey who insults and ridicules everyone from celebrities to presidents. As for Silence Dogood this character is made by Benjamin Franklin. Also to makes fun such as the people of America and religious people and the abuse of women. Making the Church lady and Silence Dogood very alike as if time has not changed.
(pg. 8, Delgado, Kevin) All popular religions have a main location where people often pilgrimage to, where they can pay their respect to highly respected elders, and visit sacred natural locations. We see an example of this when we talked about the sacred Ceiba tree in Cuba, as followers of Santeria often pay homage to it. With this idea of Santeria being more “pure” in Cuba than in other countries, Santeria is gaining an “authenticity” that validates it as a religious practice and is losing its association as a demonized, evil practice among those who know nothing of its
Maria Full of Grace is based on a film of a young girl who worked as a florist in one of the villages in Colombia. Maria lives with her mother, sister, and nephew, which only mom and her works. Maria and her family lives in a poor area, because they cannot afford to live in a nice house. Maria quit her job because the owner were not treated her nice and she didn’t like to be treated the way, Maria was looking for a new job, in the way to find another job in Bogota she met a friend who introduced her to a new job. The work was based on drugs report of Colombia to the United States, Maria accepted the job.
The Baroque period covers one hundred and fifty years from 1600 to 1750. Its characteristics tend to include, lavish, over the top, expensive and much more then necessary. The period is painted literally with architecture, paintings, clothing, food and much more that continuously begs people of today to ask ‘why?’. The use of frill and extravagance in art in this period has become less of a question of ‘why’ and more of a question ‘where is the extra?’, because this part in history is centered around adding extra ornamentation to everything. With such an over the top part in history, it would seem impossible to pick one piece that could embody every aspect of the Baroque Era but it is to be proven that one piece has such potential.
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis was one of the enduring products of the fourteenth-century contemptus mundi spirit was the growth of new voluntary religious societies among laypeople and clerics. This piece of writing still attracts Protestant and Catholic admirers alike. Kempis' main points of concern it to make an active involvement on our side, to repair and develop our spiritual life and meditate on God as the source of everything. It is not just to be understood, but also to be lived in our daily life. In other words, it involves the development of virtues and the abandoning of vices.
Have you ever considered what would happen if all those crazy conspiracy theistic were right? The da Vinci code by Dan brown depicts that world that would take place. The da Vinci code is an epic thriller that tells the story of a frantic quest to discover a legend that many think is a myth. Dan Brown illustrates the mysterious world we would be in if those outlandish theories came into reality.
