Within months , he was promoted to the evening news. Jorge became one of the youngest national TV anchors in America media history . Today's he is called “Star Newscaster Of Hispanic TV” and “Hispanic #1 Correspondent and key to a huge voting bloc” by The Wall Street Journal. Time Magazine included him in the list “The 25 most influential hispanics in the United States“ and Newsweek in its list “50 political and media figures. He is also in “The Ten Most Admired…
Father miguel hidalgo or as his full name was Cristobal Hidalgo y Costilla, was a priest in the village of Dolores, sympathized with the indians and mestizos and joined a secret society to work for the mexican independence. On September 16, 1810, father rang the church bell in dolores and urged his parishioners to fight for freedom. Thousands joined his army, but with clubs and farm tools as their weapons, they were no match against the spanish soldiers. Father miguel hidalgo was an important figure in history because father miguel hidalgo y costilla is known as the man who was called upon mexicans to revolt against their spanish rulers in their town. Father Miguel Hidalgo was born May 8, 1753.…
Edgar Allen Poe did not die of natural cause. It remains a mystery exactly how he died but there is a strong theory that explains it. He was found in a gutter near a polling station in very rough condition, in clothes that did not fit him. Poe, author of the Raven, was a well known writer in Baltimore and his sudden death does not add up. The Cooping Theory proves the cause behind Poe’s death.…
In the early fifteen hundred’s a Spanish expedition was sent on a mission to conquer Mexico, and consisted of approximately a dozen ships. Hernán Cortés was one of the most accomplished of the conquistadors in the sixteenth century, and also known throughout the world as the man who defeated the Aztec Empire. By overthrowing the Aztec Empire and their emperor, Moctezuma, Cortes conquered Mexico. Hernán Cortés was eternally known as a man who was rather bold and valiant in his leadership of his soldiers.…
The Girl Who Won For most kids, growing up is pretty tough. For Julia Alvarez, it was even harder. The twisted paths of adolescence became blurred and incredibly confusing to Alvarez after she was, along with her family, forced to leave her native Dominican Republic for the strange United States. This culture shock was difficult to digest at the beginning, but then Alvarez became fueled by the bullies who taunted her accent and the missing pieces that being a “Dominican hyphen American” left in her life (Haley).…
The author Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé wrote a book called “ Queer Latino, Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza” he wrote the book to explain the life of Juan Rivera in the 1970’s. Arnaldo explained on the real difficulties and the good times that Juan Rivera had in his lifetime. Arnaldo explains on how the Hispanic communities were with in that time period were and how with the all the tribulations that Juan had and was able to succeed and overcome the their own obstacles while growing and living in New York City. Everything from his “Aids” crisis, to being a famous artist, and traveling the world. Arnaldo talks about Juan’s life.…
Hernando was born in 1485 in a town called Medellin. His father’s name is Martin Cortes. His mother's name was Catalina Pizarro Altamirano.…
Captain Garcilaso “El Inca” de la Vega was an important chronicler of the Spanish exploration and conquest of the Americas, whose works were instrumental in the preservation of Inca culture. His father was a Spanish captain, and his mother was Palla Occlo, Incan royalty. He was a captain of a Spanish warship during the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British, and translated poetry during his time as a sea captain. He preserved Incan culture in his greatest works. He successfully blended fact and fiction together to create works based on Spain 's conquests.…
A man faces the rest of his life in prison after authorities’ say he committed an evil plot that included killing his wife’s whole family in order to lure her to their funeral, where he then proceeded to kill her too. Gurrola did not have any contact or know the whereabouts of his wife, which is why in 2008, Samuel Velasco Gurrola hired someone to kills his wife’s father. He then killed her sister in hope of luring his wife to the funeral. Mrs. Gurrola attended the funeral for her sister, after only a few months of her grieving her father’s death. After all the pain and suffering Mrs. Gurrola had already been facing, no one expected that the day she attended her sisters funeral, was going to be the last day of her life.…
Through the collection of poetry from the works titled, When My Brother Was An Aztec, Natalie Diaz delves deep into her childhood trauma through very imaginative and often unexpected ways. This collection is broken up into three sections, the first section focuses on the racism and oppression that Diaz experienced growing up as a Native American woman with poems such as “The Gospel of Guy No-Horse” which approaches this topic through humor. The second section of poems emphasizes how Diaz was consumed by her bother and his drug habits through poems like “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs.” While section three concentrates on Diaz’s life outside of her brother through poems such as “Toward the Amaranth Gates of War or Love.” Although…
Well-known author and poet, Edgar Allan Poe, was born January 19, 1809, and died October 7, 1849, at age 40. Poe has many different works that vary from dreary short stories to dismal poems. Some may say that his stories were inspired by tragic life events he had went through. Poe’s mother, his wife, and his foster mother, have all passed away from tuberculosis, which could have led to the dark mood and deaths in many of Poe’s stories and poems, which has also led to many of the similarities in all of his writings. “Annabel Lee,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “The Fall the House of Usher” are just some of the works where Poe’s writing style is evident.…
The setting, time and place, can have a significant effect on the characters of a novel. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novel that takes place in a small Colombian coastal town in 1950s. The story examines the murder of the protagonist Santiago Nasar, and the events leading up to it. Colombian culture has a heavy impact on the behaviours, character traits as well as the values of the characters in Chronicle of a Death Foretold. If the text had been written at the present time and if the setting had been a modern city in another place, the murder would not have occurred, and actions of certain characters of the novel would not make sense for certain reasons.…
In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García-Márquez, Márquez uses structure and magical realism to make Santiago’s death inevitable, highlighting the idea that fate is inescapable, and that it outweighs ideals such as truth or justice. In part one, the reader learns that the novel is written from what seems to be the perspective of an old friend of Santiago’s who is piecing together the events leading up to Santiago’s death, 27 years after Santiago has died. The narrator puts together the events as told by many different people, relying on their memories to gain a clearer picture of what occurred all those many years ago. As such, the information given to the reader is often contradictory and unreliable, which creates ambiguity…
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: a Social Commentary In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes many of the cultural influences on a town. Throughout the novel, it appears as though he is making judgments on the character’s actions through their descriptions. The two major aspects that he focuses on are religion and tradition. Through Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s controversial presentation of religion and tradition, his social commentary in Chronicle of a Death Foretold shows the tragic repercussions when tradition unequivocally dominates society.…
The book Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Garcia Marquez is a foretold tragedy written in a journalistic style and tone with a touch of magic realism. The book is written in a fragmented non-chronological order, based on a historical event of the death of Santiago Nasar. It’s not about the event in particular but about analyzing the after effects of that death within the context of the memories of the community and the reasons behind their inactions while facing their conscience, to the extent that they might be responsible for Santiago Nasar’s death. The author portrays the conventional morals and values of the society through the murder leading us to the importance of honor from the characters’ perspectives. Through the use of literary devices,…