Alejandro Amenábar

Described as a beautiful and well proportioned woman, Hypatia was a woman able to make a profound difference in the mathematics and science of the present day. Hypatia is believed to be the most notable and prominent women in mathematics until Marie Curie. The exact birth year of Hypatia is highly debated, but the most common theory is that she was born in 370 A.D.her father was Theon of Alexandria. Theon was a professor at the university of Alexandria. Very little is known of Hypatia's mother. According to legend, Theon desired to make Hypatia into the "perfect" human being. Whether that is true or not, he versed his daughter well in all areas of study. These studies included: the arts, literature, science, and philosophy. She was also put through a rigorous physical training such as rowing, swimming, and horseback riding. Hypatia also learned speech, enhancing her ability to explain her knowledge to those around her. Some believe that Hypatia surpassed her fathers knowledge at a young age. This may have been a key factor in her decision to travel to study in Athens. At this point her interests were in astronomy, astrology, mathematics, and philosophy. As a pagan, Hypatia's death was not as kind as some. She was caught in a time of religious struggle in Alexandria, and her beliefs and curiosity led her to her death. In 412 A.D. Cyril became the Patriarch of Egypt. Paired with the flood of Christianity there was no room for argument with the religious hierarchy. Unrest grew…

In “Should immigrants assimilate?”, Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou address the pressure to automatically assimilate that continues to hound second generation immigrants. They weigh the costs of this automatic assimilation and the effects of evident discrimination of a second generation immigrant that follows if assimilation is refused. Mary C. Waters’ article, “Debating Immigration”, acknowledges the inconsistencies of public debate and credible studies dealing with second generation immigrants…

knowledge from my interactive design and Authoring classes.over the years I became stronger on the computer as far as coloring it has been one of my weaknesses since I was younger weather it is with marker, paint, or pastels and as I grew older working more and more on the computer those weaknesses grew. When I start creating, I always keep the mindset of creating what I like, no matter how good it is if I do not like it I usually will not share it with anyone but myself. A lot of the art I make…

“Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.” This quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky talks about how living in an imperfect world will impact us as people, though the quote doesn’t talk about dystopias directly, the genre is an example of how the world around us affects our minds. Though written in 2 extremely different dystopias, Flawed by Cecilia Ahern and Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse demonstrate an originally accepted hero, who later fights an…

The movie Babel is revolves around four cultures and families that are, in one way or another, linked to each other. The movie takes place in Japan, Morocco, America, and Mexico. In each setting the culture is exhibited in great detail and many stereotypes of each are proven to be false. In Babel, Yasujiro Wataya, father of Chieko Wataya, had given Hassan his rifle in thanks for being his guide. Hassan later markets off the rifle to Abdullah, father of Yussef and Ahmed. Yussef later takes aim at…

The 2006 film Babel starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett focuses on four different, yet interrelated plot lines: Two young Moroccan goat herders, an American couple on vacation in Morocco, a deaf-mute Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes the American couple’s children across the US Border without the parents’ permission. The film is mostly about people in different parts of the world who are unknowingly affected by each other in different ways. This film relates to…

The Others, directed, written and scored by Alejandro Amenabar, is a 2001 Spanish-American supernatural gothic horror film, which depicts the isolated life of Grace, her two children, and their omnious servants. Following the conventions associated with many supernatural movies, The Others appears to be merely another commonplace movie as it contains no special elements that would set it apart from the rest upon first sight. However, the viewers’ expectations of a stereotypical movie are…

Friend written by Robert Bloch, The Others directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and I Am Legend directed by Francis Lawrence, where the protagonist slowly loses their sense of what is real or not due to the abrupt change in events, the self conflict that each character faces as well as hallucinations that are created to help the character feel in control and cope in the situation they are in. Furthermore, throughout…

At a time when religion dominated the historical landscape and was influential in every aspect of human life and determining the course of empires, the mathematician Hypatia chose to pursue and establish some fundamental philosophical and mathematical principles that govern a major part of human existence. She was responsible for many of the world’s greatest discoveries, which were obscured and hidden by the victorious agents throughout history until relatively recently when they were proved to…

Thrillers, fantasy, and horror genres offer its audience a glimpse into the dark unknown where monster and violence thrive. Why do audiences love to be scared? Can those monsters be stand ins for other real life monsters that we seek to fight against? Two movies which use monsters and violence to capture their audience and spread awareness of Spain’s historical past in connection to these topics are Tesis by Alejandro Amenábar and Pan’s Labyrinth by Gullermo del Toro. Tesis appears on the…