Andalusia

In the novel “The Alchemist” by the celebrated author Paulo Coelho a shepherd boy titled Santiago goes on an expedition to fulfill his Personal Legend. Thru his trek from Andalusia to Egypt he learned countless wisdom from many teachers along the way. While in the act of reading a mysteriously intriguing piece of literature Santiago come in contact with an old man named Melchizedek, who teaches him about Personal Legends and interprets a recurring dream of lost treasure. While conversing he…

1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, it seems to be a fact that bilingualism plays a vital role in worldwide education. It is due to the necessity of communication among people from all countries in the world so that as Madrid and Hughes (2011: 351) point out “there are more bilingual than monolingual citizens” and the number of bilingual people is going to increase considerably during the next years. Consequently, in the last few years there has been a growing interest in foreign language learning and…

Heart Over Head Imagine that you are a pirate, an adventurer seeking treasure. Once you find your treasure, do you abandon your love for sailing and go live a comfortable life or keep traveling to your heart’s content? Your brain tells you that getting a mansion with your newfound wealth is the right decision, but your heart says otherwise. Head over heart? Heart over head? Many decisions in life are difficult, not everything is in plain black and white. This is one of the important lessons that…

A short story that many individuals may or may not know well was first published in 1953 after the writer, Flannery O’Connor made a permanent move to Andalusia to her mother’s diary farm. The story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" was started on the dairy farm that illustrates many of the techniques and themes which were to characterize the typical story. Since O’Connor was limited by her illness to short and infrequent trips away from the farm, O'Connor learned to draw upon the resources at hand…

“The Alchemist” Santiago, the main character, does go through the stages of a Hero’s Journey. The first step in the Hero’s Journey is the Call to Adventure (Dulong). This is when the hero is introduced the possibility of a journey. In the land of Andalusia, Santiago is a content shepherd with a quiet and peaceful life. Puzzled by a recurring dream, he seeks the advice of a Gypsy woman who is known for interpreting dreams (Coelho 11). In his dream, he sees a child playing with his flock of…

shepherd. Next, Santiago works with a crystal merchant to buy back sheep but instead he continues to follow his heart and goes on his way to his treasure in Egypt. Last, Santiago realizes as he is in Egypt that his treasure was never in Egypt but in Andalusia under the sycamore tree. First, Santiago always loved to travel, so to follow his heart he becomes a shepherd. For example, Santiago’s father wants him to become a priest but if he became a Priest his heart would not be right, so he talks…

What the Visigoths did not know, was that Spain was already a mixed culture with a very large Jewish community. When the Visigoths converted to Roman Christianity, they began to harass and antagonize the Jewish community. While the Visigoths were persecuting the Jews, a new religion known as Islam, was born that united Arabic tribes, such as the Berbers. These Arabic tribes would crossover into the Strait of Gibraltar and defeat the Visigoth King of Spain. To help them in their conquest of the…

female role. However, it is clear that defining gender and gender roles is not as clean cut as we would all like it to be - particularly across different cultures. In America, it is strange for women to be firefighters - but they still exist. In Andalusia, female bullfighters are rare due to the criticism of other people (mainly men). Most cultures are like this, but in the case of the Igbo people of Nigeria, “female husbands” and “male daughters” (172) exist where biological females assume male…

hidden treasure. He learns about his Personal Legend, and leaves behind his comfortable life to journey towards the Pyramids. During his adventure, he meets several people that will not only change his way of thinking, but his life as well. Set in Andalusia, Spain, Santiago travels across the land as a shepherd with a herd of sheep. He stops to spend a night in an abandoned church in the desert, with a sycamore tree growing inside. Santiago is later woken up by a repeated dream that involves a…

Introduction Essential oils (EOs) are aromatic volatile liquids obtained from plant materials whether they are vascular plant or nonvascular plants including; buds, flowers, fruits, seeds, leaves, twigs, bark, wood ,roots and herbs. Citrus plants constitute one of the main essential oils sources (Burt, 2004; Hammer, 1999). They belong to Rutaceae family, which originated from tropical and subtropical south-eastern parts of the world (Sawamura, 2010). Citrus species were cultivated in China long…