Bullfighting

Ryerson University The Sun Also Rises: The Lost Generation and Masculine Identity Taylor Vagenas 500650873 ENG 624-011 Thomas Heise November 27 2015 Throughout the 20th century, modernist writers focused their literature on the social and political change that was occurring at that time. There was a constant push and pull transpiring between order and the disorder of the world. This created a distinction in society between an insider and an outsider. After World War I had ended,…

During the years of 1876 to 1911, Porfirian Mexico launched into a period of modernization. In William Beezley’s work Judas at the Jockey Club, he addresses how this modernization initiated both social and economic tension between the small percentage of elites and impoverished masses and resulted in cultural resistance. According to Beezley, Mexico was bewitched under what he describes as “Porfirian persuasion,” and under this ideology the state was determined to establish ideas of efficiency…

Every Sunday morning, I pull up last week’s This American Life podcast on my phone, lace up my running shoes, and begin my trek up Lone Mountain – a heap of dirt, gravel, and rock, sitting isolated amidst suburban wasteland. Reaching the top, I stare out at a lackluster view of Las Vegas’ silhouette, barely distinguishable through the dust and smog shifting with the desert breeze. I look down at the 600ft drop briefly, turn around, and begin my trip back home – only to repeat the same journey…

Ernest Hemingway was a fascinating writer that became the inspiration of many others to follow and a proud example of American literature. ”Papa”, as he nicknamed himself, was an adventurer and as such tried to get by life with enthusiasm and live at its potential. He is part of the “Lost Generation” that included famous writers like Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot. Their literature had similar themes like: lack of control, alcoholism, and gender. His works have a perfect…

Top 10 Fiestas In Mexico Latinos know how to have a good time. There are a number of fantastic festivals held across Latin American countries that picking your favorites can be tough. We’ve therefore done the hard bit and narrowed down the fiestas to ten, selecting the best parties in Mexico. So, check out these top celebrations and get your party started. 1. Festival de Mexico We got to start with the main celebration in the country: Festival de Mexico. The fiesta connects well over 50…

Throughout the course of Composition 1, we were required to read one article every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and we were to discuss it in class. In our Reader-Writer Notebook we were instructed to record a response of 150 words describing the article and our thoughts about the article. As we advanced throughout the different articles we read, we were to better our writing in our notebook and hopefully expand our knowledge as a reader. Currently for the Reader-Writer Notebook I have done every…

And Tango Makes Three is a children’s book that talks about two penguins, Roy and Silo, who raise a baby penguin together. The book sounds like any other children’s book, but what made it one of the most challenged books in the last decade? The two penguins are male. The fact that these two penguins are the same gender sparked countless numbers of complaints from parents all over the world, pushing for the removal of the books in their children’s school libraries. The two terministic screens of…

All artworks have some type of value placed on them, be it by society or by the artist themself. Here, I will be discussing three artworks that all hold significant values, some different and some the same. Two of the works I looked at were readymades by Marcel Duchamp; ‘Fountain’, created in 1917, and ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’ in 1919. My other selected work is one of Picasso’s most famous oil paintings, ‘Guernica’. Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ remains to be one of the most influential artworks of the 20th…

depicted are ready to move at any second. As the text book states, this is due to the balance of the crowd, the contrast of the black and beige color, and open and closed form masses. What interest me most about this piece was how such a scene like bullfighting, which I personally detest and consider inhumane, can be given so much life and energy. This piece is an incredible example of directional forces and how they can evoke the feeling of…

We call the generation of youth in the 1920s The Lost Generation. Oh Faulkner, Hemmingway, and Fitzgerald we call them lost because of their questions about manhood. It’s said that because of their questions, but was their generation really all that unique? This current generation has questions, no they aren’t questions about manhood, but questions about what social interaction really is, and what will it mean in our lives. In Ernest Hemmingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, Hemmingway shows how…