Carlo Goldoni

How does one become labeled the fifth most dangerous academic in the nation? Dr. Armando Navarro is a political scientist and retired professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Navarro this April and was astounded by the passion this man has for la causa and his trajectory. After the interview with Dr. Navarro I felt deeply inspired as a first generation Mexicana, I felt my aspirations of becoming a counselor in my urban community…

Enrique Iglesias was born Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler on May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain. He is the youngest of three children and son of popular Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, and Isabel Preysler, a well-known Madrid socialite. Iglesias grew up in the spot light in Miami and began singing as a teenager. He released his self-titled debut album in 1995 and proved to be a huge success. By early 2012, Iglesias had sold more than 60 million records worldwide. Some of his most successful songs…

controlled part of the Colombian government which lasted for so many years. For many people with a straight mind, saw Escobar as an animal instead of a human. A few of Pablo’s cruel behaviors were the assassinations of two presidential candidates, Luis Carlos Galan and Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. The people employed for the murders was mainly impoverished commonly from South Medellin. The procedure was to spy the main objective for a couple of days, and typically used motorbikes or vehicles to kill…

In 1992, United States President George H.W. Bush, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. What many are not familiar with is how Texas border cities with Mexico, particularly the borderland of El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, saw a significant increase in gender violence after the signing of NAFTA. Since the early 1990’s to the early 2000’s, Ciudad Juárez became the central stage…

A very familiar theme continues to hover over Mexico specifically when it refers to the economic woes the political system continues to mismanage. Politicians that simply run for office to help themselves, while screwing the Mexican over time and time again. It is a behavior that has been in place since the Spanish conquistadors took over, by introducing new policies that benefited the white European while physically, morally, economically, and culturally destroying all social progress for the…

monarch made a huge impact in the modernization of the city because they focused on sanitizing the city and began many projects to do so. The sanitization projects consisted of improving gardens, fountains and the plazas. Therefore, the current king Carlos III was remembered as the “Best Mayor of Madrid”. This is important to mention since this began to modernize the city and started to attract more people. As Spain began to advance the urban lifestyle was growing. But in the 19th century in…

The Servant of Two Masters was put together by Kent State’s school of theatre and dance. The set design, costumes, lighting, sound, and performers came together to create the brilliant comedy. The Servant of Two Masters was written by Carlo Goldoni and directed by Tracy Young. The production of this play created a performance that was colorful, bright, and hilarious. The elements of this production were intriguing. The lighting, sound, costumes, and set design were all unified and truly…

against improvisation theatre. He thought of the actors who participated in it as vulgar, unworthy and furthermore undeserving of the audience’s attention. Carlo Goldoni perceived himself as an honourable man and he would direct his shows in a more noble pursuit of strictly scripted literary works and plays. Unfortunately for himself, Goldoni did not achieve on stopping this idea from spreading but instead he only increased its fame. From then on many ideas arose from this distinctive style. One…

playwrights or directors. [However, they had a] company manager [who] would announce the title and theme of an evening’s performance, making a scenario or canovaccio available to the performers.” Also, Commedia dell’Arte was directly associated with Carlo Goldoni, “[of whom it] has been argued that...“killed” Commedia.” Commedia dell’Arte was also associated with Shakespeare and Molière indirectly. According to Winifred Smith’s Commedia dell’Arte, there was an unspecified designer who created…

It has influenced artists and playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Picasso, Moliere, Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, and Carlo Goldoni, who has used its elements to help transformed performing arts. Although Commedia dell'arte eventually declined during the seventeenth century, some of its core elements such as the introduction of actresses, stock characters in situational and…