Chile

Louise Nevelson was an American Sculptor, who was influenced by many other famous artists such as Hans Hoffman, Pablo Picasso. Many of her art works included personal experience such as her life as a child as well as problems during her times as an artist. Louise Nevelson’s art piece contains many similar characteristics from lines, shapes to texture. One of Louise Nevelson’s greatest art work the Sky Cathedral (1958) demonstrate great use of the principles and elements of design. For instance…

The country of Chile runs 2,670 miles down the west coast of South America. Few countries in the world have the incredibly diverse geography and climates of Chile, especially considering that it measures less than 220 miles in width at its thickest part. The famed Andes mountains runs through the Spanish speaking country, and stunning beaches line the coasts. In the north, massive sand dunes rise out of the ground. With Chile are at least seven major climate types including low-desert in the…

I believe that the colonial women picked Native Americans customs over the English because the Native Americans women had more privilege then the women in the colonial times. They were also more cherished by their adopted families and given more rights. The first reason that Mary Cole is a great example because she didn’t get the same treatment has her brothers have gotten. While her brothers were learning how to read, write, and do sums; however her and her youngest sister Elizabeth was…

“In what way was Mary Dalton responsible for her own death?” The growing racial tension and racial oppression in the 1930s, induced by the prior institution of slavery in the United States, caused many African Americans to not only feel inferior to the white population but it also imbedded a strong sense of fear and guilt in the African American community. This same societal oppression that led to the feeling of inferiority, in the pre-civil rights time, was reproduced in Richard Wright’s novel…

The Singing Widow Isabel Pantoja, a mother, singer, spouse, bride of Spain, Queen of the Copla, and a widow. La Pantoja was born on the 2nd of August, 1952 to a family of fame and riches. Her mother was a famed flamenco dancer while both her father, famed from a 50’s song, and her granddad, a gypsy singer were living in the spotlight of Spain. Although, these family members lost fame quickly and because of Isabel and her three siblings the family went through many financial disabilities.She…

The climax of the book is when Santiago asks the desert,wind, and sun to turn him into wind, and if he does not fulfil that task tribesmen will kill him. Santiago is calm those three days that he is given but when the time comes Santiago is peaceful, he is not nervous. He is not worried that he has to turn himself into wind. On page 148 Santiago gets to it, he Santiago asks the desert to turn him into wind and the desert tells him that he can not do that. Sorrowfully, the desert tells the boy to…

Santiago learns through action that by traveling, watching and paying attention the world will help him find his personal legend. While giving the six sheep to Melchizedek he tells Santiago “god has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.” (pg 31-32) That is exactly what Santiago does therefore seeking his personal legend. Santiago also learns that giving up on one’s personal legend can be easy. He learns this when his money is stolen in the…

Santiago is an adventurous Andalusian shepherd. While sleeping under a sycamore tree that grows from a ruin of a church, he has a recurring dream about a child who tells him that he will find a hidden treasure if he travels to the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago met a gypsy woman who interprets his dream. She tells him to go to Egypt and when he finds the treasure, she must get one tenth of it. An old man named Melchizedek, who claims to be the King of Salem, seems to able to read his mind. He…

Pablo Neruda was a poet by the age of 10. He Wrote in a variety of styles such as a epics, historical poems, love poems and many other styles. Pablo was a senator of the Chilean Communist Party for one year. Pablo was hospitalised with cancer but left five days later after he suspected a doctor of ingesting an unknown substance in his stomach for the purpose of murdering him. Neruda died six and a half hours later after the injection on September 23, 1973. He was 69 years old. The government…

Canessa was reluctant; his fear had its hands wrapped around him, holding him back. He watched as Parrado cautiously set one foot into the jetting river, shivering as he did so. Parrado looked back at Canessa, whose eyes where filled with dread, and called out through gasped breaths, “If you stay there you’ll die, if you take a chance then you might survive. Come on.” Realising he couldn’t last on his own, Canessa waded into the river following Parrado. They were now both surrounded by water…