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Power and violence are ideas active in some of the most impactful and important aspects of human life. Commonly characterized, constantly redefined, and at times defying definition and distinction, the precise meaning of these terms and how they are interrelated is in constant conversation. Professor and political theorist, Hannah Arendt, delves into the intricacies the two concepts and how they operate in the terms of a nation’s political power and use of violence in her Reflections on Violence…

In the Chicano community, children are an integral part of how the community can be developed due to the fact that they’re still learning things while young. For this reason, works created by Chicanos are especially important because children and young people can see themselves in the different modes of media. A book that helps this endeavor is Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano, where a young girl tells the story of her family’s demise using a deck of loteria cards. This book can be considered…

would affect Mexican-Americans society in that Mendoza became very popular while touring cities because, “Often reproduced narratives of Mendoza’s dedication to traveling and singing to poor migrant laborers and her recording success in ranchera and corrido music have…

The growing pains in Texas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to expansion and modernization affect everyone. The rapid changes in Texas created chaos and prosperity for the people on the land. The swift changes caused people to face economic, social, political, and demographic issues differently and some faced with more difficult issues than others were. The demographics of the state experience great change because many were created in the cities. The people had to move in…

Costa Rica is democratic country located in Central America, situated between both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, amongst Nicaragua and Panama. Costa Rica is a predominately-Spanish speaking Catholic country. Almost 90 percent of the population is white or mestizo (a person of combined European and Amerindian descent) with the remainder of the population being indigenous and of African descent. Costa Rica, initially reconnoitered by the Spanish around the sixteenth century…

Sam Kean, a Washington D.C. writer with works in The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, The Believer, Air & Space, Science, and The New Scientist, has created a user-friendly book about how to explain the periodic table and the elements that occupy it by writing the book The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements. He provides an insight into the world of chemistry that relates to his audience, even…

“Throughout the struggle there was music,” the narrator says as depicting graphic images of death and cruelty in South Africa. That is how the movie Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony begins, with the viewing of pictures and film that depicts the Apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was the segregation movement in South Africa that with a textbook definition means “separate development” whereas truthfully it entailed a set of laws that were passed which decided who could live, travel,…

Literary history is a topic that deals with the assessment of literature from the different historical period. Literature can be categorized into different historical periods and genres, history from various eras have different characteristics in that their features, common assumptions and writing norms will vary from one literature period to another. Literary history in literature helps classify literature and work of art into different historical contexts as well as different characteristics…

Culture defines the norms, beliefs and practices of a particular society. Usually, the adoption of a particular cultural belief depends on the prevailing circumstances. The various sets of beliefs and norms dictate the nature of lifestyle and the manner of social practices of society. Usually, it acts as the parameter that differentiates individuals. This paper focuses on the various aspects which inform the current cultural position of Mexico. Also, it seeks to determine several songs,…

Mariachi music was always present in my life. Since I can remember, my family would always support my uncle’s performances since he was in a Mariachi group. My father would cry listening to Vicente Fernandez sing “Por Tu Maldito Amor.” My husband sent me serenata as an anniversary gift. In the beginning, I hated Mariachi music. However, as I grew older, I began to admire Mariachi music and actually began to be interested in discovering the culture and the history of Mariachi music. Mariachi…