Don Cossacks

portrays a naive man whose main objective is for travel to attempt reconnection with his love, Cunégonde. In this journey, he encounters many social issues and hardships exposing the inherent problems with the world. Then, Miguel de Cervantes’s, Don Quixote, depicts an old hidalgo who reads and praises chivalric romances. Comically, he is inspired by these books of gallant knights that motivate him to become one himself. The contemporary film Mean Girls effectively employs satirical techniques…

How should we live, in order to "live a good life"? For someone such as Albert Camus, author of The Myth of Sisyphus, living a good life would involve living freely. Camus believed strongly that we as humans should not hope for anything. Nothing is guaranteed to us; we could literally drop dead at any moment. Camus believed everyone should live in the moment. His essays suggest we should accept whatever our actions result in, no matter how bad it is; as long as we find happiness in the present,…

to remind us that what is real, is in fact real. In Miguel de Cervantes’ novel ‘El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha’, the main protagonist Don Quijote has trouble separating what is real to what is only in his imagination. Throughout the novel, Don Quijote believes he is a knight and demands he bring justice back to the land. Through the use of old literature, characters and the way Don Quijote perceives his surroundings, Cervantes’ explores how the connection between imagination and…

The book first opens up to Mary Hunter diving into Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. In Hunter’s words this opera participates in what she calls a theatrical conversation which involves the composers, librettists, performers, and the audience. Ms. Hunter attempts to eavesdrop on said conversation to show the reader how the opera buffa was able to behave as entertainment in Vienna. She also states that studying opera buffas as entertainment does not mean that these works have any less artistic value…

Research Note #2: “The Most Photographed Barn in America” Paragraph A: In this passage extracted from the novel White Noise, the author, Don Dellilo describes Jack and Murray’s visit to a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America to exhibit the significance of perception in addition to humanity’s lack of awareness regarding reification. The first paragraph establishes the scene in a countryside with a “MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA” sign, the presence of animals and…

People are intrigued by the thought and sight of a disaster occurring in the world around them. The more horrible images people see and stories they hear, the more legitimized they feel as human beings. In Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, characters are often mentally drawn towards events and thoughts of disaster. I myself have witnessed and experienced disastrous events that have shaped my gratitude toward life. When reflecting on the calamities that I have been apart of, I feel grateful to…

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is the author of Don Quijote de la Mancha, and one of the greatest prose writers of all time. He is one of the most famous figures in the Spanish literature. As a poet and novelist, don Quijote had remarkable accomplishments including the creation of Don Quijote de la Mancha. Cervantes was born in the university town of Alcala de Henares, Spain, in 1547, and lived during el Siglo de Oro. His life was full of hardships and adventures. While his father searched for…

TrieuVy Le CHLS 104S Instructor Ramirez Portfolio Essay 1 20 October, 2015 Road to Success How did an immigrant with no English and no money overcome the odds and pursue his career at the highest level, top rated universities Berkeley, Harvard, and San Francisco Medical School? Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa proved that hopping a fence worth its price of fame and recognition. Quiñones is simply just a human being who chose to believe in the capacity of the people. It is all about the effort you put…

In 1971 Don McLean wrote “American Pie” to remember America as an idyllic country in the 1950’s. McLean wanted to give listeners a snapshot of what the 50’s and 60’s was like while touching on a few of the more memorable events of the era, from his perspective, it was a time of fantastic music and great musicians that McLean wanted to pay homage to. “American Pie” had a deep personal meaning to McLean, it was going to be the last album that his producers were authorizing him to record and he…

In Curtis Perry’s article “Piranesi’s Prison: Thomas De Quincey and the Failure of Autobiography, Perry argues that in order to get a full version of De Quincey’s autobiography we must look outward to his other works; since, Perry claims that De Quincey’s works (perhaps due to his opium addiction) are much like the confusing muddle of the Piranesi paintings that De Quincey critically admires. Perry breaks up his argument by first looking at Confessions of an English Opium Eater, then he moves…