Don DeLillo

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…

What caused the explosive confrontation, in public, between the Cossacks and the Bandidos? Motorcycle clubs in America have a long history of civil conflict. In this outlaw culture, violence is normal and frequent; however, these stories rarely make the news due to witness intimidation and the clubs’ inferred code of silence. Outlaw motorcycle clubs live by their own set of laws, and the patches that they wear are held sacred; any act of disrespect toward a clubs patches is considered to be the…

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…

writer Miguel de Cervantes was known during his time as a great writer of fiction. He wrote a good number of books, but the story he is most known for is, without a doubt, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, now usually shortened to Don Quixote. Cervantes’ stick-thin, basin-wearing, certifiably mad “knight-errant” Quixote and his donkey-riding deluded sidekick Sancho Panza are well-known and well-loved throughout the world. As the story goes, Alonso…

A quinceanera is the spanish word for a girl who is fifteen. Among the many latinos in the United States today, quinceanera is the name also giving to the coming of age celebration on a girl’s fifteenth birthday. The word quinceanera has been around for centuries and has been in many different cultures and origins. A quinceanera can prepare a girl for womanhood, so the older women can teach them about the roles they will have to do in the near future. Today a quinceanera is a lavish party that…