Don Juan

The year is 1800; the events that led up to this year in my life and the lives of every member of my entire family replays vividly in my mind. This beautiful island of Trinidad, although filled with uncertainty, presents such great opportunity that going back now is just not an option. Life as a French coloured planter was changing in Grenada. The French Revolution threatened the economy and most importantly the livelihoods of us planters. In 1776, a French planter…

resentful antagonism between two parties short of open hostility or violence (Hoogland Noon). Although there is war, no fighting actually occurs in a cold war. The term was introduced by Walter Lippmann after World War II, and can trace its origins to Don Juan Manuel. In a cold war, there are no technical winners and there is most typically no peace that follows the end of a cold war (Hoogland Noon). The Cold War fought in most recent history was a result of built-up tension from the previous…

Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World was written about Catalina de Erauso during the 16th century. Throughout the story she becomes a whole new person, in order to escape the confines of not only the nunnery, but the limits her gender puts on her. So, when she left the abbey to enter into the real world, since not many people knew her, she understood she could be whoever she wanted to be. However, she was also smart enough to realize that even if she runs away from…

California cultural events related to El Movimiento Alterado, (The Altered Movement) which consists of a a variety of Mexican Norteño narco corridos which chronicles the effects of the drug war, often celebrating violence and criminal leaders.Professor Juan Carlos Ramirez-Pimineta of San Diego State University and author of “Cantar a los Narcos", said the Altered Movement is a result of the offensive administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon against drug trafficking, which has caused…

Arnold Schoenberg, a Viennese composer born on September 13th, 1874, would become one of the most important influences on classical contemporary music. Born to a non musical family, Schoenberg was a primarily self-taught cellist and joined an amateur orchestra under the direction of Alexander Zemlinsky. He would later be instructed in composition by Zemlinsky, and in counterpoint by Oskar Adler. Schoenberg became prolific in music theory and composition while working his job as a bank clerk, and…

Powering her face, the duchess has been painstakingly enhanced and edited, hiding her inner insecurity and loneliness carefully. In “Power Her Face”, the libretto and costumes show the audiences that the duchess is just a victim of gender inequality in this patriarchal society at her time. Excess indulging and squandering, plus her several failed marriages made the duchess become the public scandal. According to Cowart’s “Women, Sex and Folly: Opera Under the Old Regiment”, conservative publics…

Definition of Terms 1. Women- a female person 2. Jose Rizal- one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....1 Body……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1-9 I. Segunda Katigbak………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 A. Background Life............................................................................................................…

----------------------------------- Days, months, years…after the Rapture… …The Devil wanted the Bible, and any semblance of it to be removed from the court house steps…Next it will be your money…”In God we trust” that was to be removed. Making way for electronic money only and the “mark of the beast.” Satan’s antichrist will require everyone have the mark in order to purchase, anything. Warning! Warning! Danger Beware! Don’t take “The Mark of the Beast” which is 666. RFID chip? One day…