Don Quixote

purpose, and the potential to right a wrong, or save a damsel in distress. For instance, take Perceval’s journey, he didn’t have to do much; just ask simple questions. Any small thing that one does may have great importance. The same can be said, for Don Quixote’s expedition, which was mainly in his head. Be that as it may, the point is that his quest was a noble one; it just didn’t have any legitimacy. They both rose to a challenge that they could…

The Divine Comedy is a long form poem that tells the story of Dante’s a journey through Hell, purgatory and Heaven. Its structure is significantly different from anything that had been written before it, like the Iliad or the Odyssey. Dante’s cosmology is highly ordered, it is divided into 9 main circles that correspond with the punishments for each sinner who is in that particular level. As Dante descends through hell, he comes upon sinners whose sins become increasingly hateful, spiteful,…

Monte Carlo is a Ballet group founded in 1974. They are a group of only male dancers with the purpose of performing a playful and entertaining view of traditional classic Ballets like Le Lac Des Cygnes (Swan Lake), “Pas De Six” From Esmeralda, and Don Quixote, presented on Sunday, January 29, 2017 at the Mondavi Center. The Company consists of 34 members including :Tory Dobrin is the Artistic Director, Isabel Martinez Rivera as Associate director, Liz Harler as General Manager, Ryan Hanson…

Wow. The video, "The BBs of Wealth" sends the message of wealth inequality with the auditory symbol of BBs falling into a can. The wealthiest 1% of the population has an average of over 10 million dollars in net worth, the bottom half of the population, around 50 million households, have an average of 5 thousand dollars. That's $10,000,000 (1%) compared to $5,000 (50%). This video relates to the entire textbook. Inequalities caused by socio-economic status are the reason that social…

Distraught by the death of his father and the sudden remarriage of his mother-to his uncle-, Hamlet resorts to a state of frenzy and exaggerated insanity. His demeanor is motivated by his father’s words spoken through a ghostly apparition. After learning that his uncle murdered his father in cold blood to usurp the throne, young Hamlet assumes a state of insanity in order to justify avenging his father’s death. Hamlet’s madness can be characterized through five main causes: grief from his…

In a time, with discourse or spoken comments or debate between countries and cultures, it appears so that no culture has an influence remembered today, or to even begin with, didn’t have an influence. Nevertheless, Despacito, a song composed and sung by two Puerto Rican artists, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has been an international hit for several months, with over four billion views on YouTube, being the most watched song. The setting, being in Puerto Rico and having “the Latino feeling and…

The screen opens with a slow, artistic piano, visually accompanied by images of black and white ‘Breaking News’ headlines, studios and clips of historical male journalists such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. The classical piano keys reach a crescendo, harmonizing with an emotionally moving string ensemble, simultaneously flashing forward to a modern newsroom as the characters are shown to the audience. The juxtapose between the two newsrooms serves to embed a certain historical…

The PowerPoint eight sheds a light on my knowledge and understanding about ballet. I am totally astonished to learn in the “History of Ballet” video that King Louis XIV was the father of this kind of art form. That is probably why I always feel and view ballet as one of the most graceful and classy types of dance. Even though ballet is typical and unique with five basic steps or positions that were invented by King Louis XIV and still applied till today, it has a wide variety of aspects and has…

Dance Tramp was a dance performance like I’ve never seen before. There were times throughout the performance where I had no idea what was going on or why. I wouldn’t even be surprised to find out that the performers didn’t either. The show was essentially a compilation of silliness and humor that I’m glad to have witnessed. The most ridiculous of all was the part at the very beginning, where two dancers were wearing a conjoined black costume and spun around the stage holding a bouquet of…

For centuries now, society viewed females as submissive and feeble second-class citizens. The sole purpose of their existence was to look pretty, so their male counterpart could paraded them around as a trophy. A woman 's worth was deemed only by her beauty and social status. Women’s beauty was seen to be an accessory to the husband’s wealth, an asset, the more beauteous the female was the more envious and respected he was. Females at the time only had two choices in life, marriage or go into…