El Dorado

Have you ever felt like you have experienced something magical? Harry Dresden is a real life wizard for hire. He is consulting on a double murder case for the police. He is also helping a woman named Monica find her husband, who was practicing magic and suddenly disappeared. I finished Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, which ended with Ender tricked into defeating the Buggers and the human race colonizing their planet. I also finished Cross by James Patterson, which ended with Alex finding out…

Galapagos is a science fiction-fantasy story set in a third person narrative that was written by the author Kurt Vonnegut. Most of the story is set in the hotel of El Dorado in Ecuador and is spent introducing the characters of the story. The main characters are Mary Hepburn a widow from America who was a biology teacher at Ilium High School recently laid off from her job and mourning the death of her late husband Roy Hepburn who died of a brain tumor that slowly robbed him of his judgment and…

Voltaire’s Candide Through the 17th and 18th centuries, a European intellectual movement started where developments in art, philosophy, and politics took off. The Enlightenment, as it was called, revolutionized the intellectual and political ways of thinking in Europe. From the movement, came out many men such as: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot and others who contributed greatly during this time of the enlightened. François-Marie Arouet,…

benefited Big Mama tremendously, because she began singing for her church choir at a young age as her mother did. This later helped her receive the notice from Atlanta music promoter, Sammy Green. Green was said to have heard Big Mama’s voice in El Dorado Ballroom, leaving him awestruck with her ability to play various instruments and sing. He later signed her to a five-year contract with his Peacock Records Label. (Tina Spencer Dreisbach) Equality amongst colored people especially females…

Philip of Spain.” It was a letter written in July 1561 in Spanish America to King Philip (presumably private because it was addressed to the King himself from Aguirre.) At this time historically Lope de Aguirre had joined the expedition in search of El Dorado. Pedro de Ursúa had accompanied him on this voyage to the city of gold. However, not even a year after, Aguirre assisted in plotting the death of, and killing Pedro de Ursúa. After overthrowing Ursúa, Aguirre and his accomplices captured…

1. How does Diego Rivera’s mural, Liberation of the Peon express social realism and communicate a national identity to the public Refer to Blackboard Study Guides for image of mural)? Diego Rivera’s Liberation of the Peon painting expresses deterioration of a country and its people. The painting has a soothing, but yet strong colors in it that details the historical events of the time period. The Liberation of the Peon painting expresses slavery, adjustments, and evolution. Slavery can be…

a crear un cuerpo de trabajo de casi diez mil fotografías. La elección de este artista no es gratuita ya que él fue uno de los primeros en reconocer que la fotografía tenía su propio lenguaje, y que era un medio independiente y autónomo, alejándose de los presupuestos pictoralistas de las corrientes finiseculares. Atget murió sin el reconocimiento público que mereció en vida, excepto por el que le tributaron las primeras vanguardias que le revistieron de un aura heroica. Fotografió algunas de…

believed that gold and treasure created connections to their god, they did value it greatly, similar to the Greeks. Another culture that also felt a very strong connection to gold was the Spanish. Many people have heard of the Spanish quest for El Dorado. The Spanish believed that a city made entirely out of gold was located somewhere in South America. The lust for gold that Spanish felt led them to conquer and destroy almost the entire Aztec civilization. The same loathing for treasure can also…

in awe at the massive bulk products that towered over me. Overcome with wonder, I wanted to touch and taste, to stick my head into industrialsized freezers, to explore every crevice. I was a conquistador, but rather than searching the land for El Dorado, I scoured aisles for free samples. Before inevitably being whisked away into a shopping cart, I…

In this (my favourite) reading of the course thus far, Carmen and Mary Lugo go into detail about how a few select films outline examples and portrayals of racialize anthropomorphism, socialization and heterosexism. They start by arguing that these films have a major influence on the children that watch them and their ideas of dominant social contexts. They say that “In a basic sense, the narratives embedded within these recent stories provide children (their primary target audience), and even…