Gael García Bernal

The movie Babel is revolves around four cultures and families that are, in one way or another, linked to each other. The movie takes place in Japan, Morocco, America, and Mexico. In each setting the culture is exhibited in great detail and many stereotypes of each are proven to be false. In Babel, Yasujiro Wataya, father of Chieko Wataya, had given Hassan his rifle in thanks for being his guide. Hassan later markets off the rifle to Abdullah, father of Yussef and Ahmed. Yussef later takes aim at a bus and ends up shooting Susan Jones, who is on a tour of Morocco with her husband, Richard Jones. The significance of the title of the movie Babel refers to the Tower of Babel in the Bible, the place where God decided to change everyone's language. The people were trying to build a tower going to heavy. God mixed up the language to stop construction. Since then babel tends to mean everyone is talking, no one is listening, understanding is naught and nothing is being done to stop the problem. In the movie Babel, miscommunication is one of the sole factors that leads to each of the problems that presents itself throughout the film. The first example of miscommunication throughout the movie is the way Chieko Wataya communicates with other people. Chieko can message and communicate words with any person around the world, but cannot completely express herself or reach any individual satisfaction while living her stressful adolescent life Tokyo. Like when she was at the night club, she…

The 2006 film Babel starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett focuses on four different, yet interrelated plot lines: Two young Moroccan goat herders, an American couple on vacation in Morocco, a deaf-mute Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes the American couple’s children across the US Border without the parents’ permission. The film is mostly about people in different parts of the world who are unknowingly affected by each other in different ways. This film relates to…

Scotland V.S. Canada Every year, my family and I go to Scotland for 2 weeks, and every year I have an amazing Scottish soda named Irn Bru. The soda tastes amazing, and I always feel happy after having some. Irn Bru was made in Scotland in 1901 by a company named Barr. Barr makes many great tasting sodas, they make many types. Ex: crème soda, lemonade, limeade. Etc. whenever I go to Scotland that is the first thing I would want to have. When I’m in Scotland, I would also want to get chocolate…

It is quite rare to be enrolled in a history class that does not, even briefly, expose students to the essence of Greek society; we are often taught to appreciate the influence that the Greeks had on the development of the western world. Martin Bernal, in his work Black Athena, sheds new light on this matter, offering evidence that suggests our beliefs about the origin of Greek culture are misconstrued. Bernal successfully argues that, contrary to the widely believed and racism-laced Aryan…

compliment is quite specific: 1. An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one 's compliments to a friend. 2. To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to. A definition of this sort is implying that all compliments are meant to aid individuals in gaining self-confidence in their appearance,…

array of perspectives involved. For instance, whereas Spanish solider Bernal Diaz wrote his personal account The conquest of New Spain, multiple Aztec informants, including Aztec historians Alva Ixtilixóchitl and Chimalpain, wrote different accounts which were grouped together and titled Broken Spears. Although both of these historical writings give present-day readers a sense of what the conquest of New Spain might have looked like,…

Women throughout the world have always had multiple roles in a society. Some roles were more influential, while others remained more domesticated. Yet, throughout both novels, women shared similar duties. Sundiata, by D.T. Niane, describes the journey of King Sundiata Keita’s road to become ruler of the Mali Empire. The Conquest of New Spain, by Bernal Diaz, recounts the downfall of the Aztec Empire. In the Aztec, Spanish, and Mali Empires women were portrayed as domesticated, were used as a…

Magical Realism Magical realism is a mixture of culture and oral tradition, made to seem a reality. Magical realism is when the story is in a real world setting, but has magical factors and unexplainable events that attempt to make the reader a believer of something. Magical realism is composed of, historical and cultural realities, magical elements, and a metamorphosis occurring with someone. Historical and cultural realities help to convince the reader that there was a real event that took…

Blood Wedding was written by Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932 and was first performed in 1933. Blood wedding was inspired by a story Lorca heard that came from Almería. There a bride ran away with her cousin. Her cousin was then murdered by the bridegroom’s brother. Given this inspiration Lorca went on to write a play that continues to be popular to this day. The play is full of various themes, themes that everyday people can connect to. It also contains climactic scenes like majority of good plays…

There is an old saying: “You should never judge a book by its cover.” In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children,” that is precisely what all of the characters do; each character makes their first judgement on the man with enormous wings based on how he appears to them. It is not until the man with wings has lived with Pelayo and his family for some time that they learn more about what exactly he is and what he to them for. It is often easy for someone to make assumptions about…