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Zachary Calderon CHST 101 7 July 2017 Professor Carrasco Critical Essay 1 When discussing the Azteca, it is important to note their assemblage of one of the greatest engineered civilizations, which led to a daunting and wholesome empire in just a short two hundred years. The Azteca are to thank for many of the world’s inventions that include grand temples, palaces, and more specifically, the aqueduct. However, upon the arrival of the Spanish invaders, the Azteca were unable to fathom…

Restall, author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest writes about the crucial alliance Cortés makes with the Tlaxcalan people. "As these Tlaxcalans rightly judged, with Spanish assistance, they would be able to destroy the Mexica Empire and its capital city." (Restall, 47) Prefacing the alliance, Cortés had arrived in Veracruz where he was met with Mexica diplomatic envoys that begged him not to continue further inland. The unwelcome-welcoming that Cortés received inspired him to look for…

A popular Mexican Holiday is Los Dias de los Muertos. It is a holiday that shares some origins with the likes of Halloween but at the same time is radically different. Halloween focuses on accepting death for a day and shifting the norm upside down. However El Dias de los Muertos is a holiday that uses various forms of festivities to celebrate death accept it and one could argue actually cherish it. The notion that death is cherish in Los Dias de los Muertos, which is Spanish for the day of the…

I. Biography of Poet: Francisco Rivera Francisco Rivera was born in 1973 to debt ridden subsistence farmers in a war torn Central American nation. While times were tough, family life and the natural beauty of the nearby beach and country side provided solace and happy memories. Then war returned to the land. His parents along with three of his siblings and eventually his wife were among the large numbers of civilian casualties in a long civil war which ravished their nation and resulted in…

The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo is a documentary of her life, they talk about all that she went through as a child. Frida Kahlo was an amazing artist but she didn't plan to become one, all her life she wanted to become a doctor, have kids and get married. That all changed one day when she was on a bus and it crashed with another vehicle, and she broke her pelvis,some ribs and her leg. During her time of recovery her father encouraged her to paint, and he bought her paint and a few paint…

In most groups, they would have one capital but not the Maya. So the Maya had their own capitals, so each city was its own capital and they had their own government. What the Maya did that was interesting was that they sacrificed people in a weird way. They would throw people into wells and if they survived, they thought they were worthy, so they treated them…

Betzy Morales Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter who was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. Her real name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon. She started painting after a serious injury from a bus at 18 years old. Kahlo had several surgeries throughout her life due to Polio. As her career as a painter begin to grow, she started to live all around the world such as, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Fifty-five of her paintings are self-portraits. She was also known as a bisexual…

In 1922 Frida Kahlo went to a renowned National Preparatory School. She was one of the few female students to attend the school. hung out with a group of politically and intellectually like-minded students. While she was in that school she was recognized for all her beautiful colorful clothes and her jewelry. The same year she got recognized Diego Rivera went to her school to go work on a project at the school. While Diego was there Frida would admire him while he was doing his mural, the mural…

largest metropolitan city in Canada. Based on the latest Statistics Canada survey, there are about 3 824 221 people in the Greater Montreal area. It is one of the most diverse cities in Canada comprising 30% of the population born outside the country and 26 % part of the visible minority. The city of Montreal hosts 75% of Quebec immigrants. 53.6% speak French as their mother tongue, 12.8% speak English and 33.6% speak another language. In 2004, 13 municipalities merged to become the City of…

Only highly qualified and trained instructors make the exclusive staff at this very trendy company composed of four studios in the Houston greater area and several franchise locations. For the four studio locations in the greater Houston area, the process of training instructors is handled by Henry Richardson, CEO and founder. Because the training program is developed in a way that will challenge the instructor trainee’s own fitness…