Jerry Garcia

In a time and place where corruption was ubiquitous, Gabriel García Márquez’s primary objective was to unveil the overlooked evils. He exposed the brokenness of government, family, and romance, but never dared to blatantly criticize something as untouchable as the Church. Nevertheless, hidden in the retelling of an actual murder is Márquez’s report on the perversions of the modern Church. In his novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, biblical figures are manipulated to reflect Colombia’s…

In the short story A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Gabriel Garcia Marquez demonstrates the magical realism present in the world, in which humans tend to overlook. The short story is about an old man with enormous wings falling into the lives of a struggling family. This story represents the social group of both humans as very unsettled and insecure, and the magical realist, the man with wings, in a more miraculous and wonderfully mysterious way. In the beginning of the short story, Marquez…

The Life of Saint Martin de Porres Did you know St Martin de Porres was so deep in prayer that he sometimes levitated off of the ground (St Martin de Porres Patron of Social Justice)? Martin had a tremendous relationship with God. Martin De Porres is a saint because he devoted his life to God, could perform miracles, and lived a holy, yet spiritual life. Martin was born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579. His mom was a freed slave of Panama. His dad was a Spanish conquistador. Just two years…

Hardships of an Angel In the short story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marquez tells a story about a man taking advantage of the weak and portrays human behaviors. This story is about a character Pelayo finding an old man, who turned out to be an angel. Discovering the angel, brought new hope and new opportunities to the family. However, the family exploits the angel for money. Many people went to see the angel and so they profit. In this story, Marquez…

In Chronicle of a Death foretold, the concept of honor is very strong and vital in a town’s Latin-American society. The Vicario brothers are forced to commit murder to rebuild the honor of their family, even though they do not have the heart to go through with the crime. Gabriel Marquez discloses the effects of a traditional sense of honor in many Hispanic cultures and how it becomes the downfall of both men and women. The honor of the Vicario family is lost when Angela’s premarital sex and her…

The Man to Send Rain Clouds In Leslie Marmon Silko's 1969 short story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," two men find an elderly man below a cottonwood tree who has passed away and quietly transports him back to town where an Indian burial is given to the elderly man without the knowledge of the Catholic church. This story incorporates many different views of religion and culture such as Native American rituals and burials and the Catholic Church’s funerals and blessings. The primary characters in…

place to come home to everyday. Now, imagine coming home everyday with the constant fear of being beaten by your own parents. For Destiny Garcia, this was a reality. Destiny Garcia killed her parents after a lifelong struggle of being both physically and sexually abused. There is much controversy over whether Destiny should be convicted of murder. Destiny Garcia should not be convicted of murder because she was being both physically and sexually abused by her parents. In the United States,…

Farm Worker Movement was written by Matt Garcia, a Professor of Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies and History at Dartmouth College. (mattgarcia.org). He is the author of two other books such as A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970, and Mapping Latina/o Studies. Also, writer of many articles, including “Cesar Chavez, Flawed Hero of the Fields for the Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2012. Garcia himself has a background of field…

In the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, the stars are famed not just because of their performing arts, but also for their corporal look. Actually, many of them are paid celebrity endorsers for beauty products because their outward show is a huge part of their fame. Anybody would imagine them to have soft skin and ideal features. Still, it may shock quite a few of us to find out that the stars put up with skin difficulties too. Celebrities with acne are plentiful, and here are a few of them. One…

When thinking of influential music artists, there are a few household names sure to come up first. Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson are known as the Kings of Rock and Pop because of what they did for their respective genres, and The Beatles were a global sensation often credited with changing music forever. However, there is one name that is often glossed over. Whether it’s because they are marginalized as a hippie fad or just that the average person doesn’t stop to consider their impact, the…