Márquez

An Unjustified War If you started a fight for no apparent reason, are you justified to continue fighting? The Mexican- American War was a brutal war that started in 1836 and killed thousands of people on both, the American and Mexican, sides. The question often asked about this war is “Was America’s reason to go to war with Mexico valid?” According to me, the United States did not have a substantial reason to go to war with Mexico because of multiple reasons. First off, Texans did not follow…

to gangs, exhausting and destroying the law enforcements systems. Gangs control large territory in El Salvador and Honduras, murders rates have gone through the roof from gangs killing off anyone who resists paying their so called rents. Angelina Marquez, former policewomen and counselor for abuse women told ‘death seems normal, there are 12-year olds committing massacres, bodies cut up in pieces, and so much violence against…

Although it may not be the orthodox turning point people so often read about in young adult novels or hear in motivational speeches, my trip to Colombia matured me in such a way that I have become incredibly aware of myself and of the stigmatized minorities in America. Along with being a very liberal minded millennial, I am also one hundred percent Colombiana and am finally proud to say so. Until my two month visit to Bucaramanga ,Colombia I was embarrassingly ashamed of my ethnicity to the…

Magical realism is a less popular genre in literature. Most people find it to be controversial when discussing the exact definition of magical realism. While the papers that Amaryll Chanady, Luis Leal, Franz Roh, and Scott Simpkins wrote have been extremely helpful with explaining the history and theories of magical realism, it is difficult for one to decide which one to agree with. The most common definition that one can use to sum up the basics about magical realism, is blending in the…

and an art critic in Germany during1920s. Later the term was used by Central American writers such as Alejo Carpentier in their works during 1940s and after that in 1955 the term was employed by Latin American writersAngel Flores and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and gradually it drew worldwide attention. Although the term took its root in Europe later it revolutionized Latin America. Therefore all the periods are inter-linked with the mode of literary art. Magical Realism: The term defined The…

Dissertation Review for Female Senior Student Affairs Officers and Pathways to Success Purpose and General Rationale In the dissertation defended by Yettieve Marquez, “Female senior student affairs officers at four-year public institutions: Pathways to advancement,” Marquez discusses gender and leadership disparities in senior student affairs officers (SSAO). The author discovers that females are earning every degree type at a higher rate than their male counterparts, but more women are in entry…

for a shamed person to regain the family reputation and avoid social humiliation. In most of the cases, killing is the only way to obtain back the honor of the individual or families. In the novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez, the main character,…

The cartoon is called Mass Shooting and Societal Norms. The author of the cartoon is Amelia Scheetz. The speaker in this cartoon is not Scheetz herself, but instead, the speaker is worried parents. Parents like the one in the cartoon are worried to send his or her children to school because they fear that, that may be the last time he or she will ever see their child again. The intended audience for this cartoon would be President Trump. He could be the possible audience because him as…

Lizbeht Marquez A Dangerous Natural Phenomenon In the video Killer Volcanoes archaeologist discovered human skeletons in London that were buried together. This discovery left scientists with unanswered questions like why were they buried together and the location of the burial. They discovered that these people died in the mid 1200’s, which helped them exclude the black plague as a cause of death. They soon discovered that these people died as a result of famine caused by cold weather that…

As humans, all of our personalities are in some way or another bound by the human condition. The best thing we can try to do is to be as well rounded as we can, balancing our different characteristics. However, some people have personalities which are more extremely one sided, and grow consumed by that single unchecked characteristic. In Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, each character of the Buendía family represents and epitomizes a single aspect of the human condition.…