Octavio Paz

The book I read was Always Running by Luis Rodrigues. The book was published in 1993 and it a memoir. This genre is set in America during the 1960’s to 1970’s, more specifically it is set in Los Angeles. Most of the book highlights gang life and inequalities in America, such as housing inequalities, racism and education. However, in the later of the book it focusses on the Chicano movement during the 1970’s. A common theme in Always running besides gang life is police brutality. In one of the…

Vernacular: A brief in a system of inherited, established or customary patterns of thoughts, forms, and styles. Usually expressed in use of local materials and handed-down building technologies. Critical Regionalism: A particular approach to the making of buildings based on the belief that buildings should respond to and reflect specific local conditions – this can be seen as developing and understanding of a regions ‘deep structure’. However, Vernacular Design Attitudes Critical Regional…

welcomed our Captain, and Cortes, speaking through Dona Marina, answered by wishing him very good health” while Hernan Cortes who had a closer relationship with her, rarely mentions her in his account. In fact in his essay “Sons of La Malinche,” Octavio Paz writes on La Malinche and how she was quickly cast aside after the conquest, “It is true that she gave herself voluntarily to the conquistador, but he forgot her as soon as her usefulness was over”…

Elena Poniatowska: A Mexican Superhero Not all superheroes wear capes. French born Mexican author Elena Poniatowska focuses her writing her writings on women and children, and acts as an advocate for people whom she feels have no voice. Elena Poniatowska also known as “Mexico’s grande dame of letter”, author of Massacre in Mexico, became known for her ability combine facts with fiction and specializing in political and social issues that has influenced many writers today. Poniatowska…

For decades America has been a refuge for those hoping to escape their country or start a new life. They advertised the nation as the land of opportunity and a melting pot for those seeking to come to America and find a new life. They welcomed immigrants by sharing their language, culture, and way of life. Nonetheless, not everyone was eager to forsake their culture and traditions. Generally, if immigrants do not assimilate, they continue their traditions, blend their original traditions with…

Authors throughout time have been influenced by their culture, travel, and pieces of literature. These factors have inspired many authors to create beautiful stories that take readers to another place and into another’s shoes. One author that has followed this path is Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne is known for his amazing stories that take the reader into a different time and place while sharing his own views of society through allegories along with other rhetorical strategies or devices. These…

We young folks in Cusco were very much concerned with poetry as much as Bolano’s visceral realists did in Mexico City but unlike them, Octavio Paz was not our enemy. We loved discussing the labyrinth of solitude but It was the poetry of Cesar Vallejo, Arguedas, Garcilazo that matter to us. It reflected our Andean traits. Cusquenhos are different from coastal Peruvians. We are because of our cultural traits. We are visual, silent, introverts, stoic and very much good listeners and enjoy jokes…

Finding Our Way: The Importance of Culture One influential writer of the 20th century, Octavio Paz, once stated, “Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life” (162). All cultures around the world teach us that different ways of understanding and interacting with our environment exist and that no one way is superior than the other. Cultural diversity in society exposes people to different ways of thinking and makes the world a…

Robert Frost is a much appreciated poet of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to whom today’s commonly seen techniques are attributed. Many authors’ goal is to provide a contribution to society and influence the literature field in which they primarily work. To some, leaving a recognized impression is one of the highest rewards in literature. For authors similar to Robert Frost, a poet in the 19th and 20th centuries, they accomplished this goal with, what seems like, little effort or…

United States Department of ART AND SCIENCE The Pencil of Castilian Silhouette Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain All copyrights reserved, USA STORY BOOK: The Pencil of Castilian Silhouette Characters: Mrs. Tulip Pineapple, Castilian Silhouette, Art, Melody, Camellia and Jolly Location: Bilbao, Spain and New York, NY Preface This elegant children manuscript is a non-fiction concept and true short story about a mother and daughter, who decide to travel to the Guggenheim Museum to research…