Old Gringo

high esteem in Latin American nations for his literary accomplishments that were attained through his novels of Terra Nostra, The Death of Artemio Cruz, and The Old Gringo. Carlos Fuentes’ novel, The Old Gringo, was the first novel written by an author of Mexican descent to emerge on the New York Times Bestseller List. The novel portrays the elements of magical realism through Ambrose Bierce, Tomas Arroyo, and Harriet Winslow; the novel’s main protagonists. Ambrose Bierce the “old gringo”, has one goal, to encounter Pancho Villa and die an honorable death. Historically, Ambrose Bierce was a prominent American journalist and essayist who travelled to Mexico in 1913. Throughout his arduous journey in the novel, he comes across various instances in which he is able to witness magical occurrences. The Old Gringo depicts various aspects of magical realism through its synthesis of Latin American culture with imagination, as well as the surreal events that occur throughout the…

English as his public and private language. When Rodriguez discovered his identity he explains, “Only when I was able to think of myself as an American, no longer an alien in gringo society, could I seek the rights and opportunities necessary for full individuality. (33)” Rodriguez made sacrifices by giving up his culture and language in order to proceed farther in society and fully assimilate to the English language as well as American culture. Rodriguez claims that it is necessary to give up…

America are swiftly approaching retirement age. In January 2008, the oldest Baby Boomer became eligible to receive Social Security benefits. Approximately, 78 million infants were born in America from 1946 until 1964 will approach the age most Americans retire every eight seconds. Boomers are acknowledged for his or her need to remain youthful or at least act youth and therefore caused society to ponder his or her character as a senior. Many people believe Baby Boomers will condition the…

of when middle age ends, when old age starts, and desired as well as self-perceived age. Age identity, age perception, and health have more similarities than differences among them. The theoretical concept of this article is based on social identity theory and identity theory. It measures people’s perception and interpretation of themselves and the effect age has upon them based on these two theories. A number of studies looking at the concept of age identity and age perception, through the lens…

Age is an important factor in determining the response of brain tumors to chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. Patients over sixty years old have a lower response rate and shorter duration of response than younger patients. Tumor cells from younger patients were sensitive to BCNU, but cells from older patients barely responded to the BCNU. Only a few studies evaluate age as a parameter of response. Older patients may have to take medicine due to chronic illnesses, and this means that there…

recurring theme in the Koran and some of the comparisons of the Koran and the Bible, particularly Noah and Joseph, and a few of the views from Augustine, who was a fourth and fifth-century theologian and philosopher. When reading the stories (or suras) in the Koran, let us look at the recurring verse “merciful and forgiving,” as “all-knowing and all- powerful,” and how that contributes to the theme which ribbons through the Koran. Which I interpret as, God is one, and that nothing is comparable…

Their family was extremely wealthy, my Uncle Israel was a dentist and his wife a high school principal. Their kids went to a nice private school, and had the latest in kiddy fashion (my 6 year old cousin had her own iphone 6 plus). When asked about the drought, my eleven year old cousin dressed in a nice button down shirt and khaki pants replied with “What drought?”. “Alright”, I thought, “Maybe he’s too young to know about the drought”. But what really took me by surprise was the fact that my…

The Circle of Life in the Ecchoing Green, by William Blake Blake uses the symbolic nature of the world in the Ecchoing Green to describe the stages of life, and how life is an echo that repeats itself over and over until the final stage of life: Death. He does this by using the fresh beginning of spring in the first stanza, the reminiscence of old people in the second stanza, and the darkening events that evening holds in the third stanza. The Ecchoing Green is a Ballade, which is a sonnet that…

dangerous because one should keep in mind that the Bible was written many years ago. Some passages written in the Bible may be life applying, while the rest were probably local. The bible, for me, isn’t fully authoritative. I only follow the life lessons that the bible has taught me. An example of one was the famous saying by Jesus where he was questioned about the tax that Julius Caesar once taxed. Jesus went on to say, “ Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and give to God what is God’s.” Very…

forget what he hears (Platt 18-19). But, in verses 23-24, James compares this kind of man with another man who does not remember the Word. Here James utilizes an intentionally outrageous similarity of a person who gazes into his own face in a looking glass, but minutes later he could not identify himself. James informs us not to be like this with the Word. We are not to forget the Word (Platt, 19). The perfect law of liberty is not the Mosaic Law. James was not talking here in the same…