President of Chile

The 2011 Pura Belpré Award for Narrative was presented to Pam Muñoz Ryan for her work in The Dreamer. The Dreamer tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, who overcame a traumatic childhood to become one of Chile’s most renowned citizens. The Dreamer depicts Neruda’s , who's real name is Neftali Reyes, life through the use of pieces of poetry and prose. This structure aids the book in discussing topics such as abuse, love, and childhood imagination. The Dreamer earned the Pura…

31, 2014 Chile Chile stretches 4,300 km along the southwestern coast of South America (Welcome to Chile). The maximum length from east to west is 240 km (Welcome to Chile). To the north, Chile is bordered by Peru and Bolivia (Chile- Geography). The southernmost point is Cape Horn (Welcome to Chile). The southern border is the Drake Sea (Geography and Climate in Chile). To the east, Chile is bordered by Argentina (Chile- Geography). On the eastern side, Chile is bordered by the Andes (Chile…

US Covert Operations in Chile 1963-1974 On September 11, 1973, a Chilean Air Force plane flew over the skies of La Moneda, presidential palace of Chile. Inside Salvador Allende , the first Marxist socialist chief of state ever elected in a democratic country via free vote three years earlier . Rather than surrender to a military coup, Allende commits suicide . Many reason exist as to why the Chilean military decided to overthrow a democratic government. Some attribute it to the United States…

argue that perfection is nonexistent, all things will eventually fall short of its goals, and that nothing is without flaws. On the contrary, some may argue that perfection is a scarce form of existence that only few entities attain. In the case of Chile, perfection existed in one of the most unexpected forms; Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. A perfect dictatorship is a dictatorship that functions as one, but allows the countries citizens to believe that they have a say politically (elections).…

In the short story “Class” by Sherman Alexie, the protagonist Edgar Eagle Runner tries to fulfill his need to sleep with a fellow Native American woman while struggling to hold unto his marriage. He does this in order to find a better sense of his own identity and heritage. It seems from the very beginning that Runner would have issues with his race and identity. He described his mother by saying, “Velma, my dark-skinned mother, was overjoyed by my choice of mate. She’d always wanted me to…

Go to vacation destinations most often include glamorous European cities such as London or Paris. These destinations, however, can become a bit too overwhelming with crawling tourists determined to capture the iconic photo moments in a red phone booth near the Big Ben or hundreds of feet from the Eiffel Tower. The United Nation’s World Tourism Organization reported that of the 1,186 million international tourist arrivals around the world in 2015, 51 percent, or 608 million, had visited Europe.…

Little Big Man challenges typical American narratives of history through the inclusion of numerous Natives American characters with multidimensional roles in order to help promote the idea that they were merely the victims by European settlers during the colonial days, the real “savages.” The film’s main character, a white man who plays plays the role of both a European settler and a disguised Native, helps expose the brutal realities of the frontier, by his own people against the Natives who…

When Iberians conquered the Americas they were on their way to the formation of new racial groups. The three main groups of people were the Spaniards or Portuguese, the blacks and the Indian. Due to the lack of Iberian woman during the colonization period, many Iberian men had children with people from African and Indian descent. In Spanish America Spaniards developed an ethnic hierarchy that placed their ancestry at the very top, while everyone else was seen as inferior. During this time,…

to help society by emphasizing that we are all the same. In the poem, Neruda says, “No one can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or Maria, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me about Venezuelas, of Chiles and of Paraguays, I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it is without a name” (347). This quote states that names and counties of origin are meaningless when it comes to understanding how people are.…

The author of the novel Hobomok, Lydia Maria Child, was ahead of her time, and full of abolitionist and feminist views opinions in the 19th Century. Child was born in 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts into an abolitionist family and was highly influenced by her older brother, an Unitarian clergyman and professor at Harvard University. Child later in her life wrote her first published piece, The Frugal Housewife in 1829, an instruction manual and advice book for stay at home wives and mothers who…