Born on October 4, 1935 in Mexico City, Gerardo Zepeda, my grandfather was able to accomplish his dreams in becoming an actor. Gerardo Zepeda is a Mexican actor and wrestler. He began fighting professionally at a very young age under the name of “El Romano” then later was casted as a monster for a film and thats how his acting career initiated. Gerardo admits that he was taught how to “steal camera” meaning if he talked more or said something funny the camera would obviously stay longer on him giving him more fame time. Just like many actors he had to learn how to sing and dance, however he never had the chance to go to acting school he says that acting just came natural to him. One interesting thing Gerardo mentioned was that he did take …show more content…
He states that it definitely was an uncommon role for him but that he likes to be adventurous and wanted to try something new that would cause humor to the audience since they were used to seeing him play the bad guy in movies. Gerardo’s hardest role was any character he had to play in action movies because as a 6’3 man he didn’t have a stunt man. He mentions that in Mexico it is uncommon to find very tall people, so they couldn 't find someone his size and he had a lot of injuries while filming action movies. Gerardo said that acting was just like any other job in the world, it has its ups and downs but that he couldn’t sit down and complain about his job because he loved every aspect of it. Maybe the hardest thing he could remember is leaving all his eight children alone for a very long time while he traveled. He was a widower at the age of 30 and all he wanted was for his children to have the life always dreamed of. Gerardo Zepeda worked in over 300 films, but his favorite movie he was a part of was Caveman, because he got to meet and become friends with …show more content…
Gerardo has a true passion and respect for wrestling, at the age of 19 is when Gerardo started his career as a wrestler. It wasn 't until the age of 25 when he got into acting. My professor mentioned in class that many films during the classical era projected cultural nationalism in Mexican cinema, I wanted to know if my grandfather saw a difference as years progressed in Mexican cinema. He stated that it was debatable it all depended on what type of movie it was. He was only a part of two movies that projected cultural nationalism where he had to play the typical “macho” man with cowboy boots. As the years passed, things started to change because movies were not being filmed in little towns but rather in cities everything seemed more modernized. However, the propaganda is what changed extremely. Due to the fact that we are now way more advanced in technology it was more hard for directors to promote their movies. Gerardo said that they didn 't have youtube or twitter, where movie ads were being show. They only ways he remember movies were promoted were by radio or poster glued to the
he was born on February 17, 1917, in Guadalajara, Mexico and he died on April 18, 1965, in Puebla, Mexico. His wife was Marie Antoinette Becerra Acosta, they married in 1951 until 1965. His father was Arturo Gonzalez and his mother was Sara Camarena. When he was two years, his family moved to Mexico City, ever since he was young he liked to build electric toys, he also establish a laboratory in the basement of his house. In 1930 he enrolled in the School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineers. He went to college at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional in 1939. In 1932 when he was 15 years old he built his own television camera. With the goal of giving color to television. In 1934 González Camarena was 17 years old and he gave life to his first television camera with useless parts of radios.It was with this event that the inventor's life was marked because he fervently believed that with the invention of a color system it would be better.It was only four years later, in 1938, that the inventor first tested the system he had devised, carrying out the first color television
Afterwards, in the 1990s films portraying Latinos would take a somehow new direction, one of the most famous filmmakers would be Gregory Navas, he directed the movie My Family/Mi Familia, a film that portrays the lives of a Mexican-American family and the difficulty that the couple faced in order to establish in the U.S. “by passing as immigrants and all the struggle to integrate their family in another country” (Peña Acuña, 2010). The film let the audience see a potential reality that most immigrants went through when they first moved to the United States and how the system worked differently and the way immigrants had to adapt not only to the system, but also to the language and culture.
Learning is important for countless reasons, the most important reason being that it molds a person into who he or she is. What people choose to learn, and also what they choose not to, create the core of their opinions as individuals. Though people do not admit it or openly declare it, it is fair to say almost everyone is self centered. Because of this, and the fact that learning dramatically affects a person, learning is not only thrilling, but also expressive. Furthermore, since learning is expressive, its meaning varies from person to person, therefore making each person’s experiences with learning unique and life changing.
Through the study of the Peruvian society using articles like “The “Problem of the Indian...” and the Problem of the Land” by Jose Carlos Mariátegui and the Peruvian film La Boca del Lobo directed by Francisco Lombardi, it is learned that the identity of Peru is expressed through the Spanish descendants that live in cities or urban areas of Peru. In his essay, Mariátegui expresses that the creation of modern Peru was due to the tenure system in Peru and its Indigenous population. With the analyzation of La Boca del Lobo we will describe the native identity in Peru due to the Spanish treatment of Indians, power in the tenure system of Peru, the Indian Problem expressed by Mariátegui, and the implementation of Benedict Andersons “Imagined Communities”.
Marcario Garcia was not born in Texas; rather his parents carried him across the border from Mexico to Texas as an infant. The family settled in Sugar Land, Texas, where they worked as lowpaid farm workers and raised ten children. The land was originally owned by the Mexican government and was part of the land grant to Stephen F. Austin. Very early, sugarcane stalks from Cuba were brought to the area and a
to play Candy but his acting made up for any shortcomings he had in his
Fame never comes without a price and Selena paid that price by living a short, difficult childhood. While eight year old girls were outside having fun Selena was out singing at bars, weddings, fairs, and restaurants. She lived in an unstable household that eventually relied on the family band, “Selena y Los Dinos”, to eat and have a roof over their heads.
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George Lopez was born on April 23rd in the year of 1961 in the Mission, Hills of Los Angeles, California. His father who was Anataso was a migrant worker who left his wife, Frieda for a different lifestyle. After Lopez was born, Frieda and George Moved in with his mom’s parents who tried to raise Lopez In her hometown of California. When George was a young kid his mother explained to him that his father had died. Even though, the real truth was that he was in fact alive but wanted nothing to do with his son who he had with his ex-wife. His mother soon remarried when George was only ten years of age. His mouther also left, so he had nowhere to go other than to his grandparents’ house because he figured they would take care of him. Lopez was
When we have dreams we do everything possible to achieve them. We are sometimes faced with barriers that prevent, or make it harder for us to accomplish our goals. Latinos in the United States work hard to give their families a better life. Latinos all have faced many challenging circumstances in order to accomplish their dreams. Latinos look up to other Latinos and when they see other Latinos that have succeeded then they feel that they too can succeed in whatever they put their mind to. George Lopez is a Mexican American comedian and actor. He serves as a great role model for every Latino. He went through a lot of tough situations that made his life hard. George Lopez has not only served as a great example of a Latino accomplishing his goals through hard circumstances, but he has never forgotten where he comes from, he has always given back to the community and has also represented the Latino community in the United States in a positive way.
Robert Rodriguez is highly known for El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and the Spy Kids movies. By looking at each of these movies separately, we can see how Robert Rodriguez developed as a director. From El Mariachi to Spy Kids, we are able to see that Rodriguez stays close to his roots by casting mostly Hispanic actors/actresses, and we can begin to understand why not all movies need big budgets to be successful.
“We are never more truly and profoundly human than when we dance.” Jose Arcadio Limon was a dancer and choreographer born and raised in Mexico. He was inspired to begin his studies in modern dance when he saw a performance of Harald Krutzberg and Yvone Georgi. Limon enrolled at the dance school of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. He continued to work with Humphrey until 1946, when he founded the José Limón Dance Company. His most successful work is called The Moor's Pavane and it is based on Shakespeare's Othello. The Limón Dance Company still exists and is part of the Jose Limon Dance Foundation, an institution dedicated to preserve and disseminate his artistic dance work and technique. Jose Limon is important in the American Dance History
Reymundo was born in Puerto Rico in 1963 in the back of a 1957 Chevy. His mother was married at age sixteen to a man that was seventy-four years of age. Reymundo’s father died when he was almost five years old, therefore he does not have much memory of the relationship that they had. Reymundo has 2 sisters with whom he did not have a relationship with, one sister would always watch out for him, but that was about it. After the death of Reymundo’s father, his mother remarried a guy named Emilio with which she had a daughter for. After Emilio, Pedro came in to the picture with his son Hector. Pedro was an illegal lottery dealer and Hector sold heroin.
The Story of El Dorado convinced numerous people of a path to riches. The idea of a land full of wealth brought many explorers through an endless journey, some of them ending in tragic situations. To this day, historians scrounge for any info they can find on this myth, pondering whether the fable was ever true. In order to discover the truth behind the myth, researchers will have to turn back long ago, to the 1500’s, where tribes and explorers fought tooth and nail for what they thought was rightfully theirs. Two theories lie behind the question of whether or not El Dorado ever existed, these being the ways of the tribes and what the explorers found.
The book of Zephaniah contains messages of divine judgment against Judah and Jerusalem, as well as against other nations. It addresses a rare concentration of references to central issues in the history of ancient Israel. Idolatry, violence, and deception abound in Judah when Zephaniah began prophesying. Zephaniah's prophesying made it clear that Yahweh would execute vengeance upon unrepentant wrongdoers. His adverse judgments would be visited not only upon Judah and Jerusalem, but also upon other peoples: the Philistines, Ammonites, Moabites, Ethiopians, and Assyrians. Significantly, Zephaniah, the prophet, never stands at the center of the book of Zephaniah; the word of Yahweh is at the center of the book. Zephaniah is mentioned only insofar as he is necessary for the interpretation of the text.