For this discussion, choose 2 videos from any lecture and summarize how those 2 video clips address those particular topics. Then, choose one sub section from any part of the reading thus far which relates to just one of those videos/topics and explain, in your own words, how it correlates Video Summary: Junipero Serra y las misiones Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svj7yO_EOIM The video title "Junipero Serra and the California Missions" starts by depicting the journey of soldiers and priest to establish settlements on the coast of California in the 1700. The men of the story find the territory of California just like Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo had found it back in 1542, very little had change in the landscape since his …show more content…
Both the video and the text correlate in their version of events. Watching the video and reading the text allows the viewer/reader to gain further knowledge and understanding of the great commission that Serra undertook and the commitment set forth to fulfill this task, even if it took his health and consequently his life. Serra's trip from Mexico to San Diego is depicted with details about his struggle and suffering, as well as his determination to follow his calling to evangelized the natives of the region. There is also information in both sources about how the natives refused to convert and accept the new ways of the Europeans. Despite repeated efforts, visits and months of work, the natives were set in their ways and did not want to give their way of life. The video talks in a romantic tone, depicting its characters and story as a quest for the good of all, characters in peril, suffering and a driven individual called to fulfil his destiny and witnessing miracles from heaven. The book shares the same story in a more factual and modern way, allowing the reader to fill the gaps in the video story. It shares the other side of the story, the native's way of life and how they are affected by the Europeans. Both text and video are a great complement of each other showing the different struggles and victories of all characters, specially how Serra worked without ceasing, and at the end established nine missions before his
In 1910 the motion picture pioneer and director D.W. Griffith filmed a movie called Two Brothers at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Another film based on the mission era romance called Ramona was also filmed in the historic Old California. Another movie was an adventure tale written by Johnstone McCulley called The Curse of Capistrano.“ This novella debuted Zorro, the mythical hero who sparked a celebration of a nonexistent California.” (Arellano 47) This film depicts a story about the black-masked crusader known as el Zorro, his deaf and mute servant Bernardo and his lover Lolita Pulido being rivals against the antagonist Captain Ramon and Pedro Gonzalez in early 19th century before California became a U.S. state. This film was later published as a novel in 1924 under the title The Mark of Zorro being one of the most popular films in America. The most outstanding recent film about the mission era when frontiers of New Spain were pacified with mission settlements was set in a region of South America entitled The Mission. California’s missions featured in movies faded as the old missions were restored and became active. According to Arellano “ during the silent era, filmmakers flocked to Orange County to use its diverse topography for shooting.” Mission San Juan Capistrano became a very popular spot not only for tourist and faithful people but also for
... A few photos of Tenochtitlan and warriors headdresses, clubs and obsidian blades would increase the pleasure 10 fold. Also in places the author tends to divert to other Ameriindian cultures and use their ritual practices as examples. These comparisons can bring the ritual practices of a 500 year extant culture into modern day belief.
One, he gives us a point of reference for someone in his difficult and turbulent time period. He was a (presumably) rich Mexican that saw the injustice of how the white American settlers treated the Mexicans that lived near them. He shows us another side of the story, beside the story that the victors would’ve shared.
“California is a story. California is many stories.” But whose story is heard? What stories are forgotten? In the memoir, Bad Indians, Native American writer and poet Deborah A. Miranda constructs meaning about the untold experiences of indigenous people under the colonial period of American history. Her memoir disrupts a “coherent narrative” and takes us on a detour that deviates from the alleged facts presented in our high school history books. Despite her emphasis on the brutalization of the Indigenous people in California during the colonization period, Miranda’s use of the Christian Novena, “Novena to Bad Indians,” illustrates an ‘absurd’ ironic stance amidst cruelty and violence. The elocution of the Novena itself, and the Christian
The penance of Rodrigo was where the movie started to get very exciting. This penance demonstrated that even the most hardened person can be changed. Rodrigo undertook the sacrament of reconciliation. A sacrament is a symbol of “Christ’s love made visible.” A symbol is something that contains the reality it signifies, and also captures a meaning difficult to explain with words. The bishops of Vatican II (according to the “sacraments” reading) said that “purpose of the sacraments is to sanctify men….” The penance of Rodrigo was a perfect example of a sacrament in action because Rodrigo was sanctified—he ceased to think that the natives were primitive people who should be enslaved. He realized the error of his ways. The bishops (again, according to the “sacraments” reading) also said that sacraments instruct. Another reason why Rodrigo’s penance was the perfect example of a sacrament in action was because through his penance and forgiveness, Rodrigo changed his thinking, which means that he was instructed on why his ways were wrong.
As the values of the Indians, the natives that Cabeza De Vaca encountered on his eight year journey, that were roaming the south are compared to the moral values of the Spanish and then to the
Bowden’s idea of why this happened focused mainly on the old misunderstood traditions of the tribes living in Mexico. He shows how the friars, churches and icons took the blunt of the revolts force. Bowden points out the religious differences and similarities be...
Bartolomé de Las Casas begins by providing a vivid description of each land being invaded by the Europeans and the type of peopl...
After completing this assignment, I am amazed on how much of a better understanding I have on these concepts. Not only am I able to connect them with situations in daily life, but even to the extent at which I can relate them to circumstances in a movie. The two topics that I chose to explore further and relate to the movie and each other were conflict and politeness theory. Not only did I realize my ability to connect such topics to fulfill this assignment, but I somehow feel that my future experiences watching movies or paying attention to others daily behaviors will be more analytical after completing this assignment.
Mission San Diego de Alcalá’s symbol for their livestock is the letter S&D mixed together. At the mission Father Serra taught catholic faith to the Indians nearby. The Spanish planted there camp right on the spot that the Indians harvested their food. There was a supply ship that delivered the supplies for the mission, the ship was very late. A man named Portla said to abandon the mission because the supply ship was not coming. Father Serra reasoned and said to wait a few days. Portla said if the ship did not come by March 19th to abandon the mission. They had look outs everyday till March 19th. The lookout spotted the supply ship on the very, March 19th. When the ship came,they no longer had to abandon the mission. San Diego de Alcalá mission is a very important part of the people's hearts that
The main characters in the film include Sebastian and Costa, who happen to be lifelong friends. Sebastian is a compulsive visionary who strives to direct controversial a film about one of history’s most influential figures, Christopher Columbus. He is determined to escalate the “myth” that western civilization's arrival in the Americas was a force for good. Instead, his story is about what Columbus set in motion; the hunt for gold, captivity of, and penal violence to those Indians who fought back. His story is counteracted by the radical priests Bartolome de las Casas and Antonio de Montesinos, the first people to ra...
In schools, students are being taught wrong information. “Our gods were vanquished after the fall of Tenochtitlan as were our traditions. Our warriors and nobles were eradicated, our children starved and our women ravished by the white conquerors and their allies.” (157). In books across America, the Spaniards were said to be good people, but the way that Huitzitzilin described what happened, shows the complete opposite of how the Spaniards actually were.
The colonization of civilizations has changed the world’s history forever. From the French, Spaniard, and down to the English, have changed cultures, traditions, religions, and livelihoods of other societies. The Native Americans, for example, were one of the many civilizations that were conquered by the English. The result was their ways of life based on nature changed into the more “civilized” ways of the colonists of the English people. Many Native Americans have lost their old ways and were pulled into the new “civilized” ways. Today only a small amount of Native American nations or tribes exist in remote areas surviving following their traditions. In the book Ceremony, a story of a man named Tayo, did not know himself and the world around him but in the end found out and opened his eyes to the truth. However the Ceremony’s main message is related not only to one man but also to everything and everyone in the world. It is a book with the message that the realization of oneself will open the eyes to see what is truth and false which will consequently turn to freedom.
Between Vega’s “The Story of Pedro Serrano” and Saer’s The Witness, each character discovered their own truths and purpose in life. For Serrano, his was the journey to achieve the balance between nature and civilization and twisting it for his own benefit much like he did with the resources on the island. For the nameless narrator, his journey was to gain the identity of what would end up a lost civilization and share their story with the world, ensuring that they would live on and be understood.
...ess the beauty of such unique ceremony.” As he told the very story with deep tones, he would raise his hand clutching a green blade. He said the oldest native gave it to him and that in the exchange the blade gave off light. In return the captain gave his most personal affect, his fathers pocket watch. His time with the natives he said was the best time of his life. The captain believed that the Indians were untainted beings; he said he could feel a connection between the people and believed that their power was routed by a natural energy, native to the land. But the Captain's stories were hard to take in full, the man had a thirst and he drank regularly. No matter how much he drank the captain only needed three hours of sleep to right him. He would wake up perkier than a horny pig and scold us till we joined him. With the captain gone. God to save us…