Gustavo Santaolalla Essays

  • Movie Analysis: Brokeback Mountain and The Love of Siam

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    Brokeback Mountain and The Love of Siam are two movies, which two main characters from each film, namely Ennis and Jack from Brokeback Mountain and Mew and Tong from The Love of Siam, all four of them have a connection that goes from friendship to a homosexual relationship, respectively. Four of them are commoners that end up being infatuated with each other. These commoners have situations that they breeze along that directed them to a same-sex relationship amongst them. In particular, Ennis

  • Massacre In Mexico, By Elena Poniatowska's 'Massacre In Mexico'

    2339 Words  | 5 Pages

    Around the time of the Massacre in Mexico, there were a number of books written based on the brutal killings. Three popular books that were written by Mexican writers and addressed the movement of Mexican students, during that era, were Massacre in Mexico (by Elena Poniatowska), ’68 (by Paco Ignacio Taibo II), and Palinuro of Mexico (by Fernando de Paso). Their literature presented a disturbing look into a student movement, which culminated in hundreds of student protestors being massacred on October

  • The Student Movement of 1968

    1296 Words  | 3 Pages

    the violence that they all experienced. Soon, the movement began to develop its ideological unity. The protesters focused on the upcoming Olympics, set to occur in Mexico, to persuade the government to comply with the protesters demands. President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz began to question whether the government would be able to control the movement by the Olympics of 1968. The clash between students and government culminated at Tlatelolco on October 2, 1968, two weeks before the Olympic Games. The students

  • The Importance Of The Criminal Justice System In Colombia

    956 Words  | 2 Pages

    One of the most important aspects of a country is its criminal justice system, as this system flows into almost every aspect of the country and more often than not is the defining feature of each country in the world. One country of study that I have found interest in is Colombia, which is a country that has been plagued by a 50 year old civil war conflict and increasing amounts of corruption and human rights violations. Throughout the paper it is noticeable that Colombia has shaped many of their