For my field report I chose to visit The Centro Cultural de la Raza located in Balboa Park. The Centro Cultural de la Raza was established in 1970 and completed in 1985. It was created in order to preserve, promote, and educate about Mexican, Chicano, Indigenous and Latin culture and art. When I arrived at the Centro I was greeted by a volunteer by the name of Bertha “Birdie” Gutierrez who has been a volunteer there for five years, I asked for a tour of the establishment. Birdie is also a jewelry
I. LAS MOCEDADES DE TRISTÁN Personajes introducidos en este capitulo: Rey Rivalén (padre de Tristán), Blancaflor (madre de Tristán), Rohalt el Mantenedor de la Fe, El duque Morgan, Tristán, y Rey Marcos. El principio de este capitulo relata como Leonís (el padre de Tristán) muere a traición. Al cuarto día de haberse de enterarse de la muerte de su amado Leonís, Blancaflor (la madre Tristán) dio a luz a un hermoso niño. Lo Tomo en sus brazos y le dijo “Hijo mío, durante mucho tiempo he deseado tenerte;
Montezuma, the famed Aztec emperor, inherited the Aztec kingdom from his father, Axayacatl, in 1502 A.D. No one knew it then, but Montezuma, also known as Moctezuma and “huey tlatoani” meaning “he who speaks for the people” or “Great Speaker,” (Benson, Sonia G. Montezuma II) would lead them through a golden age for the 17 years that preceded the end of the empire. One of the first things Montezuma did as emperor was start a bureaucracy. He created provinces, which are territories similar to states
Cortes allies with Tlaxcala, enemies of the Aztec, assault on the empire begins in 1520. The Spanish forces were driven back on the 1st of July. The Spanish and their native allies suffered heavy losses. This is known as la Noche Triste also known as The Sad Night. Around this time Cuitahuac became the tenth king of Tenochtitlán. The Fall of the Empire happened when Cuauhetemoc wass hung by the Spaniards in 1525. The Aztec clothing of the common people and slaves would sometimes
n.d.) Roberto Firpo is known to have been the individual who set a standard that all tango orchestras have followed from 1913 even to present day. Some of the most famous tango songs are Alma de Bohemio by Roberto Firpo, La Cumparsita by Gerardo Rodriguez, and Mi Noche Triste by Carlos Cardel. (Scaruffi,
tango can be divided into three stages, the first stage being La Guardia vieja, or Old Guard, which lasted until 1920. During this time, tango had emerged as a genre of instrumental music. The form during this time consisted of three parts, with different sections (ABC). This form usually uses four instruments: flute, violin, guitar and bandoneon. The most famous tango ever written is from this time period, Gerardo Matos Rodrigez’s “La cumparsita.” This early tango used rhythms related to habanera
Amie Nguyen Mrs. Shalaine Root Honors Literature 2 1 February 2015 Hernando Cortes: Conqueror of the Aztec Empire Hernando Cortes grew up having a dream of adventure, and a burning desire for fame and fortune. His main goal when he traveled to Mexico, was to conquer the Aztecs, as he eventually did later in his life. This paper will cover Hernando Cortes’s life and how his accomplishments changed the understanding of the world at that time. EARLY LIFE Hernando’s father, Martin Cortes, was a minor
German origin associated with the tango that is also used in contemporary traditional music ensembles. It has 38 buttons in the upper and middle registers and 33 buttons in the lower register. What is argued to be the most famous tango ever written was “La cumparsita” (“The Little Carnival Procession”) by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez in 1917. Early tangos used rhythms related to the habanera and milonga in duple meter, but bandleaders began to slow the tempo and adopted a quadruple meter with sharp accents
The People of the Sun The Aztecs, the people of the sun, people of reason and the people of knowledge. The Aztecs knew the land; they were one with the earth using the stars for direction and time telling and the earth as a producer of life. The universe was sacred, it was to be preserved, treated and used as a source of life because for the Aztecs the sun was life, they are the people of the sun. Conquering was very important to the Aztecs; they were warriors, strong ones who trained their
Hernan Cortes First to start out, we should get some facts straight. A conquistador is basically a Spanish conqueror. Their main goals were to search for gold and other riches from the Caribbean and draw them back to the mainland. The absolute most important conquistador in all of history is Hernan Cortes. From the foothills of Barcelona in Spain, a man came to be. Full of strength, honor, wisdom, and courage, this man was named Hernan Cortes. He, as the Spaniards would say, was a god among men
Frost graduated one year ahead of the rest of his class from Lawrence High School. As Frost lived on with his life, he was able to accomplish many literary works and also had to overcome the many deaths of his own family. Frosts first poem " La Noche Triste" was published in 1890. He later passes examinations to enter Harvard College but because of expenses, he had to go to Dartmouth College. In the fall of... ... middle of paper ... ... heart failure in Florida. Sadly as he deals with his
Robert Frost is often known as one of the greatest American poets of all time. Although he is sometimes remembered as hateful and mean spirited, his life was filled with highs and lows. These differentiating periods are represented throughout his poetry. Frost once said that “A poem begins in delight, and ends in wisdom.” As can be seen, this quote not only reflected his poetry, but his life. Though many years of his life were troubled by misfortune, Frost always seemed to persevere. Robert Frost
native populations were not immune to, which killed a large number of the population. The Europeans lived in an area where disease was prominent unlike the Natives who were isolated from such disease. “After the Spaniards fled Tenochtitlan after La Noche Triste, a great plague broke out here in Tenochtitlan... A great many died from this plague and many others died of hunger” (Document 4). Miguel Leon-Portilla describes in the previous quote how smallpox was introduced to Tenochtitlan. Because the
could have been avoided, for example through the social aspect through their belief and when there was a sign received from the Fifth Sun, and also even whilst the empire had fallen Cortes was still demanding for the return of the gold lost in ‘La Noche Triste’, this was when the leader Cortes and his army battled the Mexican capital at Tenochtitalan after Moctezuma passed away, the gold was kept by Cortes “the remaining gold all fell to the King’s officials” and some sent to the
consular de Chile Ricardo Reyes, nos nació en la tierra de Parral, a medio llano central en el año 1904, al que siempre contaremos como de natividades verídicas. La ciudad de Temuco lo tiene por suyo y alega el derecho de haberle dado las infancias que "imprimen carácter" en la crianza poética. Estudió letras en nuestro Instituto Pedagógico de Santiago y no se convención de la vocación docente, común en los chilenos. Algún ministro que apenas sospechaba la cosa óptima que hacía, lo mandó en misión consular
school as a third grader. Frost graduated here as co-valedictorian with Elinor White. Though he was moved often and had troubles with his father in his young life, Frost still maintained good grades and two years before he graduated Frost had “La Noche Triste” printed in the high school bulletin. This was his first printed poem. Two years later Frost graduated and read a speech titled “A Monument to After-Thought Unveiled” (Faggen, xi). This marked the end of Frost’s childhood and the beginning of
1. New World Beginnings - About 6 thousand years ago, only one minute in geological time – recorded History of Western world began. People in the Middle East had already begun a Written culture, gradually emerging form the haze of the past. 500 years ago or a few seconds in geological time-Europeans explorers discovered the Americas. This altered everything the Old and New World knew. a. The Shaping of North America - Pangaea contained all the worlds’