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  1. Spanglish -- Paz Vega
    Spanglish is the story of a Mexican woman, Flor Moreno (Paz Vega), who leaves her Hispanic community in search of a job to support herself and her daughter. Taking a housekeeping position with a wealthy, suburban family, Flor learns not only how to speak English but ... how differently other families raise their children. When the family moves to a summer home, Flor accompanies them with her daughter, Christina (Shelbie Bruce). Christina is introduced to affluence—and likes it. Flor struggles to keep her family values as her daughter is surrounded by a different way of life.
  2. War in Literature -- South American
    War stars : the superweapon and the American imagination / H. Bruce Franklin. Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934- New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. 256 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
  3. American Literature -- Writers
    The Chilean Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature (1945), produced verse noted for its warmth and emotion. In Mexico the Contemporáneos group, including Jaime Torres Bodet (1902–74), José Gorostiza (1901–73), and Carlos Pellicer (1899–1977), was essentially an introspective group that focused on such themes as love, solitude, and death. Another Mexican, the 1990 Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, whose metaphysical and erotic verse was influenced by French surrealist poetry, is considered one of the major post–World War II Latin American writers. Early Poems, 1935–55 was published in translation in 1973, followed by Selected Poems (1979). His volume of essays, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950; trans. 1963), exploring the Mexican character, was widely acclaimed.
  4. Sade -- Marquis De Sade
    To read the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) is disorienting, intimidating, exciting, frightening and ultimately exhilirating. "The opposite of his readers," wrote Octavio Paz, "Sade has an iron will..." Meaning, Sade is not only something you read, it's something you withstand and endure, a battle of wills with the reader squaring off against the divine Marquis. If you can't read Sade to the end, you lose — and somehow even if you do, you still lose. It's like playing chicken with a bulldozer: if you run away, you're a coward, but if you don't, you're a fool — a dead fool at that.
  5. Haiku
    The Haiku Society of America is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1968 by Harold G. Henderson and Leroy Kanterman to promote the writing and appreciation of haiku in English. Membership is open to all readers, writers, and students of haiku. The HSA has been meeting regularly since its inception and sponsors open lectures, workshops, readings, and contests. The HSA has a total of about 800 members around the country and overseas. The Society’s journal, Frogpond, which features work by the HSA members and others, as well as articles and book reviews, is in its 30th year of publication. The HSA ... publishes a quarterly Newsletter containing reports of the Society’s national meetings and news of regional, national, and international events.
  6. Maria Felix
    Maria Felix was one of the biggest movie stars in Mexico, the strong and sexy leading lady in nearly fifty movies. She became a star in the 1940s and was known as "La Doña," after her character in Doña Bárbara (1943). Her iconic status in Mexico has been compared to that of Marilyn Monroe's in the United States, and her love life was as newsworthy as her film appearances. Her other films include Rio Escondido and Enamorada, both released in 1947, and Luis Buñuel's Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959). After a television series in 1970, Felix appeared in only one film, but she remained in the news, famous for her fashion sense and jet-setting image (she ... owned racehorses). She died on her 88th birthday from what was called a heart attack, but her brother suggested that she had been poisoned.
  7. History of Mexico
    History of Mexico throws light on the 300 years of dominant Spanish rule. Finally independence was achieved by Mexico in 1821.The period from 1535 to 1821 is known as the Spanish colonial period and it was during this eventful period that Texas ,California and new Mexico were formed.
  8. Lyric
    Lyric poetry for the ancient Greeks had a precise and technical meaning: verse that was accompanied by the lyre. The lyric poet was classified as distinct from the writer of plays (which were spoken rather than sung), the writer of trochaic and iambic verses (which were recited), from the writer of elegies (which were accompanied by the flute, rather than the lyre) and the writer of epics.[3] The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria identified nine lyric poets worthy of critical study. These archaic Greek musician-poets included Sappho, Pindar, Anacreon and Alcaeus. The metrical forms characteristic of ancient Greek sung verse are strophes, antistrophes and epodes.[4] The Roman poet Catullus was influenced by Sappho as well as the Neoteric poets who had turned away from epic poetry to more personal themes. Horace was another notable Roman poet.
  9. Graphic Arts
    CT Graphic Arts is the exclusive Western United States distributor for Asahi AFP photopolymer printing plates and Nurpo NUS solvent. The Asahi AFP line of flexographic printing plates is essential for all high-end conventional and digital flexographic printing applications. CT Graphic Arts offers its customer's excellent service along with quality flexographic printing products, from prepress to plateroom to pressroom; CT Graphic Arts is your leading resource in offering you value added solutions to your ever changing needs and requirements in the flexographic industry today, tomorrow and beyond.
  10. Mexico -- Mexico City
    Mexico's urban growing pains are in sharp counterpoint to the traditional lifestyles that prevail in more-isolated rural areas. In states such as Oaxaca or Chiapas, small communal villages remain where indigenous peasants live much as their ancestors did. The cultural remnants of great pre-Columbian civilizations, such as Teotihuacán or the Mayan pyramids at Chichén Itzá and Tulum, provide a contrast to colonial towns such as Taxco or Querétaro. In turn, these towns appear as historical relics when compared with the modern metropolis of Mexico City. Yet even the bustling capital city, which has been continually built and rebuilt on the rubble of past civilizations, reveals Mexico's wide range of social, economic, and cultural struggles. As the renowned Mexican poet and intellectual Octavio Paz observed,
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