Jonathan Seeha Mrs. Frank ENG 3U Tuesday, February 26, 2013 The Works of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda, whose real name was Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto, is said to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was born on July 12, 1904 in the Chilean town of Paral. His father worked on the railway and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, as a school teacher. A few years later his father remarried and they moved to Temuco where Neruda spent most of his childhood. At the age of thirteen, he spent most of his time focusing on writing poetry for the daily “La Manana”.
Introduction I’ve chosen this theme for essay as I wanted to learn more information about historical figure Ernesto “Che” Guevara , the ultimate revolutionary icon and a symbol of rebellion, nonconformity, and social inequality. He always fought so the common man could be equal. He showed this throughout his childhood, his college days, his role in the Cuban Revolution, and his revolutionary work in Africa and South America to his death. This essay includes quotations of Che’s contemporaries and journalists about his personality, as I think that these quotations will help to understand the image of Ernesto Guevara. Additionally, he was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful motorcycle journey across South America.
Another significant influence that Whitman has for Ginsberg is the fact that Whitman had been an outcast from the literary circle of his era, with his long -winded style, free verse, sexual exposure and his appearance as a plainly dressed workman rather than a high society poet. So as Ginsberg was not accepted among poets of his generation. His literary works were prohibited from public circulation. Also noticeable similarity between the poets was their subject matter. “Its subject is a state of illumination induced by two (or three) separate moments of ecstasy”, said Malcolm Cowley in introduction to “Leaves of grass”.
Ohanian 1 Christopher Ohanian Mrs. Stephens English 11B 24 March 2013 Langston Hughes In the 1920s American Culture changed from whites only authors to include African Americans of the Harlem Renaissance. One of these was Langston Hughes who wrote to rate about the African American experience in American short and long stories. Langston Hughes was born in February 1st, 1902 and died in New York, May 22nd, 1967. He introduced himself to become a American writer and poet. By time he graduated from High school, he attended to the Columbia University and Lincoln University where he got his bachelors degree in 1929.
Chicano studies 100 1:00 March 3, 2012 Vicente "Chente" Fernandez was born on February 17, 1940 in the village of Huentitan El Alto, Jalisco, Mexico. Vincente Fernandez was the son of a rancher, Ramon Fernandez and homemaker, Paula Gomez Fernandez. At the age of six, Chente dreamed of pursuing a career in singing. At age 8, he got a guitar and quickly learned to play and began to study folk music. Vicente grew up in poverty, and when his dad lost the ranch he moved to Tijuana where he worked as a janitor, dishwasher and a waiter.
John Phalen GEOG 351 Project 1 March 18 2011 Porfirio Diaz, President of the republic of Mexico first from 1877-80 and second 1884-1911, was born in the southern state of Oaxaca, on the 15th of September 1830. His father was an innkeeper in the little capital of that province, and died three years after the birth of Porfirio, leaving a family of seven children. Porfirio, who had Indian and Spanish blood in his veins, was educated for the Catholic Church, a body having immense influence in the country at that time. Porfirio Diaz was a 16-year-old militia soldier during the U.S.-Mexican War, the beginning of a career of military and political service that would lead him to the presidency of Mexico. Diaz had a brief stint as a neophyte for the priesthood before joining the army to oppose the U.S. invasion of Mexico.
In 1872 he graduated from San Jose State Normal School and in 1873 finished his studies of classics at Christian College in Santa Rosa. In 1898, after two failed marriages, Markham married his third wife, Anna Catherine Murphy (1859–1938), and in 1899 their son Virgil was born. His most famous poem “The Man with the Hoe,” was first published that same year. His main inspiration was
Salvador Dali Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born on May, 11th 1904 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain. Dali had an older brother who was also named Salvador, who died of gastroenteritis at the age of two, one year before Dali was born. Dali’s father was a lawyer and notary. Dali’s mother was a strong supporter in his art. Dali thought of himself as the reincarnation of his dead brother.
Under his leadership his party liberated three-quarters of the countryside of Guinea in less than ten years of revolutionary struggle. Amilcar Cabral became one of the world’s most outstanding theoreticians of anti-imperialist struggle. Amilcar was born in Bafata, Guinea-Bissau on September 12, 1924 (Amilcar). While getting an education in Libson, the capital of Portugal, he founded student movements dedicated to opposing the ruling of dictatorship of Portugal and promoting the cause of liberation of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. When he returned to Africa in the 1950s he strongly promoted the independence causes of the Portuguese colonies.
Calatrava's family had suffered during the political upheavals of the 1930s in Spain, and they saw an international future as their son's best chance. Therefore, when he was thirteen, his family took advantage of the recent opening of the borders and sent him to Paris as an exchange student. He later travelled and studied in Switzerland. Calatrava was initially interested in becoming an artist so he made plans to attend art school in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts), but he arrived in mid-1968, with the student protests of that year at their height, and found that his classes had been cancelled. As a result, he returned to Valencia and enrolled in the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, a relatively new institution, where he earned a degree in architecture and took a post-graduate course in urbanism.