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Around the year 1500, Mesoamerica began to experience the first waves of western colonialism. Seeking to expand their empire and claim new territories, Spain sent thousands of men or “conquistadors” to all corners of the “New World” to conquer the land and its people in the name of God and the crown. Pre Colonial Peoples In 1325, the Mexica, a once nomadic people, founded their home on top of what…
Background The Joy Luck Club is a film that takes place in 1993 San Francisco and revolves around the life stories of four Chinese-American immigrant women and their American-born daughters. June, Waverly, Lena, and Rose are the daughters in the film and the difficult relationships they have with their mothers are explored and reflected upon throughout. The women’s mothers (Suyuan, Lindo, Ying-Ying, and An-mei) are best friends that have been…
Party polarization, or the gap between Democratic and Republican Party ideologies, has been an increasingly popular topic over the last couple decades. A study done by The Pew Research Center on, “The Widening Partisan Differences in Political Values,” found that the average percentage point difference between Republican and Democrat values had nearly doubled – from 10 points in 1987 to 18 in 2012. The Media The rise of technology and…
Like Water for Chocolate is a fictional novel written by author Laura Esquivel. It takes place during the Mexican Revolution, and follows the life of Tita De La Garza. As the youngest of three daughters, Tita’s fate, dictated by family tradition, is to remain single so that she can take care of her mother until the day she dies. Mama Elena, Tita’s mother, is the tyrannical matriarch of the De…
