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The Achievements of Luis Barragan, 2007.
This paper looks at the legendary architecture of Luis Barragan, a Mexican architect.
4,064 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 14 sources, MLA, £ 75.95
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The paper discusses how Luis Barragan is famous for his architecture that seeks to use light, water and open natural spaces in order to portray the Mexican culture in a contemporary, but non-conforming way. The paper relates that one of the crowning achievements for Barragan was winning the international Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1980. The paper explains Barragan's objectives of blending his surroundings within their natural element, adding bright colors to enhance the setting, having beautiful serene gardens in which the resident's could enjoy life and always having his designs show their Latin American connections.
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"Luis Barragan's development and reformulation of Mexican architecture was an endless artistic search for a contemporary expression of Mexican culture" (Underwood). Beginning in the 1920's and continuing all the way until Barragan's death in 1988, his quest for this contemporary expression led him to many different countries, cultures and to interact with many different people from various walks of life, especially those individuals who were artistic or were, themselves, striving to leave their artistic mark on society. Barragan was able to accomplish that objective which is evident by the works of architecture he left behind."
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Luis Barragan, 1996.
Life, career, development, major works & impact on architecture of Mexican leader of Critical Regionalism movement of 20th Cent.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 9 sources, £ 54.95
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"In the course of the twentieth century architecture, like most aspects of culture, has been marked by increasing homogeneity across national lines. As Ricoeur points out, the universalizing of culture is in some ways an advance for humanity but it also constitutes "a sort of subtle destruction" in which local sources of stylistic innovation are gradually repressed as universal styles of architecture, art, food and just about every aspect of culture take over. There is a tension between local culture and this universalizing trend that cannot be resolved in favor of one side or the other. The tendency of styles and forms to spread quickly from one area to another will only increase and regional culture has become "something which [must] be self-consciously cultivated." Regional architects must, therefore, strive to combine the assimilation of international styles with..."
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?The Bridge of San Luis Rey?, 2004.
A review of the novel, ?The Bridge of San Luis Rey? by Thornton Wilder.
811 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 0 sources, £ 19.95
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This paper discusses how, in "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", Thornton Wilder is trying to explore, with the reader, the meaning of life. It looks at how Wilder explores the theme of his novel through the point of view of a third person, Brother Juniper, who witnesses the collapse of the bridge of San Luis Rey and the death of five people. It also examines how the use of sunlight is symbolic of enlightenment and the message that the meaning of life is found among the living.
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"Just as the reader begins to feel that the purpose of life is to discover the meaning of love and the importance of expressing it unreservedly, Wilder raises another complication. The Marquesa is never given a chance to begin anew as she dies on the Bridge of San Luis Rey a few days later. The conflict begins again. What is the meaning of life? If the narrative is taken at face value, it all seems rather senseless, for after all, where is the point in achieving self-realization literally at the point of death? Unless, Wilder intended the reader to derive the meaning through evoking a sense of sympathy for the character of the Marquesa or even a sense of outrage at the waste."
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Luis Miguel, 2002.
This paper discusses Luis Miguel, the man and his music.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper is a biography of the best selling Latin artist, Luis Miguel. This paper traces his many achievement up to the release of his November 2001 album "Mis Romances".
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Fray Luis de Leon, 2003.
A discussion on the scholar and artist, Fray Luis de Leon.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 21.95
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This paper examines the life and work of Fray Luis de Leon who was both a scholar and an artist. It explains that he was a man who came to represent the most learned elements of his time. It explores his ability to encapsulate his personal history and some of the darkest elements of Spanish history in the Renaissance.
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"Fray Luis de Leon was both a scholar and an artist a man who came to represent the most learned elements of his time as well as encapsulating in his personal history some of the darkest elements of Spanish history in the Renaissance. This paper examines his ..."
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Jorge Luis Borges' "The Lottery in Babylon", 2006.
This paper analyzes Jorge Luis Borges' short story, "The Lottery in Babylon" written in 1941.
1,120 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, £ 26.95
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This paper explains that Jorge Luis Borges is a novelist known for using subjects that question God's existence and essence of life and that these themes appear in his short story, "The Lottery in Babylon". The author points out that, in the story, which is told in the first person point-of-view, the narrator is part of what is happening within the story but, despite his understanding of the people, cannot fathom the addiction of the community people to the lottery. The paper relates that "Lottery in Babylon" is full of symbolism and metaphors. For example, the term 'lottery' represents taking chances and the term 'company' represents God. The paper includes several quotations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
"The Lottery in Babylon" - An Analysis
Plot
Theme
Conclusion
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"Lottery, as seen by the narrator's eyes, has undergone various evolutions. First, it was just like a very simple game played by the commoners. Then, the number of people who loved playing it increases, hence the rules of the game was changed. At first, the lottery only involves rewards that would be received by, of course, the winner. But when the game was eventually changed, punishments and irrelevant rewards were introduced. When still more and more people continue playing the game, the rules regarding the people who could join the game also changed."
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Luis Bunuel and Orson Welles, 2002.
A look at the life and works of Luis Bunuel and Orson Welles--influential and revolutionary filmmakers in film history.
1,185 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper looks at the contributions of Luis Bunuel, director of the Surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou"; (An Andalusian Dog) and Orson Welles, director of the American classic film, "Citizen Kane". It shows how both directors have given significant input to the history of film that are currently and still in practice.
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"Luis Bunuel is a Spanish director who was known primarily for his contribution the Surrealist movement that emerged along with the French Impressionist movement during the latter part of 1920s. ?Un Chien Andalou? (An Andalusian Dog), which was produced in the year 1928, marked the beginning of the use of surrealism in films. During this time period, surrealism is fast becoming a popular movement, and is prevalent in the visual arts, such as the paintings of Andre Breton and Salvador Dali. Incidentally, Dali is influential in Bunuel?s works because his works include those of Dali?s paintings, one of which was shown in ?Un Chien Andalou.? The Surrealist movement is characterized to be the anti-thesis of the normative formula of most films. Instead of adapting a narrative form and style, Surrealist films are antinarrative, and appeals mainly to the subconscious thoughts of people. Surrealist works are also devoid of logic, as can be seen in Bunuel?s portrayal of a woman sucking the toes of a statue, and the popular scene wherein Bunuel himself cut with a razor the eyeballs of a woman. These scenes are evidently devoid of any logic, and in fact, surrealist films do not aim to explain at all whatever message (if there is a message) a film has."
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Luis Valdez's ?Los Vendidos?, 2.
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the play ?Los Vendidos,? by Luis Valdez and to also discuss Chicano literature.
1,425 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 32.95
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The paper discusses the theme of the play and various critics? thoughts on the theme and meaning of the work. Luis Valdez writes about Chicano issues. He uses the play to point out the inhumanity of the people who hire Mexicans and how the administration ignores their problems. Critics have called it one of the most important Chicano plays ever to be written.
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"?Los Vendidos? (the Sellouts) takes place on Honest Sancho's Used Mexican Lot, a ?used car lot? that supplies Mexicans to government workers who need token brown-skinned people to fill various roles. Miss JIM-enez is a secretary looking for a Mexican for Governor Regan?s office. Someone who will not stand out too much, but will show the Governor has a ?brown-skinned? person on his staff. Dark, but not too dark, and suave. ?Beige, just the tone? (Valdez). He will be beige in his politics too, a ?yes? man to the white politicians who keep him around so they look good."
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The Poems of Luis Pales Matos, 2002.
A look at the themes of African rhythm and mystical power in the poetry of Luis Pales Matos.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 18.95
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This essay will argue, through an exploration of these aspects of Pales Matos' work, that it was this grounding in sensual rhythm and traditional African imagery that makes him a poet with universal appeal.
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"The Lusiads" by Luis Vaz De Camoes and "The Prince" by Machiavelli, 1994.
An examination and comparison of the works as examples of naturalism, secularism and individualism and traits of Renaissance.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, £ 32.95
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"This study will examine The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camoes (Camoens) and The Prince by Machiavelli, focusing on the two works as examples naturalism, secularism and individualism. These elements of the two books exemplify the characteristics of the Renaissance.
Both works were written in an era which was casting off the religious elements of the Middle Ages and were practicing instead perspectives on man and the world which saw man instead of God at the center of reality. Camoens' book focuses on the exploits of explorer Vasco da Gama as examples of the individualist and activist encounters with the world of nature, while Machiavelli focuses on the political recipe for a ruthless and successful leader.
Both writer and their perspectives were humanistic in that..."
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"I Don't Have to Show you No Stinking Badges" ( Luis Valdez ), 1999.
Examines comic play's social criticism & depiction of Chicano family assimilated into suburbia.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, £ 32.95
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" In his play I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges, Luis Valdez makes use of certain stereotypical images in order to delve into questions of the relationship between the actor and the role he or she plays and between those roles and the reality of similar roles in society. He does this in a comic format which turns certain American entertainment conventions upside down for satiric effect. The familiarity of the television situation comedy is recreated on stage with a very different kind of family and with a different purpose.
Luis Valdez is the founder and artistic director of the internationally-known El Teatro Campesino, the theatrical troupe he created during the Great Delano Grape Strike of 1965. The productions of this group have been acclaimed throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe and have received an.."
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Luis Bunuel, 1992.
Examines the life and career of this Spanish filmmaker, discussing style, themes and critical reviews.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, £ 38.95
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"LUIS BUNUEL
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the cinema of Luis
Bunuel in general and two of his films in specific: "Los Olvidados" (Mexico 1950) and "Viridiana" (Spain 1961). Special attention will be paid to the Spanish cinema and the Mexican cinema and how they influenced this film maker and his art.
In order to best frame this commentary, we should give a brief overview of Bunuel and his place in the Spanish-speaking film world. Luis Bunuel was born in Calanda, Spain on February 22, 1900, and he died in Mexico City on July 29, 1983. He led a long life, and most of it was devoted to making motion pictures.
After receiving his degree from Colegio del Salvador in religion, entomology, and zoology, he went on for an advanced degree in agricultural engineering and the natural sciences at the ..."
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"Zoot Suit" ( Luis Valdez ), 1995.
A sociopolitical critique of the play on Chicano cultural identity in 1943.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 13 sources, £ 54.95
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"In his musical drama Zoot Suit, playwright Luis Valdez fashions a theatrical experience around two dramatic elements: the historical event of the "Zoot Suit Riots" of 1943 and the commanding image of an icon-like narrator called "El Pachuco." The first is a largely-overlooked historical occurrence of blatant anti-Chicano racism that happened in Los Angeles during World War II. The second, El Pachuco, is a dramatic creation designed to combat the image of the stereotypical Chicano by overstereotyping. Valdez utilizes the Bertolt Brecht-influenced formula of the 1930s' "Living Newspaper" to recreate Zoot Suit's historical events in a presentational, agit-prop style (Huerta 15). In such a style, according to Mordecai Gorelik in New Theatres for Old, "Theatre is a tribunal" (378). That is, it is a deliberate "trial" wherein the playwright is the prosecutor ..."
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The Labyrinth of Time, 2000.
This paper compares the nonlinear time construct presented in the essay, "A New Refutation of Time," by Jorge Luis Borges, and the stories "The Garden of Forking Paths," by Jorge Luis Borges, and "Confession" by Algernon Blackwood.
1,266 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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This paper compares the different essays dealing with the issue of time. It explains that Borges's essay provides a beautiful backdrop from which to discuss the literary use of a nonlinear time construct. The bending of time in "The Garden of Forking Paths," by Jorge Luis Borges, and "Confession," by Algernon Blackwood, provides an interesting way for the authors to invite the reader into a twisted world of endless possibilities.
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"Many people think of time as a linear construct: yesterday, today, tomorrow, but what if it was possible to warp that construct? It would be nothingness, like a clock without hands, leaving open a wide range of possibilities: traveling back and forth, seeing past present, and future converge into a single moment, or just being a thing of fiction created by the minds of people. Time, then, would be like a maze; the past, present, and future would come together as one, creating an almost endless array of possibilities for outcomes of events and interactions. This idea of nonlinear time is captured in the essay "A New Refutation of Time," by Jorge Luis Borges and the stories "The Garden of Forking Paths," by Jorge Luis Borges, and "Confession," by Algernon Blackwood."
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