Analysis Of Veve And El Nino

1. In the film The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzman analyzes the Earth from the luminous stars to the profound ocean waters. As he narrates this documentary the words slowly spill out of his mouth exquisitely and poetically. He uses subtle poetry to bring to light the powerful experiences Chile has endured. The Latin American documentary tradition uses ways to expose the exploitation and underdevelopment of Latin America through the perspectives of the voiceless and ones in poverty. Eduardo Galeano He finds a connection between nature and the repulsive acts put forth by the Pinochet regime. The chilling connection between it all is water.

The novel Diego, Run! By Debora Ellis’ explores what life in a third world country is like and how it could be anywhere in the world. She shows us what poverty, child labour and the drug trade can be like; she also shows how all three of these major themes can be influenced by each other. Throughout the novel we are taken on a journey to the Bolivian country that shoes us what life can be really like when you are effected by the major themes in the book, no matter where you are or who you

Movies can bring us together by providing a window into different perspectives on life. One film that succeeds powerfully in giving us this insight is The Haitian Polo Documentary by DJ Scripz. This engrossing and affecting movie was spotlighted on a recent edition of the CBS Radio’s Brown and Scoop podcast.

Nava’s $750,000 independent film, El Norte depicts the story of a Guatemalan brother and his sister 's harrowing odyssey to the United States that includes a memorable grueling crawl through a rat-infested tunnel and their struggles to adapt to their new life in Los Angeles (Johnson, 2009, p.1). Forced with a grueling decision to stay in their native country and potentially be killed by the Guatemalan Guerillas, like most of

An individual’s discovery is transformative on their perceptions of the world. This is the case for the book ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Keats’s sonnet “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer”. In this book, we are taken on Che’s journey as he travels Latin America as a young man, before the fame. His diary entries lead the reader into his own eyes, as a typical young man on an adventure, not the revolutionary figure we all associate him with. Through his descriptive entries of the landscape he journeys across, we discover his deeper connection to the land of South America and the love he has for its people. As well as the beautiful things that South America has to

With the upcoming El Niño, Los Angeles is at harm from any effects, such as landslides, mudflows, and flooding. El Niño has severely affected the coastal areas of Los Angeles County three times during the years of 1977-1978, 1982-1983, and 1997-1998 (FEMA, 2011). Los Angeles County has several watersheds such as the Los Angeles River, Santa Monica Bay, and San Gabriel River (LADPW) that serve to reduce flooding, but it may not have the proper infrastructure to prevent commercial or residential areas from flooding. Los Angeles may not have levees that can protect its areas because they might be structurally inferior or are not approved by FEMA (City of Los Angeles, Engineering. 2015). There are many hilly areas in Los Angeles, and residential

NARCO CULTURA. The film “Narco Cultura” by Shaul Schawarz, is a dramatically and extreme disturbing documentary made by musicians who relate narco corridos with narco drug cartels and their acting making the members look like heroes, expressing how they kill and torture their enemies, pointing out the point of view of the top drug dealers. This scandalous documentary examines and opens a door into the culture, language and taboos among this Mexican drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. From the year 2007 to 2010 in Ciudad Juarez the number of people killed had being tremendously increasing from 320 murders to 3,622 per year.

As a result of my experiences with higher academia, I have begun to recognize the inaccurate assumptions that I have made about the drug market from exposure to biased instruction from adults, media, and politics. From this realization, I feel confident in stating that the general public’s knowledge on this illicit economy consists of falsified stereotypes. Information provided throughout this course has presented a proper education regarding where the supply is produced, how drugs are trafficked into different countries, and who distributes illegal substances to users. The nation of Colombia thoroughly demonstrates a country involved in all of the aspects, production, trafficking and street sales, of a drug economy. Through a more comprehensive

Located in Colombia, the city of Medellin was one of the biggest drug trafficking organizations in the world since the 1970’s. During the early 1970s the demand for cocaine spreads rapidly in the United States, the limited raw supplies produced in Colombia were build up with coca paste imported from Bolivia and Peru, refined in "kitchen laboratories" in Colombia, and smuggled into the United States. Medellín criminal networks during the mid-1970s transform the cocaine transportation system from petite activities into enormous airlift operations. During the late 1970’s through the earliest 1980’s, Griselda Blanco started incorporate into the drug industry. She was known as the “Cocaine Godmother”, “Black Widow”, and/or “Queen of Narco-trafficking.” While during about the same period time, Pablo Escobar raised himself to become one of the major drug dealers. He was known as “The World’s Greatest Outlaws”, “Sir Pablo”, “the Godfather”, “the Boss”, “the Lord”, “the Magician”, and/or “Little Pablo.” He was the hardest cocaine dealer to catch. Blanco and Escobar were well known for taking advantage of Medellin 's’ (back then) conditions by easily transporting drugs from Colombia to the United States. Some of the things that contributed into those two people to become the biggest drug dealers, are how they were raised in their early childhood to early teenage years, and their natal country (back then) conditions, and how they mold themselves towards their raise to power.

Drug cartels have grown and expanded throughout the interior and exterior of states for many years. The way drugs started to be introduced to Mexico, Colombia, and other places around the world was believed to be a myth. It was a tale that was known by many through storytelling, which over the years turned into an actual realistic issue. One of the most known cartels that existed for a long time was The Medellin Cartel. It became a subculture of its own, creating a world full of violence, women, money, firearms, death but most importantly power and fear. Located in Colombia this brutal subculture will show how they become one of the wealthiest subculture in the world surpassing even its own country’s riches.

In this fictional novel, written by Alan Paton, the author gives light to many different social issues including apartheid, prostitution, alcoholism, and many more. Through these social issues, Paton idolizes many characters throughout this narrative due to their behavior and actions taken during these matters. Beyond conventional issues, this book poses its own issues, some in accordance with the national issues, and some not. Through Paton’s use of expressive diction, graphic imagery, and examples of Arthur’s writings, he constructs a shared attribute of persistent ambition among the Jarvis men, Stephen Kumalo, and Msimangu.

Violence in modern Colombia takes place in many forms. The three major categories are crime, guerrilla activities, and attacks committed by drug traffickers. Violence has become so widespread and common in Colombia that many people have now become numb to it. The Colombian economy has also benefited from the illicit drug trade; however violent it may be. During the 1970s, Colombia became well known, as one of the world’s most important drug processing, production, and distribution centers for marijuana and cocaine.

Drug cartels, in reality, are just as bad as they appear on film. Authorities estimate that between eighteen and thirty-nine billion dollars are brought in from drug sales to the United States each year (Keefe). It is also estimated that the war on drugs has caused over 50,000 deaths in Mexico alone since 2006 (Keefe). Deaths are often overlooked because they are not compiled by thousands at once, but gradually over a large area. Other illegal activity such as kidnapping and oil theft have came about from the cartel (Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Violence). All three films, Miss Bala, Maria Full of Grace, and Traffic give similar accounts to the way the cartel takes people’s lives, only in different areas of the drug moving process.

The wetjala spaces have “square or rectangular walls,” and the police station is elevated to symbolise the colonial valorisation of imperial domination. The sterile setting of courtrooms and offices were selected by the playwright to signify the Non-Indigenous people’s intention to possess and dominate land by building permanent structures to assert their superiority. In this way a dichotomy regarding the treatment of land is introduced between the two groups. Place identity is an important concept introduced in No Sugar, which deals with the interaction between how the local environment, including geographical location, ethnic traditions and family heritage influence the people’s lives.

In The Motorcycle Diaries, Guevara’s discoveries of the devastating effects of US neo-colonialism in Latin America are only fully understood upon his rediscoveries of the equally harmful nature of not only tourism, but also his own vagabond traveling. Through their encounters with farm labourers, Guevara’s initial discovery of the Araucanian race’s “deep suspicion of the white man who… now continues to exploit them” is shown through the prominent motif of sharing mate, which highlights the early understanding between them. However, this understanding is expanded upon reaching Cuzco, where the symbolic juxtaposition of the three layers of the city emphasises his reassessment of how “a hesitant tourist [also] pass[es] over things superficially”. Even further, in Guevara’s encounter with the Chilean communist couple, graphic imagery accentuates his rediscovery of the “parasitic nature” of not