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Cheech Marin´s comedy film " Born in East L.A ." (1987), endures after thirty- four years of its production not only for its cinematographic elements but also for the way the film uses humor and irony to represent the south of the border as the setting for complex issues such as citizenship and immigration. In 1987, Richard Anthony “Cheech” Marin, an American comedian, writer, and filmmaker, wrote the script for " Born in East L.A." , based on a true story of an American citizen of Mexican origin deported to Mexico while listening to Bruce Springsteen´s song “Born in the U.S.A.” (Noriega 190). The film´s main character, Rudy Robles, an American citizen born but of Mexican origin, lives with his mother in East Los Angeles, California. Rudy goes into a toy factory to pick up his cousin who recently emigrated from Mexico, and is caught in an immigration raid. During the raid, Rudy realized he had left his wallet with his identity document at home. Unable to reach his ...

The intention of this paper is to convey a critical comment on how the meaning is affected when translating a painting into a poem. The painting I have chosen to translate is called “El Hombre Caimán” ( The Alligator Man) which is a theater drape by the Colombian painter Alejandro Obregón (see fig.1). Obregón was born into a middle-class, Spanish-Colombian family on June 4, 1920. In 1939 he went on to become a painter and studied Fine Arts in Boston. Alejandro Obregon´s paintings are strongly influenced by Pablo Picasso and Graham Sutherland. His paintings have a Cubism style characterized by the use of intense colors, exploration of strokes through brush handling, scales, and landscapes translated into geometric shapes. Alejandro Obregon´s work well represents the abstract surrealist tendency in Latin America. For this reason, I selected this piece because it depicts folklore through myth and painting as a language. According to philologist Max Muller, a myth is a characteristic of t...

It is fundamentally important to understand the different life experiences of people to enable real insight into society. A way to develop a critical understanding of the relationship between an individual and society is through works of art. The arts are an expression of the cultural values and beliefs of the many communities that form our world. Also, art as language helps to communicate and share ideas and thoughts that probably are not easily expressed in any other way. For instance, Aristotle, the Ancient Greece philosopher, believed that art is the realization of a true idea in an external form. As Aristotle stated, “ The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance ...” (Durant 59). In other words, the meaning of ideology is portrayed and conveyed to human society through art; moreover, a work of art is the triumph of a particular concept. For this reason, literature texts are an inspiring example of art because they can help exa...

                  Mankind has constantly raised questions about what is the nature of reality, which leads to another question, what is the principle of truth. As human beings, to make clear our reality as consciousness in evolution, one must look into the thoughts of the great philosophers and thinkers from the past. As an example, for Socrates a teacher and philosopher in ancient Greece, the process of asking and answering questions lead to the truth; therefore, the source of knowledge. In the same way, for Ralph Waldo Emerson an American poet of the 19th century, “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense". Considering these thoughts, one can say that through language society is in communication, and through communication, society can understand their reality. Taking this into account, the power of language relies on how a great communicator ins...