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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...

Juan Rulfo  es uno de los escritores más importantes y representativos de la literatura Mexicana.  Rulfo  fue un autor y  novelista de significantes obras literarias y debido a su gran aporte retórico se le otorgó el Premio Nacional de Literatura  en 1970. Las obras de Juan Rulfo se caracterizan por su originalidad dado que combina lo insólito con su  particular técnica narrativa. En su obra literaria más representativa Pedro Páramo , el autor nos expone en un texto  intencionalmente confuso, movimientos y efectos  en tiempos y  lenguaje conduciendo al lector  en un viaje dentro de su estilo literario. De acuerdo a lo previamente expuesto, a través de este ensayo se pretende analizar la técnica narrativa de Juan Rulfo fundamentados  en las teorías de Roman Ingarden: la concretización y la aprehensión de la idea transmitida a través del lenguaje. Roman Ingarden fue un filósofo polaco reconocido por algunos estudiosos como el pad...

El propósito de este ensayo es de indagar exhaustivamente la resistencia de algunos individuos a adaptarse dentro de una sociedad no obstante a las ventajosas condiciones que dicho grupo social ofrece.  Considero este argumento fundamental  dado que el individuo constantemente se encuentra en búsqueda de cambios y renovaciones a pesar de que aparentemente sus necesidades económicas, sociales e ideológicas están satisfechas.   De igual manera,  otro aspecto importante a destacar es que en ciertas ocasiones a los individuos que persiguen el cambio dentro de un grupo social no son considerados comunes, por lo tanto no son aceptados y padecen de constante rechazos generándoles cuestionamientos a sus pensamientos e ideologías.  Por estas razones,  analizaremos factores significativos que contribuyen a dichos hechos, como son el lenguaje, la sociedad y la evolución materialista a  través de los pensamientos filosóficos de  los autores José Barrio...

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...

Since the time of Adam and Eve, the desire for love has not changed all that much. What has changed are the different options we have to seek for love. Nowadays in the deep sea of the internet are several dating websites that offer the possibility to find your soul mate. We can say that the internet is our divine Paradise given that it is highly probable that there we can find our Adam or Eve. Bearing this in mind, Christian Rudder´s published book “Dataclysm” gives us reasons to believe that it is possible to find love. “Dataclysm” is a compilation of numbers and figures that author Christian Rudder collected through interesting research within several websites and social media such as google.com, Twitter, Facebook, and his online dating site OkCupid. The research developed by Christian Rudder is focused on how men and women interact online when seeking a steady relationship. Rudder examines several factors such as geography, sexual orientation, race, vocabulary, and beauty among ot...

Hay una frase muy popular por ahí en el aire que dice que no existen amores imposibles sino difíciles.   De acuerdo con múltiples escritos sobre el amor en nuestra humanidad desde las hipótesis de la teología bíblica, teorías científicas y hasta   la   suposición irreal, podemos ver que el amor siempre ha sido el elemento principal en cada aspecto de nuestras vidas. Analicemos el punto de vista de la teología bíblica. Recordemos a nuestros primeros padres: Adán y Eva. Ambos seres vivían supuestamente felices en el divino Paraíso, más sin embargo les estaba prohibido expresar su amor, porque en ese mundo   era un pecado hacerlo. Los pobres tuvieron que pasar por una cantidad de sufrimiento, que ni ustedes ni yo lo alcanzamos a imaginar, hasta que finalmente le hicieron caso a la maligna serpiente y cometieron el pecado original léase hacer el amor. En el mundo científico, nos hablan que han encontrado que el cerebro produce una cantidad elevada de end...