Assata Shakur / Her Life & Her View of Foreign Struggle
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A 3 page paper discussing the autobiography of Assata Shakur and how struggles against racism and classism throughout the world is linked with her own struggle and exile. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Shakur.wps

Assault on Paradise by Tatiana Lobo
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5 pages. This essay focuses on the social system in Spanish America and how that social system is reflected in the novel Assault on Paradise by Tatiana Lobo. The protagonist, Pedro, has many conflicting thoughts and actions throughout the novel, from his underground resistance days in Seville, Spain, to his love affair with "The Mute" up to his last actions taken in freeing the captured Indians. All of this displays the fact that while his background was very European he was led in directions which would have been considered socially subversive by his peers. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
Filename: JGAtlobo.wps

Aura by Carlos Fuentes
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5 pages. Aura was first published in 1962 by Carlos Fuentes. It is a novel filled with dualities and comparisons such as that of masculine and feminine, young and old, the beautiful and the deteriorating, life and death and darkness and light. It is this very combination of opposites which makes the novel so compelling to read and it becomes a novel of changing and at the same time, the things that remain the same. Bibliography lists one source.
Filename: JGAauraf.wps

Author Of Mexico: Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude in 1950. This 6 page paper explores the use of cultural, physical and political setting in the book as well as in the context of the post -war Mexico. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: KTlabsol.wps

Azuela: "The Underdogs"
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This 5 page paper discusses Mariano Azuela's book on the Mexican Revolution, "The Underdogs." It consists of a summary and analysis. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: HVUndDog.rtf

Benito Perez Galdos' "Dona Perfecta" – Religion And Spirituality
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4 pages in length. The obvious implication of religious and spiritual intolerance sets the overall theme for Perez Galdos' (2004) Dona Perfecta, a novel about Spain's historic tendency to castigate those who did not fall in line with faith unity. Pepe represents the antiestablishment 'villain' who is not only proud of his personal – if not entirely outsider – beliefs, but he does not hesitate to express them, much to the chagrin of community outrage. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLCDonaPerf.rtf

Berceo/Virgin Mary as Mother/Religious Symbol
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A 3 page essay that discusses this thirteenth century poetry. Gonzalo de Berceo, thirteenth century Spanish poet, focused on the subject of the Virgin Mary and her importance to Christian worship in his text Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). Berceo begins with an elaborate allegory that pictures him as a pilgrim finding a field that he describes in a manner that immediately equates it with Paradise and the Garden of Eden. In this new "Eden," it is Mary who is the new "Eve." This allegorical beginning is the principal theme of Berceo's work, as he describes Mary as the central symbol of the new age brought about by Christianity. Just as Eve caused the downfall of humanity, the Virgin is instrumental in its redemption. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khbersym.rtf

Berceo/Virgin Mary as Mother/Religious Symbol
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A 3 page essay that looks at Gonzalo de Berceo's thirteenth century masterpiece Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady), which consists of a series of narratives that relate many of the miracles performed by the Virgin Mary. In this work, Mary is essentially the protagonist who battles against the forces of evil, Satan devils, in order to aid humanity in the goal of reaching salvation. In so doing, the Virgin is pictured as humanity's greatest and most powerful advocate in the war between the forces of Heaven and Hell. Human beings are the fallible souls in the middle, who would undoubtedly fail to achieve Paradise if not for the intercession of the Virgin. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khbervir

Body and Mind
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A 4 page paper which examines the relationship between body and mind as seen in Alice Walker’s “and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “The Story of My Body.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAwalcof.rtf