jueves, 2 de octubre de 2008

A Trip to the Past

If I had the opportunity to travel to the past I would like to go to the era when the Aztecs live. 
The setting is in Tenochtitlan, that is located in Lake Texcoco. The place has many green areas and there are basements better called as pyramids that are huge structures made of stone,
many of the basements have large stairs.
The people that live there are called Aztecs, they are very worker people, they speak a language called Nahuatl and they have created a system to help agriculture that is called ''Chinampas''.
If  I were in Tenochtitlan I would like to know how the pyramids were before and learn how the Aztecs construct them. I would like to know and learn about their culture, their traditions and many things so when I return to the present I can be able to transmit all these things to the people of the present, especially to the children, because now a days many of our traditions have disappeared. 
Of course I would like to learn their language and be able to talk with them and ask them to tell me about their gods for example: Tlahuac, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli, and be part of one of their rituals where they make sacrifices. 
I would like to talk with their Emperors Moctezuma, Cuitlahuac and Cuahtemoc. 
I would like to travel to this time because I would like to know about are ancestors, how did they live, what things they did, how did they construct the pyramids and more things.
and if I had the opportunity to change something of that time it would be to make people aware of what Hernan Cortes and the Spanish people would do to us, our lands and all the Aztecs, I would never trust in them and I would fight until they get out of our lands, I would tell all the Aztec people to fight against the Spanish and advise them to create new and better weapons to fight. I would talk with the Emperor to aware him of all the danger the Spanish people would do to mexico, maybe he would not believe me but I would be smart enough to tell him that their god Huitzilopochtli was the one who tell me to aware him of this things, maybe this way all the history would change, maybe Mexico would be a total different Mexico.
I think everything would be different for Mexico if the Spanish Colonizaton had never occured.

martes, 2 de septiembre de 2008

Think Critically

Harrison's rebellion reveals that he is a person that doesn't like to be opress by other when he knows that he could do amazing things. He doesn't want to be like others because he wants to demonstrate that he is better than what he is made to be.
I feel sorry about George and Hazel Bergeron because they couldn't remember things even do they were really important like the death of Harrison, but also I find a bit of fault in them because everyone could rebel like Harrison did.
I think Vonnegut tries to say that in today's society everyone wants to be better than the others, and that we are living in a constant competition against other human beings when is supposed that everybody should be equal, because the story occurs in the future and they talk of the past as if everybody was wrong for having different skills.
The government can help achieving equality by promoting and making laws or everyone and by judging and punishing any act of discrimination among citizens. for example in the story the government make everyone who is smarter, faster or more intelligent to use a handicap, earphones, etc so everyone could be equal and everyone use the handicaps because they were made to use them.

sábado, 23 de agosto de 2008

''The Interlopers''

I didn't like very much the story because it didn't make me feel so excited like other stories that I have read.
At the end of the story, when the wolves appear, I think that the writer wants to make us know that at the end, Ulrich and Georg both were the intruders in The Carpathians and the ones that own the forest were the wolves, so I think the wolves ate Ulrich and Georg.

sábado, 16 de agosto de 2008

My impressions of art

Music: I think about '' El himno a la alegria'' because  it's the only song I can play in piano and when I hear it, immediately it makes me smile.

Dance: I think about ''El Cascanueces'' beacuse it was the first ballet performance I saw, and it reminds me of my childhood and the things I used to do and think.

Movies: I think about ''Titanic'' because it is my favorite movie, and I think it is the best romantic movie ever done.

Paintings: I think of ''The Monalisa'' because I think It's one of the most famous paintings in the world and instantaneously It comes to my mind.

Literature: When I hear this word, I tkink of ''El Quijote de la Mancha'' because when I was in 6th grade of primary, our literature teacher show us a film and make us do a performance of it.

Sculpture: I think about ''The David'' of Miguel Angel because I think it is the perfect body of a man and It is really well done.

Architecture: I think of ''The Eiffel Tower'' because although I haven't seen it in front of my eyes, I would like to go to France and see how tall it is.