... Pancho Villa One of the most notorious rebels in Mexico was Pancho villa Doroteo Aranga.. Pancho Villa was important because he was part of the group of rebels who supported Francisco Madero in the Mexican Revolution when he rose up against the regime of Porfirio Diaz. Madero came to power but was then overthrown and killed. Victoriano Huerta then took power. Villa was the leader of one of the armies that fought against Huerta's regime. Villa and the other leaders were able to overthrow Huerta and to set up the semi-democratic system that is still in place in Mexico today, it has become much more democratic in the last 12 years. Pancho Villa then was famous because he was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. Villa's Robin Hood story began after he established himself and his bandit followers in the sierras in 1900. Officially, the years 1900-09 are "unaccounted for," but it was during this period that he became a legendary hero to the poor for skillfully evading the Porfiriato's oppressive rurales. In 1910 Villa and his men came down from the hills to join Fransisco l Madero’s revolutionary forces, therefore making an historical transition from ‘bandidos’ to ‘revolucionarios’. The compelling figure was able to recruit an army of thousands, including a substantial number of Americans, some of whom were made captains in the División del Norte. Pancho even created one squadron made up entirely...
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...Pancho Villa, also known by his real name, as Doroteo Arango; was a famous Mexican Revolutionary leader who was not only loved by the poor, but hated by the wealthy. This lead for people to begin questioning themselves whether he was a true hero or a villain for his bandit of murders. Villa had positive outcomes such as helping the poor Mexican community and helping to overthrow the corrupt government; despite the reasons for hatred such as murdering U.S citizens and capturing land. One of Pancho Villa’s greatest acknowledgments to Mexican people was the help he provided during many of their struggles. He was born into a poor family, which made it more difficult to cope with when his father died at the age of 12 and had to become the man of...
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...Viva Villa is a drama film that was release in April 10, 1934 directed by Jack Conway, Howard Hanks, and William A. Wellman. Viva Villa it is classified as a drama and biographic film of a Mexican patriot called Pancho Villa, this film was made with a budget of 1.022 million USD and it was finished at MGM Studios in San Fernando Valley ranch in California. In the film we can see a cast that plays all these iconic people from the historical era from “La Revolucion Mexicana”. For example Wallace Beery plays the character of (Pancho Villa), Leo Carrillo (Rodolfo Fierro), Fay Wray (Teresa), Stuart Erwin (Jonny Sykes), Frank Puglia (Pancho Villa’s Father), Katherine DeMille (Rosita Morales), Pedro Regas (Tomás), George Regas (Don Rodrigo) and...
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...Zapata and Francisco “Pancho” Villa shared many things in their short lives, but more than anything they were men who saw and experienced the injustices in their homeland and gave their lives to change their country. Both men were revolutionaries, not politicians; in fact they both felt better leading men and women in battle than in fighting political battles. Both were born into small farming communities, whose inhabitants were mostly landless serfs working the lands of large haciendas where they worked as farm hands, functioned as slaves, and were officially treated as serfs. Zapata was from the southern part of Mexico while Villa´s home territory was the northern state of Chihuahua. Mexico is nearly as long as the US is wide and as diverse in topography, climate, natural resources and people. Both had some education and as teenagers, became the support for their families when their fathers died. Both men were drafted into military service but managed to complete only a portion of their terms. Zapata was a respected horse trainer and his commanding officer got him transferred to help train horses. Villa was arrested for stealing horses and forced to join the federal army. After several months he deserted because he murdered an officer and stole the man´s horse. For as many similarities the two were also very different, Pancho Villa was a brash showman, while Emiliano Zapata was quieter and spoke in a high voice. He was known as a man of few words while Villa, who did not drink...
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...The Legendary Pancho Man Throughout history, the world has witnessed extraordinary human beings with great talent and unbelievable success. They have become famous and remembered for ages for what they have accomplished. One prime example is Francisco Pancho Villa. He played a key role in the Mexican Revolution, a landmark event in Spanish victory. This is the story of the legend that is still remembered till this day. Francisco Pancho Villa was born on June 5, 1878 in San Juan Rio, Durango (Birth of a Bandit1). His birth name was “Doroteo Arango” (Birth of a Bandit 2). “His sharecropper parents who lived on this hacienda were, Agustin Arango and Micaela Arambula” (Pancho Villa Legends Before the Revolution 1). They “rented” a farm by paying with crops in return of the use of the tenant farm. He worked many hardworking hours in the tenant farm with his father. Unfortunately, his father passed away when he was in his teenage years. To be exact, he died when Doroteo Arango was only fifteen years old. This was a critical moment in the Arango family. This left his mother and his three siblings...
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...! THE HUMANITIES PROGRAM ! ! ! THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO ! ! ! A ! Short Paper ! Presented to ! Professor Shipley ! ! ! ! For ! Humanities 202-13 ! Enduring Human Values and Cultural Connections ! ! ! ! MARCH 20, 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! HAMPTON UNIVERSITY HAMPTON, VIRGINIA The Mexican Revolution was a long and bloody civil war in many different areas of Mexico. The war came about after a long time of oppression and exploration of the Mexican people by the dictatorship-like government. The revolution began while Porfirio Diaz was the dictator of Mexico. Diaz first started off as a military general. Diaz was a liberal and was an important part of the reelection of President Juarez. Although they were friends, Diaz run against Juarez in the next election. Diaz lost and started to rebel against the government until Juarez shut him down. When Juarez suddenly died, Diaz become the new leader of Mexico with the help of the U.S. Government and the Roman Catholic Church (Minster). Now that Diaz was in power, corruption started to occur. The people of Mexico had no power and were not allowed to voice their opinion or select people for office position. In addition, the wealth of the country was controlled by a few people. By the beginning of the 20th century, the people of Mexico wanted more control of their control, especially after Diaz announced that Mexico was ready for democracy. Francisco Madero and a group of young reformers created the Anti-reeleccionista Party and began to run...
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...Constitution of 1857. The constitution established individual rights such as freedom of speech; freedom of conscience; freedom of the press; freedom of assembly; and the right to bear arms. It also reaffirmed the abolition of slavery, eliminated debtor prison, and eliminated all forms of cruel and unusual punishment, including the death penalty. As a result of El Porfiriato there is economic crises, anti re-election campaigns, inter-elite alliances crumbled, mobilization of subaltern sectors (peasants, workers, small landholders, etc.). Since so much corruption was taking place a revolution emerged. It was a revolution that was led by different factions, representatives of the poor peasant sector (Emiliano Zapata), poor northern ranchers (Pancho Villa), marginalized provincial middle class people (Alvaro Obregon) and the propertied provincial ranchers (Venustiano Carranza). All these factions formed an unstable unity to overthrow the dictatorial regime, then collaborated in writing Mexico’s modern constitution. The conflict lasted for about a decade and had several distinct phases. The period from 1920-1940 is often considered to be the Revolution phase, during which power was consolidated and...
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...biggest competitor was Francisco I. Madero. In fear of losing, Díaz made sure he would maintain his presidentship in a most immature way. He arrested Madero for no reason, and won the election as a result. Later in that same year, the revolution would officially begin. Insurrections started to occur in multiple northern Mexican states. Over the next decade, thousands would flee from the area to avoid the civil war that was occurring (UTEP). During the time of the revolution, a plethora of events occurred to show the divide between the people and the government. The issues were shown mainly by multiple civil battles. The first of which happened in 1911 in the Ciudad Juárez between Madero’s troops, who were under the direction of Francisco Villa and Pascual Orozco, against federal troops. The battle would go on for three days, and it was the first loss that Díaz encountered. After that battle Díaz resigned his position as president and fled to France to get away from the revolution. Madero would be elected as the new president of Mexico because of Díaz’s resignation. Right after his election, the U.S. sent troops to the border worried that the revolution would cross over into America. The next year, Orozco would break his alliance with Madero and start a rebellion against him. It had turned into former allies turning against each other. Another group compiled of Victoriano Huerta, Felix Díaz (nephew of Porfirio), and Bernardo Reyes would rebel against Madero. The three battled Madero...
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...en el norte de México. Gracias a esto gradualmente su popularidad se incremento, pues narraban de forma grandiosa las historias de los héroes de cierta comunidad. El Doctor y profesor Roberto De la Torre de la Universidad de Texas en Brownsville nos explica del corrido cambio de como música folclórica a genero musical que exagera la extravagante vida de los narcotraficantes. Este ensayo tratara de mencionar y desarrollar los puntos expuestos por el Doctor De la Torre. El Doctor de la Torre inicia su ponencia dando los orígenes del corrido que comienzan durante la revolución mexicana alrededor de 1920 y que tratan de temas revolucionarios. Este tipo de temas era popular entre la gente campesina que se sentía identificada con Francisco Villa y Emiliano Zapata; corridos que les daban la identidad y el deseo por luchar por la causa agraria. Con el pasar de los annos, este tipo de genero musical se fue aislando en el olvido pero que persistieron en el norte del país en regiones como las de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León. Al llegar a los 70's gracias al crecimiento de la industria musical en Monterrey, NL, el corrido volvió a popularizarse. Entre los corridistas maas famosos se encuentran Ramón Ayala y Lamberto Quintero. Tras popularizarse los corridos tomaron una dirección muy diferente a los corridos de la revolución mexicana; pues se enfocaban a las transacciones y historia de los Narcotraficantes al tratar de pasar la droga a los Estados Unidos. Debido a las narrativas cantadas por...
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...Parrot in the oven Manny has a conflict situation with his family, friends and Gang group when Manny was working looking for job he was get payed nothing working for free.The authore Martinez uses action to show us manny is responsible for things that he does in his life. When it comes to Manny, he tells us he's a hard worker. He figures it's in his blood because his grandpa was a pretty busy, hardworking bloke; Manny also believes that people assume he'll spend his days working hard because he's Mexican."I imagined already being on the baseball team at school, and people looking at me. Not these people picking chilies or those sent away in the vans, but people I had yet to know, watching me as I stood mightily in center field”(Martinezp.66)...
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...Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was one of many Spanish explorers who discovered the new world. He wanted to find new land so that Spain could own and also find riches as spices and gold. He did accomplish finding some land in the coast of California but not much riches. Juan’s origin is unknown some argue that he is from Spain and others from Montalegre, Portugal. He was raised in Castille, Spain and his schooling is also unknown. Juan Rodriguez was a military man or soldier that worked for the spanish. His sailing life was great, he liked exploring and was an excellent ship builder. Juan explored for commander Panfilo de Narvaez who also was sent on an expedition to claim land for spain. During the time of serving for Panfilo de Narvaez, Juan and Narvaez were sent to go arrest spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés for the reason that he was exploring Mexico and he didn’t follow the Aztec rules. Hernan found out he was going to be arrested and planned a surprise attack to kill Panfilo de Narvaez along with his army of 900 men. Panfilo died and Cortes asked Juan Rodriguez and the remaining army to join him in his conquest and promised they would become rich. In 1520-1521 Cortes and his army had a war with the Tenochtitlan Aztecs. The Spanish lost the first battle but came back with even a bigger army. At the second battle Juan used his ship building skills to build ships to fight back at the Aztecs.The war ended later after about 88 days and the spanish won. In 1527 and later on Juan sailed...
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...Mosaic of Alexander The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BC, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun inPompeii.[1] It depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia and measures 2.72 x 5.13m (8 ft 11in x 16 ft 9in).[2] The original is preserved in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. The mosaic is believed to be a copy of an early 3rd century BC Hellenistic painting,[3] possibly by Philoxenos of Eretria.[4] The mosaic is made of about one and a half million tiny colored tiles called tesserae, arranged in gradual curves called opus vermiculatum, (also known as "worm work," because they seem to replicate the slow motion of a crawling worm). The mosaic is an unusually detailed work for a private residence and was likely commissioned by a wealthy person or family. Battle[edit] The mosaic illustrates a battle in which Alexander faced and attempted to capture or kill Darius. Alexander defeated him at the Battle of Issus and two years later at the Battle of Gaugamela. The work is traditionally believed to show the Battle of Issus.[5] The mosaic is held to be a copy of either a painting by Aristides of Thebes, or of a lost late 4th century BC fresco by the painter Philoxenos of Eretria. The latter is mentioned byPliny the Elder (XXXV, 110) as a commission for the Macedonian king Cassander.[6] Alexander and Darius[edit] Detail showing Alexander 1893 Reconstruction of the mosaic depiction. Despite being damaged...
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...1 In memory of Skip and Mary Dickinson For Quintin and Griffin And for Louise Dennys, with thanks ‘Most of you, I am sure, remember the tragic circumstances of the death of Geoffrey Clifton at Gilf Kebir, followed later by the disappearance of his wife, Katharine Clifton, which took place during the 1939 desert expedition in search of Zerzura. “I cannot begin this meeting tonight without referring very sympathetically to those tragic occurrences. “The lecture this evening ...” From the minutes of the Geographical Society meeting of November 194-, London I The Villa SHE STANDS UP in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance. She has sensed a shift in the weather. There is another gust of wind, a buckle of noise in the air, and the tall cypresses sway. She turns and moves uphill towards the house, climbing over a low wall, feeling the first drops of rain on her bare arms. She crosses the loggia and quickly enters the house. In the kitchen she doesn’t pause but goes through it and climbs the stairs which are in darkness and then continues along the long hall, at the end of which is a wedge of light from an open door. She turns into the room which is another garden—this one made up of trees and bowers painted over its walls and ceiling. The man lies on the bed, his body exposed to the breeze, and he turns his head slowly towards her as she enters. Every four days she washes his black body, beginning at the destroyed feet. She wets a washcloth...
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...people he did not like fired. Jeff Lander made me lose money on a daily basis. To being with, I was a cleaner for Shawnee Villas resort in the Poconos, Jeff was my inspector. Because Jeff would not arrive on time, I was forced to wait for him. Jeff was responsible for telling me what houses I had to clean. I waited 10 minutes, 20 minutes and hour, still no Jeff. This was extremely frustrating since I got paid by the amount of villas I completed in eight hours. When Jeff finally arrived, he did not have the proper paper work. I asked what happened to it and he proceeded to tell me some long story about how his girl friend threw it out the window while they were arguing. I did not care, I just wanted to start working already. But I was forced to wait even longer while he went to the main office to get new paper work. Once we were finally ready to go, Jeff drove all of the cleaners to the villa’s, at least I thought he was. He wanted to making a quick stop to the deli and get coffee, the stop was not quick. As I walked in the store I heard Jeff demanding a fresh pot of coffee. I just walked out, enraged and ready to curse Jeff out, but kept calm. Finally I arrived to the villas and Jeff assigned what I had to do. I got it done in record time and called Jeff to inspect it, no answer. I called again and still no answer. I then proceeded to walk over to the villa Jeff was in. I found him sleeping on the couch with the television on blast, no...
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...ALSO BY MALCOLM GLADWELL The Tipping Point To my parents, Joyce and Graham Gladwell Introduction The Statue That Didn’t Look Right In September of 1983, an art dealer by the name of Gianfranco Becchina approached the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. He had in his possession, he said, a marble statue dating from the sixth century BC. It was what is known as a kouros—a sculpture of a nude male youth standing with his left leg forward and his arms at his sides. There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs. But this one was almost perfectly preserved. It stood close to seven feet tall. It had a kind of light-colored glow that set it apart from other ancient works. It was an extraordinary find. Becchina’s asking price was just under $10 million. The Getty moved cautiously. It took the kouros on loan and began a thorough investigation. Was the statue consistent with other known kouroi? The answer appeared to be yes. The style of the sculpture seemed reminiscent of the Anavyssos kouros in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, meaning that it seemed to fit with a particular time and place. Where and when had the statue been found? No one knew precisely, but Becchina gave the Getty’s legal department a sheaf of documents relating to its more recent history. The kouros, the records stated, had been in the private collection of a Swiss physician named Lauffenberger...
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