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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Mexican culture"”.
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Women and class: Power dynamics in contemporary Mexican literature and culture
… and Housework: The Place of Domestic Work in Mexican Culture,” looks at the relationships between women of opposing social strata in texts by well-known Mexican writers. The chapter proposes a textual analysis to explore the complexity of the power relationship between employer and employee in …
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Diego Rivera: constructing a myth
… his life, he actively sought to define Mexican culture and his life through his art and his writing. Much of how he is remembered today: visionary, rebel, lover; and how Mexico is known to the world: exotic, colorful, cultural, was carefully crafted through Rivera's artistic efforts. …
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Influences of maternal acculturation on early childhood obesity risk: From countries to chromosomes
… obesity has disproportionately increased among Mexican children living in the US and Mexico. In the US, by 2014, prevalence of obesity among children of Mexican heritage was similar for US-born and Mexican born children. In Mexico, from 1999 to 2006, obesity prevalence among children ages 5 to …
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The Masks of Mexico: Mexican-American's Relationship With Their Cultural Heritage and Self-Concepts
… and using masks dates back hundreds of years in Mexican culture. The significance of masks in ancient rituals and traditions is not only an important story telling tool but a symbol for Hispanic cultural pride. This study examines the effects of mask making on not only cultural awareness but self …
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The Mexico City Metro: Appropriation and Assimilation of Foreign Technology To Stay on Track With Other Modern Capital Cities and To Produce a Technological and Cultural Marvel
… City and evaluates themetro as a production of culture. The incorporation and Mexicanization of foreign technology allowed Mexico to build and service a metro while making it uniquely Mexican. The naming of the stations and the use of icons to identify them project Mexican culture and power. The …
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A Community of Modern Nations: The Mexican Herald at the Height of the Porfiriato 1895-1910.
<p>The <em>Mexican Herald</em>, an English language newspaper in Mexico City during the authoritative rule of Porfirio Díaz (1895-1910), sought to introduce a vision of Mexico's development that would influence how Mexicans conceived of their country's political and cultural place within a …
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The Colonizers and Their Colonized
… whom they colonized for centuries, as applied to Mexican history. I have chosen some visual, cinematic, and literary representations of indigenous and other dispossessed peoples from both colonial and post-colonial Mexico in order to gain some insights into the vision of the powerless, (the …
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La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit
… and the overall generational changes in the Mexican culture. The speaker constantly searches for the meaning of what it is to be a woman and what it means to love through gender tricksterism. She looks to her mother, la Virgen De Guadalupe, and La Llorona to try and understand her complex …
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El origen del bien y el mal visto desde la estética valleinclaniana de La Lámpara Maravillosa y los personajes de Tirano Banderas
… retrospective the story of characters from the Mexican national life during the revolution in the twentieth century like, Francisco I. Madero who shared his vision of a better society and fought for it during his life against Porfirio Díaz dictatorship or tyranny. Nevertheless the character …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… in the images and representations of women in Mexican popular culture. This study proposes to explore the " intersectionality" (Collins 1998) of gender, race, and class in female subjectivity and agency, during the Mexican culture of the Revolution of 1910- 1920, as depicted in the images and …
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The role of landscape architecture in stimulating creative industry: the Pilsen neighborhood, Chicago
… in the Pilsen neighborhood celebrate the Mexican culture and history of their neighborhood and make the neighborhood an art destination. However, there are still potential opportunities for the growing creative industry to build on the cultural strengths of the neighborhood. Most existing …
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Plessy to Brown: Education of Mexican Americans in Arizona public schools during the era of segregation
… that shaped the public school education of Mexican American children in Arizona in the first half of the twentieth century. This study also examines how segregation was established in two cities in northern Arizona and how schooling affected the feelings and emotions of former students. From …
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From the Edge: the Littoral in Visual and Literary Imaginaries of Mexico
… along a coastline. This thesis considers the Mexican littoral as a topographically bound and metaphorically loaded perspective from which to realign understandings of the country’s cultural and territorial development from the time of the Spanish conquest through to the twentieth century. …
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Femicide in Mexico: From Malinche to Modern Women
<p>Olga Perez was a typical 20-year-old Mexican girl (Valdez 7). Coming from a poor family, she worked at a local shoe store in Juarez to raise money for college (Valdez 7). Wanting to see her daughter attain her dream of receiving higher education, Olga's mother. Irma. also worked several jobs, …
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Mexico y la Mexicanidad: Aura, donde confluyen el mito y la historia
… world, the official story. That is why Mexican history is ambiguous and confusing; it is ambiguous because both worlds, the real and the mythical intertwine, creating a feeling of confusion between the real and the mythical. In Aura, Carlos Fuentes takes this ambiguity to an extreme as …
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Relaciones humanas the potential for public relations practitioners as cultural intermediaries in Mexico City.
… make-up of public relations as an occupational culture. It explores the values and experiences relevant to practitioners and emphasises the need to recognise the role of practitioners as intermediaries in the development of society. In contrast to the prevalence of quasi-experimental methodology …
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Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas
… is a clear manifestation of the "fall" from Mexican traditional culture. The old characters* geographic and spiritual removal from what they consider the paradisal state and the slow eroding process of their cultural system is what the novel is about. Although the characters make a vain …
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La Cultura Que No Cambia
… towards others has influenced me to highlight my Mexican heritage of traditions, culture, and language through several different methods. Using these elements, I can create work informing audiences about how political and social issues affect the Latino community. My work aims to create a voice …