Oros

"Voz de mi Raza" (Voice of my People) is comprised of several topics, however its main focus is on social issues. The pages within contain the complaints, lamentations, and protests of the oppressed against social injustices. It is a reflection of the pain experienced by our people as well as the dreams and yearnings for an authentic liberty without constraints from the dominating political and economic powers. It is the cry that surges from the effervescence of pain, fatigue, misery and hope for the peace that will not be whilst all avenues leading to it are blocked by nefarious social...

El gaucho Martín Fierro es un personaje heroico. Reflejo de un entorno endémico, ligado a Argentina. El texto está escrito por José Hernández con un estilo peculiar que imita del habla de los gauchos de la época. Ese realismo de fondo contrasta, en cambio, con la versificación exaltada y la rima que el autor impone a su libro.

Una de las colecciones capitales del padre del modernismo en español «Y parece que el hondo mirar cosas dijera, especiosas y ungidas de miel y de veneno.» Para muchos, Rubén Darío es el padre del modernismo. Los poetas parnasianos y simbolistas franceses ejercieron una gran influencia en su obra, pero a partir de Prosas profanas (1896 y 1901) el estilo pionero de Azul (1888, revisado en 1890) se define para alcanzar nuevas alturas en Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905), considerado el mejor ejemplo de su poesía. Aquí el poeta vuelve a sus temas recurrentes para afirmar que el arte...

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...