The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus is an excellent book which tells a horrible story. The sufferings are inhumane and the favelados have no way of improving their conditions. They drown their sorrows in alcohol, fight amongst themselves, neglect and abuse their children, and blame all their problems on the politicians. While their problems do stem from political and social neglect, they are also produced from the favelados' own behavior. The politicians come before the elections and secure votes with meaningless promises and the favelados are forgotten until the next election.
Carolina Maria seems to be one of the few literate or somewhat educated people in the favela. She tries to find explanations for the way she and others like her live and most of the time she finds the answer in politics or to be more exact, in politicians themselves. The first time we hear her speak about politics is right after she has her legs operated on and she is talking about Carlos Lacerda. "He is a slum politician. He likes intrigues, to agitate". And someone pitied that he wasn't killed during an attempted assassination. (P. 20). As can be seen from the endnote in the book, he only propagated social reform and was known for his speeches. The speeches will lure the poor in at the voting poles but will give them nothing in return. The favelados and the likes of them will stay poor and the rich will become richer.
The people in the neighborhood that surrounds the favela are resentful of the favelados. Nobody likes to see poverty around them because it is ugly and hateful. "The neighbors in the brick houses signed a petition to get rid of the favelados. [They say] The politicians protect the favelados" (P.34). I don't think that it is true. The politicians need the favelados in order to be elected. The number of the favelas is growing because more and more people are out of work and they grow more desperate by the day.
One of the great works of this literary movement is Maria de Jorge Isaacs. ... Maria has domestic skills like ironing and cooking. ... Maria has unconditional love for Efrain. ... Maria can not live without Efrain in your life. ... In summary, these reasons Maria de Jorge Isaacs is considered a great literary work valued by this literary movement in the nineteenth century....
There were many interesting sides to Maria. ... She was the driving force behind Maria's experiences. ... Maria's father did give money to her grandmother to support Maria's mother's entire family and had the family move to another village. ... Maria understood and obeyed her father. ... "If Jesus Christ could forgive those who crucified Him, I thought I could also find it in my heart to forgive those who had abused me" (91). ...
There were many interesting sides to Maria. ... She was the driving force behind Maria's experiences. ... Maria's father did give money to her grandmother to support Maria's mother's entire family and had the family move to another village. ... Maria understood and obeyed her father. ... "If Jesus Christ could forgive those who crucified Him, I thought I could also find it in my heart to forgive those who had abused me" (91). ...
In the scene from Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. shown in lecture, there are many factors to support that it is in fact of the neorealist genre of film. ... Maria Pia Cassilio as Maria, the poor girl living in the poverty-ridden slums of Italy. Maria was born May 5th, 1935. ... There is also an unrefined sort of personality to Maria. ... Vittorio De Sica included many elements to support neorealism film. ...
When Maria came to America for a better life and a better education for her children. ... Maria brought her 3 kids, including my mother to America by train. ... Till this day Maria can't forget the experience she went through to reach America. ... That after she graduated, they threw a party for her and even though she was small she still danced and celebrated , and she said it was the most memorable because she said "despus de la fiesta mi papa me dio una mueca que yo adoraba," meaning that her father gave her a doll that she loved so much. When Maria first came to America her American ...
Juan Ponce de León was born in 1460 in Tierra de Campos Palencia, Spain. ... In 1508, Ponce de Leo married Leonora. She bore three daughters, Juana, Isabel, and Maria, along with a son, Luis, with him. ... The three ships were named Santiago, San Cristobal, and Santa Maria de la Consolacion. ... Ponce de Leon was hit by a arrow. ...
He forgot about Jesus and turned more so to the streets. ... In De Progicul Son it states the man was called a suhtun man. ... Therefore he mus' of been writin' about de Lawd. The suhtun man had two sons, and the only two the lord ever had was Adam and Jesus." Jesus was the older son and didn't have a problem working for his father, nor did he ever complain. ...
First, the title of the paintings is about Jesus's birth. ... The two paintings have same subjects such as the Holy Maria, Joseph, and baby Jesus. In Mantegna's painting, everybody doesn't pay attention to the Maria and Jesus. ... In El Greco's painting, every five people are focused on Jesus and bless him. ... The Holy Maria is in each of the paintings, but the Maria in El Greco's painting is just looking at the baby. ...
De Niro's stature also varies greatly from Karloff's. ... He also brings sympathy as he simply kneels by the little girl, Maria. ... Karloff does a tremendous job showing the monster's innocence and confusion as Maria is tossed into the water. The monster simply believes that Maria will float. ... De Niro's monster had the benefit of literacy. ...
