Stephanie Prchal Today, our society has found itself within a major global event: the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of it now, a plethora of anxieties, questions, revelations, condemnations, and more have erupted from people seeking to make sense of their situation and purpose. The COVID-19 crisis—rife with death, isolation, and uncertainty—has forced the individual to …
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Yoandy Cabrera La flauta mágica de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fue presentada por primera vez en Viena el 30 de septiembre de 1791. El libreto fue escrito por Emanuel Schikaneder, su primer director, y la pieza consta de dos actos. Se trata de una de las óperas más famosas y representadas del repertorio internacional, lo cual …
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Alyssa Giardono Jessica Pequeño Mendoza La Gran Tirana: Descarga Dramática (The Great Tyrant) is a play about the life of the legendary Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond, commonly known as La Lupe. The play was part of the Destinos Chicago International Latino Theater Festival which took place this year from October 14th to November 21st at …
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Radamés Suárez Reinaldo Arenas was born on July 16, 1943 in the Cuban easternmost province of Oriente, the illegitimate son of José Arenas and Oneida Fuentes. Raised in poverty in the countryside, he grew up to be one of the most talented and prolific writers of the Hispanic World despite the relative cultural sterility of …
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Yoandy Cabrera El sábado 13 de noviembre de 2021 tuvo lugar la premier de la ópera Florencia en el Amazonas (1996) del compositor mexicano Daniel Catán (1949-2011) en la Lyric Opera of Chicago. La obra tuvo su estreno mundial en Houston el 25 de octubre de 1996 a cargo de Francesca Zambello, la misma directora …
Introductory Note by Dr. Yoandy Cabrera Jorge Luis Arcos, like Fina García-Marruz, is one of those writers for whom essay, analysis, and poetry intersect and complement each other. Though he was old enough to belong to those known as “Generación de los 80,” he began to publish his poetry with the next batch of authors, …
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Emily Whittaker Educators should strive to find the teaching/learning method that allows their students to gather the most knowledge in the most effective way. The avenue of learning that works best for students on an individual level could be different for almost every student in the classroom, especially in older grades -- some may learn …
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Alyssa Giardono During ancient Grecian times, some of the shared traditions we still have today consist of rights to a proper burial. Antigone was a woman who lived to see the death of her brother, Polynices. When he was killed, the ruler of her city, who was also her uncle, forbade Antigone from burying him. …
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Cuando salí de La Habana, ¡válgame Dios! José Abreu Felippe Mis hermanos Juan y Nicolás lograron irse por el Mariel en 1980. Juan por el Cuatro Ruedas, frente al Alí Bar –donde en sus buenos tiempos cantaba El Benny–, uno de los centros de recepción de la escoria, enarbolando su Carta de Libertad de cuando …
Bevan Fogdall Jayro Bustamante’s 2019 film, La llorona, addresses the Guatemalan genocide through the unique lens of the horror genre. Generally, the horror genre consists of works that represent human fears through monsters, or beings that are perceived as threatening. Horror films are typically driven by a desire to eradicate the monster (Carroll 35), so …
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