Fixing the Broken “El Tonto del Barrio” tells the story of Romero‚ a man who has an exclusive arrangement in the Golden Heights Centro. Romero sweeps the sidewalks and the barrio gives him handouts‚ which helps balance the community in a systematic way. Could a nonessential improvement be enough to upset the balance of this community? In the short story “El Tonto Del Barrio‚” author Jose Armas intertwines conflict and irony to show readers that one should not fix something that is not broken (896-901)
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“El Tonto Del Barrio” Humbleness and charity towards one another is one of the lessons “El Tonto del Barrio” illustrates to the readers through the protagonist of the story‚ Romero Estrado. The story begins describing with very specific details the life of “El Cotorro” or Romero. Mr. Armas continues the story inviting all of the people from “El Barrio” to come along in the story to show their influence in the life of Romero. What happens in the story‚ Mr. Romero seems to be the happiest person
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another is one of the lessons “El Tonto del Barrio” illustrates to the readers through the protagonist of the story‚ Romero Estrado. The story begins describing with very specific details the life of “El Cotorro” or Romero. Mr. Armas continues the story inviting all of the people from “El Barrio” to come along in the story to show their influence in the life of Romero. Summarizing what happens in the story‚ Mr. Romero seems to be the happiest person from el Barrio. He always whistles joyfully and
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economy are examined through his participant-observation of El Barrio in East Harlem NYC. For several years‚ beginning in 1985 when he rented an apartment in Spanish Harlem‚ Philippe engaged in an ethnographic study of the street life in that haven. He befriended a Puerto Rican crack entrepreneur by the name of Ray and his subordinates Primo and Caesar. Learning street smarts was pivotal in gaining their trust. As a white man in El Barrio you were either an "undercover
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Ashir Mirza 4/23/2012 LST 303 The class has broadened my thinking process quite a bit now since the beginning of class. The Oral presentation on gentrification in El barrio has changed my outlook on how communities in the united states are being manipulated to change because of the area they live in and how that area is in need of change but not for the betterment of the people that live in that community but for the investors and other people that are trying to move in to change the demographics
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Juggling Ethics in El Barrio Anthropologists‚ being scientists whom deal with humans and their society‚ commonly find themselves at ethical crossroads. However‚ the ethical responsibilities and challenges that anthropologists face are multi-dimensional in the sense that they include all aspects of society. Anthropologists must take into account the ethical responsibilities he or she has for himself/herself‚ the people he/she is working with‚ the general public‚ and‚ in certain cases‚ for his or
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Ensayo de Aplicación El Asunto del Aborto El tema moral del derecho al aborto es uno que toca las mismas fibras de nuestra sociedad puertorriqueña‚ dado la corriente conservadora y tradicional que ha permeado en los pasados siglos. Sin embargo‚ las influencias modernas y la habilidad de facilitarse un aborto han causado un cambio en la mentalidad de las generaciones presentes. Las posiciones extremadamente radicales a favor y en contra del aborto requieren que cada persona asuma una de las
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El otono del patriarca Publicada en 1980 y ambientada en un supuesto pais situado a orillas del Caribe‚ El Otono del patriarca relata la vida de un dictador que muere viejisimo‚ llegando a conserver el poder durante mas de cien anos. A treves de sus recuerdos‚ el lector se entera de que es hijo de una mujer del pueblo‚ Bendicion Alvarado‚ unica persona a quien quiso de verdad; que no supo quien fue su padre; que su primera infancia transcurrio en la miseria y que llego a dictador‚ despues de
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio Philippe Bourgois book In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio was published in 1995‚ and discussed his experiences of authors living in El Barrio (East Harlem). In 1985 the writer moved to this district of New York City with the purpose of studying the impact of imposed racial segregation and economic marginalization on the inner city Puerto Rican population (intro pg.1). An interesting new insight into the street culture found in New
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Guillermo Del Toro’s 2001 film‚ El Espinazo del Diablo translated to The Devil’s Backbone‚ is a chilling ghost story set in Spain in the middle of their civil war. A young boy named Carlos arrives at an orphanage that is haunted by a ghost. The ghost isn’t the only looming presence‚ as there is a large bomb in the center of the courtyard. It is here at the orphanage that the young boys‚ along with their headmistress‚ caretaker‚ and doctor‚ must attempt to retain normalcy as a distant war creeps ever
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