Dead's Day

The Dead's day is a festivity celebrated in Mexico on November 2º.
It has  its roots in the prehispanic civilization that used to live here, before the Spanish guys arrived to conquer them.
The prehisapanic civilizations used to make some offers to their dead people, but not like now, they conserved and put the real skulls in it.
When the Spanish men came, they were shoked about the way indians lived. When the conquest was done, the next step was to change the mind of them, to convert them to their religion and to make them accept the European way of life.

One of their strategy was to mix the two cultures in some aspects. 
Specifically in this holiday, they made some changes to the offer, instead of the real skulls they replaced them with sugar and chocolate skulls and also they made up some prays to make it more convincent and easy to accept for the indians. Also the dead's bread was made up to supplant the bones indian used to put.

In my opinion this is the most beautiful celebration we have in Mexico, is so colorfull and it makes you be proud of your roots. It has soul, and make you be happy and inspired. No Hallowen can replace the place we have in our hearts for the Dead's Day. 
And one of the important points of this festivity: It celebrate the Death, it's not afraid of it; it makes it special.

:)

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Gabo

Gabriel García Márquez is a writer that belongs to the trend Magical Realism.
He was born  on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Colombia.
He's considered the most important writer in Latin America. 

 In 1982, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Their books have some specific trademarks we can recognize; some of them are:


      ►Some or his stories start in the middle of things, with a declaration that their protagonists are going to die in the novel. 
      ►Márquez often uses events and characters from his own life in his books. 

Also we can find features of Magical Realism in his tales:


      ►In magical realism we find the transformation of the common and the everyday into the awesome and the unreal.
      ►It is predominantly an art of surprises. 
      ►Time exists in a kind of  timeless fluidity and the unreal happens as part of reality. 




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHaIJxAQqJw

      

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Some curious facts oh him are: ◙He's so superstitious, he always needs to have a yellow flower on his desk, according to him, it gives him good luck. And also he thinks that snails behind a door, plastic flowers and peacocks give bad luck. ◙He never uses the adverb "-ly" when he writes his tales. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ We also may know or have heard some of his quotations even without knowing him: ♥“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”  ♥“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”  ♥ "I love you not for whom you are, but who i am when i'm by your side." ♥"Just because someone doesn't love you as you wish, it doesn't mean you're not loved with all his/her being." ♥"The worst way to miss someone is, to be seated by him/her and know you'll never have him/her." ♥"Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile." ♥"Dont cry because it came to an end, smile because it happened." ♥“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart” ♥“Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”

With lyricism and marked wisdom, Márquez has been recognized as one of the most remarkable storytellers of the 20th century. In conclusion: "Gabo" has something we can fall in love with, the way he writes and thinks makes young folks be connected to his literature; the way he redacts something spectacular and makes it so natural and common is the sparkle people find charming and interesting of him.

5 sources

The five sources I'm going to use in order to write about Gabriel García Márquez are the next ones:

http://virtualmagazinecapitalism.blogspot.com/
http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_Márquez
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Garc-A-M-rquez-Gabriel.html
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/gabriel-garcia-marquez/

Why did I choose Gabriel García Márquez?

I choosed him as my theme because I really enjoy reading his books, he writes books of magical realism. I would enjoy to know about his life and discover wich others books he has writen.
The fisrt Gabriel Garcia's book I read was " Love in times of Cholera", it was so beautiful that  at first sight i fell in love with it; and then I read "Memories of my melancholy whores", by then I already knew I was going to be such a big fan of him. Although I haven't read all his books I think he's such a great writer.
Thats' why I'm going to write about him.

Hi!!

Hello! My name is Natalia I'm seventeen years old and I'm a student at the National Preparatory N°1 "Gabino Barreda".
I'm in sixth grade, and I'm in area number 3 Social Sciences, I'm interested on studying Contadury or Public Administration at the UNAM.
I like a lot of things, like The Beatles, I like chocolate, and reading.