Elena College Essays Samples For Students

Published in 1889, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is set in revolutionary Mexico of the early twentieth century. At that time, society and the family institution exercised an authoritative and oppressive control on women’s activities and expression; in fact, such control had existed since colonial times, Up until recent times, women had been playing a subservient role from which even in the twenty-first century they are still struggling to break themselves free. Not only were women denied participation in society and politics as individuals with their own voice and identity, but they were mostly confined to ...

Introduction

María Candelaria (Mexican: Xochimilco) is a 1943 Mexican film directed by Emilio Fernández. The movie won several accolades for the subject matter, direction, and acting. In 1946, it became graded as a classic in the history of Latin American cinema, when it felled down the linguistic and cultural barriers as the first Mexican film that ever won the Palme d’Or at The Cannes International Film Festival. The film can be simply categorized as a classical romantic-tragedy, but the qualities that truly made it famous were the expressions gender and cultural issues and the hauntingly beautiful cinematography of the film. Today, ...

LIMITED LEVERAGE

One thing that is clear from the vignette is Frank does not want to close his business and work for someone else. However, he must replace his primary asset, his truck, or he will be forced to close the business. Since he does not have the equity to purchase the truck, he must find the funds somewhere else. The only options are to find an investor or borrow the money. The vignette mentions nothing about an option to find an investor. He is adamantly against using debt. His daughter Stephanie suspects he does not know the proper use of ...

Media Industries

Introduction
During this semester we were asked to split up into groups of three to produce one episode of the Media Industries TV talk series on Bronxnet. For this practical field assignment, we were instructed to select two media professionals from any sector of the industries and invite them as a guest on our episode. Throughout this process we were exposed to various theoretical topics about the media industry and was later asked to choose two other group’s segments to critique for a writing assignment. My two choices are group one (Ana Acevedo, Johnsel Montes, Stephanie Feedor) and group ...

Virtually, every society is shaped by political norms that control the thought and actions of individual with regard to political issues. Equally, their political cultures define the attitudes of citizens towards the political system in addition to partial shaping of functions from political institutions. On the other hand, socialization entails the process whereby individuals recognize code of conduct expected of them with respect to the attitudes, values, and beliefs of their society. Politics and socialization are two fundamental societal aspects because political socialization enables the government to improve relationships with the citizens and as well, in communicating the roles, ...

Introduction

This novel revolves around kitchen, and its contextual interpretation is in the Mexican society. The recipe was a major element to the Mexican kitchen, and it signified the life endeavors in this society. The thesis of this essay is a discussion on various attributes of the Mexican kitchen through the ailing Mama Elena, her three daughters and the surrounding love inferno between Tita and Pedro in the contextual ranch setup.
1. What was the general interpretation of this novel, and what impacts did it have? ( what conversations did it start or what understanding did the book generally bring to ...

IT Management

Objective
Technology is one of the cornerstones for the success of any business organization in the contemporary market. However, technology is dynamic in nature, and changes rapidly from time to time. To keep up with these changes, an organization should keep updating its technology; otherwise, its technology becomes obsolete. This is particularly relevant in the case of publishing companies. In this case, the objective is to assess the implications of hiring a new leader to oversee the transformation of the information technology department in the Penguin Group Publishing Company. The company also intends to implement a reorganization and downsizing strategy ...

The ‘fast five movie’ commonly known as The Fast and Furious is an American action movie written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin. The movie depicts the story with the help of his sister, and friends Dom was saved from the hands of the authorities. The team is seriously pursued by Hobbs, who follows them to Rio de Janeiro in South America. Hobbs is caught between the two gangs fighting each other - Dam’s gang and Reyes’ gang. Although the movie has a lot of action and heavy compact, it presents a clear, real life situations faced by ...

Traditionally, Latin cultures have a strong patriarchal tendency towards favouring the man’s power and control; women are, habitually, seen as belonging in the home. In the three short stories seen here: The Tree by María Luisa Bombal, Blame the Tlaxcaltecs by Elena Garro and Luvina by Juan Rulfo, we are presented with two female central protagonists in the two former stories, and a narrative, in the latter, which portrays a supernatural town, the reader is presented with a terrifying force which both compels and controls the town’s residents in much the same way as a patriarchy controls and limits women. In The Tree, ...

Answer to question 1

Evidence-based practice is a technique that nurses use to make informed decision about how well to treat the patient based on the research, their expertise as well as the needs of the patient. The following are the levels of evidence present in relation to research and practice (Polit & Beck, 2013);

Level 1: Randomized controlled trials

Level 2: Non-randomized controlled trials
Level 3: Observational analyses based on trials
Level 4: Observational analyses that lack trials
The levels of evidence are important regardless of the method used, because every clinician needs to have enough confidence on how significance the study is, so as to make informed ...

Since the book Fahrenheit 451 was written in the 1950s, it belongs to an era starkly different than the present. There exist quite a few differences between modern society and that discussed in the novel, however, there are several ideas discussed and presented by its writer which are similar to today’s society as well.
There are several similarities such as the need to have fast cars and always seem to be in a hurry. In the novel, the people are shown to have an urge to drive cars very fast. This approach is quite relevant today as people ...

“Like Water for Chocolate” is a drama and a romance about the lives of women in Mexico The following quote is from chapter six titled “A Recipe for Making Match and it describes the way Mexican women thought about love, about passion and about life in general and everything was connecting with cooking. “My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this ...

The best recipe for a dish to be delicious is preparing it with love – Tita, the heroine of “Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel, is sure. That is certainly the formula Esquivel resorts to creating her novel, where love is a key ingredient, and the food for thought produced by the book is savory, hot and rich. “Tita remembered that Nacha had always said that when people argue while preparing tamales, the tamales won’t get cooked. They can be heated day after day and still stay raw, because the tamales are angry. In a case like that, ...

IT Management

Objective
Technology is considered one of the cornerstones for success of any business organization in the contemporary market. However, technology is dynamic in nature, as it changes rapidly from time to time. To keep up with these changes, it implies that an organization should keep updating its technology over time; otherwise, its technology would become obsolete. This is particularly relevant in the case of publishing companies. The in this case, objective is to assess the implications of hiring a new leader to oversee the transformation of the information technology department in Penguin Group publishing Company. Besides, the company also ...

Introduction

The fact that literary works are aimed at mirroring the reality of the human society whether local or global means that there will be a point of convergence among them. The mirroring of the reality of the human society is informed by the need to facilitate and sustain debates that will lead to the finding of solutions to better human society and life. The converse is also true that literary artistes have their works colored by personal, ideological and sociocultural settings and because of this, literary works will diverge on structure, ideas and themes. The case is exemplified by the ...

Communication

Communication

Question 1

Self-concept and self-image are almost the same thing. Self- concept refers to one’s belief about oneself while self-image is what one imagines about one-self . For instance, my concept tells I am an intelligent person, as I have always scored above average grades throughout my school. It tells me I am an obedient person, as I always listen to my parents and look forward to them. On the other hand, my self-image is how attractive and good-looking I think I am. Such qualities are judgmental. Similarly, self-esteem and self-concept can also be distinguished in a way that self-esteem refers ...

Apparently, almost all cultures are associated with some kinds of stereotypes. While some of these stereotypes hold water, they are, in most cases inaccurate since they are biased generalizations based on subjective judgments. In the following arguments stereotyping will be presented as inaccurate with a special reference to the Mexican Americans, who, according to many researchers are among the most prominent victims of ill treatment, thanks to the stereotyped information available in American circles (Worthman. et al.2009:389). The findings of this paper can be used in relevant studies as it has been observed that the cultural group of Mexican American ...

Understanding the factors that lead consumers to buy goods helps companies to determine the best marketing strategy to employ in order to sell their products and gain customer loyalty. It involves analyzing the way consumers think and reason, what factors they consider when selecting a brand, how they are influenced by their surroundings, how much effort they put into knowing more about various products, and their motivation and decision strategies when choosing between two or more product alternatives. Apart from these, consumer behavior also includes how they purchase, use, and dispose the product. It also determines its relevance in society ...