My Life With The Wave, by Octavio Paz, is a short story which leads us to the changing relationship between a man and a wave. The wave, which symbolizes a woman, is the central focus of the story. The author, Octavio Paz, was a Mexican-born, 1990 Nobel Prize recipient. He started writing at an earl...

Octavio Paz: The Poet and his Revolution. Words, either written or spoken, have always been used by some intellectuals to awake in others, ideas and polemics to be discussed and forged into new currents of literature and ideologies; these in turn, will mold the historic events in which such th...

The Day of the Dead is a very original and fun holiday. It was established by the Aztecs when the Christian priests from Spain came over to the Americas. The Aztec mixed one of their celebrations of honoring the dead with the Christian holidays of All Soul's Day and All Saint's Day. It is...

Mexico is our neighbor to the south. The United States was once part of Mexico. A country is a place for tourism and vacations for us, but for Mexicans, it is home. Near the year 7000 B.C., Indians learned to grow plants for food. In time they were able to settle in villages. Those villages grew int...