Spanish

Spanish 160C Essay #1Prompt: 1- Choose one image from the first encounter of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma

and Hernan Cortes and one from Hernan Cortes and La Malinche and analyze them in terms of their symbolic representation. (What do you think the symbolic message is?)

2- Use the specific definitions of Culture (R. Murphy and L. White), sign (F. de Saussure) and symbol (J. Lacan) taught in class as your theoretical parameter.

Essay parameters:

1- Make sure that you follow MLA in writing your name, your professor’s name,

class and date. 2- Last name and page number as per MLA. 3- Your title should be a long tile, not a one, two, three or a four-word title. 4- You should have an introduction to your chosen subject as your first

paragraph. 5- Your thesis should be at the end of the first paragraph. 6- Your second paragraph should be a paragraph where you define the theory

you are using. i.e. in this case it would be symbol. 7- The rest of your body paragraphs should be about finding examples and

analyzing them. 8- Your last paragraph should be your conclusion. 9- You must have 3 full pages for your essay component, and a 4th page with

your bibliography. 10- Your essay must have at least 3 citations/quotes.

Hernan Cortes and Moctezuma

Image # 1

Image # 2

Image # 3 Moctezuma and Cortes descents meet “again” in Mexico City

Hernan Cortes and La Malinche

Image # 4

Image # 5

Image #6