INDHIRA+ADAMES+MEJIA

Dear Professor Wiseman,

I have read your letter and I clearly understood what you expect from us. As a teacher I know you want all of your students to pass the ACT Test, but also for you is important that students learn how to write well developed college essays, which I strongly agree with. Moreover what you expect as a teacher from us, makes me felt more motivated, to go on and to improve in this ESL course, which is designed for students who need some improvement on writing, as I need it. Considering that your recommendations are important to me, I moved along and wrote three promises which I think I would fill the requirements of this course, and that would help me to write a good essay.

First of all to work hard on my essays is my first goal on this course. Practice is what matters when learning to write essays. In that case I considered that is better for me if I could read sample essays, in order to get some sense about the essay’s structure. I have found out when I practiced writing essays, my writing style change or improve a little more, leaving behind simple use of the language until I would make a professional use of the English language on my research papers. I’m concerned about the way of writing; because a person with eloquence on their speeches and writings has the possibility to get successful and many doors will be open to him/her.

Second I would like to enforce more my participation on class. When I don’t participate I feel that my ideas are keeping inside of me, and that I wouldn't share it with others. Pointing that my idea would be important for the discussion we’ll be into. To be part of the class evolves participation, and the most you participate on a class the most you gain confidence on yourself. Furthermore, participations on class can help to develop the structure of your sentences when debating, giving an answer or making a comment. Many times, I see you, professor encouraging and telling to the class that you want us to participate, and when we does you help us to formulate a better opinion, which I consider a strong support for us.   Last of all and the third one is to be on time in class and do my entire work. As a student I want to keep on track with my classes and don’t be late or miss one of them. Students who miss classes often get poor grades and lose the material covered on class. I don’t want to be a hamburger fixer, professor, but a professional and well prepared business woman. A good path on education starts with being responsible, so how responsible we are in college is how responsible we will be with our future jobs. I’m adamant in believe that being responsible forms part of successfulness. If a student does the work left in class, and review her/his material acquires a huge amount of knowledge that leads he/she to excel on test and grades.     A teacher always wants his/her student to pass the class with good grades and to acquire knowledge from the class. In this case professor I appreciate that how a responsible teacher you are there always on time, no matters how you feel or what happen, just to teach us how we can improve our writing style. You are the epitome of a responsible but also honest person. With my promises and your guide I will pass the test with good scores and apply what I have learned in every class and job I will take in the future. Become successful is my goal and this is a class that will help me to do it. Your honesty on let us know our mistakes when we think is the correct way to express our opinions is what makes you a great teacher. Thank you for the letter that you wrote thinking in your students and for let us know what you would like to find on us.     Sincerely,  Indhira Adames Mejia

**__ Physical Pain, on Frieda’s paintings  __** Most of Frieda’s paintings make allusion to the physical pain she had, after the bus accident. For example, one of her painting “The Broken Column”1944 represents herself having a metal iron as her column which represented the lesions on her broken column. Also the on this painting Frieda has a white band around her body, including few nails on her face, arms, and chest. All of these elements make a reference about the pain she was passing through. Furthermore, tears appear on her face, which makes obviously that Frieda wasn’t happy. Frieda chooses to paint when she was experiencing the pain left from her accident. This was like an escape not only for her pain, but her struggles, as her turbulent marriage with Diego Rivera.

 **__ Frida Kahlo’s Themes in Her Paintings  __** For years, Frida Kahlo was and still being one of the most famous Mexican painter. From the basic to the surreal, this Mexican painter expressed on her paintings, the turbulent and the painful life she lived. Kahlo’s paintings became famous around the world, making a simple woman an icon of these times. Themes like the nature, physical pain, depression, cultural differences, and fertility; were predominant in her paintings. When Frida was a student of medicine in college, she suffered an accident that suddenly will change her life. The bus in which Frida was driving to home collided with another automobile. Subsequent to this accident Frida was several damaged on her column and her pelvis. This last left Frida with fertility problems, which means she couldn’t have children. Choosing to paint as an escape to the pain she was suffering Frida created on 1944, “The Broken Column”. In this painting Frida Portraits herself with a broken metal iron on her column, a white bandage around her stomach and chest, nails on her entire body and a few tears coming out of her eyes. All of these make allusion to the iron steel that she was carrying on her back, and the pain she was suffering represented by the nails and the tears. Moreover her turbulent marriage with the famous mural painter Diego Rivera, as well as her fertility problems inspired the creations of: “Diego and I”, 1949, and “Henry Ford Hospital”, 1932. In the first painting Frida portraits her face crying and on her forehead was the image of Diego Rivera, which represents one of the causes of her depression, besides the accident. On the second she paints herself leaned on a bed and the allusion of what is a baby out of her stomach and blood around her body. This painting refers to Frida’s abortion on the hospital with the same name as the paint. Frida was one of the daughters of the marriage between a Mexican and a Jewish-Hungarian. Frida had struggled with the double nationality she had. In spite of these cultural differences Frida often felt more Mexican that European. On her paint “The Two Fridas”, 1939, appears two Fridas wearing different custom. One custom refers to her European roots and the other to her Mexican roots. Two different Fridas but her hearts linked with the same vein. Link that the European Frida wants to cut off, with the scissor that she carries in her hand. In other hand Frida had a strong passion, which she demonstrated on some paintings. This passion was the nature. Frida well explain this on her paint “Self-portrait with Monkey and Parrot”, 1942. Paint on which appears Frida’s face with a parrot on her shoulder, a monkey on her front and a background with forest. With her paintings Frida became famous and traveled around the world. Her basic and surreal style was a reference of her entire life. Today after years of her death, she is present through her work. People all around the globe recognize Frida’s work as one of the maximum icon of Mexican art.