#Susana Morales

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Cien años de soledad (2024)

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A Georgia police officer who was fired after being accused of the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Susana Morales was found guilty Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/disgraced-cop-sentenced-to-life-for-kidnapping-and-murdering-teen-girl

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[angelnumber27]

She was walking home from her friends house and was kidnapped and murdered by a police officer.

Below is the link to the petition/donation site. I am absolutely heartbroken about this.. and it is so close to home too.. :( 

[nakeddeparture]

Ex cop Miles Bryant, 23, gets life without the possibility of parole for killing Susana Morales, 16.

https://youtu.be/AGkWe65-M8U

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¡Primer vistazo de 'Cien Años de Soledad' en Netflix!

Netflix acaba de anunciar su adaptación de la obra maestra de Gabriel García Márquez ‘Cien Años de Soledad’, uno de los libros más celebrados de la literatura latinoamericana y universal. Iniciando con la famosa frase de introducción “Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el…

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Martín Luis Guzmán

Martín Luis Guzmán #aperturaintelectual #palabrasbajollave @tmoralesgarcia1 Thelma Morales García

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Frustración (2022) | página 11: Aparición de Susana (2/6)

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I just finished watching Betty and finding your blog is godsend I love love all your Armando character analysis and all the armetty content, not only that but all the insight you have about the rest of the cast. One of the things I noticed while I was watching was that, Marcela and Armando absolutely don't like each other at ALL, even in recent episodes you can see how Marcela just barely tolerates Armando snsjdjfjjdj.

I find this so funny because certain parts of the fandom consider Betty a homewrecker?? There was never a home to wreck?? I mean all characters are morally grey but if we see Marcela in despair in later episodes I don't think it was out of heartbreak like Armando for Betty. I was wondering what you think about what Marcela felt for Armando and their relationship in general.

Once again I love scrolling through your blog and I also think Armando and Betty were the most logical endgame, they made each other worse they made each other better literally soulmates.

[sorry for the long question, I have these two in the brain]

Awww thank you!!! I'm glad you are enjoying my blog🥰

Oh, no, not the homewreaking thing! Even Armando says it once: "no one can steal me if I don't let myself be stolen". The novela made it so clear that it was a choice that ARMANDO made, and somehow my girlie Betty gets all the blame, as if we all didn't see ARMANDO pursuing her and begging her not to leave him all the time. Sure, Betty should have said NO, it IS morally wrong what she did, but Armando himself says that he wanted to leave Marcela for himself, not for Betty. We all know that, if Armando and Marcela had married, regardless of whether Betty or any other woman had appeared in their lives, they would have ended up divorcing. Some people simply have a super skewed perception and think that just because Armando and Marcela had an active sex life at the beginning of the show and that sometimes you got to see them happy, their relationship was fine. It wasn't, it never was. Armando was always cheating and Marcela was always spying and tracking his moves. There was no love, commitment, sincerity, or selflessness. It was all conditional. There was simply no home to wreak, like you say!

I definitely agree that Marcela and Armando don't like each other at all. They aren't compatible in any sense. They had fights for even the most mudane things, like what to do on a friday night or one of Armando's nightmares.

Marcela was not in love with Armando. She never was, or at the very least, not in any moment that we see her onscreen. Perhaps she was in the past, but from all we've seen, Marcela is mostly in love with the idea of Armando and is constantly angry and frustrated because he isn't what she pictures. She is mostly just obsessed with this idea she has of him. She wants to marry Armando but not really marry him like he is. We've seen she doesn't like his temper, his ego, his treatment of her, his interests, the people he gets along with, etc. I can't think of a single thing they like to do together or have in common except their high sex drive. She doesn't like anything about Armando's personality.

Armando and Marcela unfortunately share a very deep and old relationship, and I'm not talking about their romantic one. They're tied like a family. Margarita and Roberto are, in Marcela's eyes, practically her parents. Marcela herself says that all of the Mendoza and Valencia children were raised like siblings. This creates a very unfortunate dynamic in which no one really understands their place. Marcela and Armando are both like step siblings and also a couple, which, honestly, doesn't seem psychologically right. I can't really say, but I'm willing to bet this has to be bad for a person's development and view on relationships.

On top of that, Margarita says that it was Julio and Susana's dream to see Marcela and Armando marry. Both Margarita and Roberto make it very clear that they also want that relationship. Marcela and Armando are constantly encouraged to ignore all the obvious clues that the relationship is disastrous (like how Margarita tells Marcela she needs to be patient and wait for Armando to calm down and stop cheating, or how Roberto says they would never forgive Armando if he were to cancel the wedding). They are practically being encouraged by their parents (Roberto and Margarita, biological parents for Armando and practically adoptive parents for Marcela) to continue their relationship. In Marcela's case, she is unconsciously trying to fulfill her bio parents' last dream and also her new parents' hopes.

((This is speculation, but I'm also willing to bet that Marcela and Armando probably hesrd a lot of insinuations of them eventually becoming a couple since very young. I can't confirm that, but I wouldn't be surprised of this at all.))

So Marcela basically develops an obsession with having Armando. She doesn't love him, because she doesn't like anything that he is. She just has this idea that has probably been ingrained in her head throughout her life that they belong together, and if she clings to that relationship, it will eventually become as beautiful and amazing as her parents (all 4 of them) thought it would.

Additionally, having Armando is a prize. It's, in her eyes, her deserved prize after such a long time "fighting" for him. For having tolerated his lies and cheating, for getting all of his lovers away. Armando is not a partner for her, he's her reward. She sees herself as a martyr who desrves to earn him.

When the relationship breaks she is in dispair because she genuinely wanted a future with him, but not out of love but rather out of ego and obsession. Out of a desire to say "after all of this I finally won", which is why she is willing to take him back all the time even when it's obvious he can't stand her, there is no trust, and there is no love. They just cling to each other because of all the wrong reasons: ego, conformity, their parents, the business, expectations, etc. But not love. We never saw love.

It's an overall sad situation for both of them, which is why I genuinely pity both of them in this aspect even if they were both, objectively speaking, big POS to each other!

Thank you for this lovely ask! Sorry for the long reponse too😂🥰

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Myles Bryant rejected the prosecution's plea deal before jury selection got underway Monday. He told the court he was ready to go to trial on murder charges in the death of 16-year-old Susana Morales.

Bryant is accused of kidnapping and killing Morales as she walked home from a friend's house in July 2022.

In the warrant application, officials allege that Bryant, who was working as a police officer at the time of Morales' death, lives close to where she was last reported on Windscape Village Lane in Norcross and dumped her naked body in the woods.

Police also accuse Bryant of falsely reporting that his vehicle had been broken into and that his gun was stolen.

Bryant claimed he left his truck door unlocked when the theft occurred, but Gwinnett County's police chief said his investigators found Bryant's handgun in the same wooded area on Drowning Creek Road where they found Morales's remains. 

During jury selection, one potential juror admitted serving on the jury would prove difficult, saying, "It's not like we are talking about a car accident or somebody steal a watch from a store.  It has long-lasting consequences, and it's a scary place to be, in one of those chairs."

If convicted, the former Doraville Police officer faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Bryant's attorneys asked the judge to declare a mistrial after one potential juror stated during questioning in open court that she had heard weird things about the defendant.  Bryant's attorney said those remarks prejudiced potential jurors.

The prosecution pushed back, telling the judge the woman's testimony would not negatively influence the jury pool.

After listening to both sides, the judge dismissed all 14 jurors who were in court during that testimony.

The trial resumes Tuesday.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

“It’s unbelievable honestly, there is no words that I can say to explain it,” said Jasmine Morales, Susana’s sister. “It sucks that it took so long but I guess with him being an officer has something to do with that."

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/cop-arrested-after-he-was-caught-dumping-naked-body-of-16yo-girl-in-the-woods

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The Unofficial Black History Book

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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

Imagine being the best-known and also the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry at the age of 13, whilst being a slave.

This is her story.

Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American and second female to publish a book of poems. And she was also the youngest.

Phillis Wheatley was born on May 8th, 1753, in Gambia, West Africa. There's no record of her real birth name. 

When she was no younger than seven, she was kidnapped by slave traders and brought to America in 1761. The slave traders renamed her 'Phillis' based on the slave ship she arrived on, 'The Phillis'

She was transported to the Boston docks with a shipment of "refugee" slaves who, because of their age or physical frailty, were unsuited for rigorous labor in the West Indian and Southern Colonies. They were the first ports of call after the Atlantic Crossing.

In August 1761, Susanna Wheatley, the wife of Boston tailor John Wheatley, was "in want of a domestic."

Susanna purchased "a slender, frail female child...for a trifle."

The captain of the slave ship believed that Phillis was terminally ill, and he wanted to make at least a small profit off of her before she died. 

It's reported that a Wheatley relative surmised her to be "of slender frame and evidently suffering from a change of climate," "nearly naked, with no other covering than a quantity of dirty carpet about her," and "about seven years old...from the circumstances of shedding her front teeth."

When Phillis was sold to the Wheatley family, she adopted their last name and was taken under Susanna's wing as her domestic.

During her time serving the Wheatleys, which was about sixteen months, Susana discovered that Phillis had an extraordinary capacity to learn. The Wheatleys, including their son Nathaniel and their daughter Mary, taught her how to read and write after discovering her precociousness.

But this didn't excuse her from her duties as a house slave.

Phillis was soon immersed in the Bible, astronomy, geography, history, theology, British literature, and the Greek and Latin classics of Virgil, Ovid, Terence, and Homer. Inspired, she began writing poetry between the ages of 12 and 13.

At a time when African Americans were discouraged and intimidated from learning how to read and write, Phillis' life was an anomaly.

When she started to publish her poems, her fame, and talent soon spread across the Atlantic. With Susanna's support, Phillis started posting advertisements for subscribers for her first book of poems.

However, a scholar of Phillis's work, Sondra O'Neale, notes, "When the colonists were apparently unwilling to support literature by an African, she and the Wheatleys turned in frustration to London for a publisher."

In 1773, Phillis was in continuously poor health; she had chronic asthma. But she sets off for London with Nathaniel Wheatley, her master's son.  

When she arrived in London, she was accepted and adored for both her poise and her literary work. And during her time there, she also received medical treatment for the ailments she was battling.

She met Selina Hastings, a friend of Susanna Wheatley and the Countess of Huntingdon. Eventually, Hastings funded the publication of Phillis's book. "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." Was the first book of poetry published by an enslaved African American in the United States. 

Her book includes many elegies as well as poems on Christian themes, even dealing with race, such as the often-anthologized "On being brought from Africa to America."

Phillis was also a strong supporter of America's fight for independence; she penned several of her poems in honor of George Washington, who was Commander of the Continental Army. She sent him one of her works that was written in 1775, and it eventually inspired an invitation to visit him in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In March 1776, she traveled to Washington.

 Phillis eventually had to return to Boston to tend to Susanna Wheatley, who was gravely ill. 

After the elder Wheatleys’ died, Phillis was left with nothing and had to support herself as a seamstress. 

We don’t know exactly when she was freed by the Wheatleys, but some scholars suggest that she was freed between 1774 and 1778. And during that time, most of the Wheatley family had died.

Even with her literary popularity at its all-time high and being manumitted, freedom in 1774 Boston proved to be incredibly difficult.

Phillis was unable to secure funding for another publication or even sell her writing. 

In 1778, she was married to a free African American man from Boston named John Peters. They had three children, but sadly, none of them survived infancy.

Their marriage proved to be a struggle due to the couple's battle with constant poverty. Phillis was then forced to find work as a maid in a boarding house, where she lived in squalid, horrifying conditions.

Even through all her misfortune, Phillis continued to write. But, with the growing tensions between the British and the Revolutionary War, she lost enthusiasm for her poems.

Although she continued to contact various publishers, she was unsuccessful in finding support for a second volume of poetry.

On December 5th, 1784, Phillis Wheatley died alone in a boarding house at 31 years old, without a penny to her name. 

Many of her poems for her second volume disappeared and have never been recovered. 

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Pedro Páramo (2024)

Where is the line between a ghost story and magic realism? With this adaptation of the Juan Rulfo novel, Rodrigo Prieto set an ambitious and daunting task for his feature directorial debut. The story sets out like a smaller scale version of familial epics like 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez or David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. It makes time a loop, a mirror, a Gordian knot, an ellipse, anything it can manage of a shape in its complex narrative structure. But it also reflects in a sense the opening of Guillermo del Toro’s ghostly take on the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone: “What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again?” Pedro Páramo is gothic to the core, full of ghostly echoes of the past and tortured souls, troubled patriarchs and women languishing in darkened bedrooms. Juan Preciado seeks out his father in Colima. But all he finds is horror. Violence plays out again and again in deserted streets. Would-be succubi seduce and then decay into mud. Figures appear and vanish into thin air. The intrigues of the family only emphasize this, the sins of the past and present unable to be absolved by any priest. Fate cannot be escaped. Death is everywhere. It is presented at once as inevitable and nihilistic: Pedro’s beloved Susana can only find peace in the arms of a man in her feverish nighttime fantasies, and Pedro himself succumbs to one final flourish of violence from a character barely present, even after all of his machinations and power plays for local control over a barely relevant community. If this is pure magic realism, then so is goddamn There Will Be Blood.

The title character himself can be seen at many points in his trajectory as the narrative flits about his lifetime. Initially a stubborn if dreamy young man, he finds love and passion in Susana, though she is taken away from him. As he consolidates power in town, elements of satire begin to emerge within the story. Fr Rentería is a hypocritical priest, pious and judgmental of the sins of others, but always watching the pesos when it comes to performing last rites. He will deny blessings on moral grounds but cave out of fear. Páramo’s right hand man Fulgor approves of and follows along in the patriarch’s schemes to secure wealth, but ultimately proves directionless when appointed to head up a comically listless group of revolutionaries without a cause. Who to fight? The government? The rebels? The priest? It matters not. The novel probes all of these characters and elements in depth through its labyrinthine structure, but despite the committed approach to structure, this adaptation feels a little directionless as well, echoing itself as it fumbles with its thematic material.

Where Prieto remains strong is his visual identity. One of the most interesting and successful cinematographers currently working, he captures the arid landscapes of Mexico with a painterly approach. Compositions and transitions lean heavily into the idea of mirrors and verisimilitude across the story, finding connections across time, and the color timing of each scene fits nicely to the temperature of the mood: the lush possibility of youth fades to a decayed, pallid ghost town as hopes and legacies languish. Interiors are lit with kerosene lamps and candlelight which gives a warm glow to the room and yet feels haunting, drawing attention to just how many shadows there are closing in. Needless to say, I’m very excited about his next project as DoP, whatever that may be.

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Someone says 'Comala' or 'usufruct'.

A type of relative is named (ie, mother, etc).

Night terrors happen.

A kite appears in a scene.

BIG DRINK

A time jump occurs.

A funeral or memorial service is held.

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