Francisco Romero (bullfighter) by step towards the modern "muleta" or red cape and "capote" or purple and yellow cape, but it is very plausible that was Romero the one that popularized his use as "the" bullfight essential prop. It seems that the death of a bull by sword was practiced previously, specially by the employees of meat processing factories in Sevilla, but not in a bullring. In any case, if Francisco Romero is not the inventor of the modern bullfight, he is the first matador that became professional and made a living from bull fighting. His success implied a fundamental and radical change
The Life of a Peasant Woman them mourning the fact that the team of punishers was not big enough. Another incident of the same kind takes place at the market square where a woman gets force-fed with a piece of soap she was trying to steal ("just to wash my baby's cloth," she sobs). The author runs to a local policeman asking to stop the outrage, but the latter, treating the guest to his wine, remarks: "Come on, they sure know better. And what could I possibly do? They are self-governed nowadays." "Self-government (samoupravle′nye) equals to self-handedness (samoupra′vstvo) in their minds," the author bitterly comments. There's