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(ORAL Y ESCRITO=ENVIARSELO POR EMAIL) 1. Buscar la biografía de los 3 autores (3 oraciones c/u) 2. Hacer un resumen de las 2 lecturas y la película. 3. Presentar semejanzas o diferencias entre las 3. 4. Y si tienes que decir algo sobre tu vida personal sobre ellas. 5. Referencias (prontuario)
Piri Thomas Biography:
Piri Thomas is of Puerto Rican and Cuban parents, born in New York in 1928. Poverty, racism, and crime affected him, and in 1949 were jailed for seven years. These helped Thomas to overcome the influence of drugs and crime. In 1967 was an important year in his life, because launched his career as an author. http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/jessemoli/Thomasbio.html Charles Dickens Biografía:
Dickens was born in February 7, 1812, in Landport. British writer, one of the best known. His novels and stories are popular. Dickens was and still revered as a literary idol of writers worldwide. http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/d/d Biografia:
Enrique (Hank) Lopez was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. Die when he had 65 of a heart attack. Hank was lawyer, writer and teacher. Believed the first Chicano graduate of Harvard Law School. He interrupted his legal work to write and teach. RESÚMENES:
Película:
It tells the story of a young orphan named Finn lower middle class. As a boy falls in love with a girl named Estella, who lives with her frustrated aunt who taught to be cruel to men. Estella becomes the inspiration for the drawings of Finn. Unexpectedly Finn is sent to New York, will become a famous painter, with the help of an unknown benefactor, in addition to fighting for the love of Estella.

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The story is about a boy that has a problem with his father for stealing a quarter. He did it because he wants to feel like a rich. His father, realizing that the quarter was not in the place he put it, began to look the coin, until he found it in the child socks. And all he said, “Why not you asked?
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