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    One Hundred Years of Solitude closely mimics passages and parables found throughout The Bible‚ beginning with the city of Macondo itself. An allusion to the Garden of Eden‚ Macondo is a lush and vibrant world wherein citizens live very long and subject their morals to the natural law. This and other occurrences resonate parallel to stories and characters found in the Old Testament. Religion itself is regarded with skepticism‚ illustrated through the arrival of the Priest Father Nicanor Reyna in One

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    high hills‚ which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.  A small brook glides through it‚ with just a murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail‚ or tapping of a woodpecker‚ is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquility." Irving describes nature as an untouchable force.  He ignores the realism of nature and reveals only the beauty it holds.  It is the stereotypical description of Mother Nature.  Irving makes it sound so tranquil

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    The essay ’The Role of the Teacher’ written by Irving Layton reviews the current state of our ever criticized school system. The author shows us how we view the problems of the school system and explains how and why we place blame on teachers. He shows how ’penny-pinching school boards’(p145) are the real ones to blame and not the teaches whom are the easiest to confront. ’A feeling has grown that schools and universities are not achieving that which they were intended: namely ‚ the enrichment of

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    familiar style of literary work. Various magical ideas ranging from flying carpets to floating up into the heavens are inputted into the daily lives of the Buendías as well as those who they interact with in Gabriel García Márquez’s book One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is not unusual to encounter the supernatural in this novel. Neither is it uncommon to find people‚ and even animals losing their sanity over what to us may seem like something not worthy of even bothering about. However‚ Macondo

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    anything about bananas yet starts the entire company Represents mass production/ exploitation of cheap labor One of the primary factors in the massacre of 3000 workers Brings into Macondo surveyors‚ engineers‚ agronomists and others to start the banana company With his arrival comes a huge wave of new gringos that bring with them a completely different culture and change to the town “No one knew yet what they were after or whether they were nothing but philanthropists and they had already caused

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    Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I as the producer of ‘The One Day of the Year’ would firstly like to welcome you and thank you for coming to the auditions of Jan in Act 1 Scene 1 found on Page 34. The discourse represented in this selection of the play is the Generation Gap mainly focusing on parent/child conflict. Personally I felt Jan was silenced here and she doesn’t really get to share all those feelings that are built up inside of her‚ though since we have the chance to‚ let

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    Communicable Diseases and Skin Disorders (13 questions) Common terms that are applied to skin lesions: Erythema – A reddened area caused by increased amounts of unoxygenated blood in the dermal vasculature. Ecchymoses (bruises) – Localized red or purple discolorations caused by extravasation of blood into the dermis and subcutaneous tissues Petechiae – Pinpoint‚ tiny‚ and sharp circumscribed spots in the superficial layers of the epidermis Primary lesions- Skin changes produced by a causative

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    Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is a short fictional story. It was set in the years before and after the Revolutionary War. Rip lived in a pleasant village at the bottom of New York’s Catskill Mountains. One day Rip decided that he needed to escape his wife’s nagging so he went up the mountain with his pet dog. They reach a hollow where there were bearded men playing the nine-pins. Rip doesn’t say anything but instead drinks some of their moonshine and falls into a slumber. When he wakes more

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    in Braintree‚ Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Quincy‚ Massachusetts) a boy was born to John Adams‚ Sr and Susanna Boylston. That boy was John Adams‚ Jr one of the fathers of our country. Well not yet‚ but he was going to get there. He was a very healthy child but when he arrived at Harvard his health took a turn for the worst. John had a respiratory infection‚ depression‚ and was inoculated for smallpox. John became a member of the Massachusetts legislature and was sent the Continental Congress

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    World war one (core study) The reasons for the stalemate on the western Front Russia mobilised faster than expected. Schlieffen plan was modified a. Helmuth Von Moltke modified the plan b. Splitting the army i. Defending against Russia ii. Defending Lorraine c. Circling Paris i. Left a gap causing the French soldiers retreating back in to Paris ii. Damaged the German troops in number d. Resistance from Belgium i. Leading Britain in to the war ii. German delay ( food supply)

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