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    The Motorcycle Diaries

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    "The Motorcycle Diaries" After reading this book‚ I learned a lot about who Che Guevara was that I never knew about him before. More than just two men traveling South America‚ their trip inspired Guevara to become a man he didn’t expect to be. No dry history lesson or travelogue‚ this biography is supported with the humor of Guevara’s diaries‚ as the 23-year-old Ernesto - a frail asthmatic who had not yet taken the nickname Che - and the slightly older Alberto set off from Buenos Aires on a beat-up

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    Entry 1 I’ve returned from the dreadful war in which entrapped me. I’m set free and life has resumed. But it’s still has been miserable. I had high hopes and was ready to return to normalcy. Anything but that happened. My wife had our third child‚ a girl‚ who was the most beautiful baby I’ve ever seen. But it wasn’t the right time. The flu had been sweeping the streets and I’d hear about another death each day. I tried so hard to keep her safe‚ to keep her healthy. But eventually it spread to our

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    Walter Salles’ film‚ The Motorcycle Diaries‚ concerns the choices of two South American men‚ Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Alberto Granado on a physical and inner journey through South America. They were faced with choosing between helping the people of South America and looking after themselves as they scrape by throughout their perilous expedition‚ for example; when Ernesto and Alberto meet the man near the side of the lake and they inspect the lump on his neck and Ernesto is more concerned of the

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    Diary of a convict Diary of Rick Mason May the 5. 1822 After mouths of sailing on the never ending ocean‚ we could finally on this calm sunny morning see a coastline on the horizon “Australia”. Today is a day me and the rest of the prisoners aboard Providence II Have been looking forward to. Hope the guards aren’t serious about the torture and the one month life expectancy. May the 7. 1822 It’s only been a couple of days since we docked on Macquarie Harbour prison‚ where we where introduced

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    Dominique Spurlock HIST 4371 February 7‚ 2011 Motorcycle Diaries In the film “Motorcycle Diaries” the filmmaker does an excellent job of portraying Che (Fuser) Guevara’s way of thinking. Che was a very kind hearted man who did not think that he was better than others just because he was a year away from being a doctor. In 1951 Che decided to post-pone his medical degree to travel around South America with his friend Alberto “Mial” Granado. During this trip they made several stops. The first

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    According to smokerfacts.org thousands of people die and about 5‚000 children smoke their first cigarette. So Greeley central students we need to stop smoking/tobacco and help other people to stop smoking so I’ll talk about some problems that we could fix before it gets out of hand. In spite of all the health warnings‚ teenagers continue to get hooked on tobacco even though they all know that it’s bad for them. It is therefore logical to conclude that a shallow knowledge of the health risks is not

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    The director of Diary of a Mad Black Woman is Tyler Perry and he specializes in comedy-drama movies. The movie Diary of a Mad black woman is considered a comedy because though the plot is very serious it emphasizes humor. Unlike most dramas the director is trying to make the audience laugh through the delight and exaggeration of the different characters for humor. Comedies very often have happy endings. Diary of a Mad Black Woman fits this description because the plot of this movie is set around

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    Media Diary Maitha S Fall 2012 Media is the main mass of communication; it can be traditional media like Television‚ radio‚ news papers‚ magazines or digital like DVD’s‚ cable‚ CD’s‚ MP3’s‚ World Wide Web and Email. Media takes a big part of our lives too many people media holds every thing they want they build their own world and live in it. Before doing the media diary I knew that I don’t use media that much specially my phone but I discovered that I do‚ I use my phone to call‚ text

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    Anarchy and the Diary of a Madman A revolutionary work for its time‚ Lu Xun’s short story‚ “A Madman’s Diary”‚ appears to be an allegory for the problems of China’s culture and how they came to exist. Lu Xun uses cannibalism in his work to represent old values and customs‚ such as traditional Chinese views of how to cure the physically and mentally sick. Mores that to modern generations seem barbaric and absurd; for instance ideas of skin eating and blood drinking to cure the ill. Lu Xun suggests

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    choose to bring is called Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos. Before reading‚ I always scan a brief summary of the book and author. Here is one from Archipelago Books‚ A nonprofit press devoted to contemporary & classic world literature‚ “Called “the greatest poet of our age” by Louis Aragon‚ Yannis Ritsos is a poet whose writing life is thoroughly entwined with the contemporary history of his homeland. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this volume‚ a series of diaries-in-poetry Ritsos wrote between

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