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    La Moreneta

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    La Moreneta Hotel A group of debt holders is considering cancel an outstanding debt from La Moreneta C.A.‚ a Construction Company by receiving a small Hotel in Calella de Mar‚ because La Moreneta C.A. can’t produce enough Cash Flow to meet its short term obligations. The outstanding debt of La Moreneta is an amount totalling €140‚000. This price represents the value of all the furniture‚ Machines and Equipments and will cancel all the outstanding debt. La Moreneta C.A. owns the building

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    La Amistad

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    LA Amistad is a movie depicting the tale of many Africans who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery. The Africans of “La Amistad” had been among five or six hundred Africans purchased by a Portuguese slave from Pedro Blanco‚ who operated a notorious slave factory on the island of Lomboko‚ south of Freetown. They had been brought from Africa on board the Portuguese slaver “Tecora” to Havana‚ where they were moved under cover of darkness to a prison outside the city and advertised for

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    La Tomatina

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    LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL‚ BUNOL‚ SPAIN La Tomatina is a largest food fight festival in the world which is held in the Valencian town of Bunol‚ Spain. It is held on the last Wednesday of August every year. This festival required the visitors to throw approximately 40‚000 tomatoes and get involved in this tomatoes fight just for fun every year. The history of this festival was started on the last Wednesday of August 1945. During that time‚ the town square‚ where the “tomatina” is traditionally held nowadays

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    La Malinche

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    "La Malinche." Slave‚ interpreter‚ secretary‚ mistress‚ mother of the first "Mexican." her very name still stirs up controversy. Many Mexicans continue to revile the woman called Doña Marina by the Spaniards and La Malinche by the Aztecs‚ labeling her a traitor and harlot for her role as the alter-ego of Cortes as he conquered Mexico. They ignore that she saved thousands of Indian lives by enabling Cortes to negotiate rather than slaughter. Her ability to communicate also enabled the Spaniards to

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    Las Vegas

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    Las Vegas: A Family-Friendly City(?) Admit it‚ whenever you hear the word Las Vegas‚ the first thing that pops into your mind is casinos‚ right? The Sin City – “What happens in Vegas‚ Stays in Vegas” – reputation doesn’t help much either. But even with all that baggage‚ Las Vegas is actually a great place to raise your kids in. Just take a look at all the neat stuff the city has to offer your young family. The Cost of Living Las Vegas provides many housing options for new homebuyers; there are

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    La Amistad

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    the year if a abhorrent apostasy took abode on lath the Spanish address La Amistad‚ which transported salves. It was the time if the bullwork was abolished in the North and the South of the United States of America was bitching for they badly “needed” disciplinarian to plan for them. American courts still adjudge whether the atramentous getting is chargeless according to the abode he comes from. The balloon over the rebels from La Amistad asks the capital question: ”Are these rebels disciplinarian or

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    las posadas

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    Las Posadas‚ or the accomodation‚ is a nine day period to represent The Virgin Mary’s nine months of pregnancy and her struggle to find a place to have baby Jesus. This holiday has been a tradition in Mexico for four hundred years. The nine day celebration was started by early friars that combined Spanish Catholicism with the Aztec celebration of the birth of their God. It is celebrated with beautiful Nativity scenes and huge feasts. The people dress up in costumes and reenact Las Posodas. Las Posadas

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    Shangri-La

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    1. Shangri-La Background: Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is a deluxe Asian hotel chain‚ founded in 1971 in Singapore by the Malaysian-Chinese tycoon Robert Kuok. The company quickly differentiated itself from the competition and provided distinctive Asian standards of hospitality and service. As of 2006‚ Shangri-La was the largest Asian-based deluxe hotel group in Southeast Asia. The company managed a total of 50 hotels under two brands: the five-star Shangri-La and the four-star Traders- a sister

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    La Sape

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    Become Fashionista is the main key word of La Sape. La Sape is a social movement occurs in Congo who devote their income to purchasing fine clothing and accessories‚ assuring they innovate the morale of their neighborhoods by being an example of couture and courtesy to others. Congo is well known as poverty country and interminable with civil conflicts. This is not the way cease La Sape “dream” to express their lavish apparel. The story of La Sape began when French colonization entered to Congo

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    La Haine

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    La Haine (1995): dir. Mathieu Kassovitz- France Starkly shot in black and white to show a Paris not on any map‚ the film deals with Frances intolerance towards outsiders. After local youth Adel is beaten unconscious by police‚ a riot ensues on his estate during which a policeman loses his gun. La Haine follows vinz‚ Hubert and said‚ three young men trapped in the Parisian economic‚ ethnic and social underclass. Watching the film‚ what really stood out to me was the way the film shot- -Being wholly

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