Chucha de tu madre! Que bestia!¨ Louis grumbled under his breath as he watched the men on red scooters visiting all the small shopkeepers. ¨Chulqueros! ¨ He spat into the gutter. ¨Todo el pueblo anda chiro; ¨ - meaning of course that everyone’s pockets held lint‚ or dust‚ or assorted garbage‚ but none of them held any money. They can’t get credit cards‚ and banks won’t lend them the small amounts that they needed to keep their business running‚ so they look for one of the countless street shysters
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Las Casas Time Line 1484 Born in Seville to Pedro de Las Casas‚ a small merchant wealthy enough to send his son to learn Latin in the academy at the cathedral of Seville in 1497. Many older sources give 1474 as the year of his birth. 1502 Leaves Spain for Hispaniola in the West Indies with the governor‚ Nicolas de Ovando. He earns an encomienda for his participation in several expeditions and then proceeds to evangelize the Indians. 1506 Returns briefly to Europe where he is ordained a deacon
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The author I admire most is Bartolome De las Casas‚ because he went against the consensus of the Spaniards and defended the Native Americans. In the final paragraph of the reading‚ De las Casas states “The Indians will embrace the teachings of the gospel‚ as I well know…” (De Las Casas 2010) . This leads me to believe he actually spent time getting to know them as people. He took the time to learn about their art‚ music‚ government and other aspects of their lives. I believe he honestly wanted to
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Bartolome de las Casas was born on November 11 1484 in Seville‚ Spain. He was a Spanish missionary who “participated in the conquest of Cuba.” (text pg 27) While in the Americas‚ he had owned enslaved Indian and shortly after “freed his own Indian slaves and began to preach against the injustices of Spanish Rule.” (text pg 27) Throughout his years he dedicated his life to being an advocate for Native American rights. In 1520 he tried‚ but failed‚ to establish a separate settlement where the Spanish
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The song “Me Myself and I” by the hip-hop group De La Soul strongly fits into the three-step process of the gospel from chapter one of Understanding Black American Aspects In Hip Hop Cinema. The three steps of the gospel are “(1) acknowledging the burden;(2) bearing witness; (3) finding redemption. The burden grounds the song in the history of suffering that links individual and community experience” (Sanchez 5). “Me Myself and I” relates strongly to the three steps of the gospel by tackling
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essay‚ I am going to talk about three people that we worked on this first part of the semester. The reason why we are working on them is because they are considered important for our history. The first person I am going to talk about is ``Bartolome de Las Casas’’‚ he is in the period called ``A Continent on the move’’ over the years 1400 until 1725. ``Eliza Lucas’’ is the second person that is going to be presented‚ she is presented during the year 1689 until 1763 in the period called ``The English
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PERIODÍSTICO periodístico Y EL LENGUAJE POLÍTICO publicitario EN LA ESPAÑA ACTUAL Corso di Lingua spagnola - Gennaio 2006 ÍIndice Introducción................................................................................................................3 El lenguaje de la prensa............................................................................................4 El desarollo La noticia y la opinion pública Acontecimiento‚ noticia y público Los valores-noticia
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Velázquez Rodriguez de Seville. He was baptized in the church of san pedro on june 6 In the Spanish golden age Diego was one of the most important painters and the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and He was kind of a lonely artist of the contemporary Baroque period.he painted different portraits for the Spanish royal families. ‚velazquez did a lot of paintings but he did a phenomenal paint which is Las Meninas (1656). And this is what am I going to talk about now Las Meninas was made
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Introduction To find out whether or not Mr. Gonzales should implement the new compensation plan‚ we will initiate with a valuation of the proposed bonus plan that he is considering. This evaluation will include an analysis of the key decisions and the persons responsible for making the decision as well as a discussion of the proposed plan. Upon this analysis we will conclude whether it is a good idea to implement it and state our suggestions for a modification of the plan. Valuation of the proposed
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In the textbook of Bartolome de las Casas From The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies‚ de la Casas said “This was the first land in the New World to be destroyed and depopulated by the Christians‚ and here they began their subjection of the women and children‚ taking them away from the Indians to use them and ill use them‚ eating the food they provided with their sweat and toil.” Base on this saying we can guest his thought about the New World and its inhabitants‚ he explains
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