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    Deir El-Medina

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    Deir el-Medina Deir el-Medina is not an important site to study when looking at Egyptian culture‚ architecture and workforce as it only represents a small part of Egyptian society and a specialised one at that. Deir el-Medina was a city that was built for the sole purpose of building tombs for the people of the main Egyptian cities. For this reason it is an important site to study when looking at Egyptian burial practices. It is‚ however useful when looking at Egyptian culture‚ architecture

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    El Salvador Killings

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    This article “El Salvador Arrests Ex-Military Officers in 1989 Jesuit Killings” was about killings of six Jesuit priests‚ a housekeeper and her teenage daughter back in 1989. Recently‚ the El Salvadoran police force raided two days to find out 20 ex-military officers‚ who were involved in the killings during 1989. As a result four men were arrested inside El Salvador and now authorities are looking for rest of the 16 men. The article mentions that the killing was conducted by “the Salvadoran high

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    El Sombrero Memo

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    El Sombrero‚ a third generation Las Vegas Mexican restaurant‚ that has been in existence for more than seventy-seven years‚ owned by Irma Aquirre‚ is being viciously attacked by the DREAMers and other Progressive groups‚ following a meeting between Donald Trump and twenty-nine other local Hispanic business owners hosted by Aquirre at the El Sombrero Wednesday. As the meeting took place inside the restaurant‚ a small group of protesters had gathered outside of the restaurant to protest Donald Trump

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    El Mio Cid

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    El Cantar del Mio Cid is the oldest preserved Spanish cantar de gesta. Formerly‚ it was transmitted only orally‚ but in 1142 it was written down by a certain Per Abbat. This copy is held as part of a 14th century codex in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (National Library) in Madrid. However‚ it is incomplete. The first page and two others in the middle are missing. It is written in medieval Spanish‚ the ancestor of modern Spanish. Its current title is a modern invention by Ramón Menéndez Pidal;

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    My El Presidente

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    MY REACTION ABOUT EL PRESIDENTE Being a history buff‚ I really made time to watch "El Presidente‚" about the President of the First Philippine Republic‚ Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. It is about time that era in Philippine History was given a definitive movie rendition. I had high hopes about this film‚ since producer Laguna Gov. Jeorge "E.R." Ejercito (as Jeorge ER Estregan) gave us a very well-made

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    Deir El-Medina

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    Deir el-Medina. Caitlin Wall. Good morning‚ Deir el-Medina is a little workmans villiage set on the west bank or the River Nile‚ just below the ancient city of Thebes. The village was inhabited by workmen who were responsible for the construction and decoration of the royal tombs from the New Kingdom. The exploration of Deir el-Medina has yielded a huge quantity of artefacts and texts written on ostraca or papyri‚ which offer a unique view into the daily life of an ancient Egyptian community. Throughout

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    having Candide mature through his journey. Candide realizes that the world is more than Westphalia‚ and that Westphalia is not the best place in the world. Candide begins to apprehend that if he wants to live in the best world he must construct it. In the novel Candide by Voltaire‚ the characters Pangloss‚Cacambo‚ and Martin help contribute to Candide’s growth in different ways‚ such as Candide being heavily influenced by Pangloss philosophy at the start of the novel. Later‚ when Candide ventures

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    El Filibusterismo Summary

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    than the first novel. The hero of El Filibusterismo is a rich jeweler named Simoun. He was Crisostomo Ibarra of the Noli‚ who‚ with Elias’ help‚ escaped from the pursuing soldiers at Laguna de Bay‚ dug up his buried treasure‚ and fled to Cuba where he became rich and befriended many Spanish officials. Two magnificent obsessions: To rescue Maria Clara from the nunnery of Santa Clara and to foment a revolution against the hated Spanish masters. The story of El Filibusterismo begins on board the

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    Oppression In El Salvador

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    unifying idea of any sort that comes about‚ even over time. El Salvador had had a growing problem of the way its’ government was treating its’ population at the time due to the way the government was structured‚ and this lead to a demand for a better life. Even in the original 13 colonies‚ there was always something that the colonists conflicted over with the imperial power‚ which leads the question‚ how does the history of suppression in El Salvador and America during the years of conflict in the Salvadoran

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    also. One of the world ’s greatest satires‚ Candide by Voltaire‚ some characters feel the same way that I do. However others do not. Martin‚ a skeptic thinks this is not "the best of all possible worlds" ("Candide"102)‚ as Dr. Pangloss would say. My present worldview is more close to the view of the eighteenth century character Martin‚ in the book Candide. Martin‚ an old philosopher who embarked with candide shows strong pessimistic views. Candide is pretty much a follower and is not a very intelligent

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