The significance of my title “El Crack” comes from nicknames given to soccer players who do amazing things in the field from their hard training hours. Meanwhile‚ my father and uncle both loved to play soccer; they eventually made me go outside to play soccer with them at a young age. They commented on how I could become a soccer prodigy with the amount of skill I had as an amuetuer player. Next‚ I played soccer for about a year it didn’t go so well for me and my team. On the other hand‚ I trained
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Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travel’ and Voltaire’s ‘Candide’ Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travel’ and Voltaire’s ‘Candide’ are typical literature works during the Enlightenment period. Both authors use satire in their works. Satire is literary form which means irony. Therefore‚ they have some similarities. They both want to expose human vices through satiric tone. Due to different personal styles‚ there are many differences between two novels. Two novels use satire to criticize human weakness. In ‘Gulliver’s
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For most of my childhood‚ my whole world was comprised of people that shared the same ethnicity‚ culture‚ and living style as I did. But after leaving El Salvador at the young age of seven and undertaking the most difficult journey of my life‚ my world was split shattered. In school‚ I had to assimilate to a culture where I was surrounded by kids who had been born speaking English and teachers who taught with voluminous books instead of dirty chalk boards. Meanwhile‚ at home‚ I had to meet my mom’s
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El Norte‚ a 1983 film directed by Gregory Nava‚ depicts the life of two indigenous teenagers who flee their native country‚ Guatemala‚ in search for a better life in America. The reason for fleeing is due to the ethnic and political oppression of the Guatemalan Civil War. The film builds up a strong connection shared between Enrique and Rosa‚ one of genuine feeling and fierce emotion. This connection is foregrounded by the exaggerated style and is often compared to adulterated relations among Hispanics
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El Mañana The title of the song has multiple meanings when considering the translation. El Mañana has a few different uses in Spanish; it means ‘the tomorrow‚’ ‘the dawn‚’ or ‘the morning.’ All of these meanings play a role in the message of the song. ‘The tomorrow’ resembles the future and having a positive mindset for that future. ‘The dawn’ is used to show recovery from a sad time or dark place‚ it is the first sign of light which represents positive change. ‘The morning‚’ although similar to
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- Meningitis University of Phoenix HCS 245 Introduction to Health and Diseases MU11BHA06 November 02‚ 2011 Cultural and Disease Paper - Meningitis It was mid-February 1968 in a city in the central region of El Salvador‚ two men sitting on the street curve outside the doctor’s office. One of them was the doctor himself; the other man was a poor steel worker whom two years earlier lost his second child to bronchitis. The doctor said to my father the choices
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Summary of El Filibustirismo The novel opens with the steamship Tabo heading up the Pasig River on its way to La Laguna one December morning they meet Doña Victorina‚ the only lady in the European group on the upper deck she is accompanied by her niece‚ the beautiful and rich Paulita Gomez. Doña Victorina is the wife of Don Tiburcio de Espadaña‚ who left her after many years of marriage and who was now hiding in Laguna. In the lower deck of tabo‚ Basilio and Isagani converse with Don Basilio those
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It gave me mixed feelings. El Hielo can be related to most Chicanos/as immigrants‚ the feeling of uncertainty about been arrested can be very stressful‚ not only to the undocumented Chicano/a‚ but to his‚ or her family members‚ including their children born in the US; however‚ Chicanos/as continue to be hopeful to achieve prosperity and go on with their everyday activities‚ whether is to go to work‚ or to have a Quinceanera party for a family member. I have experienced that first hand‚ when I first
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Compare the satire in Gulliver’s Travels & Candide Satire means irony. People use satire to expose folly or vice. Interestingly‚ in Voltaire’s Candide and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels‚ they both use satire to express their profound observations. They have some similarities; such as they both criticize the human weakness. They also have many differences between them. In "Candide"‚ Voltarie offers sad themes by jokes and criticism. The story itself presents a distinctive outlook on life through author’s
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Dimattia‚ Devin English 12 AP Period 2 Gonzalez 10-5-11 Does Voltaire’s Candide connect to Modern Society? The tone and theme of Candide‚ a classic work of literature‚ make the novel relevant to today’s modern world. These two elements of the story bring the classic to life for new generations to relate to as they read it. The satiric story unites a new generation of modern readers to a historical past as they identify with both the theme and tone of the novel as a whole. The tone of Voltaire’s
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