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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PDHPE STAGE 6 HSC COURSE HSC CORE ONE: HEALTH PRIORITIES IN AUSTRALIA HOW ARE PRIORITY ISSUES FOR AUSTRALIAS HEALTH IDENTIFIED? Health priority issues are those health issues that are greatest concern to governments and support organizations due to the effect they have on the overall health of Australians and the burden of health on the economy. * Measuring health status Health status is the pattern of health of the population in general over a period of time. We measure our health
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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." 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 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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Byrd 1 Wesleigh Byrd Mr. Holloway Composition 11 8 March 2013 At the “Core” of Technology ! Traveling backwards along the timeline of how technology has impacted the day-to-day responsibilities of life can seem archaic to most. For quite a few years offices thought of the fax machine as the most expeditious way of transferring information‚ namely documents. This process of “sending” information often created frustrating scenarios resulting in a loss of time. A fax machine would have
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La Llorona or the Crying woman is a legend that goes back century’s in the Mexican culture. Some of the earliest recorded sightings are legends of The Aztecs‚ who say that the goddess Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors. Later in a story reflecting the Greek story of Medea‚ a woman has children by the conquer Cortez’ and when he is called back to Spain and decides to take
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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 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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rights reserved 0160-7383/94 $6.00 + .00 0160-7383(93)E0032-9 THE TOURISM PRODUCT Stephen L. J. Smith University of Waterloo‚ Canada Abstract: An industry is characterized by a generic product and production process. For tourism to be considered an industry‚ it is necessary to show that such a genetic product and process exist. This paper argues that they do exist‚ and presents a model that describes the product as consisting of five elements: the physical plant‚ service‚ hospitality‚ freedom
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