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    El Chapo

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    Guzmán was born on April 4‚ 1957 to a poor family in the hamlet of La Tuna near Badiraguato‚ where he sold oranges as a child. He had two sisters: Armida and Bernarda; and had 4 brothers: Miguel Angel‚ Aureliano‚ Arturo and Emilio. Little is known about Guzmán’s early years. His father was supposedly a cattle rancher‚ as were most in the area; it is believed‚ however‚ that he also grew opium poppy.[2][7] Fortunately for Guzmán‚ his father had connections to higher-ups in the Sinaloan capital of Culiacán

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    resides in the hills of Topanga Canyon‚ away from the rest of Los Angeles and its ethnic problems; he tells himself it is to feel at peace with nature. He disagrees with the idea of living in the seclusion of the white American neighborhood of Arroyo Blanco to escape ethnic disputes the city holds; he lives in Topanga Canyon to satisfy his environmentalist title. After letting Delaney’s character develop more to give further insight on who Delaney truly is‚ there is no need to address how one action

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    Margery Kempe

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    Soo Jin‚ Kang Hwanhee Park Studies in Medieval Literature 21 May 2015 Alison Gulley‚ Not Tonight Dear‚ I Have a Vow of Chastity: Sexual Abstinence and Marital Vocation in The Book of Margery Kempe‚ Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest‚ 1999. Print. • One of Margery’s greatest transgressions seems to be that she wears white and represents a threat to the institution of marriage; she has a husband and fourteen children‚ yet she to all appearances abandoned them and dressed as a

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    In the morning of August 29‚ 2005‚ a Category 3 hurricane‚ named Hurricane Katrina‚ hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. It started forming over the Bahamas on August 23 and peaked at a Category 5 hurricane. Katrina had winds up to 140 miles per hour. It went on for 400 miles. It’s force was felt in 5 states‚ such as Mississippi and Alabama‚ but the biggest hit was to Louisiana. More specifically‚ New Orleans. New Orleans has an average elevation of six feet below sea level. Since many neighborhoods

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    Young Adulthood

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    OT121: Lifespan Development and Occupation II University of the Philippines Manila | College of Allied Medical Professions Department of Occupational Therapy | Block 21 – Occupational Therapy SS 2012 – 2013 Young Adulthood Ms. Faith Deanne Mari B. Caube 16 January 2013 YOUNG ADULTHOOD   Age Range: 20 - 40 years old Difference of development o Changes due more to personal‚ social‚ cultural events rather than chronological or biological changes o Hallmark of maturity - adapt and change in accordance

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    Ramona

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    Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel Ramona‚ published in 1884‚ was intended to arouse the nation’s interest in the plight of California Indians using literary‚ melodramatic adaptations of actual events‚ such as the shooting of a Cahuilla Indian in the same fashion as Alessandro in the novel. Ms. Jackson was attempting to write "a story which will be a good stroke for the Indians." Very accelerated growth of the state of California was a key factor in the continuing marginalization of the mission Indians

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    The Philippine Revolution

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    guns (paltiks) old rifles‚ bamboo spears‚ and amulets (anting-anting) 4. Spread of the Revolution=> The Revolution quickly spread like wild fire in Southern Luzon. A few hours after the battle of Pinaglabanan‚ the Spanish Governor General. Ramon Blanco‚ declared a state of war in eight provinces: Manila‚ Bulacan‚ Pampanga‚ Nueva Ecija‚ Tarlac‚ Laguna‚ Cavite‚ and Batangas. 5. The Execution of Rizal and other martyrs=> The Spanish officials terrorized the Filipinos and executed many of their famous

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    verse Romance Emaré‚ and the cycle is generally known as the "Constance" cycle.[2] The oldest known variant of this particular type is Vitae duorum Offarum.[3] More distantly related forms of the persecuted heroine include Le Bone Florence of Rome‚ and Griselda.[4] An

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    Question 1: Compare and contrast the strategic service vision of United Commercial Bank and El Banco. The strategic service vision entails four pillars‚ which consist of target market segment‚ service concept‚ operating strategy‚ and service delivery system. In essence‚ the pillars are utilized to improve or modify current services. The first pillar‚ target market segment is essentially the discovery stage. The point of this stage is to determine whom the company is serving and to whose needs

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    Modernity

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    neither consensus about the gaze nor a better theory in sight. 2. “Gender has been a crucial aspect of concepts of the gaze. In the history of art‚ the fact that paintings were for the most part geared toward male viewers‚ as art historian Griselda Pollock has noted in her work on modernity and the spaces of femininity‚ had as much to do with the commerce of art as it did with the social roles and sexual stereotypes of men and women” (Sturken and Cartwright 123). I chose this quote because

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