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    6. De-Americanization is a kind of prejudicial racism that is based on the perceived lack of loyalty of a citizen who appears foreign. This is different in comparison to the kind of racism and discrimination that blacks face‚ because that belief system revolves around the idea of inferiority in relation to skin color. Once a person is de-Americanized they can be treated as inferior beings. The people who act on these beliefs are Vigilante Racists. Vigilantes are regular citizens who take the law

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    De-cluttering your physical space can have an amazingly uplifting effect on your mood. Feng Shui experts claim that buildings and furniture store the memories of events in the form of energy‚ and that by de-cluttering you can clear the energy of historic traumatic events. Whether or not you put any store in that kind of theory‚ nobody who has ever de-cluttered a space could deny the positive benefits of increasing the physical space in their environment. However‚ physical de-cluttering can also

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    When looking the histories on these century‚ women transgression toward society norms shaped by Spain influence of a “ideal” women behavior should be like. Two fitting examples of how women transgress in society at the time is Catalina de Erauso and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. These two women had to change many aspects in their life to accomplish an internal freedom‚ which at the time society didn’t approve as appropriate for an ordinary woman. Some of the crucial aspects affected by this choice are

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    Genius – is always recognized. Genius – is never ignored. Genius – is never silenced. Christine de Pizan was/is a remarkable person and a genius that transcends all epochs of Time. She is immortal through the words‚ works‚ and love she has given to everyone everywhere. Oh‚ what she could have accomplished in this modern world of mass communication! As a young girl‚ Christine’s father recognized the unparalleled gift within his daughter and gave her what was usually reserved for only the men of her

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    St. Dominic de Guzman

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    castles to protect their properties from invasion of their enemies. In 1770‚ our dearest St. Dominic was born in the small city of Caleruega‚ province of Burgos‚ between two famous cities of Aranda de Duero and Santo Domingo de Silos‚ in the middle of Castilla. His parents‚ Felix de Guzman and Juana de Aza were landlords in Caleruega. His father employed workers who painted and harvested wheat attended to the vine-yards‚ and people who herded the sheep and the cattle of the land-owners. His mother

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    through futuristic ideas from a profoundly pessimistic view‚ which ultimately results in moral relativism and national apathy. In ‘Canto de Esperanza’‚ the speaker portrays the tragic side of life with existential concerns from an introspective perspective. The sense of despair and pain in living are emphasised by the use of enjambment and caesura‚ ‘…vierte la esencia de la vida/ sobre tanta alma loca‚ triste o empedernida’. The poetic form‚ characteristic style and somewhat fragmented content of the

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    “The Terror” by Guy de Maupassant is a story about a man who is getting married because he’s afraid to be alone. First‚ the story begins with a man who talking about is upcoming nuptials to a woman he barely knows. The guy (nameless) has only met his future wife four times‚ and thinks she is what any man could want in a spouse; he talks about how she’s not really rich‚ but was raised for the sole purpose of marriage. He says the only reason he’s getting marriage is because he doesn’t want to be alone:

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    Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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    his unfair death is not our fault I still believe that he is owed that and deserves to be honored for his discovery. I think that all explorers should get some kind of appreciation and deserve to be honored for their discoveries especially Vasco Nunez de Balboa. Also to give you even more reason to include Balboa on your new series of stamps there was once stamps that had Vasco Nunez on them. The stamps were issued in 1513 which is the year that Balboa departed with about ninety of his troops and

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    Bartolome de Las Casas

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    this article‚ de Las Casas makes another interesting comment about Christians’ another terrific action towards Indians. After taking the exiled king of India‚ Christians send him in a vessel to another place. But many Christians are drowned along with the king. The significant point is that there were very huge amount of gold in the shipwreck and the comment made by de Las Casas points out the real condition: "Such was God’s vengeance for so many terrible injustices." Bartolome de Las Casas gives

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyons into an old family of provincial nobility. Saint-Exupéry spent his childhood years at the castle of Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens‚ surrounded by sisters‚ aunts‚ cousins‚ nurses‚ and fräuleins. He was educated at Jesuit schools in Montgré and Le Mans‚ and in Switzerland at a Catholic boarding school (1915-1917)‚ run by the Marianist Fathers in Fribourg. After failing his final examination at a university preparatory school‚ he entered

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