naked eye and to all radars. A man named Carlos Miguel Allende witnessed the act while serving on a nearby merchant ship‚ SS Andrew Furuseth. In 1956 M.K. Jessup‚ the author of The Case for UFOs‚ received a handwritten letter by Allende telling him about the experiment. Allende described it as the military radiating the ship with electromagnetic beams. Jessup’s book‚ The Case For UFOs was soon published and included information about Allende and the experiment. Admiral N. Furuth chief ONR’s Special
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Cold War Influence in Latin America The United States and the Soviet Union competed against each other during the Cold War in the second half of the 20th Century like a chess game‚ with the world as their chessboard and countries as pawns in their game. For the Russians‚ a critical part of the chessboard was Cuba and Latin America. The Russians believed that if they could align themselves with countries in the western hemisphere‚ America’s “backyard”‚ it would help the Soviet Union counter the strong
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opposition groups during that time period and "sought to instigate a coup to prevent Allende from taking office. By 1973‚ Chilean society had grown highly polarized‚ between strong opponents and equally strong supporters of Salvador Allende and his government. Military actions and movements‚ separate from the civilian authority‚ began to manifest in the countryside. A failed military coup was attempted against Allende in June 1973. After the coup‚ Chileans witnessed a large-scale repression‚ which started
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life of a slave named Tété. Tété‚ the principle protagonist in the novel‚ is a mulatta who spends most of the novel enslaved by her main antagonist‚ a Frenchman named Toulouse Valmorain. Written from both a historical and a feminist standpoint‚ Allende paints a picture of the privilege of French and male colonists‚ and the burdens of Black people and women. The author weaves several feminist themes together in her story. Throughout the novel‚ not one female character is truly free. Specifically
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An act of revenge or no? “ON THAT GLORIUS NOONDAY when Dulce Rosa Orellano was crowned with jasmines of Carnival Queen‚ the mothers of the other candidates murmured that it was unfair for her to win just because she was the only daughter of the most powerful man in the entire province‚ Senator Anselmo Orellano” (Charters‚ 2011‚ p.42). This first paragraph of the passage as well as the title of the story leads the reader to prepare for some sort of battle. The story goes on to
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Therefore‚ when the Popular Unity had a remarkable victory‚ to the left chileans it signified the directive to move towards the democratic road to socialism‚ which Allende had promised. This win gave the workers the inclination towards the opportunity of a revolution. As a consequence‚ many leftists wanted to accelerate the pace of things at a faster rate than the Popular Unity had anticipated. As mentioned before‚
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During the Summer‚ a teenager named Maya Vidal was nineteen years old and lived in Berkeley‚ California. This book was written by Isabel Allende. Maya was raised by her Chilean Grandmother‚ Nidia‚ and African American Grandfather‚ Paul Ditson the II. Maya’s father‚ Andrés was a pilot and was always away working. Maya’s Danish mother abandoned her right after her birth. Nidia and Andres immigrated to Canada after the Chilean military took over Chile in 1974. Nidia soon met and married Paul. Paul worked
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International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge #5 Can literature “tell the truth” better than other Arts or Areas of Knowledge? Even as children‚ people are on a never-ending quest for “the truth.” Anyone who has witnessed a toddler incessantly ask his mother “Why?” can attest to that. Writers‚ artists‚ and scientists all have methods of finding “truth” and telling it to others. While the standards for what truth can be vary between Areas of Knowledge‚ no Area of Knowledge is significantly
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Bureaucratic-Authoritarian (BA) coined by Guillermo O’Donnell‚ in the mid-1970s to explain the nature of the authoritarian regimes that ruled the region from the 1960s to the 1980s. BA is normally ruled by a military junta instead of a caudillo that is military juntas rather than individual dictators. It is characterised by having people from bureaucratic careers in higher governmental positions‚ political and economic exclusion of the popular sector‚ depoliticalization and the increasing capacity
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The story was based on a real event in Columbia. The main character is Rolf Carle. The story starts on the first line with‚ "They discovered the girl’s head protruding from the pit of mud‚ the eyes were wide open and was calling in low tones‚" (Allende‚ 922) this sets the mood for understanding the stories content. Also‚ the identification of this girl establishes the tone of love lost for over thirty years. Rolfs’ finding of Azucena makes him close the gap of the experiences and feelings he was
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