Ebb and Flow: Cuban-American Reality “Lucy‚ honey‚ if I wanted things Cuban I`d stayed in Havana. That`s the reason I married you‚ ‘cause you`re so different from everyone I`d known before.” -Ricky in I Love Lucy. This quote is from the iconic show from the 50`s‚ I Love Lucy‚ but also is used in Sustavo Perez-Firmat`s piece called Life on the Hyphen. In Perez-Firmat`s piece‚ Perez-Firmat relates the Cuban-American experience and how it is made up of several different generations who all have to
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role in Citi’s capitalizing on emerging growth opportunities." Jorge Bermudez‚ a 33-year veteran of Citi‚ has decided to retire. Over the last three months‚ Mr. Bermudez has worked closely with senior management on assessing and developing a plan for the risk function going forward. "I would like to thank Jorge for his excellent stewardship during a difficult transition time for all of us‚" Mr. Pandit said. "Last October‚ Jorge informed senior management of his intention to retire‚ and given
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point of entry into the historical world.” This statement in the essay rejected the idea of “historical literature” wherein in order to become a historical literature‚ a literature must be written by “historically-minded” writers like Jose Rizal‚ Amado Hernandez and many more. Mojares opposed the idea of ”historical literature” by stating that all text are historical since they are “unavoidably permeated‚ determined‚ or compromised by history”. There are four points stated in the essay that
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From the very beginning of his exile‚ plans were being proposed and made for the rescue of Fernando VII. The first incidences occurred before the King had even arrived at Bayonne. Ayerbe records that people suggested escape attempts to the king at places they stopped on their journey to Valençay‚ including at Bordeaux . The second‚ as noted above‚ occurred no sooner had the king arrived at Valençay‚ when ladies under the guise of visiting Talleyrand suggested to the King’s companion Ayerbe that the
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Tagalog Literature: History and Tradition DOMINGO GOAN LANDICHO Share this article Post a comment | Back to article list GEOGRAPHICAL AREA Tagalog literature has been born‚ cradled‚ nourished and peaked into fruition in the provinces of Southern Luzon‚ Central Luzon and the present Metropolitan Manila or the National Capital Region. Among the Southern Tagalog provinces are Cavite‚ Batangas‚ Laguna‚ Quezon‚ Aurora‚ Oriental Mindoro‚ Occidental Mindoro‚ Marinduque‚ Palawan and
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became the chief of the Quilombo dos Palmares‚ located in Pernambuco‚ in 1680 after leading a civil war and defeating their current leader‚ Ganga Zumba. Zumbi resisted the Portuguese colonial oppression for 14 years until the expedition led by Domingos Jorge Velho destroyed the Palmares in 1694 (Diggs‚ pg 62-67‚ pr 1- 18). However‚ there was no physical evidence of the Palmares‚ and the historical documents showed the invaders’ perspective of the events (Orser‚ pg 10‚ pr 3). Thus‚ the historiography of
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I. Introduction “Ang dating Sick Man of Asia ngayo’y punong-puno na ng sigla.”( The Sick Man of Asia is now full of life) That is how Pres. Benigno Simeon Aquino III described the economic status of the Philippines during his Third State of the Nation Address. He was indeed proud to report to his bosses the progress done by his administration to the Philippines- such as the decrease in unemployment rate‚ the increase in infrastructures‚ and the growth in investments among others. However‚ when
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Origin/ Beginning of Philippine Short Story in English I. The Early Period – 1900 to 1930 On August 13‚ 1898‚ the American forces occupied Manila . A few years later‚ in April of 1900‚ President William McKinley directed the Philippines Commission to make English the official medium of instruction for all public schools. The first teachers of English were members of the United States Army. In August of 1901 six hundred American teachers arrived on the transport Thomas. They replaced the soldiers
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Composers such as Luis Enrique Martinez and Luis Angel Pastor were successful in recording and distributing vallenato merengue while concurrently pushing cultural pride. Luis Enrique Martinez also known as the 1973 king of vallenato‚ composed many vallenato songs including some in the merengue style. He recorded and released a song titled La Botelita which featured many other well-known artist (Smithsonian Folkway‚ 13) This song was recorded for entertainment purposes and even though it did not reach
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Jorge Duran ENGL 1023 Rough draft Tangman No Ones Mystery In the story called No One’s Mystery talks about an impossible relationship between an eighteen year old girl and an old merry man. The story begins with a present that the old man called Jack gives to the girl for her eighteenth birthday. The scenes explore a relation between two characters‚ in which both quite debatable. The young girl in this history remains nameless and could be considered ingenuous‚ while Jack is a corrupted guy
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