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    Monroy Judith Watry WRT102 April 19th‚ 2014 World renowned author and playwright‚ Luis Valdez‚ carries a rich Mexican-American historical background that gives him the ability to integrate his beautiful culture in his writings. In 1940‚ Luis Valdez was born into a family of migrant workers along with his nine brothers and sisters. According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography in an excerpt on Luis Valdez‚ he began picking crops at the age of six and was forced to travel around California’s

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    In "Catch the Moon"‚ Luis‚ the main character‚ changes throughout the short story. Luis is a male student at Central High and has been in trouble ever since he started attending the high school. After his mother’s death‚ Luis organized a "social group." The group’s members were mainly high school age guys who found amusement from harassing the local authorities. His social group lead him to take part in activities that he wouldn’t have before his mother past away. For example‚ the group broke

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    He lived in poverty and was the oldest child. Luis raped and murdered kids that were poor and on the streets. (Murderpedia) He would give them stuff‚ take them on walks‚ and once they got tired he would rape them and most of the time‚ dismember their bodies. He confessed to killing 140 people‚ charged

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    there are novels‚ poems‚ short stories etc that has come from countries such as Argentina‚ Mexico‚ Venezuela‚ Cuba etc. Who is Luis de Góngora? One of the most prominent literatures author and Spanish poet Luis de Góngora comes from his beginning to find his voice. His objective was aesthetic; aesthetics is based on the concept of beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Luis de Góngora was born on July 11‚ 1561 in Córdoba‚ Spain. He was born Francisco de Argote‚ later change to Leonor de Góngora (Mujica)

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    have just stayed as a small military party but even if he did Luis wouldn’t have been there to inform him other certain things. What if Camila had gone home? Would Demetrio live with it or continue to think about here? Considering Demetrio had a wife and a son I believe that he could soon forgot about her if she had just left and returned home. War paint had made few good choices in the novel what made her do those things? What was Luis trying to achieve by going to Demetrio and joining his army?

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    This article is about Luis Delcid-Cardona‚ a boy who killed his three best mates while driving drunk. He fled the scene by foot while his friends lay there dead or dying on the New Jersey highway early Thursday morning – 12/12/13. The four passengers were on their way home early Thursday morning after attending a high school party. Luis Delcid-Cardona‚ aged 19‚ was the intoxicated driver‚ Jonathon Rivas‚ aged 19‚ was in the front passenger seat and two recently graduated high school students‚ Samantha

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    The things that drive men towards wanting peace are fear of death‚ desire to live peacefully‚ and the possibility of getting that standard of life. In the state of nature‚ there is no common power and Hobbes states that all individuals are fundamentally equal in that everyone is capable of killing or harming another individual. There is no peace and the risk of death is constant. Life without laws and before a civil society is defined by a constant state of war and general chaos. In the state of

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    In the memoir‚ Always Running‚ by Luis Rodriguez‚ Luis had power over himself to make choices. Some of the choices he’s made by himself are getting in a gang‚ standing up for his beliefs‚ and changing his life around to get out of bad situations. Luis had an older brother who never got involved in gangs and steered clear of trouble‚ unlike Luis who left school several times. In the book‚ the Lomas boys meet up to fight against their rival‚ Sangra‚ because they think Sangra was guilty for the death

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    The bridge to San Luis Rey is a tragic story where all of the main characters are unaware that when they die‚ they will all have something in common. All of the people walking across the bridge that day had the choice to go where they were going when they attempted to cross the bridge. No one made them but they had the free will to do so. As brother Juniper was studying the lives of these five people‚ he thought that it was important to compare and contrast each of their lives and everything that

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    Port Trakl‚ a narrative of poems written by Jaime Luis Huenun and translated by Daniel Borzutzky‚ focuses on a Port named after poet Georg Trakl‚ where “poets come to die” (11) and share their poems amongst themselves. In his book‚ Port Trakl‚ Huenen showcases the connections that poets can share with each others’ work through his narrative about the poets at the Port sharing of their work as a collection that’ll remain at the port. In Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl‚ he describes books as “the truest

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