lue System Since the age of four‚ soccer has been with me the whole way. Soccer is more than a sport‚ it is a passion. I come from a family that revolves around sports. Soccer is the biggest sport in my life. I have grown up in a family where you eat‚ sleep‚ and breathe soccer. I was influenced by this sport ever since I had learned to walk. If I was not playing or watching my dad and brother play soccer games‚ I was watching games with my dad on T.V. I grew up watching my favorite players that
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The ALEPH‚ Infinite! Often‚ wonder what happens after death. How does one really get infinite without anymore agony. Whenever‚ one searches the internet‚ it has infinite amount of information. Simply the amount of knowledge anyone knows may become immeasurable. Borge’s lost his lady friend before he wrote the short “The Aleph”. In the short story Borge’s stats that he “devotes his-self to her memory”. Often‚ I can relate to devoting myself to my Nana’s memory. She recently passed away. Recalling
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Jorge Borges and Julio Cortazar use magical realism to aid the reader reveal new aspects of reality. In the tales “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Borges and “Letter to a Lady in Paris” by Julio Cortazar.The use of magical realism aids the reader develop deeper understandings of the subjects in the work. In the short tale “Garden of Forking Paths”‚ magical realism is shown through the new perspective of time. This new perspective was shown in a book within the short story. The book was
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Luis Cardenas Luis Cardenas needs to consider happiness when choosing his career. Because when you are in a job it is very impotent that you love what you do and be happy‚ after all you will be doing this same job for forty years are so. For example the lone officer position Luis would be very unhappy. When Luis was working as an executive assistant he would come home and say‚ “there goes another eight hours of my life down the drain” (pg.209). Luis would be getting up every day
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In his writings‚ Borges constructed his narrator as individuals with existential mindsets using them as a motif for questioning the moldability and understanding of memory and the role this understanding takes in knowing their own identities. In “The Maker”‚ Borges uses the narrator’s blindness as an euphemism for freedom and unrestricted limitations considering the narrator’s approach to remembering his life before the beginning of the deterioration of his sight as more vivid than he previously
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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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Borges’ Blindness & Dillard’s Seeing In Jorge Luis Borges’ piece from Ficciones‚ “Blindness” and Annie Dillard’s piece from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek‚ “Seeing”‚ we read writers’ perspectices on their own blindness. The writers contradict the common fallacies our culture has about blindness with their own personal experiences. Although both writers portray blindness in a positive light‚ each writer uses his disability to enhance his lives differently. Borges depicts his loss of sight as an opportunity
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Introduction From Shakespeare to Christina Rossetti‚ the word ‘Remember’ is a ghostly verb. The act of remembrance resurrects people‚ places and events that have long passed. In the opening lines of Funes the Memorious Borges refers to it as a ‘sacred verb’. To remember someone is an act of devotion to them. In the normal healing process after the trauma caused by war there is an intense period of remembrance which takes place after the pain of that trauma has diminished enough for comprehension
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Luis Borges “The Keeper of the Books” Here they stand: gardens and temples and the reason for temples; exact music and exact words; the sixty-four hexagrams; ceremonies‚ which are the only wisdom that the Firmament accords to men; the conduct of that emperor whose perfect rule was reflected in the world‚ which mirrored him‚ so that rivers held their banks and fields gave up their fruit; the wounded unicorn that’s glimpsed again‚ marking an era’s close; the secret and eternal laws;
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Jorge Luis Borges’ short story‚ “Borges and Myself‚” and Julia de Burgos’ poem‚ “To Julia de Burgos‚” are two self reflective pieces about their respective authors. They both focus on a detachment between the author’s persona and self image. Not only do these literary works share similar themes‚ but they use many of the same poetic elements. These elements - tone‚ metaphors‚ and allusions - are a means to accurately communicate the internal struggle they share. Both pieces use tone. In “Borges and
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