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    Juan De Onate In 1549 a baby named Juan de Onate was born. He was born in Zacatecas‚ New Spain (Mexico). His father’s name was Cristobal De Onate; his father was a conquistador/silver baron. Juan’s mother was Dona Catalina Salazar. They were silver mine owners‚ and Spanish-Basque colonists. He grew up dreaming of conquering the region north of New Spain. Juan de Onate first career was as an Indian fighter. He was an Indian fighter in the Northern Frontier region of New Spain. Juan de Onate then

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    The Art of Being Ambiguous In his collection of short stories‚ Ficciones‚ Jorge Luis Borges uses dreams‚ imagination and fantasy to establish ambiguity in his stories. With the use of juxtaposition and symbols‚ Borges blends a realm of dreams and imagination into the individual’s everyday worldly experiences. Through these devices‚ Borges commonly blurs the line between aspects of reality for his characters versus the constructs of his or her mind. By combining the real with the fictitious‚ Borges

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    A point of view is someone’s own interpretation of a story that takes place. Whether or not the tale is true is up to the reader to decide. In Jorge Luis Borges’ short story‚ The Book of Sand‚ the point of view is in first-person. Throughout the story‚ the narrator states events that bring up magic realism and makes the reader question if these events can happen in reality. The narrator is our only source of what is happening in this story‚ but is his facts true‚ or a fragment of his imagination

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    Crossing of Juan Cabrera Timeline 1. While driving to Havana after giving a lecture‚ Professor Juan Cabrera remembers a time in his childhood when his family lived on a large sugarcane ranch. This life did not last for long because Juan’s father was taken away so that the Cuban government could sieze the family’s land. 2. Juan and Raul pass through a Cuban State Security checkpoint on their way to the beach to meet up with andres and to begin the journey to the United States. 3. Juan‚ Raul‚ and

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    L’Âge d’or (The Golden Age) was Luis Buñuel’s second film and was released in 1930. The patrons of this film were a French couple who got impressed by Buñuel’s first film: Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (Sánchez Vidal ‚ cited by Stone‚ 2013). The film has a critical reception‚ which censures the selfish of middle upper class. Corresponding‚ it is a surrealist film and focused upon inner and outer realities at the same time (Radall‚ 1976:4). I am going to analyze the sequence from the mid-way

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    Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja. While the painting is but one form‚ it remains the medium most people think of when asked to consider art. Paintings are an integral part of art history‚ and can take many forms. Whether it be a landscape or a historical scene‚ paintings serve as a window into the age in which they were painting‚ giving the modern viewer a glimpse into the intrepid world of the baroque period. Diego Velazquez provides us with such a glimpse with his Portrait of Juan de Pareja‚ currently

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    Growing up‚ I enjoyed family bookshelves which were just as stocked with cookbooks as they were with serial killer encyclopedias. Even before I could fully read all its components‚ I absorbed information from my mom’s collection‚ scrutinizing crime scene photos I shouldn’t have and piecing cakes together from the fragments of recipes I could understand. In my parents’ eyes‚ my reading preferences were on par with flipping through a Magic Treehouse book: as long as I learned and remained relatively

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    Coffee accounts for 8% of Colombia’s GDP. A personified brand since its creation Following the advice of the advertising agency‚ Juan Valdez was personified since its creation. He would be the symbol of a Colombian coffee grower worldwide. A mere six months after the launch of the campaign‚ 87% of the American people associated Juan Valdez with Colombian coffee. In 1961‚ Juan Valdez was launched

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    Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was an ambitious‚ at times ruthless Portuguese soldier who served the Spanish Empire. Cabrillo eventually made his fortune in Guatemala‚ mining gold and trading goods while participating in the slave trade. In hopes of more riches‚ he set out to explore the California coast‚ mapping landmarks and identifying Native villages. He died on January 3‚ 1543‚ of infection from a wound suffered after an attack on his expedition by Tongva tribesmen. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is

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    Juan Rulfo Juan Rulfo was a Mexican novelist‚ short story writer and also a photographer. Juan Rulfo was born in in Sayula‚ Mexico on May 16‚ 1918. He was raised in the town of San Gabriel‚ Jalisco by his grandmother after the death of his parents. He studied 6 years of elementary education and graduated as a bookkeeper after a special seventh year. After moving to Mexico City‚ he entered the National Military Academy only to leave after 3 months. He worked as an immigration clerk at the Universidad

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