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    Las Vegas

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    Las Vegas: A Family-Friendly City(?) Admit it‚ whenever you hear the word Las Vegas‚ the first thing that pops into your mind is casinos‚ right? The Sin City – “What happens in Vegas‚ Stays in Vegas” – reputation doesn’t help much either. But even with all that baggage‚ Las Vegas is actually a great place to raise your kids in. Just take a look at all the neat stuff the city has to offer your young family. The Cost of Living Las Vegas provides many housing options for new homebuyers; there are

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    La Amistad

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    the year if a abhorrent apostasy took abode on lath the Spanish address La Amistad‚ which transported salves. It was the time if the bullwork was abolished in the North and the South of the United States of America was bitching for they badly “needed” disciplinarian to plan for them. American courts still adjudge whether the atramentous getting is chargeless according to the abode he comes from. The balloon over the rebels from La Amistad asks the capital question: ”Are these rebels disciplinarian or

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    las posadas

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    Las Posadas‚ or the accomodation‚ is a nine day period to represent The Virgin Mary’s nine months of pregnancy and her struggle to find a place to have baby Jesus. This holiday has been a tradition in Mexico for four hundred years. The nine day celebration was started by early friars that combined Spanish Catholicism with the Aztec celebration of the birth of their God. It is celebrated with beautiful Nativity scenes and huge feasts. The people dress up in costumes and reenact Las Posodas. Las Posadas

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    Pit and the Pendulum Reader Response Poe’s story is of a person sentenced to death by torture during the Spanish Inquisition. The story is an account of the narrator’s time from sentencing and throughout his journey during incarceration. It’s a tale of hope and despair. A story of one’s mental ability while facing an eminent death. Of this the narrator says‚ ‘It was hope—the hope that triumphs on the rack—that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.’ Unusual for

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    Shangri-La

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    1. Shangri-La Background: Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is a deluxe Asian hotel chain‚ founded in 1971 in Singapore by the Malaysian-Chinese tycoon Robert Kuok. The company quickly differentiated itself from the competition and provided distinctive Asian standards of hospitality and service. As of 2006‚ Shangri-La was the largest Asian-based deluxe hotel group in Southeast Asia. The company managed a total of 50 hotels under two brands: the five-star Shangri-La and the four-star Traders- a sister

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    or life with the interminable agony of being tortured as a lab mouse. The best terror stories create suspense through the setting. Most of the times‚ the character does not know completely where he is or what enemy or problem he is facing. In "The Pit and the Pendulum"‚ the underground prison is dark; as a result‚ the character compares the place with hell or even his tomb. That is why at the beginning‚ during his dream-like state‚ he does not want to open his eyes and we do not know where he is

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    La Sape

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    Become Fashionista is the main key word of La Sape. La Sape is a social movement occurs in Congo who devote their income to purchasing fine clothing and accessories‚ assuring they innovate the morale of their neighborhoods by being an example of couture and courtesy to others. Congo is well known as poverty country and interminable with civil conflicts. This is not the way cease La Sape “dream” to express their lavish apparel. The story of La Sape began when French colonization entered to Congo

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    just started a small business of your own‚ selling three different brands of stationery. You have hired three employees‚ each in charge of selling a specific brand. Using the spreadsheet skills which you have acquired from your Practical IT Skills (PITS) class‚ you have decided to create a spreadsheet template. The template should only contain permanent data‚ functions‚ calculation‚ and information. Any data to be entered by the users based on monthly or day-to-day transaction are considered non-permanent

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    La Haine

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    La Haine (1995): dir. Mathieu Kassovitz- France Starkly shot in black and white to show a Paris not on any map‚ the film deals with Frances intolerance towards outsiders. After local youth Adel is beaten unconscious by police‚ a riot ensues on his estate during which a policeman loses his gun. La Haine follows vinz‚ Hubert and said‚ three young men trapped in the Parisian economic‚ ethnic and social underclass. Watching the film‚ what really stood out to me was the way the film shot- -Being wholly

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    La Amistad

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    For my first quarter supplemental project‚ I chose to watch the movie Amistad. This movie portrays very unfortunate events that innocent people from Africa had to endure. The Africans were being held in Cuba and were chained to the cargo on the ship La Amistad. One of the Africans- Cinque; takes over the ship and him and his men kill most of the crew. Furthermore‚ they continue to sail‚ but reach the United States where they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. After this‚ the slaves are beginning to

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