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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From first glance of the Las Meninas painting‚ my eyes go to the center‚ down front‚ where a princess is being offered a drink and gives off an air of not being interested. Not too near to her‚ almost at the margin of the picture‚ a woman dwarf‚ and a boy bothers a tired dog‚ which disregards the torments. There is a woman in middle ground talks to a man who seems to be ignoring her while instead he looks directly at the viewer. Further in the back‚ a courtier in all black prepares to leave; his
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Introduction to International Business Case 4: Dell 1. Dell’s most important FSA is their direct selling. Other FSAs are their behavior with the customer and their high level of inventory. These FSAs can be summarized with the 3 golden rules of Dell: ‘never sell indirect’‚ ‘disdain inventory’ and ‘always listen to the customer’. The macro-level requirements for the direct sales model to be successful in Dell’s case are the customers’ behavior in the 1980s. The customers became very sophisticated
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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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TITLE Three Places to Stop Along the Camino del Norte LEAD PARAGRAPH The Camino del Norte features some of the biggest and liveliest cities in northern Spain including San Sebastian‚ Bilbao‚ Santander‚ and Gijon. Besides seeing these metropolises‚ the Camino also takes you through small cities and quaint villages. Here you’ll find information on three inviting places along the Camino worth visiting as you walk this fascinating road. PARAGRAPHS Mountains and Fiesta: Irun‚ Basque Country Located
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Case Questions: 1. What is Starbucks’ strategy? Is there good fit among its capabilities? Starbucks has established itself as a seller of specialty coffee through its stores and has targeted office goers and certain families‚ who visit Starbucks to either relax‚ read‚ chat‚ or socialize. To achieve its long term goal of becoming the most recognized and most respected brand of coffee in the world‚ it has recently expanded its operations to include bottled coffee and is also looking at presence
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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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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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Lana del Rey is a jealous‚ jealous‚ jealous girl. While enjoying her free time at the mall with her girlfriend‚ Marina Diamondis‚ she started to notice that many female associates were hitting on Marina. The first couple of times‚ Lana let it slide. Maybe they were just fans of her’s‚ no big deal. But it started to burn the American up when it was at every store they went to. “Oh miss‚ you are so pretty.” Marina would thank them politely. They wouldn’t stop there. They would then continue‚ “You really
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Computer Concepts Exam Study for University of LA VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol): Hardware‚ software‚ and protocols used to make call over the internet. Convergence: Basically combining devices into one device‚ Ex) mp3 and cameras on cell phones. That’s convergence. File: A named collection of data. Digital: Discrete Data Super Computer: The fastest and expensive computer Analog Data: Continuous data EBSDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code): A method by which
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