"La Malinche." Slave‚ interpreter‚ secretary‚ mistress‚ mother of the first "Mexican." her very name still stirs up controversy. Many Mexicans continue to revile the woman called Doña Marina by the Spaniards and La Malinche by the Aztecs‚ labeling her a traitor and harlot for her role as the alter-ego of Cortes as he conquered Mexico. They ignore that she saved thousands of Indian lives by enabling Cortes to negotiate rather than slaughter. Her ability to communicate also enabled the Spaniards to
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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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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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La popularización de la fotografía: invención de la placa seca Consigna: Análisis de la trascendencia de la invención de la placa seca‚ tomando como eje la importancia del documentalismo como denuncia‚ información o conocimiento. Placa Seca La placa seca‚ también conocida como gelatino-bromuro‚ es el primer medio fotográfico exitoso económico y duradero. Fue inventada por el Dr. Richard Leach Maddox en 1871‚ y en 1879 estaba tan bien introducida que la primera fábrica de placa seca se había
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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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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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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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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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Day Dreaming While Driving Dagoberto Gilb’s “Love in L.A.” is a love story that is set on a freeway in Las Angeles. Now this is an unusual setting for a love story‚ however‚ “Love in L.A.” is a different kind of love story. The story opens up with Jake‚ a careless and irresponsible guy sitting in traffic. Gilb states that Jake is sitting in “near motionless traffic.” This symbolizes Jake’s life. Jake drives a ’58 Buick which is out of date and old. He wishes that this car had more accessories
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is out‚ “LA” Reid is in at Arista”. Newspoints [online] available at: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gl4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=la+reid+challenges&source=bl&ots=oqkkNoOGqx&sig=ON1G1YaUzv7Vf6I1axck0Esq4Cw&hl=en&ei=nbKuTbLAEYyqvQPm6oiQDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=la%20reid%20challenges&f=false Hibberd‚ J. 2011. “Official: L.A. Reid signed as X-Factor judge”. Entertainment Weekly [online]. Available at: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/18/la-reid-x-factor/
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