La Malinche When I first read about La Malinche I did not know who or what she was and as I started to read I learned that she was first a slave. She became a slave for Cortes. She was offered to him as a slave by the Cacique of Tabasco‚ along with 19 other young women. Cortes discovered that he could not communicate with the Indians. That night he was recommended to him that one of the women given to him in Tabasco spoke Spanish. When he found out that could speak Spanish. At that point in
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Las Meninas When looking at Las Meninas‚ your first glance is at the little girl in the center of the painting‚ she is the only most lighted object in the painting which shows her importance to Spain as she is the future queen. The next thing that catches the viewer ’s eye is the painter‚ Velazquez himself‚ who takes up the whole left side of the painting. He is painting something on a large canvas‚ we just don ’t know what‚ and that is what he wants us to wonder‚ "What are he painting and what
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s is true that La Oroya is the most polluted towns in South America? If so what happens to the people who are living there? - Anonymous Yes‚ La Oroya‚ Peru is the most polluted places in the world. Workers‚ who lived in La Oroya‚ built the factories nearby the Peruvian Andes for lead‚ coal and oil. The operations with the lead smelter running in the town has caused the air covered with toxic. It is most likely effected by children‚ women and other family has been affected by lead poisoning. What
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you’d find it in your first meal” (Koji). The New York Times said‚ "The food at Kogi Korean BBQ-To-Go‚ the taco vendor that has overtaken Los Angeles‚ does not fit into any known culinary category." This pioneer of food truck and icon of LA street food has been made by LA son: Roy Choi. The fact was that “Choi was a once gambler and nearly a gangster‚ and a stoner from youth who was quick to fight‚ slow to wake” ( The New York Times). When he was young‚ he was surrounded by different types of people
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Case 24Shangri-La Hotels 1. The key element of strategy implemented by Shangri-La Hotel in gaining competitive advantage over its rivals is by offering services that are superior value worth paying more for. Shangri-la uses its signature standard of “Shangri-La Hospitality” in achieving an edge or competitive advantage over rivals in attracting buyers and coping with competitive forces. A company’s competitive strategy deals exclusively with the specific of management’s game plan for competing
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LA Amistad is a movie depicting the tale of many Africans who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery. The Africans of “La Amistad” had been among five or six hundred Africans purchased by a Portuguese slave from Pedro Blanco‚ who operated a notorious slave factory on the island of Lomboko‚ south of Freetown. They had been brought from Africa on board the Portuguese slaver “Tecora” to Havana‚ where they were moved under cover of darkness to a prison outside the city and advertised for
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LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL‚ BUNOL‚ SPAIN La Tomatina is a largest food fight festival in the world which is held in the Valencian town of Bunol‚ Spain. It is held on the last Wednesday of August every year. This festival required the visitors to throw approximately 40‚000 tomatoes and get involved in this tomatoes fight just for fun every year. The history of this festival was started on the last Wednesday of August 1945. During that time‚ the town square‚ where the “tomatina” is traditionally held nowadays
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"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 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 SOLIDARIDAD The roots of the Propaganda Movement lay far back in in the late 18th and early 19th century. When Spain opened the borders of the Philippines to international trade‚ the too opened it to the contemporary currents of European political thoughts. It were mainly economic reasons which led to an educational reform in the Philippines. The friarocracy had long used its control of education to maintain its position. So the teaching of foreign languages and scientific and technical subjects
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