"The Secrets of Haiti’s living dead” by Del Guárico was a very interesting story o read. It shows how people of different places will believe something if they want or expect it to be true. This is especially true if it is deeply a part of their culture. In the story‚ this idea is illustrated through the examination of zombies in Haitian voodoo culture. The article describes a search by a Harvard student named Wade Davis for a drug causing zombie-like effects. Zombies are a fact of Haitian culture
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A memorable scene in the movie Pan Labyrinth‚ directed by Guillermo del Toro‚ involves a young girl‚ Ofelia‚ undertaking a difficult task to enter the labyrinth and retrieve a special dagger. The scene is intense and suspenseful‚ with various effects – music‚ lighting‚ camera angles‚ time passage‚ foreshadowing – all working together to create anxiousness and uneasiness. The viewer becomes increasingly nervous watching the action unfold. There is a clear sense that something bad is about to happen
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I. Factual Summary: Fe’nix de Sur is one of the respected companies that sell pre Colombian artifacts. It started selling replicas in 2001.these replica are not authentic that only a fewer true collectors would recognize that these replicas were not authentic. The total sales of replicas is small ratio to total company’s revenue. The company doesn’t want to add replicas as a new product line. But due to the high demanding from their clients to add more product lines‚ the company start selling
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The story of El cid There are three parts or cantos to the Poema del Cid. In the first part‚ Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar‚ called Cid "El Cid Campeador" by the Moors(Sidi means My Lord in Arabic)‚ is accused by Count García Ordóñez of holding back for himself tributes he was sent to collect from the Moors for his king Alfonso VI of León. Alfonso exiles Rodrigo from Leon and Castilla. He gave him 9 days to exile. El Cid needed money to live and support his troops in exile‚ so he faked a chest full
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busca explicar detalladamente cada aspecto del cuadro del entierro del conde de Orgaz‚ determinar cuál es el significado y propósito de éste y analizar con base en las técnicas que usa el autor a que estilo pertenece dicha obra. El cuadro del entierro del conde de Orgaz ‚ tenía como función la de representar un milagro que ocurrió en la iglesia de santo Tomé en 1323. En el momento en que se iba a enterrar a Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo‚ señor de Orgaz‚ bajan del cielo San Agustín y San Esteban y lo entierran
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Case Study: Fe’nix del Sur‚ LLC I. Problem Statement If Fe’nix del Sur‚ LLC accepts the contract they might make a potential profit of $4 million in additional sales and above the annual growth and be able to broaden the firms current position‚ but it might not be worth it due to the fact of possible loss of current dealers and customers‚ and the companies authentic-ness. II. Industry Analysis Fe’nix del Sur‚ LLC competes in the authentic artifact business. They collect authentic
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This case study examines a third-grade language arts teacher‚ Jim Colbert‚ who has been teaching at an inner-city school in the Northeast for four years. In his instruction‚ he uses basal readers and a district-required curriculum‚ but the case study examines a specific problem he has been facing in his class. Jim teaches the advanced third grade class‚ and one of the students in this class‚ Carlos‚ has difficulties spelling in English‚ properly pronouncing words‚ and reading out-loud. Jim‚ after
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‚ Seagrass and Seaweed Resources The PCRA covered the assessment of seagrass beds in Sitio Look‚ Barangay Talavera‚ Taganaan‚ Surigao del Norte on October 25‚ 2012. Barangay Talavera is one of the 17 barangays of Taganaan‚ covered for the seagrass survey; however‚ due to typhoon Ofel‚ out of the two sampling sites identified‚ only one site was assessed. The survey involved the use of the transect-quadrat method modified after English et. al (1997). Three transect lines were laid in the sampled
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10/10/11 La Piedra del Sol English: In 1790 this huge monolith was discovered beneath the surface of the Zocalo‚ the main square of Mexico City. They had remained buried for 269 years after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan. It’s called the Sun Stone and represents the vision of the cosmos that had the ancient Mexicans. The stone measures twelve feet in diameter and weighs twenty-four toneiadas. It is estimated that the artists who carved the stone Aztec took nearly twenty years to complete
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La chica del sur (2012) is a paradigmatic case of a documentary that ameliorates territorial and cultural difference through mobility. A distant event deeply impacts the director and serves as the film’s pretext: in 1989‚ José Luis García took part in the thirteenth annual World Youth Festival in Pyongyang‚ North Korea‚ a political event that the Soviet Union sponsored just three weeks before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and four weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall. While García
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