Much attention is given to the quality of play in Las Vegas poker rooms. These rooms‚ which hide in conspicuous enclaves of big time casinos‚ have long been home to some of the world’s finest players. These days‚ the overall level of play has dropped dramatically. With ESPN and other networks giving poker more mainstream coverage‚ average Joes everywhere are learning to play the game. While they learn to play games on the internet and against their below average friends‚ they also want to test their
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3. CULTURE AND RITUAL AS A COMMUNICATIVE MATRIX Culture‚ could be defined as all that characterizes a people from their nomenclature‚ thought patterns‚ belief systems and ritual life (see Maliknowski 1957). Culture is a concept and a reality that is complex to describe‚ quantify and account for especially in its day to day communicative valence. One does better to live it than to define and describe it. Very significant elements of a people’s culture are ritualized and not thematised in clear-cut
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Velazquez’ Las Meninas is a masterpiece of Spanish Baroque painting‚ meaning irregular. It makes the statement of illusion versus reality. You would have to wonder though‚ if this painting revolves of the life of Velazquez‚ the artist who was an individualist painter of the Baroque‚ in the seventeenth century Counter-Reformation Spain‚ or is this a true family portrait of King Philip IV and Queen Mariana with their child. The portrait Las Meninas has always had questions that surrounded its meaning
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In the article LA Times‚ it introduces and a story about a forgotten victim from Florence and Normandie‚ that suffered a tragic tragedy during and LA riot‚ twenty years ago. Fidel Lopez was brutally beaten by a mob in 1992. Steve Lopez who is the writer‚ informs us with actual facts of how violence is still an issue. It reminds us that there is still hate and makes us ask ourselves‚ why were just finding out about this victim and no one took control? The article “The forgotten victim” tells us how
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paper‚ the second episode of the first season of CSI Las Vegas was chosen for the close analysis of the misunderstanding represented by the media. The brief synopsis of the episode is that there has been a big changes at the Las Vegas crime lab where Grissom became the new appointed head of the crime lab while Brass was sent back to Homicide. Grissom faced his first criminal case which he was asked to investigate the jackpot winner at the Las Vegas Nick who committed suicide by jumping off from the
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La Figlia Che Piange "La Figlia Che Piange" (“young girl weeping”) is the final poem in T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). This short (24-line) poem describes a lovers’ parting‚ but its speaker plays a curious dual role. He not only describes his lover and the feelings aroused by remembering her‚ but also directs her-- as he would an actress in a film‚ to borrow an analogy from Denis Donoghue:[1] the mood of the first stanza is not indicative but imperative‚ and the first five
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Las Desaparecidas De Juarez Located in the state if Chihuahua‚ Juarez is the 5th largest city in all of Mexico with almost two million people (Juarez-Mexico). The population of Juarez is not the what people from Mexico and all over the world talk about but instead they talk about the mass murders of young women‚ and female children which rose in numbers since 1993. From the years 1993-2003 there was a reported 265 murders or femicides of women; and an estimate of around 460 to this date (Casa
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victims‚ who sought out refugee. Viramontes uses the story of La Llorona‚ a woman who threw her child in the river to get revenge on her husband‚ who left her for a younger woman. La Llorona then realizes what she has done and drowns herself. She is then forced to walk the earth as a ghost until she finds the body of her child. This story is often told to Hispanic children‚ to prevent them from wandering off. The woman figure explains herself as La Llorona‚ along with other races of women who search vigorously
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Film review on La Haine (Kassovitz‚ 1995) The problem of les banlieues (the suburbs) became particularly prominent from the early 1980’s onwards. Violent confrontations between suburban youths and the police took place in a number of the suburbs surrounding France’s major cities like‚ for example‚ Sartrouville and La Corneuve near Paris and Valulx en Velin and Venissieux near Lyon. Mathieu Kassovitz’s bracing 1995 feature La Haine ‘hate’ documented the rupture between the authorities and mostly
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The LA riots were the main theme for this week’s reading. Needless to say‚ it was a mortifying past for both the African Americans and the people of LA. The emotion explosion that accounted for thousands of injuries and billions of dollar worth of damage originated from the discriminatory decision of a court case. Rodney King‚ a middle-aged African American man‚ was pulled over on a highway for drunk speeding. He was brutally beaten by four police officers for no apparent reasons‚ and someone recorded
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