“Nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts”-Mary Oliver’s Sleeping in a forest “The world is a glass of overflowing water”-Pablo Neruda Ode to sleep. In both‚ quotes from Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda‚ they convey an appreciation of nature to the reader by involving the reader. They convey the appreciation of nature by using a variety of figurative speech that is about nature and that is about the reader so that they stay interested. The two authors also use different forms
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Going up in Smoke: Terrorist Financing and Contraband Cigarettes A strange bond exists between smokers‚ contraband operators‚ and terrorists around the world‚ as ‚ contraband cigarettes indirectly fund terrorist activities. By Antonio L. Rappa For The Straits Times In the year 2000‚ United States authorities caught two Lebanese brothers for running a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation‚ moving low-tax cigarettes from North Carolina to high-tax Michigan. It was a major coup for the Bureau
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Isabel Allende grew up amidst a massive struggle in her home country of Chile‚ where her uncle was assassinated for his political policies and she had to flee the country. However‚ out of the rough ground grew a rose—Allende’s literature. Many of her works are heavily inspired by her trying childhood‚ especially the short story “Simple Maria.” In “Simple Maria‚” a story in which the main character that is a prostitute becomes mentally disabled after being hit by a locomotive‚ many ties can be drawn
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Alexis Alejandro Sánchez Sánchez (born on December 19‚ 1988 in Tocopilla‚ Chile) is a Chilean football player‚ who plays as a winger or forward. He is known as "El Niño Maravilla" (the Wonder Boy). Alexis was named by World Soccer Magazine as one of the ’50 most exciting teenagers in the world game’. He began his professional career with the Chilean club Cobreloa. He played one season there before being signed by the Serie A team‚ Udinese. Udinese had to pay nearly $3 million for his signature
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A Tribute to Isabel Allende Honor should be given to Allende‚ whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realistic" tradition‚ is one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She is largely famous for her contributions to Latin-American literature‚ novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus (1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias) (2002)‚ which have been hugely successful. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences
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SANTOS TRAFFICANTE‚ JR. WHO WAS HE? Santo Trafficante‚ Jr. (November 15‚ 1914 – March 17‚ 1987) was one of the last of the old-time Mafia bosses in the United States. He allegedly controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba‚ which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father‚ Santo Trafficante‚ Sr. Reputedly the most powerful mafioso in Batista-era Cuba‚ he never served time in a United States prison Suspicions that Trafficante‚ along with
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Throughout the poem Neruda uses repetition to emphasize the meaning of the surrounding words or phrases. In the beginning‚ the poem almost repeats the poem’s title indistinguishably‚ the only difference between the first line and the title is the replacement of the word “A” to the word “My”. This is not an exaggerated change‚ however allows the reader to see Neruda’s relationship to the dog which has died. My showing that it is his dog which has died‚ the reader is able to analyze the poem as not
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The Chilean American writer‚ Isabel Allende is best known for her novels The House of Spirits‚ Eva Luna‚ Paula and Daughter of Fortune. Allende throughout her lifetime has also been the author of several short stories and the participated in the act of writing plays as a youth. The stories she conveys mix together the elements of myth and realism and are also all projected from a feminine point of view; full of drama‚ romance‚ and the struggle that many women face in reality. Isabel Allende’s novels
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Personal Data Nationality: Date of Birth: Languages: Visas: Argentinean 26/02/1977 Spanish / English / Bulgarian UAE Residence‚ USA Visit Visa (B1)‚ Saudi Arabia Visit Visa. Professional Summary Juan Pablo Napoli is an IT Architect with 15 years of professional experience including Banking‚ Government and Education industries. He works for IBM since 2H 2004 where he was trained in USA on Middleware‚ SOA & BPM. Juan Pablo’s strongest technical background comes from development and architecture
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Pablo Casals is one of the ancient Spanish cellist and also a conductor born in Catalonia. In modern times‚ he is substantially regarded as one of the most pre-eminent cellist in the 20th century. Generally‚ he is referred to as a prominent and a great cellist of all times. Casals made many of his recordings in his career with solo‚ orchestral music‚ chamber and conductor (Lea‚ pg42). Very commonly‚ remembered in the recording of Bach in the year 1939. He is termed more Catalonian than Spanish since
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