Nations (UN) is an international organization of 191 countries‚ with the central role of promoting peace and security‚ development as well as human rights around the world. Unfortunately‚ the UN seems drifting towards irrelevance because millions have died in hundreds of conflicts around the world in more than 50 years since the UN’s establishment‚ such as the conflicts in Somalia‚ Bosnia and Afghanistan. However‚ it is too early to judge if the UN has become a failure. In world affairs‚ the UN still
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La Llorona La Llorona is a legend that began around the 1550s. It has been told to children by older ones for hundreds of years. Her real name is Maria. There are some who believe it to be true‚ but whether they believe or nor not it still remains in memories of many people. There are different stories about the La Llorona; here is someone that believes it’s true. La Llororna as told by Stephanie Cassias is said to be a southwestern folktale. The legend is said to be about as young Native American
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World War I (1914-1918) In late June 1914‚ Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia. An escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident‚ leading by mid-August to the outbreak of World War I‚ which pitted Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain‚ France‚ Russia‚ Italy and Japan (the Allied Powers). The Allies were joined after 1917 by the United States. The four
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Remember when you were little? Remember when the world wasn’t did not seem as such a bad place? As we get older we start to see the darkness in the world‚ because they teach us to look at the world and see the negatives instead of the positives. As kids we could see the world as a fantasy; we could travel through time and live with dinosaurs‚ go across space and visit different planets and galaxies‚ we could look at the stars and wish for the impossible and have enough faith and innocence to believe
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La Amistad In 1839‚ Africans being carried from Havana‚ Cuba‚ to Puerto Principe‚ Cuba‚ revolted against their captors aboard the ship La Amistad (Spanish for ’friendship’). They were stolen from Africa‚ transported to the Americas‚ and were “passed off” as having been born in Cuba. After the revolt‚ the Africans demanded to be returned home‚ but the ship’s navigator lied to them about their course‚ and sailed them north along the North American coast to Long Island‚ New York. The schooner was subsequently
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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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wonders of the world‚ indoor man-made waterfalls‚ simulated pirate ship battles‚ a dolphin habitat‚ and indoor gondola rides are a few of the small attractions that place modern day Las Vegas as a hotspot on the US map. In fact‚ there are so many small attractions blended with large attractions that the experience of Las Vegas itself has become an attraction. Disregarding traditional methods and exploring outrageous ideas in the areas of engineering‚ architecture‚ and planning‚ this city has become
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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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“Our only rule was very simple: No idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted.” Luis Buñel had this to say about his first film‚ Un Chien Andalou (1929)‚ made during the heart of the surrealist period. It was a film that toyed with the corruption of reality‚ time‚ and symbolism (Turvey‚ 2011). There are various marks though out the film that Buñel acts out‚ including the slicing of an eye‚ the reveal of ants crawling out of the palm‚ the mother’s
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