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    Rizal in Summary

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    DR. JOSE PROTACIO MERCADO RIZAL ALONZO Y REALONDA Meaning of names: Doctor - completed his medical course in Spain and was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine by the Universidad Central de Madrid. Jose - was chosen by his mother who was a devotee of the Christian saint San Jose (St. Joseph) Protacio- from Gervacio P. which come from a Christian calendar  Mercado - adopted in 1731 by Domigo Lamco (the paternal great-great-grandfather of Jose Rizal) which the Spanish term mercado means

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    solitude. Even with the need for camaraderie‚ people make barricades to sustain seclusion. John Steinbeck‚ explicitly and implicitly‚ emphasizes the theme of loneliness. The ranch George Milton and Lennie Smalls travel to is close to the town of Soledad. The name of the town actually means “solitude”‚ which is not accidental. Also‚ the way the men on the ranch react to George and Lennie traveling together‚ shows how unusual it was‚ in the 1930s‚ for migrant workers to travel

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    Life of Jose Rizal

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    their eleven children namely: Saturnina (1850-1913)‚ Paciano (1851-1930)‚ Narcisa (1852-1939)‚ Olympia (1855-1887)‚ Lucia (1857-1919)‚ Maria (1859-1945)‚ José Protasio (1861-1896)‚ Concepcion (1862-1865)‚ Josefa (1865-1945)‚ Trinidad (1868-1951) and Soledad (1870-1929). Rizal was a 6th-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo Lam-co‚ a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who sailed to the Philippines from Jinjiang‚ Quanzhou in the mid-17th century. Lam-co married Inez de la Rosa‚ a Sangley native of

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    John Steinbeck Criticism

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    George doesn’t want Lennie to hurt anybody else and more because Lennie is always hurting thing carelessly but he does this way George is able to protect Lennie. Another great symbolism is when they go to the new town that they go to is named soledad the town its self is a contextual symbol which represents loneness and failed dreams for example “for a moment the place was lifeless… I hardly never seen two guys travel together you know how the hands are‚ they just come in and get a bunk and

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    wouldn’t be much of a story. Everyone sees or thinks differently and Steinbeck created space for that to happen allowing the audience to make their own connections to the story. Prediction: After Lennie’s death‚ George would have stayed at the farm in Soledad meaning loneliness in Spanish. That’s just how he would continued to live‚ and without Lennie there to mess things up and make him lose his job‚ he would stay. Candy was still willing to go on with the dream even though Lennie died so he and George

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    Cien Anos de Soledad Style in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is closely linked to myth. Marquez chooses magic realism over the literal‚ thereby placing the novel’s emphasis on the surreal. To complement this style‚ time in One Hundred Years of Solitude is also mythical‚ simultaneously incorporating circular and linear structure (McMurray 76). Most novels are structured linearly. Events occur chronologically‚ and one can map the novel’s exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling

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    Descriptive Argument

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    for the second time‚ he was described as a hero on CNN which is one of the biggest news networks in the United States of America. On that day at the CNN studio there was a live discussion in which he was idolized by CNN’s anchorman Wolf Blitzer‚ Soledad O’Brien and Anderson cooper who are journalists. At one juncture‚ they couldn’t help but metaphorically merge Barack Obama with the exhilarating news of the US Airways pilot who landed his plane in the Hudson River without losing a single passenger

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    Notes on of Mice and Men

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    Ch 1 * Geographic description of the countryside around the Salinas River‚ a few miles south of Soledad. * George‚ a short man‚ is seen first. He has sharp features with a thin and bony nose and restless eyes. He also has strong hands and slender arms. * Followed by Lennie‚ a huge man‚ built like a bear. His giant arms hang like pendulums at his side. * Both men are dressed in denim trousers‚ denim coats with brass buttons‚ black hats‚ and blankets‚ which are wrapped around round

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    Rizal

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    Aira Angeli G. Maranan The Mercado - Rizal Family The seventh of the eleven children of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonzo. José Rizal was born into a prosperous middle class Filipino family in the town of Calamba in the Province of Laguna. Dominican friars granted the family the privilege of the lease of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm‚ but contentious litigation followed; later‚ Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau had the buildings destroyed. Rizal is the descendant of Domingo Lam-co‚ a

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    Naturalism is a very intense style of literature that an author can use. With naturalism‚ the author is trying to convey knowledge acquired through the senses and experiences they them selves have been through. In the novel of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ he portrays elements of naturalism through his very own sights and experiences. During the depression John Steinbeck got a first hand dose of what it meant to deal with sordid aspects of life. Just like his book‚ he portrays his accounts using

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