Venezuela is the sixth largest country located on the northern coast of South America and is the thirty-third largest country in the world. It has an area 352‚143 square miles with a total coastline area of 1‚740 miles‚ which is approximately eleven-tenths times as big as the contiguous United States (MapFight). Venezuela has many characteristics that make it such a unique such as its history‚ culture‚ government‚ trade‚ geography‚ weather‚ and climate. These characteristics allow Venezuelans to
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ujhhkiyhik‚iu‚knjiujl‚ujhubuoiLocal Color in Edilberto K. Tiempo’s Selected Short Stories Lito L. Diones College of Arts and Sciences Cebu Normal University Abstract This research proves that Edilberto K. Tiempo uses local color in his short fictions and be called a Filipino local colorist. This analyzes the fictional elements and style contributing to local color. It also looks into his biographical synthesis as a local colorist‚ elements of local color and fictional style. It uses discourse
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Born on November 12‚ 1651‚ (though there is some dispute about the year) in San Miguel Neplantla‚ Mexico‚ Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez was the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish father and Creole mother. Her maternal grandfather owned property in Amecameca and Juana spent her early years living with her mother on his estate‚ Panoaya. Juana was a voracious reader in her early childhood‚ hiding in the hacienda chapel to read her grandfather’s books from the adjoining library. She composed her first
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33Luis Joel Perez Echevarria Prof. Jesus Ramirez Ingl. 3102 LDO The Young Persons in the Steering Wheel Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime‚ anywhere. ”According to the National Safety council‚ which stated that more that 2.5 million collisions. The most common type of car accidents it is also know that the accident rear end as incident of injury. Among the car accidents‚ the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Also‚ all
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Mendez v. Westminster (1946) was a case enacted by‚ “Gonzalo Mendez‚ William Guzman‚ Frank Palomino‚ Thomas Estrada‚ and Lorenzo Ramirez” who “filed suit on behalf of their fifteen…children and five thousand other minor children of ‘Mexican and Latin descent’” (Valencia‚ 2010‚ p.23). They sued Westminster school district because they were denying their children the right to enter schools near their home. The school was in California and was predominantly White and did not allow any Mexican American
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the charges were dropped due to a judge ruling that the events took place too long ago (BBC 1). The fourth episode of genocide against women is due to the drug cartels and the corrupt government officials that are involved in crime in Mexico (Ramirez 1-2). From 1945 to 1964‚ Mexico was booming and prosperous because the Second World War had just ended and modernization and industrialization were priorities for the three Mexican presidents during those years. The presidents in office from 1946
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Cuban immigrants from 1959-1962 were considered the first wave known as the Golden Exiles. They used a combination of physical and cultural capital to generate an economic enclave in South Miami. The Cuban enclave created an ethnic solidarity‚ which formed business ties. Golden Exiles created a society of Cuban immigrants allowing them to gain access to both physical and cultural capital necessary to establish themselves. This was just the beginning of Cuban success‚ as Cuban businesses were not
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family. He is the person in the family who lives realistically and practically. He seems more worried about their new life than his wife. He is more interested in the discussion about their current life “…they would be discussing events in the barrio. Actually‚ he would be carrying that part of the conversation”. In this story‚ the family is like many immigrant families is dealing with their
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Great Filipino Music Artists (80’s – Present) Basil Valdez Like many Filipino singers in the 1970s‚ Valdez started solo on his career as a folk singer. In 1972‚ he joined the Circus Band and after it was disbanded‚ he released Ngayon at Kailanman‚ his first solo album. In the Circus Band‚ he met Ryan Cayabyab‚ who was then part of other band. When Valdez was preparing his album Ngayon at Kailanman‚ he asked Cayabyab to give a few songs‚ he did. Cayabyab stands as Valdez’s musical director for
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Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife‚" the main story in the collection "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Short Stories" which won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940. Most of Arguilla’s stories depict scenes in Barrio Nagrebcan‚ Bauang‚ La Union where he was born. His bond with his birthplace‚ forged by his dealings with the peasant folk of Ilocos‚ remained strong even after he moved to Manila where he studied at the University of the Philippines where he finished
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