a for sale is a drama written by Sacha Guitry. In this drama Juliette puts up her villa for sale.some customers come to see the villa but they do not buy it. after almost a month‚ Juliette gets a call saying a lady will come to buy it. a french couple Gaston and Jeanne come to take a look at the villa. while waiting for the owner of the villa‚ gaston indicater that he has no intention of buying a villa. Juliette enters and gives a complete discription of the villa.after much bargaining Juliette
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insists not to buy the villa. He uses all the means to prevent his wife buying it. He accuses his wife that she wants the villa for her parents and her tribes!. Then‚ he offers a very cheap price which means that he doesn’t want to buy it. But‚ when the chance came to him‚ he made use it in a clever and witty way. His wit cleverness and diplomatic way in speech were perfect in managing the situation. Moreover‚ his wit and his perfect controlling of the situation‚ made him win the villa in addition to one
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better known as Pancho Villa was a Mexican Revolutionary general. He was born June 5‚ 1878‚ in Durango‚ Mexico. When Villa was only sixteen his father passed away and so he became the head and protector of the household. Villa spent most of his life in Durango‚ Mexico until he killed a man who was harassing his sister. Due to that event‚ Villa fled and hid in the mountains for several years and changed his birth name to Francisco Villa to evade authorities. While hiding‚ Villa joined a group of fugitives
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really famous‚ but you never know‚ without their help Mexico might have lost. They’re Mexican Revolutionaries that made me want to learn about Mexican American History. People like Emiliano Zapata‚ Dolores Jimenez y Muro‚ Gildardo Magana‚ and Pancho Villa. Although most things they did were unlawful it was still in the name of their country. They did it to fight for their country and protect it. Their courageousness and determination are amazing‚ and it’s one of the reasons why Mexico won its independence
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revolutionary general‚ Pancho Villa. As for the categories‚ we decided to write about his life‚ his involvement with the Mexican Revolution‚ and finally what he did in politics. We chose this topic since it seemed like Pancho Villa lived an interesting and dangerous life. His involvement with government figures like Mexican presidents and his leadership among a group of guerrillas were vaguely mentioned in the actual textbook‚ so we were a curious to research more about Pancho Villa. With that‚ it seemed
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I believe the Mexican revolution of the 1910s was a war of the people‚ against the harsh rule of dictatorships. The role of Mexico’s leader quickly changed hands from Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911)‚ to Francisco I. Madero (1911-1913)‚ to Victoriano Huerta (1913-1914)‚ and finally to Venustiano Carranza (1914-1920). It all started due to Diaz and his hunger for power and unwillingness to let go of it; he went as far as blaming the people by claiming the indigenous and mixed people were “practically subhuman
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Emiliano Zapata‚ born on August 8‚ 1879‚ in the village of Anenecuilco‚ Morelos (Mexico)‚ Emiliano Zapata was of mestizo heritage and the son of a peasant medier‚ (a sharecropper or owner of a small plot of land). From the age of eighteen‚ after the death of his father‚ he had to support his mother and three sisters and managed to do so very successfully. The little farm prospered enough to allow Zapata to augment the already respectable status he had in his native village. In September of 1909‚
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Back in the year 1910‚ middle-class workers in Mexico protested the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz who ruled for more than 30 years. (Knight‚ historytoday.com) It was the first major social revolution of the twentieth century. Like most dictatorships‚ power and wealth were only given to a select few‚ and injustice was everywhere. Diaz was not always a dictator‚ though. He was once a hero in an earlier revolution. Sadly‚ he didn’t know when to end his rule and kept his rule through bribery and rigging
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After its independence from Spain in 1821‚ Mexico has had rapid industrialization rate. It became present in Mexico when Porfirio Diaz had become president in 1871. During his reign‚ he was able to install a stable federal government with secure financial and industrial supports. However‚ the vast expansions of both manufacturing and mining outputs encouraged a role of government in the economy. Diaz began to make economical reforms which brought both positive and negative results‚ many say that
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ART Appretiation 10/15/11 Art Essay This report is on my visit to the Getty Villa. In this report I will go over some of the architectural styling’s of the Getty Villa. Which were inspired by the Villa dei Papiri. The Villa dei Papiri was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. As well as some design elements and details. Entering the villa the first room I walk into is the atrium. The atrium is the main public room in a Roman house. In the middle of
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