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    heart that I can use this experience for a much higher job in the future. Barrio Fiesta Restaurant is where I had my On-the-Job Training. The Barrio Fiesta is part of Filipino culture. Through good times and bad times‚ the Filipino fiesta must go on because fiesta means birthday of our Barrio and the Patron of our Church. Each fiesta have the same way of celebration except in the other country. Barrio Fiesta was‚ for a whole generation of Filipinos‚ a place for festivities‚ celebrations and the

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    Rodrigo Diaz De Vivar

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    Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar was born in 1090. He was given the nickname "El Cid"‚ which is derived from the Arabic word sayyid or “sir”. El Cid inspired the writing of  “Cantar Del Mio Cid” or The Poem of The Cid. There are many speculations as to who the real writer of the Poem of the Cid‚ however the real author or authors are unknown. The Poem of The Cid is the oldest Spanish epic and is one of the four most important Spanish books of all time. Although it is inspired by the the real Cid‚ who was a

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    Maulana Restanto 1205896 5B Commentary Writing Objective is Impossible in Junot Diaz’s “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl‚ White girl‚ or Halfie)” Nowadays people always said we need to be objective in every activity of daily life‚ including being objective when we want to date a girl. However‚ Junot Diaz depicted in his prose how a guy received suggestions to date a girl in very subjective way. Torstenson (2006) stated this then becomes the crucial irony and driving force of the story‚ and

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    what they are communicating or even worse‚ what they are not communicating. I believe Junot Diaz‚ makes a good point of this in his short story "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl‚ White Girl‚ or Halfie)". The main character has a precise way of treating every girl dependent upon what her race is. However‚ I question why‚ aside from the simplistic answers‚ such as maybe he’s a misogynist or a racist boy. Diaz writes this particular story the way that he does‚ by placing the reader directly in the

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    Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

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    As a conquistador under the command of Hernán Cortes‚ Bernal Diaz witnessed some of Latin America’s most interesting and least chronicled history. He was fortunate enough to be one of a select few Europeans to experience the Aztec empire at its height and to visit Tenochtitlan prior to its downfall. In an era where personal accounts of the historical occurrences are almost nonexistent‚ Bernal Diaz’s The True History of the Conquest of New Spain provides virtually the only window into this period

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    article “Is Cameron Diaz A Sociologist?” written by Mediha Din explains about Cameron Diaz book. In Diaz book she explains human health that connects it to trend in society and the health of citizens. In the article it gives a term which is sociological imagination. Sociological imagination is seeing connections between society and individual actions‚ events or beliefs. The sociological imagination is found in Diaz book and discusses the changes in American society due to technology. Diaz writes about

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    Introduction Causes of the Revolution: Shortly after Benito Juarez’s death‚ Porfirio Díaz sought to become the next leader of Mexico. The two men were allies and had fought against the French in the Battle of Puebla. However‚ once Juárez gained power‚ Díaz worked strategically to overthrow him. Diaz gained power and began his reign as the president of Mexico in 1876 and ruled until 1910 when Francisco Madero whom took office in 1911 succeeded him. Furthermore‚ he worked to reduce the power of the

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    To analyze the characters‚ help was found when reading articles from three scholars as well as reading a casebook on Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises. The first article which helped with analyzing the characters is Justin Mellette’s article called ‘Floating I saw only the sky’: leisure and self-fulfillment in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises written in 2014. The article focuses mostly on Jake Barnes and how much the role of leisure activity plays in his development throughout the book. He is being compared

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    be strong. Ideas of what a man is suppose to act like and be. Masculinity is what led to the downfall of Oscar Wao’s life. Junot Diaz emphasizes sex as a big part in being a typical Dominican male. What it means to be a Dominican male‚ to be attractive and smooth with the ladies‚ to have charm and be able to woo them‚ and most of all sexually active. Dominican men as Yunior would put it must be able to get laid‚ and get laid often. They are the players‚ and need to know how to get a woman into bed

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    Porfirio Diaz’ ascension to power: Porfirio Diaz was one of the large lists of rulers Mexico had‚ and was the one who established the porfiriato when got the presidency. Having born in 1830 in Oaxaca‚ Mexico‚ since being a child‚ he seemed to have a propitious career. However‚ with the beginning of the Mexico-American war in 1846‚ the young Porfirio got his head filled with a severe patriotism that led him join the army for military service. After a few events‚ he met a liberalist politician called

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