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The novel Diego, Run! By Debora Ellis’ explores what life in a third world country is like and how it could be anywhere in the world. She shows us what poverty, child labour and the drug trade can be like; she also shows how all three of these major themes can be influenced by each other. Throughout the novel we are taken on a journey to the Bolivian country that shoes us what life can be really like when you are effected by the major themes in the book, no matter where you are or who you

“Once, at the German Market, I stood before a rack of pies, my sweet tooth gleaming and the juice of guild wetting my underarms. I nearly wept trying to decided which to steal.”

As Tim Burton, a famous director and producer once said, ¨one person's craziness is another person's reality¨ This directly applies to the Dominican Republic during the time of Rafael Trujillo's rule. Minerva Mirabal, is a woman who risks her life rebelling against her powerful dictator and his regime. Her ultimate goal is freedom and her rights. However, Minerva has not always shown disdain and hate towards Trujillo. Minerva's views on Trujillo and the regime change throughout the book. When Minerva is a young girl, she thinks of trujillo as a god like figure. After Sinita tells her about Trujillo's secret, Minerva's views of him and his regime change tremendously. Minerva turns against Trujillo and the regime, and has joined the rebellion.

In The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community, Catherine Allen describes several rituals. As an outsider, while reading and learning about the rituals one thing was quite obvious, community reciprocity is the driving organizing dynamic for Andean culture. Furthermore, it is evident that Andean’s are drawn as a group into a shared communion with the Earth, with the Sacred Places, and with the ancestral dead. Carnival Time is an example of a shared communion or common focus that depicts the descent, locality, religion, and political factionalism that define this indigenous group of people.

¨The Boy On the Wooden Box” by Leon leyson is a tremendous book about the Germans invading Poland During World War 2. The main character, Leon lason, (as the narrator and the author) lived these horrifying times and watched people die around him. Leon was only ten years old at the time, and he saw way to much at his age, such as people getting beat, dying, and people starving to death right in front of his eyes. In fact, he watched his own brother die. As Leon tells his life story during these difficult times, you’ll learn that life then was a struggle.

Louis Zamperini’s life, he had some difficulties, and may be different from others, but he still had made through all of the difficulties he’ve been through. For him he made it through with a blink of an eye, well at least that’s how it showed the readers. Louie was different from other kids. He would drink beer and smoke at a young age. He then grew little by little becoming a runner. He was the best runner people have ever seen in forever. He was best known for that, he went to the Olympics, but it got canceled because of war, their war against Japan. His two character traits that stood out the most was being strong and fearless. This story is based on real life, and on a book called Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

The main conflict within this novel is the conflict of ideals between the heroes and villains of Atlas Shrugged surrounding their motivation to do business. The heroes seek profit and personal success from advancing in the business world, while the villains wish to work to improve the public good. The heroes resisted the villains’ attempts to push their thinking on them and their responses can be summarized in Hank Rearden’s quote, “The public good be damned, I will have no part in it!” The quote comes from Hank Rearden’s trial where he is being tried for breaking the law that mandates the production and distribution from his mill.

Freedom "I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself." (XXXVI) Edna Pontellier has created a new freedom for herself. This freedom entails breaking out of expected ender norms by expressing herself openly. "Their freedom of expression was at first incomprehensible to her, though she had no difficulty in reconciling it with a lofty chastity which in the Creole woman seems to be inborn and unmistakable."

An individual’s discovery is transformative on their perceptions of the world. This is the case for the book ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Keats’s sonnet “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer”. In this book, we are taken on Che’s journey as he travels Latin America as a young man, before the fame. His diary entries lead the reader into his own eyes, as a typical young man on an adventure, not the revolutionary figure we all associate him with. Through his descriptive entries of the landscape he journeys across, we discover his deeper connection to the land of South America and the love he has for its people. As well as the beautiful things that South America has to

In the book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, is about the conspiracy of how the CIA had monitored the selling of crack cocaine in America to help fund the Nicaraguan contras secretly. And also during this process the Nicaraguan drugs were being sold to inner cities to create a drug known as crack that harmed the black population drastically.

Another character in the novel that resembles the coyote is José Navidad. José plays the role of the “bad guy” in the novel who rapes women and intrudes on other people’s property as well. For instance, even Cándido feels that José intrudes on his space, ”Now he had to worry about this stinking crack-toothed pendejo nosing around down in the canyon, as if he did not have enough problems already”(p. 90). In addition, José and a friend intrude on the Da Ros property which is part of the real estate Kyra tries to sell. José seems to intrude for the purpose of advantage.

The main character is an ordinary boy with an ordinary life, until a real seaman walks through the inn doors.“ People were frightened at the time, but looking back that rather liked it; it was a fine excitment in a quiet country life;-” The Captian was trying to get away from the men who were trying to steal his treasure. “Every day - he would ask if any seafaring men had gone by along the road?” “- at last we began to see he was desirous to avoid them.” Captain Silver, who was the captain of the Hispaniola wants to have all the treasure for hiself. “Well, here it is,” said silver. “We want that treasure, and we’ll have it- that’s our point!-” All the characters want to find that treasure. “ saying, in a kind of song, “Here’s to ourselves,

Freedom: “I didn’t mean to make him angry, since he was saying stuff like his power, about knowing me, Cage, my mom, and my Papyrus already, and why he classed as an angel. So I naturally got confused by this, since he didn’t mentioned anything about that besides the part of people calling him an angel; because of him stopping the war. He even readied my mind

In The Motorcycle Diaries, Guevara’s discoveries of the devastating effects of US neo-colonialism in Latin America are only fully understood upon his rediscoveries of the equally harmful nature of not only tourism, but also his own vagabond traveling. Through their encounters with farm labourers, Guevara’s initial discovery of the Araucanian race’s “deep suspicion of the white man who… now continues to exploit them” is shown through the prominent motif of sharing mate, which highlights the early understanding between them. However, this understanding is expanded upon reaching Cuzco, where the symbolic juxtaposition of the three layers of the city emphasises his reassessment of how “a hesitant tourist [also] pass[es] over things superficially”. Even further, in Guevara’s encounter with the Chilean communist couple, graphic imagery accentuates his rediscovery of the “parasitic nature” of not

By around 11 a.m. on what guarantees to be a hot early summer's day, the car influx on the Spanish side as of now extends from the fringe, over the seaside street and back to the town lobby, where Mayor Gemma Araujo is keeping an eye on everything in her office on the second floor, which has a perspective of the train of workers. Araujo is 33, a Socialist and the first lady in her position. It's not precisely the most remunerating employment in Spain. An "emergency torrent" has come to La Línea, says Araujo, and the circumstance is more genuine than any other time in recent memory. "Our city isn't bankrupt, however