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    Sartenejas, 19 de Mayo de 2015 Universidad Simon Bolivar Henger Maizo. Carnet 10-10408 ”What were you dreaming?” by Nadine Gordimer Apartheid and how it affected people As history moves on, in different countries and even whole continents, movements and regimes have been formed where groups of people take the power so that they can abuse, denigrate, ignore and even disparage and underestimate other people base on the colour of their skin or their religion. One of these systems of government,

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    (unknown, 2013). I don?t think there were doubts of Ch?vez good intentions at first, but somehow, all that power and politics took over and transformed his vision. He wanted to imitate Bolivar?s actions but some things just got lost in the way. As the article says ?There is no need to deny that in all likelihood Hugo Chavez was motivated by the best of intentions, or that worthwhile social reforms were achieved under his presidency. Nevertheless

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    Introduction Many archaeological sites and artifacts around the globe have fallen victim to cultural heritage destruction, whether it is from weather and climate change, tourism, the taking of artifacts, or degradation over time. Cultural heritage destruction can be defined as the destruction of historic sites, artifacts, or materials. Some people, whether it be government, an organization, or individuals, work to protect and fund the preservation and maintenance of important historic archeological

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    Bolivia

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    Bolivia is a located in South America. In the west central area, next to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Peru. The country is enclosed by a great mountain called The Andes, which has created what is called an Altiplano (high altitude) at 3,658 meters. The population living in the Altiplano is located in few cities like Oruro, Potosi and La Paz. The population of Bolivia is 11.67 million and the country has two capital. Sucre is the historical capital with around 300,000 habitants and

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    Looking for Alaska Character Sketch Miles halter is the main character in John Green’s Looking for Alaska. Miles is a teenage character who lived a so called “Minor Life,” in Florida, where he was born and raised. The story begins a week before Miles sets off to attend Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama that his father, uncle’s and cousins on his dad’s side had all attended. Ironically nicknamed Pudge, due to the fact that he can be physically described as lanky. “ The small bathroom contained

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    Esl and Internet Review

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    Based on my research proposal topic which is on the influence of internet to students’ ESL learning, I have picked three journal articles that are related to my topic and make a critical review of the articles. The review is aimed to critically evaluate and comment on the three articles to help me in pursuing to finishing my research proposal. The first journal article entitled Does Home Internet Use Influence the Academic Performance of Low Income Children? by Linda A. Jackson, Alexander von

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    Robert Hayne Biography

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    John C. Calhoun was born in South Carolina, Abbeville and John was born in March 18, 1782. John C. Calhoun had an early career, when John’s father became ill, when John was 17 years old, he had to quit school so he was able to work on the small cotton family farm. With his brother financial support, John was able to do his studies later and then he later earned a degree from Yale College, in Phi Beta Kappa in 1804. He also was a noted member of the debating Society of Brothers in Unity at Yale

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    1) Oliverio Girondo’s poetry is representative of a “new style” of art encompassed in José Ortega y Gasset’s The Dehumanization of Art. Aesthetics no longer conform to the traditional classical style but instead, champions a futurist type meant to bypass the limitations of rationale in a trivial and playful nature likened to sport. Girondo clearly breaks from the platonic ideals of beauty and delves into the aesthetics of the grotesque by using antipoetic language, which sublimes the abject. This

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    Looking For Alaska

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    Summation of Looking for Alaska In John Green’s Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, the protagonist of the novel, is a gawky fifteen year old who has been sheltered by his Florida home for all of his life. Florida was the epitome of emptiness and lifelessness for Miles. At his public school in Florida, Miles has obligatory, forced ‘friendships” with a ragtag bunch of drama participants and English geeks. In addition, Miles maintained a reputation of being a genuine, good adolescent; while, he also

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    Colombia Genocide Essay

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    Genocide did not exist until 1944 came around, genocide means when you kill people in large groups because of their color, hair, eye color, and religious. Like what happen in World War 2 when the holocaust was happen in. Hitler just wanted one color and one religion of people and he would put dads, moms and even children in consternation camps and he would lie to them telling them that it would be a safe place for them to stay and have fun but it wasn't like that. Genocide happen a lot back than

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