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Meet the Author Angela McEwan-Alvarado was born in Los Angeles and has lived in many locations in the United States, as well as Mexico and Central America. She obtained her master’s degree at UC Irvine and since then has worked as an editor of educative materials and a translator. The story “Oranges” was the result of an exercise for a writer’s workshop in which the author managed to mix images and experiences accumulated throughout her life. Oranges Since I remember, boxes of oranges were

In the late 1930s, the urban jazz culture began in New York’s Harlem nightlife. Many young men of African American descent wore suits that had exaggerated shoulder pads, pegged trousers that were very tapered at the ankles, oversized coat, long dangling key chain and wide brimmed hats, this style is called the Zoot suit. According to the fashion reader, Cosgrove states that “ The word Zoot means worn or performed in its’ lavish style when, most jazz musicians wore, zoot suits on stage like, a famous

El Salvador, or Republic of El Salvador, is a densely-populated country in Central America. There are about 6 million people living in slightly more than 8,000 square miles, making it one of the most densely populated countries in the Western Hemisphere. It is the smallest country in Central America- slightly smaller than the size of the state of Massachusetts. El Salvador is mountainous- the main mountain range is the Sierra Madre. Other mountains in the country are volcanoes, some of which

Guatemala is the heart of the Mayan world. It is alive, magical, and ancestral. Its history proceeds from four thousand years ago when the Mayan civilization emerged and whose legacy is still evident in the traditions and culture of its habitants. Guatemala possesses an extraordinary cultural and natural richness and a privileged geographic location. The distances one most travel from place to place are so short that one can visit different regions during the same trip. Between its past and present

Zoot Suitors, the criminals or the good guys? Less than a century ago, the people of Los Angeles used to speak Spanish because it used to belong to Mexico. To think that before the year of 1942 that Los Angeles, with its Hollywood Walk of Fame and Broadway theatres, used to be a place where Mexican Americans could not even freely express themselves through their fashion is appalling. Also, to think that Los Angeles was looked at as the “City of Angels,” considering the stigma of the Zoot Suitors

Hellish Interpersonal Situations by Peng Su Situations of unpleasant interactions between people are common even in our societies. At least each person has at one time has experienced a terrible or unpleasant interaction with another person. In the play No Exit by Sartre and the poems The Waste Land by Eliot, there are similar unpleasant interactions depicted. No Exit is a play consisting of three characters Inez, Garcin, and

The sea otter is a fur-bearing mammal of the genus Enhydra. Scientists placed this species in the subspecies Lutrinae of the weasel family, Mustelidae, in the order Carnivora. The binomial nomenclature for sea otters is Enhydra lutris (McDannald 477). The sea otter feeds on crustaceans, shellfish, and other forms of life found on the ocean floor. They may go down one-hundred feet or more in search of food such as crabs, snails, sea urchins, mussels, abalones, and clams (McDannald 478). They require

Katelynn Pilon 11th Adv Literature Ms. Brown December 20th 2016 Gary Soto “Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California, in April, 1952, to working-class Mexican-American parents. At a young age, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. He was not academically motivated as a child, but became interested in poetry during his high school years.” Soto uses his cultural experiences lead him to write about his character how he does and throughout all of his short stories, books, and poems he

have never thought possible. Around Thanksgiving of 2012 I had a lady that came into the hospital with a host of problems. Before I could assess her and see what was happening, I had to peel off a very worn, purple, faux fur coat that was caked with blood. Removing her coat, I could see that her clothes were in similar shape. After going through a few layers of clothing, I removed her shirt and found the source of the blood: She had a gaping wound on her right breast. When I asked how long she had

Access Policies In this paper, a bioeconomic model used by Barbier in two separate papers to explain the relationship between shrimp farming and destruction of mangroves in Thailand’s coastal zone waters (Barbier, 2003) and the Laguna de Terminos in Mexico (Barbier and Strand, 1998) will be used to examine the detrimental effects of clam farming on the Venetian Lagoon ecosystem. Barbier (2003) uses an intertemporal model of an open-access fishery to illustrate the changes in mangrove area (or in this