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    wave, and how it affected his life from making him commit crimes to making him swing his mood with all the sudden mood changes the wave suffer due to all the external factor that could affect her. Another short story is “It’s Because We’re So Poor” by Juan Rulfo that focuses on the tragedy a family is living due to the fact that, because of the excessive rain and rivers flooding, they may lose the daughter’s cow, this meaning that the only

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    possible loss on their power from the new sectors that were rising. After, the author expressed that the state and church became even more closer when Perón’s started his governmental period. Chapter two, “Perón and the Problem of Consensus” starts with Juan Domingo Perón and its beginnings in the Argentinean government as a prominent leader from a military background. Later, Perón’s constant reminder that he was not an ideologue to the Argentineans gave him freedom to act in whichever pragmatic way that

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    nothing but trouble” (Gardner). The First Lulu gleans the drama, deception, lies, and vengeance akin to play’s Don Giovanni and Don Juan. However, one of the primary differences remains is Lulu’s character is a woman. However, Lulu is no less cunning, in fact her character is more cavalier and unrepentant in her unfaithfulness to men compared to Don Giovanni and Don Juan combined. Alban Berg describes Lulu as “a woman created for evil also destruction and practice salvation, including murder without

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    In the poem “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere,” the Marinere attains a change of mindset in regards to the sea snakes he encounters. This moment in the poem is larger than just the liking or disliking of an animal; it shows a larger change within the Marinere. Through exploring the concept of seeing in Carlos Castaneda’s novel A Separate Reality, and applying it to the beloved Marinere, it is discovered that the Marinere completes the act of seeing. Being able to “see” allows the Marinere this shift

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    relations with over 1,000 woman.” Aside from his immoral activities his poetry is heavily influenced by Nature, as are most of the romantics poets. Lord Byron explains three messages in each of his three poems, She Walks in Beauty, To The Ocean, and Don Juan; their messages being carrying yourself in a proper manner, familiarity at a young age, and how old age brings less excitement. In the poem She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron explains one very important message. The way a person carries themselves

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    for him to achieve seeing. Similarly, don Juan tries to impart on Carlos the needed knowledge that to see everything it must become nothing (Castaneda, 159). This does not mean that something ceases to exist, but instead, it hints at the ability to release our ties to the concepts we learn and to which we grow so attached. Additionally, don Juan reveals later in the novel that it hinders Carlos to have everything explained to him. Carlos explained don Juan “was through explaining things to me because

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    Eva Peron Research Paper

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    Eva Peron Biography: Eva Peron was the wife of Argentine president Juan Peron, and an activist in the struggle against poverty, and fight for Women’s rights in contemporary Argentina. At the time, poverty was consuming most of the population, and women’s rights were nonexistent. As first lady, she began her life long fight to end poverty, and advance the lower classes, in addition to her struggle to grant women equal rights as men. She is well known for her advancement of Argentina’s social structure

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    Eva Quote De Peron

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    ambitious women who have forced their way through poverty and fame.but instead popular memory finds parallels between Evita's life and the lives of the saints, because she did it all for someone else. (Guillermoprieto 100) From Colonel Juan Peron's election in 1946

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    Dom Casmurro

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    Dom Casmurro and Pedro Paramo also share a theme of having a narrator looking into the past. In both plots the narrator’s life is detailed; they each focus on recollections, remembering the past. In Dom Casmurro, the narrator Bento, speaks in the past tense with the ability to describe what was going on, how he felt about it and what he should have done. At times, he speaks about how he, at this point in time, should have done something or acted a specific way. This is illustrated when he describes

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    conversation between Juan and his mother, Dolores, where she says “‘make him pay, son, for all those years that he put us out of his mind’”(3) referring to his father, Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo is referencing the Cry of Dolores, where Father Miguel Hidalgo called the citizens of Dolores, Mexico to take up arms against the ruling Spanish upper class and get revenge for the hundreds of years of Indian oppression and exploitation. In the same way that the Citizens of Dolores were called, Juan is called by his

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