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    only as a necessity to supplement their husbands remained harmful to the advancement of women and continued to perpetuate the belief that women were below their husbands. One of the most supportive populist’s leaders in the name of women workers, Evita Peron, created her platform on the idea that her husband Juan Peron was superior to herself and that women should always remain subservient.26 FBy today’s standards, many of the ideas which were seen as progressive at the time are understood as hurtful

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    Madison Goyette Period 7 5/31/2016 Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 in Kensington, London, England. His mother was a violinist and pianist and his father was a composer. He learned how to play the piano, violin and French horn and started writing his own music when he was 6 years old. Lloyd Webber would often put on productions with his younger brother, Jullian, a renowned cellist. His first work of six short pieces titled The Toy Theatre Suite

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    what he felt was “an authoritarian and populist system between communism and capitalism.” Perón, for various reasons, was liked by many people. He helped the economy and made few enemies with the citizens of Argentina. The people absolutely adored Evita, which helped Perón in his elections and in staying in office. Overall, Juan Perón and his Perónists provided a government that Argentina needed. In the preceding paragraph, the details brought out mainly contain information about Perón’s first term

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    that had been written by Webber and Rice. His long fascination with Judas Iscariot made him perceive Judas as a dear friend of Jesus who was struggling with the consequences of the growing celebrity of Jesus rather than a craven betrayer of Christ (Evita Music, pg. 16). Despite this musical finding broad support among the vast liberal Christian churches, the piece was nonetheless too controversial as to get financial backing that was essential for its stage production. The lyrics of this musical were

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    Judith Ortiz Cofer

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    “Mixed cultural signals have perpetuated certain stereotypes…”(Page 372, paragraph 2, line 1). The Myth of the Latian Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, by Judith Ortiz Cofer is about how Judith Ortiz Cofer was discriminated because she is a Latina Woman. She describes about several people treating her differently than others, through song, through looks, and through sexual thoughts and actions towards her. Even after all the discriminating actions persisted upon her, she still pursues on to help

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    named after her called Ciudad Evita in her memory for the impact she made in her country. Works Cited The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Eva Peron." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 16 May 2016. . "Eva Perón." About.com Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 May 2016. . "Eva Perón." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 16 May 2016. . "Evita." HISTORY. N.p., 18 Mar. 2013. Web. 16 May 2016. . Fraser, Nicholas, and Marysa Navarro. Evita. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996

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    Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948. He composed many musicals throughout his lifetime including; “Evita”, “Phantom of the Opera”, and “Cats”. Webber grew up in South Kensington to parents William who was a professional in theory and composition at the Royal College of Music in England and Jean who was a singer and a violinist in the same school. By age three Webber was playing the violin. Then by age six he composed his own songs. Then by age nine he had a piece of music published in

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    Eva “Evita” Perón Eva Perón was, and still is, considered one of the most important and influential political figures in South American history. Eva Perón was born Maria Eva Duarte on May 7th, 1919 in Los Toldos, a Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The youngest of her family, Eva had four siblings that preceded her: Blanca, Elisa, Erminda and Juan. Eva’s father, Juan Duarte kept her mother, Juana, as a mistress, keeping an upper middle-class family in Chivilcoy with his wife, Adela d’Huart. Juan

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