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    John Van Buskirk History 131 Professor Ehrlich October 10th, 2015 Lázaro Cárdenas, Juan Perón, Jorge Gaitán and Fidel Castro are four people that are famous for what they did for their people. The main agenda of each person is what shaped that person’s future. Also every person strived to help the poor people of their country or town. Even though it did not always work in the long run. Each person had their own unique way to do this. Lázaro Cárdenas’ main agenda as president was to fix the

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    Andrew Lloyd Webber 1. Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer known for famous musical theatre hits such as Cats, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera. In the early years, he was born on March 22, 1948 in London. Many say that he was born with musical blood going through his veins, his father is the director of the London College of Music, his mother was a piano teacher and his younger brother (Julian) was a cellist. He started playing the piano and violin at the age of three, then he started playing

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    shows from the previous decades. In the 1970’s we saw the birth of Rock Opera, a musical style bringing the sound and beats of rock music to the musical style. Andrew Lloyd Webber was the on the forefront with shows like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita popularizing this new style. He would later write Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show on Broadway.  1990’s and beyond In recent years, the trend on Broadway has been to adapt films and books into musical productions. Mel Brooks found huge

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    (Juan and Eva are arriving to a night at the opera and sit down to applause. Music starts. Eva and Juan enjoy the music until, suddenly, Eva doubles over in pain and starts gasping for breath. ) Juan- Eva? Eva- Juan….Please let’s leave. Juan- Are you okay Eva- Please, let’s go. Juan- Of course, come on. (Eva tries to stand but cannot on her own. Juan supports her and their security comes to lift her out of the theatre and back to her room. Juan sits outside her door waiting for the doctor’s diagnosis

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    would not have been likely to regale a white woman with a dirty song in public… But to him, I was just an Evita or a Maria: merely a character in his cartoon-populated universe.” This demonstrates allusion and interference because the man looks upon Latin woman as they are lesser than white women, which emphasizes the effect of stereotypes on minority populations

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    “Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game” (Evita Ochel) The graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is about the author/main character Marji Satrapi, a young girl who was living through the Iranian revolution. Throughout the story, we see many of the characters being manipulated by the Iranian government during that time and how many people suffered from their lies or how the government twisted the truth. Satrapi,

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    L'Occitane

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    Summary Introduction 2 Part 1- L 'Occitane’s background history 3 Part 2 - The reasons to choose this name, this logo, this design 5 Part 3 - What about L’Occitane’s advertising? 6 Part 4 - Places, markets, regions 8 Part 5 - How culture could be a challenge? 9 Part 7- Build, measure and manage L 'Occitane 's brand equity? 11 Sum up 13 Conclusion 14 Appendix 15 Introduction o Why L’Occitane? Our team has chosen the French brand L’Occitane because this body care shop seems fits perfectly

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    The setting is in the prison, on a horse, in Evita, in the king’s tower, and at the river. The story is set in Germany during World War ll. Liesel's father was taken away because of suspicions that he was a communist. At the beginning of the story, Liesel is on a train with her mother and brother; during the journey, Liesel's little brother dies. The characters in the book are the prisoners, the guard’s, the king, the citizens, the horses, the king of so unis, the magus, the old gods, the tax collector’s

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    Broadway was one of the first forms of entertainment. Before there were television programs, or movies, there was Broadway. Broadway originated in New York in 1750, when actor-manager Walter Murray built a theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street. A musical would show about once every weekend. The shows were very male based, and would commonly show a relationship between young boys and their fathers. Women were slowly integrated into Broadway, and as society changed its point of view on women

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    because an unknown author once said, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. Cofer uses many Spanish in her biography because she wants to show her sentiment message. For instance, “[The man] with his champagne glass extended toward me, he exclaimed, Evita!” (629). The man is calling Cofer by a Spanish origin name because he thinks it is a joke to make fun of her. She is offended by his words and it is not nice for the man’s daughter to encourage him. I think Cofer should ignore all of the negative comments

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