Manuel Puig

When you lose the person who matters most to you in this world, time alters. Time is no longer a linear progression of events. Time becomes a memory of another life. Ten years pass within a day, then you wake up and another decade has been added to the distance, an alien life form, a foreign place, another person inhabiting your body in the past, and, yet, the memories flood the goop of your brain, as if the single greatest loss of your life happened this morning. It’s all curved and bended and

Given the tumultuous political environment in Colombia during this period, it may come as a surprise that a third round of peace talks commenced in 1998. The FARC, having reached its peak during this time, was waging an all out insurgency against the state. The push for peace came at the behest of the citizenry rather than the state. In a strong display of unity, 10 million Colombians voted to for the Mandate of Peace in October of 1997 in a popular vote. Thus the government—under the Pastrana administration—initiated

Colonia Dignidad “Deep in the Andean foothills of Chile’s central valley lives a group of German expatriates, the members of a utopian experiment called Colonia Dignidad,” (theamericanscholar.org.) In its time, Colonia Dignidad was a much respected community for its morals pertaining to work, religion, modesty, cleanliness, and wealth. Colonia Dignidad in reputation is a place to find and serve God that is much respected among locals, however, in reality, it was a home to countless crimes. Sociedad

The author begins the story with a line that sets the entire story. The first line of the story is, “The truth of the matter is: I have managed to make my wife very, very small.” The narrator goes on to explain it was not intentional and the miniaturization was an accident. The author then has the narrator give background information and explain the story of what happens to his wife and himself. The story ends with the extreme measures the miniature wife has taken upon herself to torture the narrator

Throughout time an individual’s role in which he fits into society has changed. One of the most noticeable changes in an individual’s role in society occurred during the Italian Renaissance during the 14th and 15th centuries with the introduction of Humanism. Humanism gave birth to the concept of individuality a notion which is still alive today. It said that humans mattered and that now mattered, that one should not be part of a whole but rather someone that is unique. Before Humanism people only

The discussion of legalizing certain illegal drug like marijuana for personal use or prostitution to help stimulate the economy is one of the worst ideas ever. It was also said that it will eliminate money laundering problem. By keeping illegal drugs, prostitution, and money laundering illegal will prevent criminals from exploiting the poor and unfortunate people. This will also prevent the “paid” rape of all genders, it will also detour people from becoming an addict, thus eliminating the increase

Holder had previously stated that “no bank is too big to jail,” but none of the executives faced any prison time. Credit Suisse was fined $2.6 billion, but critics have pointed out that the fine was quite lenient, considering the extent and brazen nature of their crimes. Mark S. Henry, Senior Economist from Tax Justice Network, joked that “they’re yodeling through the Alps over the light touch of Eric Holder.” He pointed out that their stock price rebounded significantly just one day after the announcement

Drugs and Politics The war on drugs has been a great tool to keep the force of U.S drug policies’ in Latin America because the prohibition makes the most successful and profitable failure to transnational corporations. Over the course 100 years of repression history of narcotics, it has become apparent that zero tolerance policies have brought nothing than harm to the working class on a Global scale, especially Mexico. The attempt to eradicate trafficking in narcotics in many of the Latin American

techno-pessimists. We live in a highly interconnected world due to the increase in technology in our everyday lives, Marshall McLuhan calls this world interconnected by an electronic nervous system a global village (McLuhan n.d.). Theorists for example Manuel Castells call this new social structure the “network society” he defines the network society as a social structure made of networks in all the key dimensions of social organisation and social practice (Castells and Castells 2010). The internet of

Globalization is a developmental process of transnational integration, which mainly reflects on the economic aspect. The moral standards and legal systems in different regions are changing differently along with the progress of the society. However, when mentioned globalization, people mostly refer to mainstream globalization. Deviant globalization- the rebarbative dark side of the global economy- is ignored constantly. There is a distinctive evaluation from Nils Gilman- deviant globalization is