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    strong critique against machismo as the only consequences seen are a restricted individuality and freedom, and an act that was probably not seen as immoral by the readers at that time. In order to make a strong, effective critique against machismo, Garcia Marquez describes the murder as a traumatizing experience and explains its numerous negative impacts. The murder itself is described using harrowing imagery such as a ‘spurt of blood under high pressure [soaking] his shirt’ (p. 120), Santiago’s ‘intestines

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    Death Foretold is a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that revolves around the narrator's attempts to put together the pieces of memories of a murder that took place in a small Colombian town twenty-seven years in the past. This passage from the novel takes place in the end of chapter four where Angela is said to have written weekly letters to Bayardo for seventeen years until the day he showed at her workplace with a stack of unopened letters. In this passage, Garcia Marquez uses magical realism, symbolism

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    “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”:Gabriel Garcia- Marquez story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, written in 1955, is about a family harboring what is thought to be a fallen old “angel man”, initially thought to be on his way to take their ailing child away. The angel must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down (Marquez, 1955). The family not knowing how to treat the situation embarks on a journey of mixed emotions of whether the man is

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    They are similar to the Garcia family because they are both immigrants in a foreign land, trying to survive in a new place while still remembering where they came from. “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” tells a story of how the Garcia Family, the main focus on the sisters, grow up and adjust to life in the United States of America, making itself distinct from other coming-of-age stories by telling the story in a unique way, reverse chronological order. In “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”

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    Systems theory states that a person’s behavior is influenced by an assortment of factors, including a person’s parents, friends, and school. The Garcia family represents many of the families that social workers come into contact with. There is a father, mother, and three children trying to navigate the world, amidst personal, and cultural, obstacles. Ricky, the oldest, is having difficulty at school and his parents are struggling with how to guide him. Social workers must observe and analyze how

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    Cristina García is a proclaimed Cuban-American journalist, novelist, and poet. García has worked for Time magazine, edited anthologies such as Cubanisimo!: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature, and published her poetry in The Lesser Tragedy of Death. García is also the recipient of the National Book Award for her debut novel Dreaming in Cuba. Her fictitious works not only serve as entertainment for readers, but also provide insight to the lives of Cuban families affected by the Cuban

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    use to get across their messages? I don’t know about other authors, but we are discussing “The Handsomest Drowned Man”, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the story, he uses the techniques of character development and setting to demonstrate his messages. He shows the message that people can be inspired by anything to change themselves for the better. Marquez also shows that encouragement can come in many different forms and is generally positive. He demonstrates these messages by using character development

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    reality, a material just as hard as wood”. Although carpentry mainly focuses on wood there are other materials that are included, just like in literature you work with reality but also with other genres to create a book with meaning behind it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian writer who was well-known for producing much magical realism writing which means that authors use magical components to make a point about reality. Working with Magical Realism allowed him to be able to create a parallel universe

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    interviewing Mr. Garcia learning that he has been married for eighteen years and has been employed for the at the same company for ten years this will allow me to believe that he should have "well- developed sense of control ,and is confident in his abilities'"(Redman p331). Mr. Garcia also obtained an associate's degree in business using this information will help me come up with a plan of care know the patient is able to understand the written information that might be provided. Mr. Garcia and I agreed

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    novel written by Cristina García that examines three generations of a Cuban family. There is a political in divide in the family, as there are members who support Cuba’s communist agenda and members of the family who oppose it. The political divide leads to separation. The separation of the family members results in miscommunication. Each member of the family holds strong beliefs and are unwilling to communicate the different conflicts that exists within their family. García uses the theme of miscommunication

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