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    Norma Elia Cantu’s novel “Canícula: Imágenes de una Niñez Fronteriza” (“Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera”), which chronicles of the forthcoming of age of a chicana on the U.S.- Mexico border in the town of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in the 1940s-60s. Norma Elia Cantú brings together narrative and the images from the family album to tell the story of her family. It blends authentic snapshots with recreated memoirs from 1880 to 1950 in the town between Monterrey, Mexico, and San Antonio

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    Laredo Essay On History

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    History Laredo is located along the famous Rio Grande River separating Mexico and the United States and founded on May 15, 1755. It was once a small ranch that Captain Tomás Sánchez was in charge of and ran cattle, sheep, goats, horses, mules, and oxen, along with three other families. For years after this, Laredo had become a ranching colony where they were dependent on the animals to make a living. Little by little, more families came to join the ranching family and soon there were families owning

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    Addelita Cancryn was born on July 13, 1903, and died March 19, 1999 at the Sea View nursing home. Addelita Cancryn died at the age of 95 years old. She was born and raised on the beautiful island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. Addelita Cancryn was married to E. Vernon Cancryn and had one son name Emmanuel Rudolpho Cancryn. She was the daughter of Johannes C. Parrot and Ann Elisa, Nee Joshua. When Addelita Cancryn was growing up, she became an educator, organ music, and choir director. Addelita

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    Whether you 're a visitor to Laredo in South Texas or a resident of the great state, you can charter a bus to take your group to do entertaining things that the city has to offer. It 's a great place to take the entire family since there is an event or location to suit everyone 's tastes. Families will often charter a bus, so they don 't leave anyone behind. It 's a terrific alternative to a school bus for groups of school children too. 1. Imaginarium of South Texas http://www.istx.org/ The museum

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    School Reflection

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    The week of October16th through October 20th was pretty busy. I had three ARD meetings this week but none of them depicted any issues. All the parents were very complimentary of the teachers and their assistance in providing their children with the necessary tools to be academically successfully. We had our school homecoming on Monday so I was busy assisting the committee on preparation for the evening event. All eight grade teachers are required to be a part of this committee so that includes

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    results in the narrator wanting/becoming an activist just like Trotsky, a war veteran that saved his life. Therefore, he accepts all types of odd jobs Trotsky asks him to do like “giving a priest a ride to the bus station or airport across the river in Nuevo Escandon, Mexico.” But his wife, Maruca, isn’t really fond of Trotsky and is always asking Honore to “cool it” with him. Comparatively, in Honore’s eyes Trotsky saved him from a life of drug dealing. Before he met Trotsky, Honore used to smuggle dope

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    Short Story Of Camp Nano

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    A/N: Continuing because I’m inspired to. For those of you reading my other ‘in progress’ stories I promise that I will return to them. I just did a lot of writing in July (51k+ of original fiction for Camp NaNo) and I got out of the groove for the stories that are still in progress. But, while I’m working on those, have some of my favorite pairing! @ Pam: It does suck what the way the Guard treats women. I got the idea from my friend who served in the Marines. She went through all that training

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    Since then, more than 7,500 soldiers and 2,000 federal agents have been deployed to cities within the state, including Asunción, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua City, Ciudad Juárez, Janos, Ojinaga, Nuevo Casas Grandes, and Palomas. Operation Chihuahua most likely resulted in seizures of drug shipments before they reached the U.S.-Mexico border, although official seizure statistics are not available. Similarly, the DEA-led Operation Xcellerator, which

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    Hero Speech

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    brothers and i. My mom has done a lot for us ever since we came to Laredo.When we got here in Laredo,my mom looked for a job as fast as she could because my dad got deported and he couldn’t do anything about us,but when he got out of jail,he went to Nuevo Laredo because laredo Tx is close to Nuevo Laredo.He can’t cross over here with us because they gave him ten years of deportation,but he moved to Nuevo Laredo for a reason and that reason is for us.My dad does a lot for us and for my mom.He gives my

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    Los Zeta Research Paper

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    Sinaloa cartel, Oziel Cardenas the lieder of the Gulf cartel was the creator of this force. Los Zetas was and is a group train to kill and has no problem doing it. They have stop any attempts from the Sinaloa cartel from taking the Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo plazas

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