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    The Bermuda or Devils Triangle is though to be a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean. The Bermuda Triangle is roughly 140,000 square miles and stretches from Miami to Puerto Rico to Bermuda. Many myths and theories surround the Bermuda Triangle. Dozens of boats and planes have disappeared within the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle. The theories stretch from atmospheric pressures to UFO's and Atlantis being found in the Devil's Triangle. Only one thing can be said for certain about the Bermuda

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    Devil’s Sea. The Bermuda Triangle is a strange area of land that makes up a metaphorically drawn out triangle that has very unusual occurrences. According to oceanservice.noaa.gov The Bermuda Triangle stretches across Bermuda, Miami Florida, and San Juan Puerto Rico, and it totals to 500,000 square miles. According to Bigthink.com the Bermuda Triangle has many stories about several flights gone missing and ships that disappeared into thin air. One of the many told stories about

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    event created this hole in me; and I think from then on I've been trying to fill it through my work." Valdez's experience in a farm worker family provided much encouragement and drive when he founded El Teatro Campesino. In 1965, Valdez left the San Francisco Mime Troupe to join Cesar Chavez in organizing farmworkers in Delano, Calif. Valdez organized the workers into El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers Theater) in an effort to popularize and raise funds for the grape boycott and farmworker strike

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    Pablo Casals: Internationally Renowned Cellist Pablo Casals (sometimes called his original name Pau Carlos Salvidor Defillo De Casals) was one of, if not, the greatest cellists in history. Casals is easily recognized as one of the master soloists of classical music and he has many accomplishments in his many years as a public figure that have made him internationally renowned. Casals was born in Vendrell, Spain on December 29, 1876. He received his very first music lessons

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    The Bermuda Triangle is also commonly called The Devil’s Triangle. It has been called this for many years because of the many sudden disappearances of planes, ships, and people. The area of the Bermuda Triangle lies between Bermuda, Miami, San Juan, and Puerto Rico (Ratner, 2016,p.1). There are many legends and mysteries behind the story of the Bermuda Triangle. For many decades the Bermuda Triangle has been a source of paranormal activity and mysterious disappearances. Some of the most famous of

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    people, this is all they will learn about the missions unless they visit one. While each mission is unique, most of what you learn in one is the same. My first visit to a mission was as a child with my grandmother. We visited San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo and San Juan Bautista. Both were presented as old churches that the Indians and Mexicans came to practice at and lived in. I looked through the glass cases and saw the tools and pictures and copies of the Bible. The placards described what the

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    That event created this hole in me; and I think from then on I’ve been trying to fill it through my work.” Valdez’s experience in a farm worker family provided much encouragement and drive when he founded El Teatro Campesino. In 1965, Valdez left the San Francisco Mime Troupe to join Cesar Chavez in organizing farmworkers in Delano, Calif. Valdez

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    The Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle is considered to be one of the largest unsolved mysteries of time. There have been numerous studies that resulted in the emergence of the unusual theories known today. Some people often believe that supernatural forces caused the incidents that have happened in the triangle. Others believe that humans are the main driving force for these occurrences. The beliefs in the unusual disappearances, methane gas pockets, and weather patterns that occur in the Bermuda

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    Growing Up in San Francisco- Personal Narrative Although I was born in Salem, Oregon, my earliest memories are from San Francisco, California. My parents came to California to start over and find a better life. For a while we lived on a bus parked in front of a friend's house. When I was three years old, we moved to Potrero Hill, an area of low-income housing projects in the big city. A very famous man, O.J. Simpson, grew up there, but

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    The Spanish-American war was a turning point in United States history. It is the time period when the Unites States started asserting it’s power in international affairs. Spain had been one of the superpowers along with Great Britain, France and Germany. Great Britain, France, Germany and Spain had established colonies through out the world. Spain’s colonies were the closest to the United States interests, so it was only natural that tensions would start to boil between Spain and the United States

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