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We all know Gareth Bale, a Welsh soccer player who began his professional career playing for Southampton and made his way all the way up to Real Madrid Club and the Wales national team. Despite all these achievements and well-known facts, there are plenty of others that you might not know about Gareth Bale. Here are some of them. Fact 6: Gareth Bale’s Idol Gareth Bale pretended to be his idol Ryan Giggs in the playground at school. Gareth Bale has actually won the English Premier League’s Player

White Angels was the name of a group of footballers that militated in Real Madrid. Conformed by six players; Raul, Roberto Carlos, Zidane, Figo and Beckham. Beckham was the last piece of the puzzle for the forming of the White Angels. The story behind of how soccer superstars unite and work together in the conquest of the entire world. How Beckham’s novel ended when he signed for Real Madrid in 2004 for a controversial bid and agreement with the club. David Beckham Englishman born in the city of

In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, he is telling the story of a Dominican family but mainly about the son, Oscar de Leon. The book opens with the story of Oscar as a child and him having two girlfriends at the same time. The older people in town see him as a ladies man and encourage him. The boy and the two girls all break up and his life seemed to be on a steady decline since then. He grows up to become a nerdy, fat, and awkward adolescence with few friends and even less interest

MARY KORANTENG CO MIC SPIRIT IN AMERICA LITERATURE AND CULTURE JANUARY 20, 2012 INSTRUCTOR: MR. WAITHAKA The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is about a Dominican family who lives in Paterson New Jersey and they have been through many tribulations in life. The theme I chose for my essay is Fuku and Love, in the novel these two themes were mainly the reason why the characters got their self in situations

Water is a vital part of our planet Earth. Without it, the number of negative impacts it can have is unimaginable. The southeastern states in Brazil are one of the many regions of the world affected by drought. Not having enough water for the necessary daily activities has driven people to extremes in order to get the water that they need. Unacceptable water supply has led to issues in the economy, low food supply, starvation of animals, reduced quality of health, loss of life and more. This raises

Although the country has faced many hardships from the incoming decades, the country has survived. The country is located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, and east of Haiti. The capital city of Santo Domingo is located along the southern coast of the country. The climate has seasonal variation in rainfall as well as temperature variation. The natural resources of the island include

Ventura, summarily dropped the overt propaganda, but they emerged from the Trujillo era with a heightened awareness of the power of their craft. Johnny Ventura would later become an active political figure, and in 1998, win the mayoral election of Santo Domingo, the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic. In an interview in the summer of 2000, Johnny Ventura asserts, "I believe getting involved—not just the artists—in the search for solutions to the great wrongs and problems

Haitians. In 1843 the group had a break as it worked with a “liberal Haitian party” they were able to overthrow the president. Their success continued and on February 27, 1844, Dominican rebels seized the Fortaleza Ozama in Santo Domingo. Within days all Haitian officials left Santo Domingo. The war continued and the Dominican Republic continued to defend against Haitian attacks. The Republic went on to win more wars against Haiti’s attacks. “In November 6, 1844 a Constituent assembly drafted a constitution

The poor have always been analyzed, criticized and examined. Also they have been identified and categorized. Two theories of poverty are the “Undeserving Poor” and the “Deserving Poor. I believe that poverty is global plague, that has been studied and analyzed to come up with a solution to put an end to poverty. The theory of the Deserving Poor, there were those whose inability to support themselves might be considered innocent and permanent, the disabled, the elderly, the parentless, were the

completely demolished by Trujillo and company. Both these stories show the power Trujillo had on his people. Trujillo wanted to make his presence felt everywhere in the Dominican Republic. This is shown when Diaz states “Homeboy dominated Santo Domingo like it was his very own private Mordor; not only did he lock the country away from the rest of the world, isolate it behind the Platano Curtain, he acted like it was his very own plantation, acted like he owned everything and everyone,