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Celia Cruz born Ursula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso, a female Cuban singer born October 21, 1925 in Havana Cuba was one of the most influential figures in Latin music. She started her musical career in her native country in the late 1940’s early 1950’s performing for various Cuban radio shows and traveling with the orchestra accompanying the dancing group “Las Mulatas del Fuego.” Her big break came in 1950 when she joined “La Sonora Matancera” the most famous orchestra in Cuba at the time.

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ depicts the story of a little girl, Ofelia, and her adventures in a world that is intertwined with both reality and fantasy. The film is set five years after the Spanish Civil War, during Franco’s dictatorship of Spain. Franco’s dictatorship was a period of mass repression on all scales of society; any political opposition was immediately crushed. Guillermo del Toro uses the monsters in ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ to reflect and criticize aspects of Francoist

Both Jhumpa Lahiri's “Going Ashore” and Anita Jain's “Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse than Craigslist?” discuss the prospects of arranged marriage and the processes involved in it, Lahiri suggests that arranged marriage is the answer to an unstable life, Jain's story suggests that arranged marriage and it's processes is just as unstable as a typical love marriage. In “Going Ashore”, the character, Hema, views arranged marriage as an answer to her unfortunate history of past relationships and

photography. As well as the current exhibition of Mundos Alternos an Art and science fiction in the Americas. There are four photographs by Guillermo Soto Curiel, Manuel Carrilo, Graciela Iturbide, and Ruben Ortiz Torres. The first photograph is Ritmo de Vida III 1981. This is by the photographer Guillermo Soto Curiel who is Mexican and was born in 1952. Ritmo De Vita III was a gelatin silver print. This photograph is a city or

Introduction Blue Zones are an idea used to recognize a demographic and/or geographic region of the world where individuals live quantifiable much longer lives. There are five blue zones on the planet and the general population who live within these zones live to be more than 100+ years without anyone else's input. When I say independent from anyone else I mean they don't have machines helping them breath or specialists coming in to keep an eye on them. These are ordinary individuals living their

absolute best of what they did have. They are very different from us, Americans because our happiness comes from material objects. They were pleased with being able to share their knowledge, culture and language with us. As the Costa Ricans say Pura Vida meaning pure

an Islamist cell linked to the attacks. Police surrounded the flat on April 3 and were met “con disparos [with gunfire]” (Zamorano). When agents tried entering the apartment, “los ocupantes del piso provocaron una enorme explosión que acabó con sus vidas y con la de un subinspector [the occupants of the floor caused a huge explosion that ended their lives and that of a sub-inspector]” (Zamorano). Despite the explosion, video tapes were found claiming they were the perpetrators of the attacks

Honduras is a poor country in the middle of Central America. The nation has an area of 43,266 miles ("Honduras", Every Culture). Honduras is the 2nd largest country in Central America (Shields 9). As of 2013, 8-10 million people live in Honduras (Gottlieb 792). Different ethnic backgrounds live in specific environments throughout Honduras ("Honduras", Every Culture). Honduras is a country rich in culture and historic events. "The Economic background of Honduras is depressing" (Gottlieb 790). Fifty-

La vida es sueño. Life is a dream. This theme, which explores the boundaries of reality, is featured in two of Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno’s works, Mist and Saint Manuel, Martyr. Published during the early twentieth century, both works contrast with the absolute realism of Unamuno’s contemporaries. They include elements such as simple characterization, magical realism, and metafiction. In fact, to first classify Mist, Unamuno coined the nonsense word “nivola,” as opposed to the Spanish novela

1.-What is the possible meaning of the changes in stock price for GEICO and Berkshire Hathaway on the day of the acquisition announcement?  Specifically,  what does the $718 milllion gain in Berkshire´s market value of equity imply about the intrinsic value of GEICO? (Note that Berkshire owned 33.25 million shares before the acquisition was announced) El posible significado en los cambios en el precio de la acción de GEICO y de Berkshire es que era una fusión en la cual ambas empresas se iban a