Las Vegas: A Family-Friendly City(?) Admit it‚ whenever you hear the word Las Vegas‚ the first thing that pops into your mind is casinos‚ right? The Sin City – “What happens in Vegas‚ Stays in Vegas” – reputation doesn’t help much either. But even with all that baggage‚ Las Vegas is actually a great place to raise your kids in. Just take a look at all the neat stuff the city has to offer your young family. The Cost of Living Las Vegas provides many housing options for new homebuyers; there are
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LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL‚ BUNOL‚ SPAIN La Tomatina is a largest food fight festival in the world which is held in the Valencian town of Bunol‚ Spain. It is held on the last Wednesday of August every year. This festival required the visitors to throw approximately 40‚000 tomatoes and get involved in this tomatoes fight just for fun every year. The history of this festival was started on the last Wednesday of August 1945. During that time‚ the town square‚ where the “tomatina” is traditionally held nowadays
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LA SOLIDARIDAD The roots of the Propaganda Movement lay far back in in the late 18th and early 19th century. When Spain opened the borders of the Philippines to international trade‚ the too opened it to the contemporary currents of European political thoughts. It were mainly economic reasons which led to an educational reform in the Philippines. The friarocracy had long used its control of education to maintain its position. So the teaching of foreign languages and scientific and technical subjects
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La Amistad In 1839‚ Africans being carried from Havana‚ Cuba‚ to Puerto Principe‚ Cuba‚ revolted against their captors aboard the ship La Amistad (Spanish for ’friendship’). They were stolen from Africa‚ transported to the Americas‚ and were “passed off” as having been born in Cuba. After the revolt‚ the Africans demanded to be returned home‚ but the ship’s navigator lied to them about their course‚ and sailed them north along the North American coast to Long Island‚ New York. The schooner was subsequently
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"La Malinche." Slave‚ interpreter‚ secretary‚ mistress‚ mother of the first "Mexican." her very name still stirs up controversy. Many Mexicans continue to revile the woman called Doña Marina by the Spaniards and La Malinche by the Aztecs‚ labeling her a traitor and harlot for her role as the alter-ego of Cortes as he conquered Mexico. They ignore that she saved thousands of Indian lives by enabling Cortes to negotiate rather than slaughter. Her ability to communicate also enabled the Spaniards to
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Analysis on “Diario para un Cuento” and “The Moon in its Flight” “The Moon in its Flight” by Gilbert Sorrentino and “Diario para un Cuento” by Julio Cortazar are both self- reflective fiction. There are two storylines in both stories. One is the romantic story‚ between Rebecca and a boy in Sorrentino’s narrative‚ and between a translator and Anabel in Cortazoar’s story. The second storyline is the narration of how to write the story. What makes the stories so interesting is that both
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La Malinche When I first read about La Malinche I did not know who or what she was and as I started to read I learned that she was first a slave. She became a slave for Cortes. She was offered to him as a slave by the Cacique of Tabasco‚ along with 19 other young women. Cortes discovered that he could not communicate with the Indians. That night he was recommended to him that one of the women given to him in Tabasco spoke Spanish. When he found out that could speak Spanish. At that point in
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Las Meninas When looking at Las Meninas‚ your first glance is at the little girl in the center of the painting‚ she is the only most lighted object in the painting which shows her importance to Spain as she is the future queen. The next thing that catches the viewer ’s eye is the painter‚ Velazquez himself‚ who takes up the whole left side of the painting. He is painting something on a large canvas‚ we just don ’t know what‚ and that is what he wants us to wonder‚ "What are he painting and what
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LA Amistad is a movie depicting the tale of many Africans who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery. The Africans of “La Amistad” had been among five or six hundred Africans purchased by a Portuguese slave from Pedro Blanco‚ who operated a notorious slave factory on the island of Lomboko‚ south of Freetown. They had been brought from Africa on board the Portuguese slaver “Tecora” to Havana‚ where they were moved under cover of darkness to a prison outside the city and advertised for
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La Llorona or the Crying woman is a legend that goes back century’s in the Mexican culture. Some of the earliest recorded sightings are legends of The Aztecs‚ who say that the goddess Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors. Later in a story reflecting the Greek story of Medea‚ a woman has children by the conquer Cortez’ and when he is called back to Spain and decides to take
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