1968 was a year of student revolts in many places‚ but as Elena Poniatowska reminds us in her 68th prologue by Paco Ignacio Taibo II‚ the only city in which they massacred hundreds of people was Mexico. The chapters in the book are short‚ in them we know how everything was created: "We lived surrounded by the magic of the Cuban revolution and the Vietnamese resistance"‚ but also stunned by the death of Che‚ and drunk with cinema‚ music and poetry. The protagonists did not surpass the circle of a
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The Second Reich Revision sheet. 1. The Constitution – Position of Chancellor independent to Reichstag. Power structure unclear and confused. 2. Economy – G. Europe’s industrial superpower‚ built on existing industries and new ones. (new – electrics‚ chemicals‚ cars‚ precision equipment) 3. Labor force – Population growing also change of jobs from agriculture to tertiary sectors. Also G. Best education system for scholors and technical skills. 4. Changing spirit of the age: new
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memory. When events are out of chronological order‚ the events become a flashback. This choice adds character and makes the events more personal and real. In the Adolescence part of the novel‚ Elena recounts Lila’s dissolving of margins before going back to when Lila got her arm in a cast (Ferrante page 81-91). Elena then continues to tell her story‚ the events leading up to Lila’s episode of the dissolving of margins. This is similar to the way a human mind works. People sometimes would remember an
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Maria Bochkareva Becca Roberts 4th 2-25-14 Russia had rules forbidding women joining the army‚ but some did. For the first few years of the war‚ the few women who actually fought in the front lines required required the complicity of military officals-- except one. Maria Leontievna Bochareva was the third daughter of a pesant family. She as born in Novgorod Oblast in 1889. Badly beaten by her alcoholic father‚ she left home at fifteen to marry Afansi Bochkareva. The couple moved to Tomsk
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Elena is described as an English learner that has only been in the United States for one and a half years. It also states that her and her family are from Mexico and that her parents are professionals. We know from these details and the written and oral samples she gave that her main struggles are in writing and speaking in English. First‚ as an English learner‚ she is struggling with particular grammatical rules present in the English language. In her written response‚ she is not properly using
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A character analysis of Elena Gilbert The Vampire Diaries | ‘The Vampire Diaries’‚ originally a book by L.J Smith‚ was translated to television by the CW Television Network in 2009. As the title goes‚ it is dominated by the supernatural. Vampires to be exact. The story is set in the fictional town called ‚“Mystic Falls”‚ in Virginia. Elena Gilbert is the show’s protagonist who is torn between the supernatural and humanity. Elena is a strong‚ caring person but as time progresses‚ she can be
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My new favorite word is suffering. I endeavor to use it in my writing and in everyday life as much as possible. This is because I’m reading Elena Ferrante’s delicious novel quartet‚ which recounts the tale of a complex friendship between two women from a very young age into their sixties. The story takes place in Naples‚ Italy. The neighborhood is run down‚ the girls’ clothing‚ drab; but the characters’ emotions are so alive! And the narrator’s repeated use of the word suffering strikes such a chord
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The work of the Neapolitan writer Elena Ferrante has received much attention in recent years‚ becoming the subject of countless articles‚ not only in the Italian press‚ but also in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. Paolo di Paolo‚ writing for La Stampa‚ provides us with a succinct description of the “caso Ferrante”: “Merita perciò di essere studiato il fenomeno-Ferrante: un’autrice di cui tuttora si ignora l’identità salutata qualche settimana fa dal New Yorker come una grande artista
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from several words and attitudes that the poet conveys to their reader. Poets‚ Pat Mora and Anthony Grooms‚ both use tone in their poems‚ but only one tone changes with the different setting‚ while the other tone remains constant. In Pat Mora’s‚ "Elena‚" the speaker is a Mexican woman who explains how her life has changed due to her and her family moving to the United States. The first line in the poem brings a slight negative tone‚ "My Spanish isn’t enough." Right away the reader is brought into
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Topic: The effects of tradition and how it displayed in short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and “Marriage is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe. Tradition is something you pass down through generation to generation. Something that usually is a long established custom or belief that has been passed on a certain way. When the word tradition enters your mind‚ no one comes to think that tradition may have negative effects. Times have changed‚ should the way we live our lives change along
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