Viña San Pedro Viña San Pedro (VSP) was the third largest winery in Chile‚ with 1998 sales of 37 billion Chilean pesos (CP). Bonifacio Correa had planted the original vines with French stock in 1865 on the farm in Molina that the family had owned since 1701. For years‚ VSP wines enjoyed a reputation of being one of the finest in the country‚ and the vineyard remained in the Correa family until 1941. New owners expanded the vineyard so that by 1994‚ 1‚150 hectares1 were in production‚ making it the
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SAN PEDRO CALUNGSOD Pedro Calungsod was a 17th century teenage catechist of the Jesuit mission in the Marianas. On April 2‚ 1672 he was killed for his faith together with Bl. Diego San Luis Vitoris‚ SJ in Guam. The canonization process for Pedro Calungsod started on June 25‚ 1998. On March 5‚ 2000 he was declared a "beatus". On December 19‚ 2011 a miracle through his intercession was approved. The Holy Father has decreed that the canonization will be held in Rome
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of their gender. For example‚ women are expected to take care of the household‚ while men can do almost whatever they want. In the case of Pedro Paramo‚ he has an entire town of sex workers at his disposal‚ many of whom are not willing to do that job. His rape of Margareta further cements his belief that women are merely sex objects for his pleasure and Pedro is so powerful that he can merely pay them for their “service” or kill them for disobedience to hush them up. Even his son‚ Miguel‚ who commits
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conquistadors had conquered most of what they dubbed New Spain. Today‚ I hope to inform you about one of the most reviled‚ ruthless‚ and ambitious conquistadors to have been a part of the Spanish colonization of modern day Mexico and Central America‚ Don Pedro de Alvarado. I have done extensive research and as a first generation US born El Salvadorian‚ I have some cultural ties in which Alvarado ’s role in history has had a direct influence in. First‚ I will giving you a little history about how he became
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CRISIS A crisis (from the Greek κρίσις - krisis;[1] plural: "crises"; adjectival form: "critical") is any event that is‚ or expected to lead to‚ an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual‚ group‚ community‚ or whole society. Crises are deemed to be negative changes in the security‚ economic‚ political‚ societal‚ or environmental affairs‚ especially when they occur abruptly‚ with little or no warning. More loosely‚ it is a term meaning ’a testing time’ or an ’emergency event’. Crisis
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Pedro and Me Pedro and Me is the book that I chose for my review. I chose this from the humorous category because Chris Johnson told me that it was funny. The author of the book is Judd Winick‚ who was on MTV’s show The Real World. Judd comes onto the show knowing that one of his roommates was HIV positive‚ but he did not know who. He soon meets Pedro and learns that he is the one‚ and realizes how normal it is living with somebody that has the HIV virus. This book had its’ funny parts‚ but I
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Women as Symbols of Subjugation in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo All throughout history‚ women have been universally known to be subjugated by men who are considered to be the leaders of society. Juan Rulfo develops a connection to this history of women as subjugated subjects of society in his novel Pedro Paramo as he presents the Mexican women as inferior and vulnerable beings under the authority and power of the men. In his non-sequential novel‚ Pedro Paramo‚ Rulfo establishes female characters‚ such
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killers have plagued society. These social deviants cunningly meander through communities murdering the most vulnerable: women‚ children‚ the homeless‚ and the elderly (Guillen‚ 2002). This paper will focus on two serial killers; Pedro Lopez and Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega. Pedro Lopez ‘ The man who would grow up to become the notorious “Monster of the Andes” had the sort of childhood almost guaranteed to produce a criminal psychopath. Born in rural Colombia in 1949‚ Lopez—one of thirteen children of
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PEDRO PARAMO This novel was written by Juan Rulfo a pre eminent Mexican writer who was raised in an orphanage. The central vehicle of the novel is that spirits are here with us if we care to listen‚ many dialogues and situations in the book have characters who are dead and speak from the beyond. The author purposefully blends the dead with the living in an effort to place them as what they are‚ a continuum of each other. Mexicans and their relationship with death is a well known phenomenon where
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A film that I found to be interesting and entertaining was Volver (2006) by Pedro Almodovar. Almodovar is a director that received acclimates of being a very distinct auteur very early in his career. Almodovar’s style and influences are prominent all throughout Volver. I will be discussing Volver and how it has become a typical icon film of Almodovar’s work. Many of Almodovar’s film are reflective of his upbringing. Almodovar said‚ “You can say my films are melodramas‚ tragicomedies‚ comedies or
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