(born October 19‚ 1899‚ Guatemala City‚ Guatemala—died June 9‚ 1974‚ Madrid‚ Spain) Guatemalan poet‚ novelist‚ and diplomat‚ winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 (&see; Nobel Lecture: “The Latin American Novel: Testimony of an Epoch”) and the Soviet Union ’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966. His writings‚ which combine the mysticism of the Maya with an epic impulse toward social protest‚ are seen as summing up the social and moral aspirations of his people. In 1923‚ after receiving his degree
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music for Tinkus in Bolivia during the 1900’s was really traditional as well. The music that was played was manmade instruments. The instruments consisted of a pipe flute‚ drum made from dry cow skin‚ a charrango which is made by the shell of an armadillo which were in rhythm of folklore and was often slow and played by a band with no electronics. The clothes as well were traditional. The clothes used to wear for the folk dance of Tinkus were the same type of clothes that the people of Bolivia in
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Horticulture is defined as "the production of plants using a simple nonmechanized technology" (Nanda and Warms 2006:148)‚ while Webster’s Dictionary defines horticulture as the art or science of growing fruits‚ vegetables‚ plants‚ flowers‚ or trees. When most people think of horticulture‚ they simply think of gardening or farming. Most people do not associate horticulture with culture itself or how horticulture relates to anthropology‚ or the study human culture. In all actuality‚ horticulture is
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least 2005. They offer customers one time treatment and monthly service plans‚ as well as chemicals to allow customers to complete some treatment on their own to eradicate a variety of pests‚ including: roaches‚ termites‚ ants‚ scorpions‚ rodents‚ armadillos‚ snakes‚ bed bugs‚ silverfish and bees. In 2005‚ the company had a negative net income of ($380.65)‚ but has successfully expanded since then‚ earning $293‚475.56 in net income in 2006‚ then $769‚000.80 in 2007‚ and $493‚139.75 in 2008. The company
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The Truth behind Bernie Twenty miles from the Louisiana Border in Carthage‚ Texas on August 12‚ 1997 the body of the wealthiest widow of the town Marjorie Nugent was found stuffed into her own deepfreeze by her companion Bernie Tiede. In terms of Nugent’s personality and opinions of her held by the townspeople of Carthage‚ Hollandsworth writes that “According to most locals‚ she acted as if she was too good for Carthage‚” therefore leaving the town feeling bad for Tiede. After Nugent’s husband
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Title: “ Chalk out of seashell s” Name: Gerald P. Raboy School: Cabittaogan National High School Address: Cabuloan Sta. Catalina Ilocos Sur ABSTRACT The study on the production of chalk out of seashells were designed to produce quality dustless and long lasting chalk to compare with the standard existing commercialized chalks if there are any‚ which was sold in the market. The chalk out of seashells is for local or non-local used for schools or any educational aspects or even at
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse A woodlouse is a crustacean with a rigid‚ segmented‚ long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. Woodlice form the suborderOniscidea within the order Isopoda‚ with over 3‚000 known species. The woodlouse has a shell-like exoskeleton‚ which it must progressively shed as it grows. The moult takes place in two stages; the back half is lost first‚ followed two or three days later by the front. This method of moulting is different from that of most arthropods
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The Pliocene is the fifth epoch of the Cenozoic. The epoch started around five million years ago and lasted almost three and a half million years. It is during the Pliocene that the first bipedal ancestors of humans are known to have evolved. Dramatic cooling and a drop in sea level impacted both marine and terrestrial life at the start of the epoch. The name Pliocene means "more recent” and this were the most recent epoch of Tertiary period‚ lasting from about 5 to 2 million years ago. Compared
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Dorothea Dix and Moral Treatment SW 5005 – American Social Welfare History and the Social Work Profession Brian Byerly 10/03/12 Brian Byerly Self-Assessment My current household consists of my girlfriend Carolyn‚ two dogs (13 year old Pug Ferris and 10 year old Corgi Freddy)‚ a kitten (6 month old Laney) and myself. The animals are for the most part a joy to experience‚ but the corgi has been exhibiting aggressive behavioral problems that have caused a great deal of
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McQ‚ which helped increase his business in America. For his fall 2009 show he made a huge statement by putting all his past creations on the runway in doing this he was expressing the slump in the economy. Another product he is famous for is his armadillo shoe that Lady Gaga
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