My Trips to Spain My first trip to Spain was right after I turned a year old. I do not have many memories‚ but I know the things that my parents have told me about the trip. We also have many pictures and my mom and I have looked at them and discussed them many times. My grandmother and aunt were so excited to meet and get to know me. Because Spain is such a social country‚ we spent a lot of time in the bars and restaurants with my dad’s friends. Christmas of 1998‚ I made my second trip
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(Telefónica)‚ was the dominant player in the Spanish telecommunications industry. Like many of its international counterparts‚ however‚ Telefónica was fully privatized in 1997 and became known as Telefónica S.A. the following year when basic telephony in Spain was deregulated. By 2001‚ Telefónica S.A. operated as the leading telecommunications concern in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of the globe. Acting as a parent company for ten major subsidiary companies‚ including the likes of Telefónica
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Carnival in Spain The carnival is a public event that holds the characteristics of the circus. People usually dress up or wear masks during the celebrations as well‚ like a masquerade. Most of the people think that the event of the Carnival in Spain drew from "farewell to the flesh‚" that represents the immoderation that lead up to Lent‚ which is when the cheery season begins. Some think Carnival is a result from the Saturnalia‚ which is a roman festival‚ where people coddle themselves to a lot
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Race” (1999) contained in the book “Race‚ Identity‚ and Citizenship: A Reader”‚ Colette Guillaumin tries to explain how a simple word like “race” changed in its meaning and impact in society during its history‚ making it unreliable when trying to describe a concept. An explanation on her theory and its importance will be given in this illustrative essay‚ as will a clarification on why Guillaumin (1999) states that scientists are partly to blame for the discriminating connotation of this word‚ and
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The letter Christopher Columbus wrote back to Spain to report his findings in the New World sparked intrigued me and sparked my imagination. Why I have been so absorbed in this letter I can not explain. This letter is supposed to be about describing an unknown land‚ a land that has not been seen by anyone besides the natives‚ but it seems that there is more to it than that. Columbus is known in elementary schools as the man who found the New World‚ and is regarded as a hero. To the contrary‚ historians
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made possible by the technological innovations they had from around the world. Document #2 describes the differences between life under the Muslim ruling and life during the Reconquista. Under the Muslim ruling. Spain was far from being a united nation. Document #2 states “...feudalism and a mixed population of Jews‚ Moors and Christians made unity hard to achieve.” This quote shows us that Spain under the Muslim ruling was a bit chaotic. They weren’t able to achieve nationalism‚ which means
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was the capture of Constantinople by the Turks a factor in the geographical discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth century? -it leads to one of the largest and most famous discoveries‚ that the world is round. Since they are in that situation‚ Spain and Portugal look for another route and later discover that the world is round and not a flat surface. Explain why and how the Spaniards and Portuguese came to the east. -the Europeans admired the wonders of the east because of what they hear in
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left behind 500‚000 people dead and a country that had been damaged and internally divided. Francisco Franco‚ a Nationalist general‚ took control of Spain and was named “Caudillo de España”. He then ruled Spain through an authoritarian dictatorship. Franco was a careful and systematic leader‚ and his main goal after the war was to reconstruct Spain and make the nation powerful again. He was convinced that he could inaugurate a new era in Spanish History‚ one that would not only transform politics
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culture. To get this target we will use a few proverbs or traditional expressions from Spain and relate them to Hofstede’s theory. This way we will be able to understand and know a little bit more about how is the Spanish culture and how it differentiates from other cultures. The first proverb we are going to use says: “La union hace la fuerza” Which means there is strength in numbers. This proverb describes very well how most Spanish society behaves. We also can appreciate some relationship
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the New World‚ have treated the Indians cruelly and tortured them in unthinkable ways. Since the author is Spanish‚ it would be assumed that the article would contain a bias in favour of the Spaniards and yet it does not. De las Casas frequently describes the wickedness of the torture inflicted on the Indians in a way that does not display a bias towards his nationality. He writes: "And Spaniards have behaved in no other way during the past forty years‚ down to the present time‚ for they are still
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