Chile What do you do in Chile when it is super hot outside? You go swimming‚ Chile has one of the biggest swimming pool in the world. The pool is 1‚000 yards with an area of 20 ares. It holds 66 million gallons of water. Can you imagine swimming in that? Chile is super interesting there are plenty of amazing places to visit like the San Cristobal Hill which is a hill with the blessed Virgin Mary at the top of it. It is also the highest point of Santiago which has been the capital city of Chile
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Chile would be a great place to live and work because of the living conditions and the opportunities in the country for doing business. Chile scored higher than 0.8 on the Human Development Index classifying them as a country with high human development. The HDI measures the quality of human life based on life expectancy‚ educational attainment‚ and whether average incomes are sufficient to meet the basic needs of life. All of the qualities measured in the HDI are great incentives to work and live
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Judy Baca: Exploration of California’s Ethnic History One cool windy fall evening of 1974 Judy Baca was in her California home‚ sitting on the sofa‚ watching television‚ when the phone rang. “Hello?” she asked. “Hello is this Judith Baca?” the voice asked from the other side of the phone. “Yes‚ this is I. Who is this?” she questioned. “I am Michael Smith. I work for the Army Corps of Engineers. I am calling to ask if you would be willing to paint a mural along the Tujunga Flood Control Channel
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These reforms saw Chile rise from a depressed economy to a great‚ top rank in the South American economy. One of the reforms which led to improvement of Chile economy was the opening of the Chile market to the foreign trade. Chile is a small country which is found away from the business center or where most businesses are carried out‚ due to these there was need to create a market where foreign traders were able to access the market increasing export and imports. By 1974 major changes were made on
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The Story of Blima‚ Holocaust Survivor a non-fiction book‚ by Shirley Russak Wachtel. It is about a young woman who survives the holocaust during WWII. Blima was a strong person who did what she could to survive by having hope and great people to rely on‚ while dealing with the Nazi Germans cruelty. The people in Blima’s life helped and comforted her. Although the Nazi Germans treated her with hatred‚ these events comprised what Blima learned about herself. Blima always had someone to comfort
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of the best authors at using symbolism in his books. Santiago is an old fisherman who fishes out of a small Cuban village in the 1940’s. Santiago has fished for a living his whole life and the past 84 days he has not caught a thing. 85 is his lucky number‚ so on the 85th day he thinks he will catch something. Sure enough he hooks up with a massive marlin and spends 3 long days fighting it. Hemingway portrays interesting symbolism between Santiago‚ the old fisherman‚ and the marlin that he catches.
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Jimmy Hoffa was a very powerful leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters‚ Chauffeurs‚ Warehouseman‚ and Helpers of America‚ whose mysterious disappearance‚ suspected of being Mafia connected‚ on July 30‚ 1975 has never been solved. Hoffa was a major figure in the Supermob‚ the go-betweens of the upper world and the mafia world. As the Teamster president‚ Jimmy had two very important voters: his members and the gangsters that helped him move up the ladder to union success
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than us. In Ernest Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ 1952 novella‚ an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago‚ our protagonist has strongly elicited our sympathy toward him due to the harsh‚ lonely‚ poor and full-of-suffering life that he had have to experience‚ especially when he loosed the greatest catch of his life: the marlin. Despite that there are counter arguments which proposed that Santiago is in fact very successful in terms of achieving admirable qualities through his journey thus don’t
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Chile Country Background A 180 km wide on average‚ Chile is 4‚300km long from the border with Peru on the north to the Strait of Magellan on the South. Sheltered by the Andes on the East and the Pacific Ocean on the west‚ Chile is all but impervious to foreign pets and disease. The north is rich in mining and marine resources. Central Chile‚ home to the nation’s capital‚ is a major agricultural and industrial hub. In the south‚ rich fisheries and forest resources are managed under stringent conservation
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Is Santiago Heroic? What is a hero? A hero is defined as‚ “a person who is admired or idealized” (Google). When thinking of the word “hero” mostly to everyone‚ a superhero comes to mind. Not all heroes are superheros. To me‚ a hero is someone who is courageous and never gives up no matter the circumstances. Speaking of someone heroic‚ Santiago is an old fisherman in The Old Man and The Sea written by Ernest Hemingway. Although Hemingway did not exactly state that Santiago is a hero‚ he displays
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