La Amistad In 1839‚ Africans being carried from Havana‚ Cuba‚ to Puerto Principe‚ Cuba‚ revolted against their captors aboard the ship La Amistad (Spanish for ’friendship’). They were stolen from Africa‚ transported to the Americas‚ and were “passed off” as having been born in Cuba. After the revolt‚ the Africans demanded to be returned home‚ but the ship’s navigator lied to them about their course‚ and sailed them north along the North American coast to Long Island‚ New York. The schooner was subsequently
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La Malinche When I first read about La Malinche I did not know who or what she was and as I started to read I learned that she was first a slave. She became a slave for Cortes. She was offered to him as a slave by the Cacique of Tabasco‚ along with 19 other young women. Cortes discovered that he could not communicate with the Indians. That night he was recommended to him that one of the women given to him in Tabasco spoke Spanish. When he found out that could speak Spanish. At that point in
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Las Meninas When looking at Las Meninas‚ your first glance is at the little girl in the center of the painting‚ she is the only most lighted object in the painting which shows her importance to Spain as she is the future queen. The next thing that catches the viewer ’s eye is the painter‚ Velazquez himself‚ who takes up the whole left side of the painting. He is painting something on a large canvas‚ we just don ’t know what‚ and that is what he wants us to wonder‚ "What are he painting and what
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s is true that La Oroya is the most polluted towns in South America? If so what happens to the people who are living there? - Anonymous Yes‚ La Oroya‚ Peru is the most polluted places in the world. Workers‚ who lived in La Oroya‚ built the factories nearby the Peruvian Andes for lead‚ coal and oil. The operations with the lead smelter running in the town has caused the air covered with toxic. It is most likely effected by children‚ women and other family has been affected by lead poisoning. What
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Michael Thompson SXS 667 – Reading Response Paper #3 ID# 909067827 July 3‚ 2013 In her essay La Frontera‚ Gloria Anzaldua provides a detailed history of the persecution of the Chicano settlers of the U.S. Southwest at the hands of their Anglo oppressors. Anzaldua refers to the Aztlan‚ the borderlands between the United States and Mexico encompassing parts of Texas‚ New Mexico‚ Arizona‚ and California‚ as a “vague and undetermined place created by the
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โรงแรม Shangri-La ในเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2006 Symon Bridle หัวหน้าเจ้าหน้าที่ปฏิบัติการคนใหม่ของโรงแรมและรีสอร์ทในเครือ Shangri-La ได้ตรวจสอบความคืบหน้าของบริษัทแม่ในฮ่องกง ซึ่งได้ดำเนินการมา 10 ปีก่อนหน้านี้ ซึ่งมีการเติบโตจากธุรกิจที่มุ่งเน้นระดับภูมิภาคไปสู่กลุ่มโรง แรมหรูระดับนานาชาติที่มีการขยายตัวอย่างรวดเร็ว ด้วยพนักงานจำนวน 18‚400 คน โรงแรมจำนวน 50 แห่ง และรายได้ 842 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐฯ โรงแรมและรีสอร์ทในเครือ Shangri-La เป็นผู้นำในอุตสาหกรรมโรงแรมหรู บริษัทมีการเติบโตอย่างรวดเร็วเพื่อตอบสนองต่อความต้องการที่เพ
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Las Vegas: What’s Not Happening in Vegas When you hear someone mention Las Vegas‚ what comes to mind? Sin City? Wholesome entertainment for the entire family? An indulgent luxury vacation? Or perhaps a value-oriented reward for hard-working Americans? If you answered “all of the above‚” you wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. The truth: All of these have been characteristics associated with Las Vegas over the years. In recent times‚ the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) fielded
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Originally commissioned by sports illustrated‚ to write captions for a photo essay of the Cult Mint 400 rally‚ in Las Vegas‚ the article developed as described in the narrative of the text Rolling Stone Magazine employee him to cover and his alter ego Raoul Duke to cover The District Attorney’s convention on narcotics. This is an example of his authorial
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LA Amistad is a movie depicting the tale of many Africans who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery. The Africans of “La Amistad” had been among five or six hundred Africans purchased by a Portuguese slave from Pedro Blanco‚ who operated a notorious slave factory on the island of Lomboko‚ south of Freetown. They had been brought from Africa on board the Portuguese slaver “Tecora” to Havana‚ where they were moved under cover of darkness to a prison outside the city and advertised for
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LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL‚ BUNOL‚ SPAIN La Tomatina is a largest food fight festival in the world which is held in the Valencian town of Bunol‚ Spain. It is held on the last Wednesday of August every year. This festival required the visitors to throw approximately 40‚000 tomatoes and get involved in this tomatoes fight just for fun every year. The history of this festival was started on the last Wednesday of August 1945. During that time‚ the town square‚ where the “tomatina” is traditionally held nowadays
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