In his novel Love in the Time of Cholera, I feel that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has used magical realism quite successfully to analyse love at all ages in particular through the character of Florentino Ariza. ... Marquez examines two sides of love, the mundane love between the rational Doctor Juvenal Urbino and his dutiful wife Fermina, and in contrast, the consuming passion of Florentino that sees his beloved Fermina in a way no one else can. ... So consumed is Florentino by his love affair, that he develops symptoms strongly resembling those of cholera. ... Florentino has learned that "one c...

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In "Love in the Time of Cholera,"" Garcia Marquez uses a love story to criticize the social inequities existing in Latino America. ... At first sight he falls in love with Fermina Daza, a beautiful young girl, and later on he spends three years exchanging romantic letters with her; however, after returning from a long trip, she is disenchanted by Florentino's appearance and terminates the flirtation. ... Juvenal Urbino is a aristocratphysician who studies medicine in Europe and returnshome wanting to improve the sanitary conditions of the town in order to prevent another o...

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In Gabriel Garcí Márquez's novel Love in a Time of Cholera, Florentino Ariza is a passionate man who's love for Fermina Daza has him wait for over fifty years before he can pursue her properly. ... The main theme of the novel is the power of Florentino's romantic love. ... However, the road to his love was filled with difficulties. ... Juvenal Urbino, however, also appears to hold love for Fermina. ... However, this love was based on appearance. ...

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By the time he was seventeen James had to get surgery because of the stones he had in his bladder. ... During the time he was studying law he was elected to the Tennessee house of representatives from 1823 to 1825. ... Sadly Polk died of cholera three months after his retirement and the cause of the cholera was said to the cholera outbreak during his visitation of Louisiana. The last thing he said was to his wife saying "I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you....

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But, in reacquiring control of the situation, I would make sure I prevailed and maintained my grade at test time. ... She was inspired to become a doctor when the cholera epidemic broke out in New York City. ... In addition to my love for accomplishment, I am not one that will stand by and watch others be bullied or pestered. ...

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This was a common theme of Norther European writers of the time and it parallels Mann's life to the letter. ... Mann's choice to have Aschenbach fall in love with a male's beauty is not by itself homosexual. Had Mann chosen for Aschenbach to fall in love with a young woman, then the obsession would have had sexual connotations from the outset. ... About this time Aschenbach notices that the number of hotel guests is dwindling even though it is the height of the tourist season. ... The strawberries are indeed contaminated with cholera and will lead to Aschenbach's death....

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Other than that he also worked with chemistry,crystallography, bacteriology, spontaneous generation, and his many vaccinations in medicine for anthrax, rabies and chicken cholera. ... After his many years as a student this time he would be a teacher. ... In his lifetime Louis Pasteur made many discoveries that any scientist would have loved to make. He was renouned around the world as one of the greatest scientists of all time....

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Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos de colera). ... Diatribe of Love Against a Seated Man (play produced in Buenos Aires, 1988). ... From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1981-1990, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore Important works: Gabriel Garcí Márquez is regarded as one of Latin America's most formidable writers, and his novels include: Leaf Storm (1955) The Funeral of Big Momma (short stories, 1962) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Of Love and Other Demons (1995) One Hundred Years of Solitude, w...

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His mother was a housewife who occasionally had part-time jobs as a teacher. ... First was Elliot who died at age three of cholera. ... Frost was a moral poet who wrote about tragedy, love, and nature. ...

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We exchange cholera and typhoid for cancer. ... The land loves the "waste" products, while our rivers are dying because of it. ... The cost at the time of this writing is about $8,000,000 per year. ...

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They stay in Switzerland and go to a hospital in Lausanne when it comes time for the baby to be born. ... Many of the events in A Farewell to Arms come from real experiences Hemingway had during his time in Europe. ... Again, through love comes pain and death. ... "Hemingway establishes Catherine as the one who knows well the dangers of loving, and from the time of her meeting with Frederic, she balances them against the emptiness of not loving- ("A Farewell- 1527). ... In the beginning there came a permanent rain, and with it came cholera', rain falls during the retreat from Capore...

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Although it was his ballets and symphonies that made him famous he also wrote some of the best operas of all time. ... No one would have ever expected him to be one of the greatest composers of all time. Beard 2 Tchaikovsky attributed his love for music to come from growing up in a place "saturated with the miraculous beauty of Russian folk song" (Encyclopedia of World Biography). ... In 1875 Tchaikovsky composed what is possibly his most universally known and loved work, the Piano Concerto No.1. ... This was his first time that his ability to tell stories through his music was apparent. ...

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This began nightingales journey into becoming one of the most remembered, loved, and devoted nurses of all time. ... Many things went on during this time period such as the Industrial Revolution and the Crimean War. ... Nurses of the time were lacking in training and they also had the reputation of being ignorant and incapable (O"Conner, 2003). ... Diseases such as cholera and typhus were all over. ... I think Florence Nightingale would describe nursing as a prestigious, well educated career, and a love for humanity. ...

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Rosa with her "[...]bleak complexion, dark like cholera[...]" sneaks glances at baby Magda, who has "[...]eyes blue as air, smooth feathers of hair nearly as yellow as the Star sewn into Rosa's coat" (676). ... By the time that Magda turns fifteen months old, she has learned to walk, just not very well. ... Surely at some point Rosa has loved both of her children, but eventually she finds that she only has room enough in her nearly starved body for her love of Magda. ...

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Rosa with her "[...]bleak complexion, dark like cholera[...]" sneaks glances at baby Magda, who has "[...]eyes blue as air, smooth feathers of hair nearly as yellow as the Star sewn into Rosa's coat" (676). ... By the time that Magda turns fifteen months old, she has learned to walk, just not very well. ... Surely at some point Rosa has loved both of her children, but eventually she finds that she only has room enough in her nearly starved body for her love of Magda. ...

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He begins with the opening account of cholera, which "in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army" (Hemingway 4). ... "Love is always something had on leave, stolen from fate. ... Henry hardly allows himself to think of life without Catherine while he is in love because for a long time "the love he feels is almost entirely sexual and derives from the pleasure she gives him" (Donaldson 278). ... Soon after they reunite Catherine says, "It gave us both a feeling as though something were hurrying us and we could not lose any time together" (Hemingway 311). ... It never knows an in...

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It is within these months that the narrator describes the cold rain, and the death that immerses with the onset of cholera across the land. ... He likes the idea of falling in love with someone. ... Henry and Catherine continuing to find small amounts of given time to spend with one another. ... During this time, Mr. ... They stay here till later in March when they move to be near the hospital in time for the birth of their baby. ...

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It required thirty years, a preposterously long time, for the state to obtain a formal ban on hydraulic mining. ... They never considered that these individuals were isolated from loved ones, lonely, and discouraged as any other 49er. ... The length of the trip, six months, was an intolerable long time. ... Malaria and cholera ran rampant, and the Pacific had a mind of its own, stranding many ships. ...

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It required thirty years, a preposterously long time, for the state to obtain a formal ban on hydraulic mining. ... They never considered that these individuals were isolated from loved ones, lonely, and discouraged as any other 49er. ... The length of the trip, six months, was an intolerable long time. ... Malaria and cholera ran rampant, and the Pacific had a mind of its own, stranding many ships. ...

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To most accurately describe the novel in respect to mythology, I spent more time learning about the myths from the internet than the book, and then attempt to link the two. ... is a handsome boy loved by Apollo, the god of the sun, and Zephyrus, the god of the west wind. ... To punish Narcissus, the gods made him fall in love with his own reflection in a pool, and he slowly died on the shore. Thus, the allusion to Narcissus again hints at an ill-fated love, however, this time more harmful to Aschenbach than the boy. ... It is noteworthy that the cholera is Asian in origin: Mythologically, I...

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Not only did they lose two children, who they surely loved dearly, they lost a herd of cattle to a blizzard. ... They lost their hogs due to cholera. ... She spent so much of her time worrying about the land and her family, that she had no time in perusing her wishes of falling in love and marrying Carl. ... Husbands and wives divorced because their love for each other became strained due to the time spent working the land. They had no time for each other. ...

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Febuary 26, 1831: Chopin gave his debuet in Paris and moved there but two month later Chopin had to leave Paris because of a cholera-epedemic, which killed about 2000 people. ... Dezember 1834: Chopin was always sick and then he got finally the tubercolosis. 1835: Chopin saw his parents for the last time in Karlsbad because they are there for vacation. In this year Chopin had fallen in love in Dresden with Maria Wodzinska from a Polish upper family but they could not marry because her father did not allowe the marriage. ... Brahms and Clara Schumann had fallen in love with each other. ... ...

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Plot Summary The novel is written as an historical account of the last days of Símon Bolívar, although he is only mentioned by name one time at the end of the first chapter. ... At about the same time he learns his pension granted by the Congress was confirmed. ... The thread of time is continuously doubles back on itself through a series of flashbacks. ... In direct contrast to Márquez's earlier novel, Love in a Time of Cholera (1985) with its recurrent theme of love over despair, health over sickness, and life over death. The General in His Labyrinth instead centers on sicknes...

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The revised commandment number four, "Bring children into the world only if they are wanted" (Singer 199), allows for population control as well as prevention of children who were never wanted and not loved. ... A traditionally excepted example of this was conducted over one-hundred years ago by a scientist set on disproving the fact germs cause disease, The way he decided to prove his idea was to swallow a beakerful of cholera germs. However, he had a natural immunity to cholera; he did not become ill. It was concluded that he had a natural immunity, because it was later proven that cholera i...

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At this time in Ireland, there were not many jobs available; however, steel mills were bombing all over this area. ... During this time a blight of the potato crop left acres of Irish farmland covered with black rot. Peasants ate the rotten produce and got sick, while entire villages were consumed with cholera and typhus. ... Irish songs are usually about the subjects of love and betrayal, everyday country life and historical or newsworthy events ("Traditional Music in Ireland ""). ... He returned some time later to find the innkeeper overflowing all the glasses, and found...

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