... my interest. Basically I need material that will keep my interest in order for me to finish an assignment. History always interested me in high school; actually just the history of wars and battles. I kept up with the reading on those assignments. Other History such as the History of Politics and such didn't interest me, so I would not read those assignments After high school I attended Oakton ... presenting the material because I didn't feel confident in my understanding of the readings. The material we were reading required the reader to make his or her own assumptions about the Histo...

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... that dates back during the Spanish colonization. The Sky Over Dimas is a fictionalized history of an upper middle class family, the Torrecarions. It is a retelling of the twist and turns of the lives of George, a man on the verge of lunacy, and his saintly wife Margie, their progeny, and their ... has acquired the reputation of Black Sheep in his family due to his renowned accident years ago. He lives as a dilettante, investing and experimenting on business ventures that are destined to fail in the old-fashioned community of Bacolod. Furthermore, he has a weakness for women and an incli...

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