... . El asalto: el operativo con el FSLN se lanzo al mundo, Nueva Nicaragua, 1983. Erendira (screenplay from his own novella), N.P., Les Films du Triangle, 1983. El amor en los tiempos de colera. Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 1985. El general en su laberinto. Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 1989. Doce cuentos peregrinos. Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 1992. In English Leaf Storm, and Other ... , 1979; Pan Books, 1981. The Autumn of the Patriarch. (El otono del patriarca, 1975.) Transl. by G. Rabassa. New York: Harper & Row, 1976; Pan Books, 1978. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. (Cronica de una muerte anunciada, 1981.) ...

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... kind of exhibition. Jose Bedia (Cuban, b.1959) is an abstract painter who illustrates ideas of spirituality and indigenous cultures. He studied at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas San Alejandro in 1976, and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, in 1981. Four years later, in 1985, Bedia became the artist-in-residence at the State University of New York in ... Old Westbury. The artist also spent time with the Dakota Sioux on the Rosebud Reservation; studying the Sioux culture influenced his contour narrative style. Bedia's first major exhibition was the group show ... Magicien...

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During the debate over expanding suffrage in the Age of Jackson, there were several major arguments. Although some arguments were more valid than others, they were all important. In the Age of Jackson the attempt to ... allowing more people to vote would cause such harm or damage. Americans were not the only people who were involved in this debate. In the 1830's, Alexis de Tocqueville, a French nobleman and social observer, displayed his "perceptive observations" in a book titled Democracy in America. In the book he discussed the downfalls of ... Frances Trollope, and Englishwoman, expresse...

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... to shape the nation today as we know it. The two veteran opponents of which I have spoken of are none other than James Madison, the defending champion(former president) and De Witt Clinton, the challenger(former NY senator). James Madison was the so called "Father of the constitution" and was more well known than his opponent. Madison had been a part of ... the Continental Congress as well as the Federalist Papers. Madison first went into office when he defeated Charles C. Pickney. De Witt Clinton also had a very successful career as a politician. He had held every major political posit...

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... day, the two children were in the lake on a boat and they lost their oars and were about to turn over when John was "workin" in de field and he had seen the children out on de lake in a boat, just a hollerin"." Massa and his wife followed the shore to find their children and neither one of them want to jumped in ... no choice to jumped in or not since the parent chose not to do so; "John pulled off his shoes to jumped in and swum out and got in de boat wid de children and brought "em to shore." Massa and John took the children into the house and were very happy that John had save their ...

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... . Philip Schuyler of New York and Israel Putnam of Connecticut are given the positions. Washington, desperate for more leadership, goes to Congress and inquires about Horatio Gates, a dejected yet worthy major who could not climb any higher in the British military hierarchy because of his lowly roots. Although the Congress has not heard of Gates before, they listen to Washington and ... up to The Battle of Yorktown. General Cornwallis is besieged in his fort at the shore of Yorktown surrounded by the combined forces of Washington, Jean Rochambeau, and Admiral Comp de Grasse. De Grasse wi...

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... expressive. Jackson Pollock's turbulent yet elegant abstract paintings, which were created by spattering paint on huge canvases placed on the floor, brought abstract expressionism before a hostile public. Willem de Kooning's first one-man show in 1948 established him as a highly influential artist. His intensely complicated abstract paintings of the 1940s were followed by images of Woman, grotesque versions ... styles. Abstract expressionism presented a broad range of stylish diversity within its large, though not exclusively, nonrepresentational framework. "For example, the expressive...

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Langston Hughes was one of the major black American literary figures of the twentieth century. He held a demanding position as a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, which flourished in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. Hughes ... styles of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Carl Sandburg and submitted them to the school magazine, the Belfry Owl. It was at this time that Hughes was strongly influenced by Guy de Maupassant. Maupassant inspired him to want to write stories about the Negro so true that they would be understood by people all over the world (Unger 320). Hughes's teachers played ... wa...

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... business. He set up a town company to sell lots for up to 1,500 dollars. Stillman founded the town in 1848 and he named it Brownsville after Fort Brown Post Commander Major Jacob Brown. By 1850, just two years later, the population grew to almost 4,000 inhabitants. Principal streets in the new town were named for members of the Stillman family. For ... cotton and sent it to his textile complex at Monterrey. He sold even more cotton though in New York through his mercantile firm, "Smith and Dunning."" The United States was a major purchaser; they purchased to as much as 18,851 dollars wo...

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... Alex did his first one person show at the Roko Gallery in New York . In 1955 he made his very first collage . Soon after Alex met his future wife , Ada de Moro . In 1960 they had a son Vincent. They where then Married in 1958 . In 1972 he was awarded the Guggenheim Grant in Painting. He currently lives and works in New ... Born in Brooklyn, New York, NY (US) Alex Katz has had a strong impact on American painting from the 1950s on to the present and is regarded as one of the major and most influential contemporary painters. The two central subjects of his oeuvre are both landscape and th...

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... resigned from French Vogue to become a designer. Bocher joined his names to create his new label; Mainbocher. Mainbocher opened his Maison de Couture at 12 Avenue George V, and became the first American to become a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. His designs consisted of keeping the woman and the role she plays in life in mind. Making women looking ... ...

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... . During his reign he reduced national debt, became the first president to ride a train, and he extended the right to vote to all males who didn't own land. This caused a major debate in our great country because suddenly all white men could help determine our nations future. Arguments both pro and con were brought up in the states. To determine the ... tendency of universal suffrage is to jeopardize the rights of property." These two quotes show the vast differences of opinion during Jackson's presidency. In the early 1830s a french sociologist, Alex de Tocqueville traveled to America o...

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... . 1921: Hillman collection, New York city. 1924: Le train bleu, in both Cubist and Neoclassical styles. 1925: The grotesque facial and bodily distortion of the "three dancer" (London) foreshadows his major work. 1929: He pioneered wrought iron sculpture with his old friend Julio Gonzalez. 1935: On the fifth October Picassos second child this born, her name is Maria Concepcion every one ... Civic Center. 1961: He married the last of them, Jacqueline Roque. 1966: He created more than 50000 works. 1970: Picasso donated more than 800 of his works to the Berenguer de Aguilar Palace Museum in ...

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1) Identify the film: Title, date, director, major stars. "Taxi Driver" (1976) Starring: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks and Harvey Keitel Directed by: Martin Scorsese 2) Summarize the plot. A Marine veteran turned taxi driver is fed up with society. In his nights ... ...

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... . The history of feminism takes us as far as the sixth century BC in Greece, when Sappho wrote lesbian poetry and ran a school for girls. Another great feminist was Christine de Pisan, who broke traditional rules of writing, and in the early 1400s published autobiographical novels in France (Hopkins 87). Some years later in France during the French Revolution, Olympe ... de Gorges, who was one of the most outspoken revolutionaries of the time, challenged the inferiority of women in French society. In her work "Declaration of the Rights of Man", she ... ...

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... south of the equator. In a small portion of the earth lies nearly half of earth's biological species, many endemic. The rapid rate of deforestation is erasing our bio-diversity. One major factor that the forests carry is that they are the home to over one half of the world's total species (Dudley). Currently we are discovering 20 new species of insects ... the population from 263.119 to 5000. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Arizpe, Lourdes. Population and Environment. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. 2. Brown, Lester and Kane, Hal. Full House. New York: Norton and Co., 1994. 3. De Blij, H.J. and Muller, ...

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... travel through Europe with Mrs. Van Hopper, as her compainion. During the trip, they stop at Monte Carlo, Mrs. Van Hopper sees a notices a man, who is Maxim de Winter, the owner of Manderley. Maim de Winter had lost his wife, Rebecca, who had died the year before. At first Maxim treats her rudly, but then later apologizes for his rudeness. The day ... ...

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... by his parents and was located in Cadaques. Before he was ten, he had already completed two impressive oil paintings. After his elementary training at the College of "los Hermanos de la Doctrina Cristiana" (in Figueres) he attended the College of "los Hermanos Maristas" for six years, and then attended another institute in the same town for his bachelor degree. He ... Renaissance and Dali's thoughts on the era. In the followings years, he painted with his different styles combined in one. His art was exhibited in a lot of museums. The last major exhibitions in Dali's lifetime were at th...

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... ' Bayard done come home," he remarked, in his former conversational tone. "Where is he?" Miss Jenny demanded immediately. "He aint come out home yit," Simon answered. " I' speck he went to de graveyard." Miss Jenny asked again, "Does Colonel know he's home?" Simon answered, "Yessum, I tole him, but he dont ack like he believe I wuz tellin ... ' de troof." This conversational pattern shows that the upper-class lady, Miss Jenny, spoke the standard English, and the lower strata, blank servant Simon, could only speak the south local dialect. ... ...

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... the Canaries to Hispaniola in 1493." ( 51 ) Rum is made from sugarcane, which didn't exist in the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus first voyage to the Islands. Historians believe that Ponce de Leon introduced the drink to Puerto Rico in the early 1500's during his governorship. As sugarcane plantations began to form around the Island, rum production began. Today people use rum ... Salsa in New York City" "Salsa is a Latin American music that originated in New York as a result of the mixture of afro caribbean music brought by the Latinos." Salsa is a major type of music coming out o...

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... Conduit St, W1S 2XJ, London, U.K. Yohji Yamamoto USA Inc,: 103 Grand St. New York, NY 10013 USA 1943- Born in Tokyo, Japan 1966- Graduated form Keio Gijuku University as a law major 1969- Graduated form the Bunka Gakuin Academy, Tokyo in fashion design 1972- Founded own fashion business Y 1977- Presents first ready to wear collection in Tokyo 1981- Presents first collection in ... - Introduces menswear line 1986- Receives the 4th Mainichi Fashion Award, Tokyo 1989- Wim Wenders" film portrait of Yohji Yamamoto "Notebook on Cities an Clothes" 1990- Designs costumes for the Opera de Lyon pr...

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... bid for victory at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781, Cornwallis found himself out smarted by the Continentals under Washington. Because the French troops under the Comte de Rochambeau, and also the French navy under the Comte de Grasse, in result led to British decided to draw back their forces in America and agreed to the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Since then many ... ...

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... toward a man that goes by Daniel Shays. Shays was an ex-captain in the Continental Army, where he was a highly respected. uring As a recognition for Shay's bravery and service, Marquis de Lafayette presented him with a sword, which was a big honor. Shays was also being heavily affected by the new laws and foreclosures which occurred because of them, so out of desperation ... ...

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... pigeons to send their messages to other ships until wireless telegraphy was created. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, it had host two towers that served the third Naval District. Lee De Forest created a phonograph horn that he later discovered worked when having a soprano sing into it. He called his invention the "radio. " This represents the past, present and the future because ... ...

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... and used it extravagantly, and could have been considered to be ultimately obsessed with his money. For example, Gatsby's house was described by Nick as a "factual imitation of some Hatel de Ville in Normandy with a tower on one side . . . and more than forty acres of lawn and garden- (9). Gatsby himself did not use much of the house, and he also purchased ... ...

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