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    Purple Rain Research Paper

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    The closest one would get to know the true story of the iconic singer, Prince’s life, would be the Grammy award winning movie, ‘Purple Rain’. ‘The movie was indeed not an autobiography of Prince’s life but it was as close as the director could get. In the movie, Prince was a young, African American man, who was an up and coming musician. He was from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He meets a woman named Apolonia, she was an aspiring singer to him, she also was not just a singer to him, and he fell in…

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    of 25. And created the Cartel of Juarez. Carrillo own airplanes that use to transport the illegal drug such as cocaine and heroin to United States and Latin American countries. Based on the book El Señor de los Cielos, “the DEA described Carrillo Fuentes as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time, and several analysts attributed benefits close to 200,000 million dollars, which made him the richest people in Mexico and the world. Carrillo spent four times as much cocaine to the United…

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    Chicano Movement

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    “To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I 'm a Chicano because I say I am” (Marin). A Chicano may be defined as a person of Mexican origin residing in the United States, but mostly someone who is politically active. For many years, the Mexican-Americans have been highly discriminated throughout the United States, but mostly in the southwest area.…

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    Mexican Culture

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    Culture Introduction Culture is regarded as a set of shared norms such as convictions, values, and desires by a specific part of a populace that makes them unique to the other sections of the population (Hardison). According to a Mexican scholar Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican culture is considered one of the most intricate cultures in North America. Most people consider this culture to be a one of deep religion and high social disorder ridden with a contradiction over the spiritual and the…

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    Hernan Cortes Analysis

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    Marina, Malintzin, and Malinche are few of the names given to Hernán Cortes’ personal translator. She was a daughter to a father and mother to the Chiefs of a town called Paynala. When she was a little girl, her father died and her mother gave her away to some people of Xicalango. Then, they gave her away to people of Tabasco who would then end up giving her away to Cortes. She served not only as an interpreter but she also had a son of Cortes who they named Martin. To the Spanish, like Bernal…

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    Arturo Belano

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    A new art movement is the need of a specific era, though it is well to remember that it is the subsequent result of hundredsof years of slow growth. It often produces new methodologies that will eventually form the aesthetic, psychological approach of that time period .In history, a new literary movement arrives contradicting the existing movement with a new set of narrative techniques, plot, style of writing, style of living, etc. which wouldform the writers and their work in the…

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    Pedro Paramo: In-depth analysis of the novel through the image of protagonist. What happens to a person who gave a vow to his mother that he would find person he had never met in his life? What if this person is his father? How does a hero react when he finds out about the uncountable number of bastards and a legal child of his father? How does the “trip to his legacy” change him? How does he react when he finds out that his father is a pure devil? To make matters worse, what if the town of his…

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    United States Department of ART AND SCIENCE The Pencil of Castilian Silhouette Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain All copyrights reserved, USA STORY BOOK: The Pencil of Castilian Silhouette Characters: Mrs. Tulip Pineapple, Castilian Silhouette, Art, Melody, Camellia and Jolly Location: Bilbao, Spain and New York, NY Preface This elegant children manuscript is a non-fiction concept and true short story about a mother and daughter, who decide to travel to the Guggenheim Museum to research…

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