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On the field, athletes are masters of physical prowess and strategy. However, when they are off the field, what do they do? Us fans rarely get a glimpse into the secret life of our favorite sports stars. While many lead normal (albeit wealthy) lives, there is a select few that fail to separate their game behavior from reality. In the game, it's acceptable to act in ways one would never even think of out of the streets yet, it still happens. Hence, we have numerous cases of the criminal athlete.…

to number 1. #10Fallen Angel Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AveJSRL8KgQ There is nothing casual about filming late at night in a forest and these Spanish guys learned that the hard way. The video was taken near Campdevànol (town in Catalonia) in 2006 and it shows a…

not. Some authors confuse the reader by leading the reader to believe the characters were witness then reveal later the characters are fiction. In, “On the Frontier” Ash mentions an writer named George Orwell, whose work of literature Homage to Catalonia is “externally verifiable facts wrong” that the writers work if filled with wrong facts, since some of the original work was stolen during a secret police search in Barcelona.The author pleas for veracity at the end of his book. The veracity…

metropolis, which has been going on throughout our history more or less regularly. During the first centuries, after conquest, most groups came from Castile mainly from Southern of Spain. Later, massive migration arrived from Canary Islands, Galicia and Catalonia. More recently and during the last century Eastern European and Chinese immigrants have further enriched, what is, the unique racial mix that makes up Cuba today” (cuban-culture.com). Currently, there are five different ethnic groups in…

George Orwell was born Eric Blair in Colonial India in 1903 to Richard, a member of the Colonial Police, and Ida Blair. (Sheldon 16) His mother took him and his sister back to England in 1904. He was raised almost entirely by his mother while his father finished his term with the colonial police, so much that Eric did not see his father until 1907. As a young child he was not very social, so his mother encouraged him to read and sent him to a preparatory school, St. Cyprian's at age eight.…

I lived twenty miles from the big city of Madrid, Spain in a small town, Las Rozas. It was a cold winter day in the middle of January. “Paula veni abajo, que el chocolate se esta enfriando” said my father (Paula come down the stairs, or the hot coco will get cold). I ran down the stairs as if I was in the festival of San Fermin running from the bulls. I took a glance at my mother, who was cooking Torta de Patata, and smiled. I smiled because I was in a good place, I was with my family. What I…

Many people do not know much about Spain 's history. However, like a lot of European countries that had to go through finding a nationality and trying to keep it from other countries. At one point in Spain’s history find their self-identity and take back their country from foreign invaders. Also, there were some tension between the Spanish and the Muslims that were living in Spain at the time. This could have been the domino effect that lead into the Reconquista. Here I am going to be discussing…

Aging of Europe : Causes and Effects Europeans are facing the graying of their populations and fertility rates below replacement rate. The elderly population grows while the working age populations is in decline. Immigration is low in most European countries. The demographic current trend of working population decrease may lead to reduction of productivity. The elderly population may led to the medical, pension, and social systems to become overwhelmed. The European Union has goals of full…

Many would associate the music of Spain with the traditional song and dance known as Flamenco. However, there are many other traditional songs and dances that are a key aspect of Spanish music. For instance, a Zarzuela, which is a Spanish traditional form of musical comedy which alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. Originating from Madrid, was very popular roughly around the 17th and 20th centuries. There are zarzuelas…

Surrealist painter Salvador Dali painted The Face of War in the year 1940. His inspiration for this piece came from his personal experience of war in his home country Spain and from the speculation the start of the Second World War created. In this piece Salvador Dali gathered all the negative aspects of war and fused them in to a single piece. In this piece Dali gave war itself a face that broadcasts the evils of war. Dali unquestionably used this painting to criticize the society’s tendency to…