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    Lionel Andrés Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Lionel Messi is commonly known as “Leo Messi”. Messi was born on June 24, 1987, and is currently 30 years old. At the age 13, Messi moved from Argentina to Spain after FC Barcelona agreed to pay for his medical treatments. After that, he became a star and because of him, his club led to the championships. When Messi was a young boy, he always…

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    Nicaragua, it was a reality.” During the 1970s, as the Sandinistas were fighting to overthrow the Somoza family, Argentina was facing its own challenges. Under a military dictatorship, thousands of people were taken to concentration camps, tortured, and killed. Several people,…

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    Diego Armando Maradona (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo maɾaˈðona], born 30 October 1960) is a retired Argentine professional footballer. He has served as a manager and coach at other clubs as well as the national team of Argentina. Many in the sport, including football writers, former players, current players and football fans, regard Maradona as the greatest football player of all time.[6][7][8][9] He was joint FIFA Player of the 20th Century with Pelé.[10][11] An advanced playmaker who…

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    As most of us know, it has been stated that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker on April 30th, 1945 alongside with his wife, Eva Braun, and ever since this has happened, their have been conspiracies revolving whether it was true if he really did kill himself or made an escape or could’ve possibly survived through World War 2. Conspiracies over Hitler’s death has had many contradictions or oppositions to say whether he is still alive or not, and one particular conspiracy theory goes over…

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    The Pinochet Regime

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    p.270) However, he stated that Pinochet would be President until 1989 when it is another election. Chile returned to democracy in 1990 after democratic elections with the victory of President Patricio Aylwin. Now let's consider what happened in Argentina, a country that experienced some dictatorships but as an example I will study the dictatorship in 1976 until 1983. The…

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    first movement of piano sonata no.1 in an aeolian mode with A as its tonal centre. He also uses the 12-tone scale in the second movement which was made prominent by Arnold Schoenberg. This is quite different from his previous pieces such as Danzas Argentinas in which he uses keys such as C Major and Db Major. This change in key is quite obvious in the pieces that Ginastera…

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    different culture, cultural and lifestyle background knowledge of that person can be very helpful. Sadana said that she is very comfortable talking to doctors and nurses of her Indian culture, but was worried about stating her condition when she was in Argentina. Another very important factor in addition to communication is that doctors/ nurses should respect the decisions of every culture. If they are not from the same culture as their patient, they will not understand the importance of each…

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    the matter the FBI didn't they knew that the Russians never found his actual body and burned the murdered doubles to hide that Hitler escaped Germany in 1945. In one of the documents from the FBI it writes about knowing about a submarine going to Argentina and dropping off high level Nazi’s ( 2015, Para. 6). The government lied to us about Hitler being committing suicide and that they also knew that he was dead because if the FBI thought that it would be pointless for them to be searching for…

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    The Mapuche is an indigenous tribe to southern Chile and Argentina, the name meaning people of the earth. They live in small extended family groups known as lofs. They are patrilineal, meaning they look at their family tree though the male’s line. When it comes to starting a family of their own they are patrilocal, meaning the women will move onto her husband’s father’s land until they settle into their own household. The Mapuche live as a chiefdom, for each tribe there is a chief. The chiefs…

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    Soccer Player Messi Essay

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    Newell 's Old Boys. At age 11, he was identified to have a growth hormone deficiency. River Plate showed attention in Messi 's growth, although did not have sufficient money to pay for the treatment of his illness, which was over £500 a month. As Argentina 's financial system was failing, Carles Rexach, then sporting executive of FC Barcelona, was made conscious of Messi 's capacity, and Barcelona signed him subsequent to watching him play, offering to compensate for the medical bills if he was…

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