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    In September of 2014, 43 students, all male, from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico went missing. They were stopped by local police, and possibly handed over to a local crime syndicate whom presumably killed them. While not only local police have been found to be involved, but also federal authorities, and possibly Iguala’s mayor and wife, whom fled once the investigation began. This may have been in response to the students’ social activism – a statement to…

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    “Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power” is part of the poem La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla Zúñiga, and considered as the first work piece of literature in Chile. A Spanish soldier, he wrote his epic poem while he spent two years in Chile in the 16th century. As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European…

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    sides were called the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. The allied powers were made up of China, Poland, United Kingdom, France, British Empire, India, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Norway, United States, Brazil, Japan, Argentina, and United Nations. These countries knew what was supposed to be the right outcome for the war. The opposing group to the allied powers was the Central Powers. This group consisted of Italy, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. They lost and the…

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    beautiful night, like those you see in movies. I was 7 years old when my parents decided to move to USA. It was my first time on a plane and I was so nervous, everyone around me seemed so different, or so I thought. My parents decided to move from Argentina to New York City, it was like going from one end to the other. Moving to another country was already a big step, and the things that came after did not help with the adaption. As I stepped out of the airport I looked up to see a clear dark…

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    Messi is in a class of his own. With everything that he has achieved at such tender age, his story seems more like a fairy tale to believe on. But as once described by a commentator, “It’s Lionel Messi’s world and we are just living in it”, the Argentina international continues to turn impossible into ordinary week in and week out with his club and country. IMAGE LINK https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ba/03/82/ba0382a69697812b74c32ced18e2aeec.jpg We present you some of the best quotes…

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    (Mott) Davis was the daughter of Lucretia Mott, advocate of women’s rights and a strong opponent of slavery. Davis earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Harvard. From 1870 to 1873 he worked in meteorological observatory in Argentina and then returned to Harvard to study geology and physical geography. In 1878, he was appointed as an instructor in physical geography at Harvard and by 1885 became a full professor (Daly 1944). Davis contributed in the field of physical…

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    expected to help the impoverished countries become more stable but end up causing more harm by creating dependence on corporations to help them recover from debt and potential harm to their environment. In the early 2000, the struggling country Argentina was put in a position where they needed to seek out a loan from the IMF, but at an extraordinary cost. The became trapped in a settlement that kept their country in recession with very low growth potential and incredible debt. In return, for the…

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    Who Is Oskar Shindler

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    Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1903 in Zwittau located in the Sudetenland now the Czech Republic along with a younger sister named Elfriede. His father Hans Schindler worked as a farm-equipment manufacturer and his mother Louisa was a homemaker. Oskar attended a German-language school where he was a very popular student and had many friends. He then attended an array of turn colleges in Brno where he married to Emilie Pelzl in 1928. After college, he worked numerous amounts of jobs…

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    and creative. Intelligence is something that is achieved and is not a trait you are naturally born with. When I was in elementary school and even some parts of middle school I was not considered an intelligent student. Me and my family moved from Argentina to Florida when I was only two years old so having to go into the school system not knowing a single English word was a bridge that I needed to cross. After the torture of being humiliated and put down I decided to go beyond all expectations…

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    Enlightenment thinkers believed that man could be perfected, rejecting the view that man was inherently corrupt and distanced from God. Corrupted social traditions and institutions of church and state, they asserted, were the source of problems. Popular Culture Flourishing in Europe’s cultural centers, the Enlightenment saw an explosion of printing, libraries, salons, and book clubs. Satire, which often bordered on the pornographic, criticized institutions of church and state. Challenges to…

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