Jorge Pacheco Areco

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    Bordaberry ran against Wilson Ferreira, who won the most votes of all the candidates; however, Bordaberry, due to some maneuvers with the votes and a blind eye on the part of his party, tipped the election in his favor. During the transfer of power, Bordaberry and Pacheco were even more aggressive in their suspension of civil rights. In 1972, in response to these suspensions, unions in Uruguay launched a strike, in which the Tupamaros played an important role. Bordaberry declared a state of war and ordered the military to suppress the insurgency. The military arrested many of the Tupamaros until they were no longer an effective entity. Even though the Tupamaros had been disciplined, the military decided to take action on the Tupamaros’ supporters. In 1973, Bordaberry suspended the remaining constitutional rights of the people, and a couple of weeks later, the military itself suspended Congress and enacted a Supreme Military Council, completing the military coup d’état (Weschler 1990,…

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    The Us-Mexico Jobs Problem

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    The U.S. - Mexican Jobs Problems It is sad how the American people and the politicians are taking and have exploited the idea that the Mexicans are the real problem in this country and every election time they used this idea to gain votes, making promises about deporting all the Mexicans from the US and build a wall on the US-Mexican border to stop the crossing of the Mexicans. Like Donald Trump say on TV about the Mexicans, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re…

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    To begin with, Ramos professionalism is sure to admire because he takes all positive and negative sides of things and strives for more. As an exemplar, when Jorge confronted Donald Trump at a conference, meeting back in August this year about his immigration plan Donald trump expulse Jorge from the conference and told him to “go back to Univision” which is a Spanish television network. During this event, he remained calmed and just wanted an explanation of why he was being expulse from the event…

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    The Journey Of Jorge Ramos

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    (“Why TV Anchor Jorge Ramos Swam Across The Rio Grande”). Jorge Ramos is a 58 year old Mexican/American journalist and author who is well known for spreading the Hispanic community’s rights and words. To me and many more Hispanics, he is a hero. Someone who doesn’t give up on us, but fights for us. Jorge 's influences, challenges, and legacy are worth knowing about. Many people, events, and influences are what has shaped who Jorge Ramos is. He has came across many immigrants who have left…

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    Jorge Luis Borges was seen as a surrealist writer. He wrote through the perspective of dreams for most of his writings by trying to change reality into another meaning. He is a surrealist writer that had many experiences in life that affected his work and also used fictional ways of writing to tell stories that were actually true. Imagination, visions, and dreams were all used to shape his writing (“Literary Notes”). His short story “The Circular Ruins” is one of the best examples, because the…

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    Thorough out life, many people experience different challenges. In these stories the main characters all go through different types of challenges. The main character in Ray Carver 's "Cathedral" has the challenge of isolation and social awkwardness. The character Robert has the large challenge of being blind. In Jorge Luis Borges ' story, the main character has the challenges of insomnia and loneliness. And finally, the main character in J.G. Rosa 's "The Third Bank of the River" has the…

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    references embedded into the meaning of the work discovered in the labyrinth of books and ideas of different philosophers (E.g. Roger Bacon), and the one who will miss the beauty of the works within the work. William is the personification of the open-minded reader in the novel while Adso, a mere novice, fails to see the importance of the subtle messages of life. Deeper still, with intertextuality, is the possibility that the entire novel itself is anchored to an extent to the lost Aristotelian…

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    In the short story, The Gospel According to Mark, author Jorge Louis Borges puts his own individual twist on a story, or shall I say stories, that are as old as time - the Great Flood and the Crucifixion of Jesus. In this work, Borges uses biblical allusions, character types, and sex to retell an age-old tale. From the onset of the story, it is clear that Borges is intent on depicting the main character and protagonist, Espinosa, as a holy figure. He describes Espinosa as having “unlimited…

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    One thousand readers, one thousand Hamlets, different readers have different understanding to the story. Though the hills may have the special meaning such as pregnancy, we cannot know it actually because the writer did not write specific. “Library of Babel” written by Jorge Luis Borges is the example of no change, no plot and no possibility to make reversal. This short is about the understanding of the universal, the writer just simile the world as a library and describes the details of the…

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    and events that affect this story. Ultimately, I want to share a lot of the political issues that were faced during this time when Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla became president in Argentina in 1976, which influenced this story. In this story there are some ominous things…

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