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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson chronicles Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo in their search for The American Dream. Duke is Thompson’s alter ego and Gonzo represents Thompson’s actual attorney, Oscar Zeta Acosta. The setting, Las Vegas, is very economically significant, especially in the early 1970s where its buzzing economy and money are the focal points of the non-stop city. Believing The American Dream has…

the best days this summer. It was a cool day in June when my family and I traveled to the airport to go to Las Vegas, Nevada. I was very excited to go to Las Vegas because I had seen how cool it looked on the movies and TV shows, and now I was finally going to be able to see it in person. Las Vegas is the setting in my favorite movie series, The Hangover, and I wanted to see all the places in Las Vegas that are in The Hangover movie series. We got to the airport and did all the pre-flight…

Families have died at concerts because people have brought guns and started shooting out of nowhere. In Las Vegas a couple of days ago there was a shooting. Someone who was a gambler shot at the concert that was going on. He shot while he was in his room he had a good angle to shoot everyone. He would only shoot the people who would run and hide. Later that night after killing 50 or more people he later on killed himself. Everyone who was running was actually running towards the killer no one…

A business trip took us to The MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It was a fantastic Travel Meeting and let’s hope what happened in Las Vegas didn’t stay in Las Vegas. Ricky and I were eager to return to the office and share. I have to admit though, that in between meetings, we did A LOT of sight seeing and if you have never been to Las Vegas, there is a lot to see….and hear. Think sensory overload. Ricky and I discovered the Guinness World Book’s LONGEST road… Las Vegas Boulevard. It goes AROUND the world…

In the beginning, there was only sadness. Everywhere you looked you would see villagers of Athens crying, plants dying, and no sunlight just darkness. Markeus’s mother, Kares was very depressed. She was trying her very best to raise Markeus to be a great hero and take the right path of life. Kares was a poor villager that had to grow her own crops in order to survive. But, the sunlight were blocked by the clouds, and there was no happiness. Her crops were constantly dying. Kares and her son…

Bartolomé de las Casas was born in 1484 in Sevilla, Spain and died July 1566 in Madrid. He was a very famous Spanish historian, social reformer, and Dominican friar in the 16th-century. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially elected “Protector of the Indians.” His most famous writing is the excerpt A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias. Las Casas objected to the Spanish treatment of the natives, and in 1542 he wrote an…

The Tale of the Innocent Natives According to Bartolome De Las Casas, a priest and a retired spanish soldier, the Old world (Europe and Asia) was drastically different to the New world (North and South America). The New world was non polluted peaceful and the natives were friendly and giving. However, havoc and chaos proceeded the peaceful natives of the New world with the arrival of Columbus in 1492. All the native people ever did was treat the Spaniard better than royalty. The natives treated…

at the beginning of the word to propel the pitch forward worked perfectly. However, where there were any uncertain parts, prime example being the "Fa la la" section of “Fire”, our intonation, as well as all the other technical aspects declined rapidly in quality. As far as rhythmic accuracy goes, “Fire” may have lacked that quite a bit in the “Fa la la” section of the song, as well as small hiccups in some of the alleluia phrases of the Latin piece suffered a smidge. Other than that I feel that…

slowly, but just enough for me to know that I wanted to stay forever. I felt like I was rich and had the biggest and most beautiful house on the entire planet. I remember dancing around with Hippo in the living room singing, “I am rich, la la la! I am rich la la la!” After I stopped dancing and singing, I then thought to myself “ This is paradise.” As I placed my placed my hand on the little statue next to me, I could feel my heart start to fill with joy, while my hand just stayed. Flat on the…

were many who opposed those treatments. Bartolomé de las Casas a Catholic priest, was the most eloquent critic of Spanish mistreatment of the New World’s native population (de las Casas, p.7). In his document, History of the Indies (1528), de las Casas aimed to inform the public back in Spain of the atrocities that occurred on the island of Hispaniola by Spanish “comendadors” and attempted to persuade them to stop such practices. When de las Casas arrived in the New World and in particular at…