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    Mario Vargas Llosa

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    Mario won the nobel prize in 2010 his ‘cartography of structures of power & his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". Mario Was born on March 28,1936 in Arequipa, Peru. Arequipa is Peru's second largest city behind the Lima District. He spent his life living in Cochabamba,Bolivia,and Piura,…

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    first novels, The House of the Spirits, which captured three mystical women's lives in a patriarchal Chile. From the day she was born, Isabel Allende was not quite ignorant to the political ways of the world. Allende was born in August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru, to her father, a Chilean diplomat, and her mother. Later in Allende’s life, her mother got married to another diplomat, who got assassinated in 1973. After the murder…

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    Francisco Pizarro was born in 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. He died in 1541. Pizarro represented the country of Spain. He explored from 1510-1541. Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador. His goal was to explore, conquer, and accumulate wealth in the New World for Spain. Pizarro came from a poor family. He didn’t receive a good education, and he never learned to read or write. He began working at a young age as a swineherd. This is someone who raises and takes care of pigs. As a teenager Pizarro…

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    La Casa Matusita Myths

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    La Casa Matusita is an urban legend that is known to all people in lima-Peru. This haunted yellow house holds various types of mysteries. Many people prefer to avoid this house, especially during the night for pretty good reasons too. There is not only one, but two versions to how this urban legend goes. One tells of a man who found his wife in bed with another man. After killing both his wife and her lover with a knife, he killed his children and then turned the blade on himself. The other…

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    Thomas Ruger was born on April 2,1833, in Lima, New York. He was a diligent student and was accepted to West Point Academy. He graduated from the U.S. Military academy ranking third in his class in 1846. After that he was an acting commander of the brigade in the 1st division. After the war, he was a superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. In November 1862, Ruger led his brigade of the Corps in the Battle of Chancellorsville. In the summer of 1863, Ruger was…

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    uses descriptive language when he mentions where Freeleigh was calling. Freeleigh’s calls were “across continents, an isthmus, whole jungle countries of rain forest, blue-orchid plateaus, lakes, hills... talking... talking... to Buenos Aires... and Lima... and Rio de Janeiro...” (Paragraph 44). Bradbury could have just stated that Freeleigh’s calls were around the world, but instead he described where they were going to, the different places that Freeleigh were calling to. Additionally,…

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    Sae Young is a new character from the book “Seedfolks”. The author described her as a sociable person who was always surrounded by people. Sae Young grew up in a big family and enjoyed communication with family members and friends. By the time Sae Young and her husband decided to come to the U.S. for a better future, like most of the immigrants. Even though she spoke limited English, she was able to open a small business to support herself and save some money for the future. Since running a…

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    Cellular respiration is the process of “breaking down organic molecules to release their stored energy” usually using glucose, and convert it into ATP through an aerobic process. (Upadhyay 2018) Cellular fermentation is also a part of cellular respiration, but it is an anaerobic process which means it does not require oxygen. There are two discussed types of fermentation: Alcohol Fermentation in which “glycolysis converts glucose in to pyruvate, producing NADH and FADH2, then pyruvate is broken…

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    Diesel technicians are frequently the highest paid on a dealership lane, and get paid just as much if not more than most computer programming jobs as well as much more. Diesel engines contribute to about 52% of the vehicles on the road today and that number is only expected to go up. As the amount of diesel vehicles go up, the demand for technicians to work on them will raise as well. Not only do diesel engines interest me, but engines in general. So the time for me to pursue my career is…

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    Avianca Research Paper

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    Introduction of Avianca Airlines Avianca is the Colombian national airline carrier, founded on December 5th, 1919, and is the second oldest airline in the world after KLM airlines. (Timothy, 2013) Avianca is a historical airline created by a group of people from Colombia and Germany and was registered under the name of SCADTA meaning Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aereo in the city of Barranquilla. (Avianca, 2017b) Transportes Aereos Centroamericanos (TACA) was founded in 1931 in…

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