President of Chile

The Singing Widow Isabel Pantoja, a mother, singer, spouse, bride of Spain, Queen of the Copla, and a widow. La Pantoja was born on the 2nd of August, 1952 to a family of fame and riches. Her mother was a famed flamenco dancer while both her father, famed from a 50’s song, and her granddad, a gypsy singer were living in the spotlight of Spain. Although, these family members lost fame quickly and because of Isabel and her three siblings the family went through many financial disabilities.She…

You might have seen him walking around the University at Albany campus. His long hair, his lanky build, and his nonchalant demeanor might have caught your eye as you walk to class. You might have brushed him off as a “hipster” or just a strange individual that isn’t worth your time to stop and say hello. Well I sat down with this man, Quinn Zinkievich, and talked about who he is. Though only 21-years-old, Quinn has traveled the world visiting nine different countries including Belize, Costa…

The climax of the book is when Santiago asks the desert,wind, and sun to turn him into wind, and if he does not fulfil that task tribesmen will kill him. Santiago is calm those three days that he is given but when the time comes Santiago is peaceful, he is not nervous. He is not worried that he has to turn himself into wind. On page 148 Santiago gets to it, he Santiago asks the desert to turn him into wind and the desert tells him that he can not do that. Sorrowfully, the desert tells the boy to…

Santiago learns through action that by traveling, watching and paying attention the world will help him find his personal legend. While giving the six sheep to Melchizedek he tells Santiago “god has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.” (pg 31-32) That is exactly what Santiago does therefore seeking his personal legend. Santiago also learns that giving up on one’s personal legend can be easy. He learns this when his money is stolen in the…

Santiago is an adventurous Andalusian shepherd. While sleeping under a sycamore tree that grows from a ruin of a church, he has a recurring dream about a child who tells him that he will find a hidden treasure if he travels to the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago met a gypsy woman who interprets his dream. She tells him to go to Egypt and when he finds the treasure, she must get one tenth of it. An old man named Melchizedek, who claims to be the King of Salem, seems to able to read his mind. He…

Pablo Neruda was a poet by the age of 10. He Wrote in a variety of styles such as a epics, historical poems, love poems and many other styles. Pablo was a senator of the Chilean Communist Party for one year. Pablo was hospitalised with cancer but left five days later after he suspected a doctor of ingesting an unknown substance in his stomach for the purpose of murdering him. Neruda died six and a half hours later after the injection on September 23, 1973. He was 69 years old. The government…

Canessa was reluctant; his fear had its hands wrapped around him, holding him back. He watched as Parrado cautiously set one foot into the jetting river, shivering as he did so. Parrado looked back at Canessa, whose eyes where filled with dread, and called out through gasped breaths, “If you stay there you’ll die, if you take a chance then you might survive. Come on.” Realising he couldn’t last on his own, Canessa waded into the river following Parrado. They were now both surrounded by water…

According to Zinn, in traditional history textbooks, Columbus is portrayed as a heroic figure who discovered the New World and spread religion to the people already living there. While it might mention that he was not perfect and did some things that he should not have done, it simply brushes over these aspects and pushes forward things such as “what a great sailor he was”, etc. The way it is written makes what he did seem like an exciting adventure that should be celebrated on Columbus Day, yet…

international opposition, and internal opposition within the military government) (Kornbluh 159) Projects and measures carried out by the DINA * 13,500 were arrested and detained after the initial Junta coup * Turned National Stadium in Santiago Chile into a detention centre where torture and information extraction was to be carried out * DINA established the “Brigada Ciudana” a branch of the DINA composed of civilians who work for the DINA as informers (Kornbluh 187) *…

A women’s movement that started to take off, consisting of mothers and wives of the people that were disappearing in Chile, they just wanted to bring to attention what others were to scared to express and defend the lives of their children. Alongside their movement was a movement that started to oppose the Catholic church, as shown in document 18, a father was so distressed…