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A moving story about an up and coming banker Andrew “Andy” Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who finds himself an inmate at the Shawshank prison. There, he learns how to adapt to prison life and learns about life through fellow prison inmates who become his friends. The Shawshank Redemption was released in 1994, the movie was written and directed by Frank Darabont but based on Stephen King’s “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”. Andrew Dufresne, known as Andy in the film is the main character. He is…

It is 2014 in cande and a hockey game is going on a puck goes flying at the net but the net is that to stop the puck from killing or hurting someone. Governor of canada: we need more money to get to do some projects so we are going to take down the net and glaze at the ice rinks to save some money. 3 day later Goel you hear the hockey anser say the team lines up at the blue line to drop the puck thay pass it and then take a shot it go high and into the stans and hits a fan in the head the…

continent, and five offshore volcanic islands (known collectively as insular Equatorial Guinea): Bioko, Corisco, Great and Little Elobey, and Annobón. Bioko is where the capital is located. This country was a Spain colony since 1777 named Spanish Guinea. In 1968 Spanish Guinea granted independence and turned out to be the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, capital Malabo, North Bioko. Equatorial Guinea has also experienced rapid economic growth due to the discovery of vast offshore oil reserves.…

workers while also playing the role of a philanthropist. In the political cartoon there are two of Andrew Carnegie each side facing the opposite way with different facial expressions. He is standing on a box with a dollar sign to the left side of the box and a lock on the right. The dollar sign and lock on the box seem to represent how Carnegie is in control of all of his businesses and money he makes. He is giving away $5000 to Scotland in the cartoon. Andrew Carnegie would seem as though he is…

What I learned in American history is three things is WW1 the New deal Spanish American War I’m talking about what happen in that time and the effect that it has today. The first topic is the Spanish American War that when we want more power people fought for land at that and we want the resources and money but that made a huge war. The effect is that we got the Philippines, Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico. The Philippines that almost starts a war because they wanted to be there own so there…

In 1493, Christopher Columbus landed in Puerto Rico, during the second voyage he called it San Juan Bautista. Later in 1508, the Spanish permitted settlement rights to Juan Ponce de Leon, who established a settlement at Caparra and became the first governor. In 1519, “Caparra relocated to a nearby coastal islet with a healthier environment, it was renamed Puerto Rico” (“Every Culture”). Puerto Rico is the easternmost and smallest of the Greater Antilles and is connected by the Atlantic Ocean.…

purpose is to inform the readers that birthday party is a waste of money because many people treat sweet 16th birthday party like weddings; therefore, this statement is a categorical truth. The idea of a quinceanera birthday party started from the Spanish culture. The party symbolizes a young girl transforming into a woman. Journalist Alvarez states that everything can become Americanized. The idea of a quincenera has turn into a Sweet 16 ish party that cost an endless amount of money.…

The film Even the Rain presents a clear parallel between the events of the Bolivian Water War and the days of Spanish colonialism. From Christopher Columbus to Bartolome de Las Casas, the ideas of those early Spanish Conquistadors can be seen in the neocolonialism of western companies and neoliberalism of the Bolivian Government during the water crisis. The filmmaker is trying to argue that history is repeating itself across Latin America, with the violence in Bolivia being the latest example of…

the U.S. being interested in the economics of Cuba, the U.S. government wanted to stabilize the situation. ("The Spanish American War: The United States Becomes a World Power." first page) The U.S. wanted to free Cuba from Spanish domination. This war would also provide the United States the opportunity to seize overseas possessions and begin building an American Empire. ("Spanish American War." first paragraph) This war lasted five months and took place in many different places. Battles…

over The Latin American territory. For example, in the early 1800’s Anglo settlers moved into Florida at such high numbers that Spanish soldiers could no longer control the territory (Gonzalez, 35). In an attempt to regain control of the land Spain would legalize the Anglo settlers as long as they pledged loyalty to the crown. This agreement ended up hurting the Spanish settlers in the long run because it allowed Anglo settlers to move into Florida more rapidly before making it harder for Spain…