...man whose name is, Santiago. Many look upon him and merely see an old man who is not worth much. However, despite his age and appearance, Santiago refuses to accept destruction in his life. He believes that a man may be defeated by outside influences, but is only destroyed when he truly gives up on himself. The definition of defeat is to have a victory over an event whereas the definition of destruction is to put an end to something entirely. For eighty-four days the hopeful fisherman continuously returns to port empty handed. Even though he is going through trials and hardships, his mind is as sharp as iron and refuses to be destroyed. When it seems like all hope is lost, Santiago holds his head high and refuses to be brought down by outside influences. He clings to the knowledge that he is an honest man and a good fisherman who is simply trying to survive. He has a humble pride about him that is only displayed in the strongest of men. He does not boast of his great deeds, but his pride refuses to allow his soul be...
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...dreams to give his son and wife everything they desire, but dreams that are oppressed by the social hierarchy of Kino’s village. Although Kino has discovered this beautiful pearl worth more than anything he has found before, it only leads to death and destruction and eventually leaves Kino and his wife with nothing, and their beloved son dead. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is another novella, the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. Written in 1952 by Ernest Hemingway, it was the last major work of the author before his suicide, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. It is the tale of a fruitless and ancient fisherman named Santiago. Santiago had spent eighty-four days without a catch, and, confident that his unproductive streak will come to an end, sets sail farther out than usual. He places his bait deep into the water and a few hours later an enormous marlin takes the bait, however the old man cannot reel the fish in, and instead the fish pulls the boat far into the ocean for three days and three nights. The old man receives cuts and slashes from the fishing line each time the fish struggles but still he does not give up. Eventually the fish tires and Santiago is able to pull the fish close enough to the surface to kill it with a harpoon, but it is too big to hold in the...
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...protagonists, need to rid himself of impurities. These symbols are similar seeing as the marigolds are too perfect amongst the destruction surrounding them, making them an impurity which Lizabeth, the primary character in “Marigolds,” destroys as her right of passage; equivalent to Santiago having to rid himself of impurities to...
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...Engineering and Architecture Dubinan East, Santiago City Project Proposal for Santiago City Multi-Purpose Sports Complex: “The Blank Center” Group Members: Babaran, Kevin John T. Dela Cruz, Georgio M. Labayog, Michael Karl Kenneth R. Pagsuyoin, Marwin B. Patague, Patricia E. Ms. Thelma G. Baloran, MAED Professor ACKNOWLEDGEMENT To our dedicated and supportive professor, Ms. Thelma Baloran, we offer our thanks and gratitude for guiding us in the early stages of our thesis. We send our appreciation to our parents as well, for granting us the necessary resources and motivation to accomplish our work. To our peers, we thank you for the encouragement and confidence that you give to us. Acknowledgement is also in order to the CEA (College of Engineering and Architecture) faculty and staff for teaching us the technical aspects we needed to accomplish this thesis. Above all, we give thanks to the Lord Almighty for the gift of life and the opportunity for success. DEDICATION We dedicate this thesis to the Filipino people, who, among the many nations of the world, devote themselves to sports and fitness. This project is also dedicated to the youth, who we hope to afford the opportunity to engage in active sports and recreation, as well as develop their skills and talents specific to the activity they wish to take part in. More specifically, we dedicate this project to the citizens of Santiago; we hope for the project to serve as the venue...
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...Even a short story taking place during the Great Depression and a novel about a young man's journey across a vast desert can have similarities. In the short story, “Marigolds”, by Eugenia Collier, the marigolds represent hope and all positive aspects. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, there are profuse amounts of symbolism, yet the most noteworthy being that of alchemy which represents Santiago's, or the protagonists, need to rid himself of impurities. These symbols are similar seeing as the marigolds are too perfect amongst the destruction surrounding them, making them an impurity which Lizabeth, the primary character in “Marigolds,” destroys as her right of passage; equivalent to Santiago having to rid himself of impurities to...
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...INTRAMUROS HISTORY: Pre-Hispanic period The strategic location of Manila along the bayand at the mouth of Pasig River made it an ideal location for the Tagalog andKapampangan tribes and kingdoms to trade with merchants from China, India, Borneo andIndonesia. Before the first arrival of Europeans on Luzonisland, the island was part of the Majapahitempire around the 14th century, according to the epic eulogy poem Nagarakretagama which described its conquest by MahārājaHayam Wuruk.[6] The region was invaded around 1485 by Sultan Bolkiah and became a part of the Sultanate of Brunei.[7] The site of Intramuros then became a part of theIslamic Kingdom of Maynila ruled by various Datus, Rajas and the Sultan. Spanish conquest of Manila In 1564, Spanish explorers led by Miguel López de Legazpi sailed from New Spain(now Mexico), and arrived on the island of Cebu on February 13, 1565, establishing the first Spanish colony in the Philippines. Having heard of the rich resources in Manilafrom the natives, Legazpi dispatched two of his lieutenant-commanders, Martín de Goiti and Juan de Salcedo to explore the northern regions of the Visayan islands. The Spaniards arrived on the island of Luzon in 1570. After quarrel and misunderstandings between the Islamic natives and the Spaniards, they fought for the control of the land and settlements. After several months of warfare, the natives were defeated, and the Spaniards made a peace pact with the tribal councils of Rajah Sulaiman III, Rajah...
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...Citizens. The U.S. President McKinley offered Spain 300 million dollars to buy Cuba from them, but Spain rejected the offer. So President McKinley asked Spain if he could send a battleship to protect the U.S Citizens and received Spain's reluctant permission. The president sent the heavily armed USS Maine to the Havana harbor. On February 15th , 1895, the USS Maine suddenly exploded, killing 260 American sailors. All of America immediately suspected Spain for destroying the Maine, because they didn't like how the Americans had interrupted their Spanish - Cuban affairs. The American's were already angry at how the Spaniards concentration camps, destruction of the Maine and the men who were lost just added to the list against the Spaniards. Spain declares war on the United States on April 24th, and on May 1st, Commodore George Dewey lead his navy squadron to the Philippines. He defeats the smaller, weaker, Spanish navy, leaving it in a rubble heap. The freed land of the Philippines declares itself Independent from...
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...Aibhi Biswas M.A English (Final) 4 November 2013 Two need to play this game: ambiguity in Marquez’s the chronicle of a death foretold The chronicle of a death foretold is an ambiguous novella in terms of genre, narration, resolution, aim and in terms of giving agency and power to the reader/ author. The novella can be seen as a parody, a suspense thriller and a detective novel of journalistic trend. The death is the central event but there’s no mystery regarding it rather completely different questions are raised. The aim of this paper is to show that the narrator is distinct from the author but sometimes they intersect. Thus Ronald Barthes statement that the author is dead is not completely true. The authors’ present but it’s not an omnipotent presence, controlling the universal subject (the reader). But this does make the reader all powerful. Barthes implies in his essay Death of the Author. The reader follows the patterns presented by the author but the final impression, overall opinion of the text and the reader’s reaction are not prefigured or controlled by the author. Thus the author and the reader together form the overall value of the text. Raymond Williams explains the formation of the category of Literature, its ever expanding and changing parameters\paradigms are explained in his essay Marxism and Literature. This paper will show the growing value of Latin American Literature, becoming a part of the literary canon, valued as a skillful piece of art. This...
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...INTRAMUROS Intramuros (Latin: within the walls) is the historic centre and oldest district of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Also known as the Ciudad Murada (Walled City) because of its most famous feature: a nearly three-mile-long circuit of massive stone walls and fortifications that almost completely surrounds the entire district. Understand From the city's foundation in 1571 to the end of Spanish rule in 1898, Intramuros was Manila. The Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi laid the foundations of the new capital on the former site of Maynilad, a palisaded riverside settlement ruled by a native chieftain. To protect the inhabitants from attack, in the late 1500s construction began on a series of stone walls and fortifications that would eventually enclose a pentagonal area approximately 0.67 sq km in size, within which lay a tight grid-like system of streets and a main square surrounded by government structures. The defensive curtain was more or less completed by the 1700s, although improvements and other construction work continued well into the next century. Within the protective walls rose a city of stone palaces, churches, monasteries, convents, schools, and fine courtyard houses. In the centuries that followed, Manila (meaning Intramuros) served as the capital of the Spanish East Indies - the centre of commerce, education, government, and religion in Spain's most distant imperial possession. Except for a brief period under British rule (1762-1764)...
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...Running head: POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans Jason Rosenbaum Grand Canyon University HLT-515 Dr. Rick Edwards 22 June 2014 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans Negative mental health outcomes following warzone exposure, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), can serve as a barrier for veterans reintegrating back into civilian life. PTSD is marked by clear physical and psychological symptoms caused by physical injury or an intense emotional distress. PTSD in military veterans can occur following a life-threatening event such as military combat, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or violent personal assaults like rape. PTSD symptoms include depression, substance abuse, problems of memory and cognition, and other physical and mental health problems. This disorder can also be traced to difficulties in social settings or family life, finding a job, marital problems, and in performing parental acts. PTSD is a condition that impacts American military personnel who have returned from deployment and were exposed to encounters with the enemy. Approximately 7% of Americans develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their lives (Kessler, Berglund, Demler, Jin, Merikangas, & Walters, 2005). Due to increased exposure to traumatic situations (i.e., combat), the prevalence of PTSD is much greater among war veterans compared to the general population...
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...sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action by the dictionary. Earthquakes happen frequently, but most people only hear about the ones that cause much damage and fatalities in the news. Some earthquakes have a high magnitude with less damage than other earthquakes that have a lower magnitude with more damage and fatalities. There are several explanations to this. The Haitian earthquake on Tuesday January 12, 2010 had a magnitude of 7.0 and a depth of 13km. This earthquake resulted in 316,000 people dead, 300,000 people injured, and 1.3 million people displaced. Tsunami waves were reported in multiple locations including Santo Domingo and the Dominican Republic. The earthquake occurred in the region separating the Caribbean plate and the North American plate. The earthquake was caused by a transform fault which is a strike-slip fault occurring at the boundary between two plates of the earth's crust. After the initial earthquake, fifty-nine aftershocks of 4.5 or greater were felt. Damages and fatalities were high because of the magnitude and the lack of building regulations to withstand earthquakes. Haiti,...
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...Дневник читателя READER’S JOURNAL Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961). Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1959). Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince (1973). Jerome David Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient (1992). Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). Edward Albee. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman (1949). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- FULL TITLE · The Old Man and the Sea ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR · Ernest Hemingway ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TYPE OF WORK · Novella ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- GENRE · Parable; tragedy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGE · English ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1951, Cuba ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...The landing itself was an utter fiasco with too few transports, surf running high and no landing facilities capable of handling such a massive influx of men and equipment. The one positive to the entire debacle was the lack of the enemy, even though there were approximately 36,000 Spanish troops located near Santiago. The landing was a slow process and went well into the night. The order of battle once American forces were on ground Cuba was as depicted below. Fifth Army Corps – MG William Shafter 1st Infantry Division – BG Jacob Kent -1st Brigade – BG Hamilton Hawkins (6th and 16th Infantry Regiments, also 71st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment) -2nd Brigade – COL Charles Wikoff (9th, 13th, and 24th (colored) U.S. Infantry Regiments) -3rd Brigade – COL E.P. Pearson (2nd, 10th, and 21st U.S. Infantry Regiments) Cavalry Division – MG Joseph Wheeler/BG Samuel Sumner -1st Brigade – BG Samuel Sumner/COL Henry Carroll (3rd, 6th, and 9th (colored) U.S. Cavalry) -2nd Brigade – COL Leonard Wood (1st and 10th (colored) U.S. Cavalry also known as the Buffalo...
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...earthquake more important than the economic impacts? This case study will explore evidence in favour and against and then come to a overall conclusion based on the evidence to answer the question of should we spend more money on social impacts of an earthquake or the economic impacts of an earthquake. An earthquake is the sometimes violent shaking of the ground caused by movements of Earth's tectonic plates. Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which is where two tectonic plates come together. Earthquakes strike suddenly and violently and can occur at any time, day or night, throughout the year. Smaller earthquakes might crack some windows and shake products off store shelves, but larger earthquakes can cause death and massive destruction, devastating communities and tend to weaken local economies. Arguments for the economic impacts of an earthquake. The earthquake hazard poses the most serious intermediate term risk to the health, safety, and economic viability of many parts of the United States and throughout the world. Recent earthquakes demonstrated the risks to modern industrial societies from such sudden event, affecting everything from massive loss of life, infrastructure damage, and financial instability. Much larger earthquakes can be expected to occur adjacent to many metropolitan regions in the United States. Some analysts have predicted that the earthquake could prevent Chile’s economy from growing during 2010. Initially, economists had been forecasting...
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...questions still exist today for terrorists that decide to do shootings or attacks. The most recent attack was on January 6th, 2017 at an airport. The unstable person that did it was Santiago. He had told the people that arrested him that he was fighting for ISIS and he had heard voices in his head that sounded like the CIA telling him to do it. Santiago obviously had some mental illness which had led him to killing five people and injuring six. There is another court appearance on January 30th to determine his sentence. Already there was a terrorist attack in the new year of 2017. There hasn’t been one year without any shootings or terrorist attack. Peter Bergen of NY Times had said, “There are 300 cases of people charged with jihadist terrorism in the United States since September 11th 2001” There are many unexplained answers for the reason why people do these terrorist attacks. Terrorism is described in many different ways for the way people interpret it. United States describes terrorism as it violating the law, “Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law; Appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping” (Terrorism FBI). The many questions that go through people’s minds when an attack is done by someone is, who are these people that commit this...
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