" Races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." These powerful last words of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude speak truth. ... There are explicit examples of this ideology within the life-span of Macondo and the Buendia family; attributing to both an emotional and physical solitude. ... In addition, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula continue to in a pursuit for "solitude." ... Garcia Marquez illustrates that point in every aspect of One Hundred Years of Solitude, letting the reader walk away with the realization that all acts society, such a...

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100 Years of Solitude Just as Edmund Spenser believes in "the ever-whirling wheel of Change; that which all mortal things doth sway,"" so too does Gabriel Garcí Márquez. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colonel Aureliano Buendí experiences life and the changes which accompany it. ...

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The novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," deals with the story of the Buendia family. ... Events of several hundred years show the evolution of Macondo; from the years 1850 to 1950. ... He becomes lost in solitude. ... He becomes lost in solitude. ...

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In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez used the motif of biblical references in order to outline the main theme of solitude in the novel. ... Ursula's downfall, though, was the fact that it took her so many years to realize what was going on and not be able to prevent it. ...

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Those in exile near one hundred and twenty thousand."2 These problems are common throughout Latin America, a factor in creating a sense of unity because of these common concerns. ... These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." ... In "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the capitalistic imperialists take the role of the villain and the workers are the innocent victims. ... 9 Like "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the revolutionaries fight for a better life, described in a daydream of M...

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One Hundred Years of Solitude. ... From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1981-1990, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore Important works: Gabriel Garcí Márquez is regarded as one of Latin America's most formidable writers, and his novels include: Leaf Storm (1955) The Funeral of Big Momma (short stories, 1962) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Of Love and Other Demons (1995) One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in 1967 gave him an international reputation. ... He was to spend the first eight years of his ...

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In Ibsen's A Doll House and Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, the respective authors indirectly characterize the females as stable and independent by contrasting them against the compulsive and solitary males. ... Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Don Apolinar Moscote are prime examples of physical and governmental dominance in One Hundred Years of Solitude, while Torvald Helmer is the character chosen by Ibsen to display the economic aspect of power associated with masculinity. ... His entire existence is summarized on page 113 of One Hundred Years Of Solitude where Marquez st...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude takes place in a Latin American setting. ... Petra Cotes, the young woman in the selection from One Hundred Years Of Solitude, intrudes in the narrative and distracts the Segundo twins from their normal daily activities in the isolated village of Macondo. ... This is quite similar to the overall narrative of One Hundred Years of Solitude which is being read out of Melquiades' history book by the last of the Buendia family. ... In One Hundred Years of Solitude Petra Cotes is unaware that she is being violated, whereas Juliana, in ...

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One hundred Years of Solitude The novel is the history of the founding, development, and death of a human settlement, Macondo, and of the most important family in that town, the Buendias. ... "Solitude," suggests loneliness, the sense of being apart from others. ... Sex can be used to combat solitude, because of its power to connect one person to another. ... However, for sex to really work against solitude, it must be joyful, loving sex. ... The setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude is the fictional town of Macondo, Columbia, which is much like Garcí Marquez's own hometo...

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The list could go on, but probably the biggest name associated with this movement is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian whose enormously popular One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967, help him earn the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature....

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Likewise, the entire line of Buendias in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude is shown as a whole conglomeration of family traits, including both strengths and weaknesses. ... It is this similar sense of ancestral connection that Marquez weaves powerfully into his novel, 100 Years of Solitude. ... Both are feverishly trying to connect themselves to their past, and as they each reach their respective goals, the source of their pursuit becomes very real to them; Milkman finds his wings and flies upon the air, as his father's grandfather had; Aureliano finds that Melquiade...

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This establishment comes from the context of solitude. ... To do this we must experience a time of solitude. ... Like the slaves hundreds of years ago, those who make their lives a daily routine without the time to contemplate their very being throw away the very person who they have begun. ... This short solitude gave them the freedom they so longed for. ... A simple pleasure for slaves in years past was the pleasure of learning to read. ...

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Asia countries such as China, Japan and Korea have a rich collective history over about four thousands years, and the feeling of nationalism is shared among the Asians. ... He declared, "The great man is who in the midist of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... The word solitude means the state of being or living alone in the dictionary, but these great peoples are not physically living by themselves in Emerson's case. ... After two hundreds year since Emerson published the Self Reliance document, the westerners fully understand his encouragements a...

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José Martí was a Cuban poet, essayist and journalist, who became the symbol of Cuba's fight to get independence from Spain. He said "No man has any special right because he belongs to any specific race; just by saying the word man, we have already said all the rights." He was born in Havana...

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Females can weigh anywhere from seventy-two to one hundred pounds and males weigh from one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred pounds. ... Orangutans have a life span of approximately 60 years, the longest of any ape(Rowe 220-223). ... They live in solitude, with a male territory encompassing that of many females. ... In fact, in the last ten years, orangutan populations have declined by 50% and their habitat has disappeared by 80% in the last twenty years. ... Prehistorically, orangutan population numbers were probably in the hundreds of thousands. ...

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HELENS ERUPTION 1980 On May 18, 1980, after lying dormant 123 years Mount St. ... The oldest recognized products of the ancestral cone are a pumice layer which is dated at 37,600 years and a weathered mudflow deposit dated at approximately 36,000 years (Harris 1980). ... Prior to 1980, after over one hundred years of lying dormant, St. ... However, by 1949 endless miles of roads covered the previously solitude mountain. ... Two years after the publication by Crandell and Mullineaux Mount St. ...

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A black woman over fifty has a raised three hundred and seventy percent chance," (frank Shen-83). ... Over a years time there are about 10,000 maternal deaths due to abortion. ... Rosenfeld also believes that women who continue to feel lingering sadness may be experiencing a continuation of the pain that accompanied their pregnancy, rather than any effects of the termination (The Healing Choice-23) Typical feelings after an abortion include, separation, isolation, and solitude. Solitude is a private emotional space wherein women process their inner thoughts and feelings. ...

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Even though the novel Frankenstein is over a hundred years old, there are still lessons that can be learned from the novel. ... The monster is also a logical thinker throughout the novel, especially when the monster makes Frankenstein feel his solitude. ... It is like Frankenstein faults the monster for not wanting to be alone and live a life of solitude. ...

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Oscar was a cotton grower, and he and Kate spent the first 9 years of their marriage living and working on his cotton farm. ... During that period she wrote over one hundred and fifty poems, essays, short stories and novels (Toth 245-255). ... Kate withdrew from society and very rarely ever went out of her house, spending the last five years of her life in relative solitude (Toth 244). ...

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God's Calling to Jeanne d" Arc During the Hundred Years" War, when the English were about to capture Orleans, the "voices" exhorted her to help the Dauphin, later Charles VII, king of France. ... Twenty-five years after her death, the church retried her case, and she was pro- nounced innocent of any crimes. ... Here was this very young girl, called out of her pastoral solitude by "voices" to get her king crowned and lead his armies to victory; her defeat, martyrdom and final triumphant rehabilitation all bear the marks of the forlorn hope that sets the heart afire, but t...

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The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation." ... Wilderness might as well be the park down the street with a few hundred trees. ... The wilderness is also still so large in America it is possible to stay in one place for years and never see another person. ...

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Charles served as alderman of Jamestown's largest ward for many years as well as deputy sheriff, but he lost his mayoral race. ... His serious reading began at twelve with a collection of biographies titled The Genius of Solitude. A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate years later for his children (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... Two years later, in 1953, Hondo, his first novel published under his own name, appeared. ... When he died, two hundred million copies of his books were in print. ...

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This book is about a tyrant who leaves 232 years. ... Thereafter the Patriarch celebrates his hundred year in power. This event makes the character realize the state of solitude that he has after the death of his so-called family. This feeling of solitude force him to lie goes off of all the strings that keep this country together. ... At last he died in the solitude and with faded power. ...

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Religion in A Farewell to Arms For hundreds of years, writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter, Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Ernest Hemingway used his writing to develop his own ideas concerning the church. ...

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