José Angel Moreno ITESM Nowadays companies are required to get funds for their operation and sustainability, in order to achieve this, they get credit lines. ... In a recent study americans showed that they where less probably to pay their credits, these is because they have no funds to pay the banks, and some others say that they are confident that in a period of time they will be able to pay them as the income starts to flow. ...

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Elvis Presley occupies a big space in the daily lives of many Americans. ... The multifaceted image of Elvis described as being a rockabilly rebel, teen angel, army private, family man, Las Vegas superstar, and a drug addict dead icon was solid but unstable. ... Something so powerful that it would go right to the center of the American popular culture. ... His multi-faceted images as a rockabilly rebel; teen angel, army pirate, and family man, Las Vegas superstar is rooted in the culture of his materiality. Americans have never stopped arguing over Elvis Presley are simultaneous with othe...

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During the first period the U.S. contributed to many of the factors-racial and class divisions, weak central governments, poor state administration, the absence of nationalistic fervor within the populations, export oriented economies, the absence of strong state institutions-that precluded formation of strong states consistent with Miguel Angel Centeno's theses in his work Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (2002)1. ... First, the birth of most Latin American nations was not a "birth by fire" in any true sense. ... Thus, the conditions that existed in t...

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The initial perceptions of Mexicans within The Magnificent Seven are the same typical Mexican stereotypes within American Western movies up to and including the 1960's, these being the terrorising Bandido, and the helpless peasants. ... In fact several script rewrites had to be made so that the Mexican Peasants did not initially run to the North American's asking them to protect them, but instead they actually attempt to buy guns for themselves first. ... However, although the film makes a bold attempt to adopt a new identification for Mexicans within the North American Western film...

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He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. ... Such as the Wovoka tribe claims to have a similar vision to god (Marty, page 269), and he also mentions that the allegations at Lynn, Massachusetts were investigates as closely as Smith's angelic experience (Marty, page 325). ... In fifteen months as much as a quarter of the American country had heard his message. ... This constant reference illustrates a sense of respect for...

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After all, politicians aren't the angels they wish we'd think they are. ... These first ten amendments are the very basis of American life, and if you were to take away even one or two of them, life as the current generation of Americans know it will be altered forever, perhaps irreversibly. ... Freedom of speech, press, and religion is the cultural basis of the United States of America. ... In my opinion, the First Amendment is as good a description of America as any. We are Americans, and we are free. ...

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Anti-socialist movements in 1950's America fueled the hysteria and paranoia of the Cold War. Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, amplified the chaos and accused many Americans for being enemy spies. Innocent Americans were prosecuted for being communist spies in a modern day "witch-hunt." ... Hale references the demotion of the Devil from an angel in the Bible. ... The Red Scare resulted in mass hysteria and paranoia throughout 1950's America. ...

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Dubois, and even Frantz Fanon spoke and wrote eloquently and passionately against racial oppression, calling America and Europe to accountability for their democratic and humanitarian ideals by appealing to, in Abraham Lincoln's paraphrased words, "the better angels of men's natures."" ... Even King, though he never repudiated nonviolence, began to question the effectiveness of such tactics in the face of America's social, political, and economic violence towards Black people. The fact remains that democracy in America can coexist, and indeed has coexisted with the oppression ...

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American Beauty: A Psychological Analysis In Sam Mendes 1998 dark film, American Beauty, upon cursory examination the main characters in the film appear only to provide a an example of people whose poor choices and unfortunate fate lead to their ultimate problems and even death. ... Angels embarrassment and shame that her stories are found to be lies and she feels inadequate, and obvious sign of narcissistic personality disorder. ... In the film American Beauty, the main characters are plagued by poor decision making as a result of the various psychological problems that plague them. ...

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Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is a piece from the celebrated African poetess Phillis Wheatley. ... /Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,/May be refin"d, and joined th" angelic train (lines 5-8). ... Robert Hayden was one of the best twentieth century poets and was the first black poet to be chosen as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress a position commonly referred to as the American equivalent of the Bri...

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During the 19th century starting from the year 1840, a new concept was brought amongst the American people known as the Manifest Destiny, which was the belief that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. ... Secondly, this movement helped create/shape the American identity. ... " This document shows that although the past has brought many disconnections to America, the manifest destiny has allowed the rebirth of the nation to prosper and grow as each individual can develop with natural rights in a moral, political and national life thus helping shape the Ameri...

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Watching people react to snow always reminds me of musical scores from old cartoons; watching people slide through intersections, slip on ice, shovel driveways and make snow-angels seems to fit together nicely with the comical Warner Bros. style music. ... This year's soundtrack should be pumped out from the cab of a large flat-camo pickup truck sitting on 35" swampers, with red-flannel interior, a LOUD stereo system, a gun-rack in the rear window, and the bleached skull of a longhorn bull securely mounted on the hood over the decorative plate that reads "AMERICAN PRIDE"" with a picture o...

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The snatches of dialogue that Nick selects are extremely effective in displaying how America's upper class determined a person's value by their social status. ... Like a balloon, these women have little substance aside from their wealth, the white of their clothing raises them to an unattainable angelic status while theor dresses fluttered like a butterfly- fickle and temporary. ...

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James Madison, according to some, is a prime example of a leader who attempted to secure the American people's civil liberties. ... Madison states, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary" (Jacobson, 566). ...

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Both Madison and Jackson were attempting to provide safeguards for the citizens in their respective American societies. ... Calhoun lead the opposition to Jackson's tariff policy, and was the first American to fully develop the idea that the will of the majority can directly hurt the minority factions in society. ... The United States" policies towards Native Americans had historically been to "settle" them and prepare them for integrated life within their new country. ... The Cherokee nation was considered to be one of the five civilized tribes of Native Americans, based in the Northwest...

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Miss Young is also portrayed in this story as a stereotypical Anglo-American tourist, who is immediately intrigued by Petra's extrinsic qualities. ... Miss Young's reaction towards Don Romulo's kind words clearly show the invasion of Mexico by the Americans, when Miss Young literally believes that house really is hers. ... Shortly after Mena quit publishing in 1931, an American writer by the name of Katherine Anne Porter began publishing her fiction as well for the Century Magazine. ... Porter like Mena had to also cater to the specific audiences of America. ... Porter and...

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Baz Luhrmann's version took place in 20th century America (it was filmed in New Mexico City)- dirty, grungy and polluted- it almost seems as though it is decaying. ... The opening of Luhrmann's film features a television set with an American news reporter reading out the prologue. ... She has the pale skin and the blonde hair, which gives her an aura around her-, as though she's an angel. ...

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Whereas the former uses clues and a sense of mystery in an ordered society to solve the crime, the hardboiled detective novel treats crime as symptomatic of a troubled American society. ... Although, the genre of crime fiction existed in continental and American literature since at least the nineteenth century, hard-boiled fiction reached its greatest popularity during the 1920s through the 1960s. ... Hammett's contemporary, Raymond Chandler, comments on Hammett's contribution to the genre by saying: Hammett was one of a group () who wrote or tried to write realistic mystery ficti...

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Again, Madison though, explains that the "Constitution is to be founded on the assent and ratification of the people of America,"" in Federalist 39 like Hamilton implied when suggesting a constitution. ... As the Constitution advanced, still, Hamilton and Madison suggested another system in the latter called checks and balances because "If men were angels, no government would be necessary,"" as said by both Madison and Hamilton in Federalist 51. ...

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Eddie Carbone's journey from 'an angel' to a 'rat' like Vinnie Bolzano is Miller's way of showing how denying your fatal flaw can only lead to one outcome: tragedy. ... The initial view of Eddie's flaw is from Alfieri – the metaphorical 'Bridge' between the Italian and American community. ...

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Prager, an American author, provides readers with a non-oriental perspective on the tradition of foot binding. ... Honey Tongue is a rather ambiguous character, and could be interpreted as a figment of Pleasure Mouse's imagination as a way of coping with the pain or as this 'angel' to the foot binder's 'devil.' ...

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In Baroque architecture the plan form alone is of little use as a method of communicating one's real experience of the architectonic space, for it gives no indication of the unique spaces created by the complex composition of geometrical forms, which in plan, overlay and merge in unprecedented size ...

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During the American Civil War, morphine was used freely, and wounded veterans returned home with their kits of morphine and hypodermic needles. ... Other illegal substances include cocaine and crack, marijuana and hashish , heroin , hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD , PCP (phencycline or "angel dust- ), "designer drugs- such as MDMA (Ecstasy), and "party drugs- such as GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate). ...

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When confronted about this scheme, Milo rationalizes that he didn't directly kill them, simply because the Germans and the Americans were going to kill each other anyways, and everyone had a share in the event. ... Heller likewise pokes fun at the gullibility and shallowness of American society, revealing that "the sweetest part of the whole deal was that there was no need to reimburse the government at all" (259), showing that society is more inclined to gain profit than uphold its own moral standards. ...

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Large, well-trimmed houses and gardens symbolise an upper-class suburban setting, and it becomes obvious from the moment the characters begin to speak, that the city is American. ... Kat, in contrast, has lost a little of her fierce individuality, signified by a close-up camera shot showing the raw emotion on her face as she recites her sonnet to the class and also through the non-diagetic music heard behind this scene, Even Angels Fall. ...

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