Mario Llosa said in Interviews with Latin American Writers, that by living in Europe, he received "a broadened education" and a "comprehensive perspective, which helped me understand the things in my own country."3 Other major factors in the change of cultural ideas surfaced from the revolutions and wars that occurred right before and during the twentieth century. ... 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." ...

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PART 1: TRIP PREPARATION Welcome everyone! We are glad to finally reach our departure date, as it has seemed a lifetime; we are now ready to begin our journey. We hope that everyone is extremely excited, for we are about to embark on a journey that will open doorways to a world that most people will only dream of. We will be traveling to the beautiful, diverse country of Peru. Our stops will be in the city of Lima, various cities and towns of the Andes Mountains, and we will visit the ruins of Machu Pichu. ...

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