Fermentación Anaebórica
Nunca he comprendido la relación que tengo con el alcohol. Me resulta un tanto interesante la mera cuestión. Y es que ha cambiado mi vida bastante los últimos años. Tengo tomando todos los días desde hace varios años atrás y estoy consciente de las…
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Aquí en Suecia existen programas llamados programas de integración. Creo que está idea de la llamada integración existe en todas partes del mundo y se manifiesta de alguna manera u otra entre extraños y hermanos. El denominador en común es el…
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Vemos en el pasado algo que necesita manifestarse en el presente porque necesitamos creer en un futuro. El 2010 para mí representa revolución no ya extrinsicus pero sí intrénsico. Por lo menos eso aguarda bastante para mí el 2010. Será un año bastante…
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In A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles1 a seldom researched area is taken to task, namely, that of assimilation of Anglos in what is a predominantly Spanish-Mexican dominated territory era. Anglos converted to Catholicism and abade by Hispanic customs.…
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Carmen Fought has done a remarkable job by giving us a structured form of ChE. I haven’t read Chicano English in Context through and through though but I have stopped in certain passages where my eyes have noticed the value in the observations or…
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Forest Service warns Coloradans: Beware of camping Latinos By John Tomasic 8/28/09 6:41 PM In a presentation on recent discoveries of major marijuana-cultivation operations in Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service said it suspected an international cartel…
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By mistake I wrote Dew of the Thorn and once realizing my mistake I came upon a significance for the title of the book. I realized that dew is one of those things that is reminiscent of a new start. A new morrow if you will. Once I corrected my spelling…
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I have fallen in love with page 150 of Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1. It’s a chapter entitled The New Leader and it’s about the second Fernando of the Olivares family, born 1871. He is a half gringo and a half Mexican. Fernando grew…
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The authority of Tío Esteban, the new mail carrier, in “a forlorn-looking two wheeled vehicle” is an interesting passage. There is a palpable break. A sign that the Usted and tú borderlines of the Spanish language have ceased to permeate the…
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In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1 the color of races play a significant role, gringos have blue eyes and servants are dark. Yet more interesting is the fact that the Caste system plays a role in the late 1800’s as is evident that society…
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