LECTURE 17/ 08/ 2012 DR ROCÍO ORTUÑO CASANOVA ------------------------------------------------- POST-BOOM‚ MCONDO‚ CRACK: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER THE BOOM BOOM LITERATURE: García Márquez‚ G. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) MANY YEARS LATER as he faced the firing squad‚ Colonel Aureliano Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses‚ built on the bank of a river of clear water
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to the United States‚ they were ready to take the next step in their lives.”[] For most of the soldiers that next step was to rekindle old flames and start a family. This time period was known as the “Baby Boom” due to the increase in childbirth between the years 1946 and 1964.[] The “Baby Boom” affected American history by producing a counter culture‚ suburbs and the need to reform the social security system. The culture with values and morals that ran counter of society is only one way to describe
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The Railroad Boom The main reason for the transcontinental railroads to be built was to bring the east and west together. The building of these railroads caused huge economic growth throughout the United States. The railroad created opportunities for everyone across the US. “Railroads were the first big business‚ the first magnet for the great financial markets‚ and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy. The railroads opened the western half of the nation to economic
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Bob Rath in his article “The Dropout Rate of Community College Is Problematic‚” discusses exactly what its title says it does. The key focus of this entire article is about how dropout rates for community college students have risen within recent years and how it can affect our nation’s economy in the years to come. With less people in the workforce‚ businesses nationwide will be understaffed and as a result unable to make as much profit as it should. The author elaborates on this crisis when discussing
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The boom and bust cycles since the Civil War‚ we first prospered after the Civil War with the Industrial Revolution. After we boom‚ the stock market crashes and we go into a depression or recession depending how bad the economy is at the time. Companies then expanded‚ banks flourished by giving out many loans‚ while not being monitored. We go into wars that help us come out of the depressions. These cycles repeat themselves and you will see in this paper. During the Civil War the Northern states
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“The Dotcom Gloom”: The Boom and Bust of the Dotcom Industry Money plops down on the counter to pay for a new pair of shoes. Plastic cards swipe through to purchase a side table. Some people argue that society’s obsession with material goods comes from greed and decadence‚ but really it goes deeper than that. It comes from the noble tradition of capitalism. In the 1990s‚ America watched as the traditional face to face interactions of capitalism changed. It was changed through the Internet and is
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“Will Dropouts Save America?” by Michael Ellsberg “Will Dropouts Save America?” written by Michael Ellsberg for the New York Times highlights the ideas that millionaires such as Steve Jobs‚ Bill Gates‚ Mark Zuckerberg amongst many others were all college dropouts and yet managed to not only create notorious companies‚ but also jobs for many Americans. Ellsberg‚ also the author of “Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You think and It’s Not Too Late‚” strongly believes that the those who
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Tajaydan C James5928 McCain Pl Apt 302 North Little Rock‚ AR 72117 United States Mobile Phone: 8705011544 Work Phone: 5018355000 Ext. 5924 Email: Jada_James24@yahoo.com | | OBJECTIVE | I am a hard worker seeking to obtain full-time stable employment with excellent salary‚ wages‚ and benefits. I am a recent graduate from high school. I have experience in working hard for low pay and even volunteer work‚ it’s all beneficial. I’m fast tracked‚ highly motivated. I have a successful background
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High school dropouts -- a growing problem in our society‚ or is it? After hearing about dropouts heading back to school to receive a diploma on the local news‚ I often wonder what they were missing out on. I mean‚ does a dropout really need to head back only to solve a quadratic equation or to write an five paragraph essay on The American Revolution? I’m willing to bet that more than half of parents who’ve graduated from high school don’t even know how to solve a quadratic equation or how The American
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High School Dropouts Until the government stops enabling high school dropouts with public assistance the rate will continue to increase; the government should require stipulations. Students who drop out of high school lose more and regret what they have done. They go through a lot of challenges and cost the economy lots of money. Dropping out of school will never be acceptable or justified. When this occurs‚ high school dropouts are only stealing valuable information
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