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Grand Inquisitor Eighteenth Century
1,745 wordsEurope and frontier South America; mid-eighteenth century Pangloss, Candide's tutor and philosopher friend Cunegonde, the beautiful daughter of a baron Cacambo, Candide's servant and companion Martin, a later traveling companion Candide, the illegitimate son of a Baron's sister, was sent to live with the Baron at his beautiful castle in Westphalia. The Baroness weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, as therefore greatly respected, and did the honors of the house it had dignity which rende...
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Santa Cruz Revolutionary Movement
2,024 wordsGeography Bolivia is bounded on the north and east by Brazil, on the southeast by Paraguay, on the south by Argentina, and on the west by Chile and Peru. Bolivia, along with Paraguay, is the only South American country without direct access to the sea. Going in the northern-southern direction the maximum length of Bolivia is about 1530 km (about 950 mi); its width, in an eastern-western direction, is about 1450 km (about 900 mi). The area is 1, 098, 581 sq. km (about 424, 165 sq. mi), making it ...
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One Of The Largest Buenos Aires
1,026 wordsThe capital of the country, Buenos Aires is also Argentina's leading city in population, commerce, and industry. It is located near the Atlantic Ocean coast, on the broad Ro de la Plata, an estuary at the mouth of the Paran and Paraguay rivers. The early Spanish colonists named the city for the "good winds" that brought them to the port. Today about 10 million people live in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, one of the largest in the world. The city proper makes up a federal district, and its ...
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Degrees Celsius Surrounding Countries Country
437 wordsMy report was done on the country of Paraguay. This is a very interesting yet different country then ours. It has many of the same features as the United States. One of them being its form of Government, it is listed as a Republic on paper but has all the same principals of a Democracy. Also there are many differences about this country as well. The first being their literacy rate, it is currently at 81 % the lowest of the surrounding countries. The life expectancy for males is 65 and for female...
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Iron Ore La Plata
797 wordsThe Pantanal wetlands are the largest wetlands in the world, spanning an area of 210, 000 km 2, a region the size of South Dakota and over ten times the current size of the Everglades in Florida (Silveria). The vast area contains over 600 bird and about 300 fish species and provides homeland to over 1. 8 million people (The waterway 40). In 1993 only forty wood stork pairs nested in the Everglades compared to over one hundred times that in the Pantanal (Eckstrom 54). This majestic wetland area, ...
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Voltaires Depiction Philosophical Optimism Candide
1,291 wordsCandide Philosophy of Voltaire- What is the ideal situation in life? The question often arises, for what purpose was man placed upon the earth? It seems, in this satirical work, that Voltaire is focusing mainly on remodeling the mental limitations of mans outlook on life. It quickly becomes evident that the target of his satire, as the title suggests, is the concept of philosophical optimism. His exaggerated tales of the horrors which his characters endure, attack the idea that everything always...
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Movie The Mission Persuade The Jesuits Spanish
537 wordsMovie: The Mission Meena Throngkumpola The movie, The Mission, is about how the Spanish in cooperation with Portugal try to get the Jesuits off land negotiated by the two countries. The Spanish Church sends people into Asuncion, Paraguay to persuade the Jesuits to get off the land. The film includes spiritual and political activities the are reflected through the church, natives, and the Jesuits. What the movie mainly tried to show was that the Church wanted to maintain control over the Jesuits....
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Grand Inquisitor Eighteenth Century
1,756 wordsby Voltaire Candide Candide by Voltaire (1694 1778) Type of Work: Satirical novel Setting Europe and frontier South America; mid-eighteenth century Principal Characters Candide, a naive young man Pangloss, Candide's tutor and philosopher friend Cunegonde, the beautiful daughter of a baron Cacambo, Candide's servant and companion Martin, a later traveling companion Story Overview Candide, the illegitimate son of a Barons sister, was sent to live with the Baron at his beautiful castle in Westphali...
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