WMD MacheteMark Plimsoll LLC, 26/01/2011 - 564 من الصفحات The Pan-American "Huckleberry Finn" for the Twenty-first Century, a memoir of the young author's struggle with two realities, one Anglo-Saxon and the other Hispanic. In this picaresque "coming-of-age" memoir, we see a vision of North America's future in twenty-five years, when the Hispanic population becomes the majority and changes not only the demographics of the United States of America, but its culture. The author sweeps us along on a whirlwind of culture shock. He chronicles the adventures of a disgruntled industrial-age young man who feels a tribal and instinctual reluctance to accept the Third World's view of the United States, and America's foreign policy. But before he can assimilate the profound changes in language, culture, and reality, along comes a new relationship and an earthquake that stops a war only to kill twenty-two thousand people, and changes blind patriotism into something else. |
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... looked round faced with immense cheek bones, large and straight pointed nose, almond eyes, and full lips. At first I tried to sketch the differences of various Mexican and Mayan faces, but most of my sketches looked indistinct instead ...
... looked round faced with immense cheek bones, large and straight pointed nose, almond eyes, and full lips. At first I tried to sketch the differences of various Mexican and Mayan faces, but most of my sketches looked indistinct instead ...
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... looked at my place in line, about halfway. Could be another hour or more, and I would soon feel hungry. I looked toward the rear, saw twenty or so people behind me, and remembered that buses arrive a couple of times an hour to bring ...
... looked at my place in line, about halfway. Could be another hour or more, and I would soon feel hungry. I looked toward the rear, saw twenty or so people behind me, and remembered that buses arrive a couple of times an hour to bring ...
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... looked up and down the steep cobblestone streets with forlorn expressions. Many people, mostly Indians, got off the bus at the stops along the way. About half of the passengers now looked Indian. I noticed two couples, retired Americans ...
... looked up and down the steep cobblestone streets with forlorn expressions. Many people, mostly Indians, got off the bus at the stops along the way. About half of the passengers now looked Indian. I noticed two couples, retired Americans ...
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... looked Japanese or Chinese, appeared much smaller and skinnier than their counterparts in the United States of North America. The boys wore bright red clothing, loose shirts and pants embroidered with intricate designs, and the girls ...
... looked Japanese or Chinese, appeared much smaller and skinnier than their counterparts in the United States of North America. The boys wore bright red clothing, loose shirts and pants embroidered with intricate designs, and the girls ...
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... looked stamped out of aluminum cans. As night pulled its shade over the village, I stood in my new yard and smoked a cigarette. Around the lake, the lights of several towns emerged in a spray of twinkles, each village strung like fallen ...
... looked stamped out of aluminum cans. As night pulled its shade over the village, I stood in my new yard and smoked a cigarette. Around the lake, the lights of several towns emerged in a spray of twinkles, each village strung like fallen ...
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