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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... tiny crystal ball. I wondered what the black color meant for our near future together. Her wavy mane of long peroxide blonde hair exaggerated the tilt of her head. She untwisted her mouth from around her lipstick stained cigarette. "So ...
... tiny crystal ball. I wondered what the black color meant for our near future together. Her wavy mane of long peroxide blonde hair exaggerated the tilt of her head. She untwisted her mouth from around her lipstick stained cigarette. "So ...
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... tiny stalls with a window for services like locksmiths, knife sharpeners, and shoe repair. Each stall's forty-watt light bulbs gave off a weak yellow light the colorful fabrics soaked up- the walls, ceiling, and floor space covered with ...
... tiny stalls with a window for services like locksmiths, knife sharpeners, and shoe repair. Each stall's forty-watt light bulbs gave off a weak yellow light the colorful fabrics soaked up- the walls, ceiling, and floor space covered with ...
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... the Ladino kids, exotic blends of all three subspecies, who might have white skin, Mayan-Chinese eyes, and nappy brown-red hair in a smooth ball of tight, tiny curls. We all struggled to understand each other's accent. The hotel 18.
... the Ladino kids, exotic blends of all three subspecies, who might have white skin, Mayan-Chinese eyes, and nappy brown-red hair in a smooth ball of tight, tiny curls. We all struggled to understand each other's accent. The hotel 18.
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... tiny pairs of hands on each, every one desperate for a tip. They spoke a few words of English, Italian, Spanish, Mayan, who knows- "One dollar, How oar you, Taco, I fine, food, I help, Ca-peesh, Where you go? Coca-cola," etc. I tried to ...
... tiny pairs of hands on each, every one desperate for a tip. They spoke a few words of English, Italian, Spanish, Mayan, who knows- "One dollar, How oar you, Taco, I fine, food, I help, Ca-peesh, Where you go? Coca-cola," etc. I tried to ...
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... tiny fields resembled fish scales. Different crops created mosaics of distinct colors and textures. From the pine forests above Panajachél on the shore of Lake Atitlán, we could see across five miles of flat expanse of the lake to other ...
... tiny fields resembled fish scales. Different crops created mosaics of distinct colors and textures. From the pine forests above Panajachél on the shore of Lake Atitlán, we could see across five miles of flat expanse of the lake to other ...
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