Categoría: essay
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Nelle Harper Lee by Luisa Zambrotta
Harper Lee was born on 28 April 1926, and died on 19 February 2016She is best known for writing the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, published in 1960, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck The novel is both a coming-of-age…
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Decisions: Loving an AI Ms. or Mr.? —01 by j Re Crivello
“They call it the loneliness economy,” he added. “There’s the boom in feminism in China, increased media attention to domestic violence… and then there’s still strong gender discrimination in the workplace. I think all of this together leads women to try at least one boyfriend through AI.” (Expansión 16-02-26) We…
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Congratulations on writing 500 posts on LatinosUSA!
February 2025/ february 2026 Just a quick note: if current traffic levels continue, LatinosUSA will go from 35,000 visits at the end of 2025 to 70,000 in 2026. And thank you to everyone! Readers and writers alike, for supporting this community. Juan Ré Crivello Editor & Founder
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Living is flowing by Susana Cabaço
All living things, just like the physical reality they express themselves in, exist in a flow state. Living in itself implies flowing—an organic beingness that fluidly heads toward new horizons and states. You, as an integral part of the Universe, also exist in a fluidness that keeps unfolding at every…
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Psychological Warfare: Put Down Your Weapon and Relocate
Author: Salizan Takisvilainan Translator: C. J. Anderson-Wu Outside of the tribal community A broadcast is heard: Dear fellows, you are already surrounded by landslides, stop resisting in vain. Put down your weapons Put down the shovel you carry on shoulder Put down the hope in your mind Put down the…
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Seasonal Winds by C J Anderson-Wu
Seasonal winds shift with the changing temperatures of land and sea. Sometimes they arrive too cold to linger, sometimes they are driven away by scorching heat. Rarely do they stay. Their songs are stored in the clouds, waiting for the storm to pass. Yet the air they need to soar…
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Venus de Milo by Luisa Zambrotta
On 8 April 1820 the famous ancient statue Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos (Milos in modern Greek) . It was presented to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre the following year. The marble statue, which is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek…
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Mr Tambourine Man: cultural references (2)
LE BATEAU IVRE (Rimbaud) Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship,My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip,My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heelsTo be wanderin’. This verse recalls the poem “Le Bateau Ivre” (The Drunken Boat) written by…
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The Masquerade of the North by Uchechukwu Onyedikam
In the dusty outskirts of Maiduguri, where the sun scorched the earth and the air transported the weight of unspoken fears, Zainab lived a life stitched together by survival. She was a schoolteacher, or had been, before Boko Haram’s shadow fell over Borno State. Now, her days were spent weaving…
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Review: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey (@CathChidgey) by Olga Miret
Hi, all: I bring you a book by an author new to me, but one that I will follow in the future. The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey England, 1979. Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a secluded New Forest home, part of the government’s…
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Book Review: The Hardest Job in the World – The American Presidency by Edward Ortiz
It’s interesting to learn how the office of the president of the United States came to be and how it has changed over time, mostly due to Congress’s neglect. I have been reading about the Founding Fathers and the important documents they produced that have guided this country. So when…
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Eternal and divine by Susana Cabaço
Holding on to your ultimate truth—your eternalness and divineness—keeps your humanness sound and expansive, beyond the constructs of ego and external upheavals. No wave of darkness can engulf your light, no wind of deceit can blow away your goodness, and no earthquake of dread can shake your true foundation. The…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol by Robbie Cheadle
A Christmas Carol tells the story of an elderly miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, on Christmas Eve. Jacob Marley is described as having a pigtail and a waistcoat, tights and boots and looking much the same in death as…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens – The Battle of Life, a Love Story by Robbie Cheadle
Picture credit: Link The Battle of Life is a love story by Charles Dickens that was first published in 1846. It is the fourth of Dickens’ five Christmas Books. It is the only story in the collection that does not have a supernatural element. The story is set in an English…
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Inner centeredness by Susana Cabaço
Published in November 2024. Are we celebrating the first anniversary of LatinosUSA! So many things in the contemporary world have the power to take you out of yourself, distracting you from your inner truth and potential. The more you go out, the farther you are from your essential core. Out…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens – The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Robbie Cheadle
You can read The Cricket on the Hearth here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/678/678-h/678-h.htm According to New York University: “The Cricket on the Hearth was the most popular of Dickens’s Christmas Books, which he wrote both to support his large family and to generate readers’ sympathy and charitable giving, often through characters who are poor, suffering,…
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