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On a cold winters night at a federal prison in East Texas, sixty-one year old Beatrice Belladonna Harlow, a sociopath, voodoo priestess, and convicted black widow serial killer on death row, is brutality murdered in her cell by two prison guards and her body secretly buried in the prisons cemetery. Beatrices murder initiated an eerie and dark chain of events. In life she was a voodoo priestess; therefore, she will live foreverthat is her bestowed legacy. Yes, this voodoo priestess will indeed live forever, but not in her fleshy, earthly body, but as a spirit, an entity. Beatrices legacy is dependent upon one thing: another living human being, a host. Immediately upon death, her entity must e...
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Emotionally charged stories of life lived on erotic impluse.
This volume concerns various aspects of the theory and application of language conflict phenomena seen from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus is on linguistic, social, psychological and educational issues (conditions, constraints and consequences) involved in the status and use of languages in multilingual settings. The book is divided into four sections, which deal with: theoretical issues - such as the nature of the concepts of language maintenance; language policy and language planning; attitudes towards languages; and codeswitching and language choice.
Contains 13 contributions addressing current scholarly research in applied linguistics and pedagogy relating to Spanish heritage language development and the teaching of Spanish to US Hispanic bilingual students at the elementary, secondary, and university levels, both in community- and classroom-based settings. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Using primary Mexican sources, Joseph A. Stout Jr. takes a new look at the Mexican-American border conflicts of 1915 through 1920. Stout explores Mexico's difficult revolutionary period and its clashes with the United States as seen through the eyes of Mexican soldiers and statesmen. Border Conflict chronicles the activities of Venustiano Carranza's Constitutionalist army and presents original insights from Mexican correspondence, telegrams, and military documents. In the examination of the events along the border, the book includes the invasion of Mexico by the United States Punitive Expedition. The Punitive Expedition, under command of General John J. Pershing, further complicated the vola...
"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."