Reading 33

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Reading 3-3

• Lesson 9
• Maria Concepcion

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Background information

• Titus Andronicus Wikipedia
• The picture of Dorian Gray Wikipedia
• rebozo
• Holy week

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Background information

• Holy Week (Latin Hebdomada Sancta or Maior
  Hebdomada, "Greater Week") in Christianity is the
  last week before Easter. It includes the
  religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy
  Thursdah (Holy Thursday) and Good Friday, and
  lasts from Palm Sunday (or in the Eastern,
  Lazarus Saturday) until but not including Easter
  Sunday, as Easter Sunday is the first day of the
  new season of The Great Fifty Days. It
  commemorates the last week of the earthly life of
  Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on
  Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.

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Background information

• jacal The jacal is an adobe style housing
  structure historically found throughout parts of
  the south-western United States and Mexico. The
  structure was employed by Native people of the
  Americans prior to European colonization and was
  later employed by both Hispanic and Anglo
  settlers in Texas and elsewhere

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Background information

• maguey Agave americana
• The maguey plant is not a cactus but an Agave,
  believed to be the species salmiana, subspecies
  salmiana. The plant was one of the most sacred
  plants in Mexico and had a prominent place in
  religious rituals and Mesoamerican industry.
• Pulque, or octli, is an alcoholic beverage made
  from the fermented juice of the maguey, and is a
  traditional native beverage of Mesoamerican.
  Though it is commonly believed to be a beer, the
  main carbohydrate is a complex form of fructose
  rather than starch.

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Background information

• A pulqueria (pulque bar) on Plaza Garibaldi in
  Mexico City

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Related websites

• Polygamy Fosters Culture Clashes
• In secret, polygamy follows Africans to N. Y.

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Think about this

• Monogamy is good because.
• Or
• Polygamy is good because