Coming from a place where the American culture and the Mexican culture clash, I have a great degree of knowledge in these two ways of living. Even when both countries are so close to each other and only separated by the Rio Grande, they are vastly different in their Geography, climate, spoken language, politics, and ...
In Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer,” we examine a man whose head permeates not with otherworldly thoughts but thoughts of the dirty sea of the streets which are, in themselves, another world. In Miller’s writing, we learn that characters aren’t characters- they are play actors, and thus seem insignificant. In the book we discover ...
For most North Americans, rum suffers from a conundrum of its own making. Outside of certain pockets of United States territory around the Gulf of Mexico and in the usual big-city specialty bars and upscale liquor stores, the selection of limited-edition, reserve-quality Caribbean rums dries up north of the Tropic of Cancer. Part of the ...
Taxonomy Taxonomists have had considerable difficulty with Aloe vera. According to Wikipedia, Carolus Linnaeus called this species Aloe perfoliata var. vera, but Nicolaas Laurens Burman soon gave it the scientific name that is commonly applied to it in our present day. Other botanists made further suggestions, so that Aloe vera has acquired a number of ...
