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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 El Dorado Information
1,598 words, approx. 5 pages
 El Dorado (Spanish: "the gilded one") is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water. The legend began in the 1530s, in the Andes of present-day... 
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 The Boston Globe Rediscovering El Dorado
11/16/2003: 756 words, approx. 3 pages For a long time, the stories of Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish conquistador, have been dismissed as myth. In 1542, Orellana led the first expedition by Europeans down the world's mightiest river, the Amazon. Along the way, he said, his flotilla passed by massive... summary from source:
Arkansas Business El Dorado promise.(Editorial)
01/29/2007: 498 words, approx. 2 pages WHO SAYS NO NEWS IS good news? The news out of El Dorado last week was beyond simply good. It was positively uplifting. Murphy Oil Corp. has dedicated $50 million to removing the financial obstacle to college enrollment for every product of... summary from source:
 AP News Murphy Oil pledges $50M in scholarships
1/22/2007: 440 words, approx. 2 pagesIn an effort to promote the importance of a college education, and perhaps attract new businesses to El Dorado, Murphy Oil Corp. pledged up $50 million Monday to pay tuition costs of El Dorado High School graduates for the next 20 years.Superintendent Bob Watson scheduled... summary from source:
AP News Co. pledges millions for scholarships
1/22/2007: 647 words, approx. 2 pagesIn one of the most generous programs of its kind anywhere in the country, an oil company announced Monday it is putting up $50 million for college scholarships for nearly all high school graduates in its working-class hometown over the next 20 years.Students at an...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Neil L. Whitehead
23,468 words, approx. 78 pages
In the following excerpt, Whitehead examines Walter Raleigh's Discoverie as an anthropological work that provides ethnographic information on the native peoples of Guiana, and he analyzes the “symbolic convergence of native and non-native traditions” regarding El Dorado.
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Critical Essay by Robert Silverberg
11,555 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Silverberg establishes how Spaniards could have believed in El Dorado by describing the riches in gold accumulated by explorers like Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro.
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Critical Essay by Fernando Ainsa
9,295 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Ainsa examines the ways in which the European myth of a lost Golden Age contributed to the formation of the myth of El Dorado.
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