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	Mirabal Museo
		The Mirabal Museo, located on the outskirts of Saucedo, is a fruit of her efforts.
		This monument to the Mirabal sisters is in a small park across the street from the Ojo de Aqua house.
		Formal and informal tributes to the Mirabal sisters abound in the Dominican Republic.
	semdom.50megs.com /mirabal_museo.htm (627 words)

	Mirabal Sisters
		The Mirabal sisters Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa were reared in Ojo de Agua, Dominican Republic in a home of privilege at the time of the Trujillo dictatorship.
		It is debatable whether the Mirabal sister ever attended a bachata because during the 1960's the music was still not acceptable among the upper classes.
		The Mirabal resistance to Trujillo was for the benefit of all Dominicans.
	lizgallego.com /mirabal_sister.htm (394 words)

	Dominican Republic people in histroy, Los Hermanas Mirabal/The Mirabal Sisters
		The group the Mirabal sisters helped form that fought against the Trujillo regimen was known as the Movement of the Fourteenth of June.
		Minerva Argentina (the second sister, was born on March 12, 1926) is the one that initially got involved with the underground movement to overthrow the government.
		On November 25, 2000 (the fortieth anniversary of the Mirabal sisters' assassination) the remains of the sisters were moved to the gravest on the museum grounds.
	www.colonialzone-dr.com /people_history-mirabal_sisters.html (1273 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features
		The three sisters, Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa were born to Enrique Mirabal and Maria Mercedes Reyes (Chea) in 1924, 1927 and 1935 respectively in the Cibas region of the Dominican Republic.
		The Mirabal sisters were political activists and highly visible symbols of resistance to Trujillo's dictatorship.
		The brutal assassination of the Mirabal sisters was one of the events that helped propel the anti-Trujillo movement, and within a year, the Trujillo dictatorship came to an end.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/11/30/fea09.html (907 words)

	Accent Media Inc. - VNR's
		The Mirabal sisters -- Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa -- were ordinary housewives and mothers, yet they were willing to give up their lives to fight against one of the most repressive dictatorships of the Western Hemisphere, that of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930-1961).
		The sisters and their driver were beaten to death; their jeep was then pushed off a cliff to make it look like the incident had been an accident.
		It continues through to the present as we explore the legacy of the Mirabal sisters' courage and conviction and the establishment of democratic government in the Dominican Republic.
	www.accentmediainc.com /butterfly.htm (1160 words)

	In the Time of the Butterflies--Sisters’ Influence
		The tale of the Mirabal sisters is an ongoing legacy of bravery and compassion in order to save the lives of countless Dominican Republicans.
		Trujillo's regime played a major role in shaping the Mirabal sisters and their beliefs, so here is a brief history of Trujillo's ruthless reign of the country.
		The Mirabal sisters were important role models for citizens of the Dominican Republic, and are remembered and cherished to this day for their heroic actions and beliefs.
	gbs.glenbrook.k12.il.us /Academics/gbseng2/ButterfliesAlvarez/influencebutterflies.htm (744 words)

	Mosaic 1 Reading \| Skimming for the General Idea
		The Mirabal sisters, also known as "the Butterflies," were rebel fighters in the armed resistance movement against Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican dictator.
		The Mirabal sisters, also known as "the Butterflies," were assassinated for their dedication to the resistance movement against the Dominican dictator, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
		The Mirabal sisters were three Dominican women from poor backgrounds who fought the oppression of the Trujillo dictatorship and were later assassinated for their commitment to the resistance.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072329793/student_view0/chapter7/before_you_read.html (988 words)

	butterflies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, is the story of the three Mirabal sisters that were killed by the government of the Dominican Republic is told by the sole surviving sister, Dede.
		Her sisters were unbreakable spirits and she embodies this kind of spirit because she lives on after her sisters die.
		Dede serves as a memorial to all the people who died because her sisters were revolutionary heroes when they were alive but since they are dead, Dede serves as a symbol of the Mirabal sisters love for their country.
	www.uvm.edu /~jobrien/butterflies.html (1543 words)

	women
		The Mirabal sisters were murdered on a lonely mountain road in the Dominican Republic by the country's secret police.
		The story of the Mirabal sisters' murder on a remote mountain road by secret police haunted young Julia Alvarez, whose family had left the Dominican Republic for New York in 1960.
		In one passage, Patria Mirabal shouts "Amen to the revolution!" and describes the house where their movement was born.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2000/10/28/features/WOMEN.HTM (888 words)

	UN Day 25 November
		It originally marked the day that the three Mirabal sisters from the Dominican Republic were violently assassinated in 1960 during the Trujillo dictatorship (Rafael Trujillo 1930-1961).
		As a result, the sisters and their families were constantly persecuted for their outspoken as well as clandestine activities against the State.
		The memory of the Mirabal sisters and their struggle for freedom and respect for human rights for all has transformed them into symbols of dignity and inspiration.
	www.womenaid.org /16days/english/25november.html (1244 words)

	unbound
		All three of the sisters were successful as individuals, but their real power emerged when they joined together in the revolution.
		Dédé, the surviving sister who was not involved in the revolution, takes care of the Mirabal home in Ojo de Agua in the Dominican Republic—the home that has been converted into a museum full of artifacts that once belonged to the sisters.
		In commemoration of the lives and triumphs of the Mirabals, the International Day Against Violence Toward Women, as well as other celebrations, work to end violence toward women in all parts of the world and in all aspects, be it rape, domestic abuse or even lack of rights in the political, economic and social realms.
	unbound.intrasun.tcnj.edu /archives/02-03/features/butterflies.htm (935 words)

	Des Plaines Public Library - Readers' Services
		The lives of two adolescent sisters undergo seismic shifts in 1980, the year their mother falls in love and moves them up north to live with her new boyfriend, and the year they learn they may lose her to breast cancer.
		and her younger sister, who value art and music and personal relationships, are able to connect with the prosaic, materialistic Wilcox family, is one of the marvels of this lovely novel.
		A year later, her sister mysteriously drowns and Amanda, who was with her that night, thwarts all attempts to learn the truth of what happened.
	www.desplaines.lib.il.us /readers/StaffPicks/Sisters.html (849 words)

	SST in the Dominican Republic
		Just outside the town of Salcedo lies the the Mirabal Museum, housed in the home of the Mirabal sisters who were killed by the dictator Trujillo.
		The three Mirabal sisters were killed by Trujillo's henchmen, and their car pushed over a cliff to suggest an accident.
		In another fascinating twist of history, a Santo Domingo monument that Trujillo originally erected to himself was painted with a mural of the three Mirabal sisters and re-dedicated to them in 1997.
	www.goshen.edu /sst/dr99/dr9.html (222 words)

	I.S.90
		I.S. The Mirabal Sisters School at I.S. 90 is a middle school located in Community School District Six in Washington Heights.
		The Mirabal Sisters were the daughters of Enrique Mirabal Fernandez and Mercedes Reyes De Mirabal.
		The Mirabal Sister’s should be proud of the school that was named after them.
	www.mediaworkshop.org /csd6/nurse/isninety.html (654 words)

	Mirabal sisters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mirabal sisters — Patria Mercedes Mirabal (February 27, 1924 – November 25, 1960), Minerva Argentina Mirabal (March 12, 1926 – November 25, 1960) and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal (October 15, 1935 – November 25, 1960) — were natives of the Dominican Republic who fervently opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.
		Two of the sisters were incarcerated and tortured on several occasions.
		Minou Tavarez Mirabal, the eldest daughter of Minerva Mirabal has served as a Congresswoman since 1998 until 2006, and has recently been reelected for four additional years (until 2010).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirabal_sisters (670 words)

	United Nations INSTRAW
		It was my responsibility to tell the story of the Mirabal sisters, expresses Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies in which she narrates the story and tragic demise of Minerva, María Teresa and Patria Mirabal at the hands of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
		The Mirabal sisters were three women from the Dominican Republic who, along with their husbands, were part of the clandestine movement against the Trujillo dictatorship.
		After the murder of the Mirabal sisters, the opposition movement was further strengthened and the dictatorship came to an end.
	www.un-instraw.org /en/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=934&Itemid= (1258 words)

	Schools as Centers of Community, A National Search for Excellence: Honors Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Mirabal Sisters Campus opened in collaboration with The Children's Aid Society (CAS) in October 1994 as I.S. 90; the partnership continued to remain intact when the school was restructured into 4 schools in 2003.
		The sisters were repeatedly persecuted and jailed before their brutal murder on November 25, 1960.
		The successful partners between CAS and the Mirabal Sisters Campus has over the years become a successful model of how to develop partnerships that support the academic mission of a school and at the same time support and encourage community partnerships.
	www.nationalschoolsearch.org /honors/school.asp?intSchoolID=25 (598 words)

	Screened Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The three sisters, Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa were born in the Cibas region of the Dominican Republic.
		On November 25, 1960, the sisters were assassinated in an “accident” as they were being driven to visit their husbands, who were in prison.
		The brutal assassination of Mirabal sisters was one of the events that helped propped the anti-Trujillo movement, and within a year, the Trujillo dictatorship; came to an end.
	www.icescolombo.org /events/Films/2004/inthetimeof.htm (240 words)

	Daily Home - In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez: a review by Marianne Moates
		This historical novel is based on the lives of four courageous women, the Mirabal sisters, who fought and died under the rule of the dictator, Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic.
		The Trujillo regime lasted for 31 years, and all that time the Mirabal sisters saw their hopes and dreams turn to despair.
		Three of the courageous sisters and their husbands were imprisoned.
	www.dailyhome.com /lifestyle/2003/dh-living-0819-0-3h18q5330.htm (574 words)

	Dates Commemorated in 16 Days
		November 25 was chosen to commemorate the violent assassination of the Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa) on November 25, 1960 by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
		The Mirabal sisters - "Las Mariposas (the Butterflies)" - were political activists and highly visible symbols of resistance to Trujillo's dictatorship.
		The bodies of the three sisters were found at the bottom of a precipe broken and strangled.
	www.gvawp.org.uk /News/Dates16Days.htm (1136 words)

	The Hero's Human Heart - Rethinking Schools - Volume 19 No. 2 - Winter 2004/2005 - Rethinking Schools Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		We read how the Mirabal sisters helped organize and arm the June 14 Revolutionary Movement; how Patria endures her husband and son being thrown in jail, sees her home and land confiscated, and her sisters imprisoned.
		Eventually these three sisters are murdered, leaving the surviving sister, Dedé, to care for their children and maintain their legacy.
		Patria, the eldest sister, may be the most religious, the noble mother, but she is also the one who loses her faith and is willing to trade her body to get her boy out of jail.
	www.rethinkingschools.org /archive/19_02/hero192.shtml (3297 words)

	In the Time of the Butterflies - PowerBookSearch!
		A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.
		Thus martyred, the Mirabal sisters have become mythical figures in their country, where they are known as las mariposas (the butterflies), from their underground code names.
		It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0452274427.html (1850 words)

	The Dominican Republic and Trujillo's Dictatorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Mirabal Sisters, nicknamed the Butterfly Sisters (in Spanish, Las Mariposas) were fervent revolutionaries against the Trujillo regime.
		Bélgica Adela “Dedé” Mirabal-Reyes, a fourth sister, was not actively involved in the opposition.
		The Mirabal Sisters formed the opposition known as “the Movement of the Fourteenth of June”, in which they received their aliases as the Butterfly Sisters.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~eliswong/trujillo/oppbutterfly.html (169 words)

	Dominican International Association, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Contrary to the regime’s expectations, the assassination of the Mirabal sisters, Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa put into motion a process that resulted in the sudden and dramatic overthrow of the regime’s 32 years reign of terror throughout the Dominican Republic.
		In commemoration of the sacrifice of the Mirabal sisters, the General Assembly of the United Nations designated November 25 as “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women”.
		Today, 45 years later, we pay tribute to the Mirabal Sisters with a monument at the entrance of Salcedo, the city of their birth.
	www.dominicania.org /brick.html (401 words)

	Lisa Rua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Their words have an even more powerful effect, when Alvarez is writing through the Mirabal sisters, giving the impression that they are speaking to the reader from the dead.
		The secret language that the Mirabal sisters used in order to escape the confines of the dictator’s language of power, shows that the Mirabal sisters are willing to create and establish their own voice.
		The “trick language” is introduced through the innocent and honest voice of the youngest sister, Maria Teresa, who is surrounded by the codes when she lives and works with the revolutionaries, her sister, Minerva, and brother-in-law, Manolo (141).
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~lrua/Wost294L.html (3761 words)

	The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0
		Such sacrifice is the theme of In the Time of the Butterflies, a fact-based fictional account of the life of the Mirabal sisters, penned by Julia Alvarez, whose own family was forced to flee the Dominican Republic to escape imprisonment.
		Las Mariposas (the butterflies), the code name under which three of the sisters, Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa, became known, were born to wealthy parents, Enrique Mirabal and Maria Mercedes Mirabal, in Ojo de Agua, a small town close to the city of Salecedo.
		Dede, the only surviving Mirabal sister, accepted a more traditional role and was forbidden to take part in any anti-Trujillo activities by her husband.
	www.guardian.co.tt /archives/2006-02-04/PA.html (1117 words)

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