Growing up in El Salvador‚ I would have never imagined my life would be filled with so many adventures. However‚ due to my dad’s work we moved around a lot. In the past seven years‚ I have lived in three different countries‚ and each of them has taught me something different. For my fifteenth birthday‚ unlike most hispanics‚ I did not get a big party‚ but instead‚ an airplane ticket to Mexico. Moving to Mexico was thrilling and terrifying at the same time; for the first time‚ I was leaving my comfort
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For me‚ participating in the Experience El Salvador program would be an unforgettable opportunity. I have always loved to give back to the world and others in any way that I can. About a year and a half ago‚ there was a Christian children’s choir that visited and performed at my church. This choir in particular consisted of children who had been saved from horrifying living conditions in third world countries and were given the opportunity to have better lives and travel the world singing about their
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El Greco was born in 1541 in Heraklion‚ Crete‚ Greece. He is one of the most recognized people from the renaissance and he was known to many as an artist but he is also an architect and a sculptor. His original name was Doménikos Theotokópoulos but he is widely and most famously known as El Greco which meant the greek in spanish. He was trained to be a painter when he was very young‚ later he moved to Venice because at that time Crete belonged to Venice. He then decided to move to Rome and lived
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The song we are going to analyze is track 20‚ which is “El Ahualulco”. The composer is anonymous and was performed by the Conjunto Hueyapan. This genre music came from the Son Jarocho‚ where insturments such as the harp‚ jarana jarocho‚ and requinto jarocho are being played. The harp is something very noticeable in son jarocho. The harp is a 36-string non pedal harp‚ it functions as a lead and bass instrument. Another instrument used is the jarana jarocha which is an 8-string small and flat instrument
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everyone else is doing. In the stories "Candide" and "The Love Suicides at Amijima‚" it is proved that almost anyone can be a hero. This is established when people of the so called "middle class" emerge as heroes. Candide finds himself in several situations where it is necessary to be a hero. The first situation in which Candide is a hero is when he is kicked out of the castle in Thunder-ten-tronckh‚ for having a sexual encounter with Cunegund. Thereafter‚ Candide is captured by the Bulgarians and is
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El Velador‚ or The Night Watchman‚ is a 2012 documentary directed by a Mexican-American photographer and filmmaker named Natalia Almada. Almada’s works mainly focus on Mexico’s history‚ politics‚ and culture. In El Velador‚ she observes how the Mexican drug wars has affected the city of Culiacán in Mexico. She not only displays the violence caused by the war‚ but rather what it means to live in violence. Throughout the documentary‚ the overall theme of violence is displayed and indirectly spoken
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soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s select‚ American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote‚ where they murdered hundreds of men‚ women‚ and children‚ often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and photographs of its victims -- appeared in the United States‚ the Reagan administration quickly dismissed them as propaganda. In the end‚ El Mozote was forgotten. The war in El Salvador continued‚ with American funding. When Mark Danner’s reconstruction of these events first
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Voltaire’s novella‚ Candide‚ uses satire to discuss and criticise philosophical Optimism‚ the prevalent Catholic philosophy during his time period‚ the Enlightenment era. Voltaire himself was known to oppose this theory‚ and employed caricatural figures in his writing‚ such as the characters of Pangloss and Martin‚ to mock the ideas that they stand for. The old woman‚ as a character‚ is not a protagonist nor does she show up particularly frequently in the text‚ but she is significant to the theme
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El Chapo Good or Bad? El Chapo has been transporting drugs since he was a young kid. Chapo was born into this world of the drug cartels‚ when his dad use to transport drugs and take Guzman on his trips to take the drugs. In recent discussions people are debating on if El Chapo should be extradited to the United States on his charges that are drug charges. Most people say he should be able to stay in mexico because he is seen as a robin hood like figure. El Chapo should be extradited to the United
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I. Title: El Presidente II. Characters: Jorge ER Estregan – Emilio Aguinaldo Nora Aunor – Maria Agoncillo Christopher De Leon – Antonio Luna Cristine Reyes – Hilaria Del Rosario Cesar Montano – Andres Bonifacio III. Director: Mark Meily IV. Summary The Philippines‚ 1896. After witnessing atrocities by the Spanish military government and its friars to his constituents‚ the young town mayor of Cavite el Viejo‚ Emilio Aguinaldo feels powerless when he could not help his fellow Filipinos
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