Mexican- American girl named Mary (Maria; as he only chooses to call her)‚ who helps out and eventually falls in love with Jose Luis Alegria‚ a Salvadoran refugee. Martínez’s story of María is told against the backdrop of the 12-year civil war in El Salvador. Maria and Jose Luis develop a friendship that slowly turns into a typical novella love affair. Through their relationship‚ both characters are forced to confront the violence of their pasts—his at the hands of Salvadoran torturers who abducted
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Synopsis. Innocent voices is a biographical movie about the littlehood of Chava (Carlos Padilla). Chava lives with his mother‚ Kella‚ (Leonor Varela)‚ a dress-maker‚ his older sister and younger brother on the outside of the town. Their house is barely more than a shack made of tin and wood‚ but it is home to the little family at the beginning of the war when the father deserted them for the United States. Chava is now the man of the house. With increasing frequency the guerillas (the independent
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The Filipino’s national hero‚ Jose Rizal‚ had written two famous novels which are the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. The compelling part of these novels compared to the regular novels we have nowadays is all the symbols that depicted the Philippines’ society in Rizal’s time. One of the symbols that he used is his characters. Each character represented a real person in society and through these it can be analyzed if that character represented a social cancer in the society. Most of the characters
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Accessed April 02‚ 2013. Sanchez‚ Magaly R. "Insecurity and Violence as a New Power Relation in Latin America." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 606 (July 2006): 178-195. Smith-Nonini‚ Sandra C. Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador ’s Popular Struggle for Health Rights--from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace. New Brunswick‚ NJ: Rutgers University Press‚ 2010. Tsai‚ Ming-Chang. "Does Globalization Affect Human Well-Being?" Social Indicators Research‚ 1st ser.‚ 81 (March
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March 2013 Pupusas Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the very popular Salvadoran dish‚ Pupusas. Central Idea/Thesis: Pupusas are a very popular dish in El Salvador‚ and are now becoming more popular here in the United States. Organizing Format: Categorical Introduction: I. Attention Getter: On January 2007‚ El Salvador makes it into the Guinness Book of World Records for making the biggest Pupusas that were able to feed more than five thousand people. II. Relevance Statement:
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Tarea 1 Instrucciones. Resolver los siguientes problemas. Problema 1 (extraído del libro de texto‚ modificado problema 2‚ página 55) Farmer Jones must determine how many acres of corn and wheat to plant this year. An acre of wheat yields 25 bushels of wheat and requires 10 hours of labor per week. An acre of corn yields 10 bushels of corn and requires 4 hours of labor per week. All wheat can be sold at $4 a bushel‚ and all corn can be sold at $3 a bushel. Seven acres of land and 40 hours per week
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El Salvador’s Civil war: 1979-1992 * The massacre of el Mozote 1981 * A town called el Mozote near the border of El Salvador and Honduras * The massacre was caused by the government of El Salvador * During the civil war‚ the rebels were known as the guerillas * Supported the left-wing * Guerilla- a member of an irregular usually military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy‚ as
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This article “El Salvador Arrests Ex-Military Officers in 1989 Jesuit Killings” was about killings of six Jesuit priests‚ a housekeeper and her teenage daughter back in 1989. Recently‚ the El Salvadoran police force raided two days to find out 20 ex-military officers‚ who were involved in the killings during 1989. As a result four men were arrested inside El Salvador and now authorities are looking for rest of the 16 men. The article mentions that the killing was conducted by “the Salvadoran high
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subject in History 12 (Rizal’s life‚ Works and Writings). Our first destination was the landing site called “Punto Del Desembarco de Rizal”. When we were on our way we passed through the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo Street. From Magallanes‚ Noli Me Tangere goes southward through El Filibusterismo and stops at the corner of Ermita district. This street received its name from the title of Rizal’s immortal novel. Next‚ we were at the landing site. I had been to Dapitan many times and
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EL FILIBUSTERISMO WRITING OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO * El Filibusterismo/El Fili is the sequel of Jose Rizal’s first novel (Noli Me Tangere). * The title of Jose Rizal’s second novel was based on his experience in 1872 when he first heard the word “filibustero” during the height of the issue on GOM-BUR-ZA’s execution. * The English version of this novel is entitled “The Reign of Greed.” * A year after his stint as a town doctor in Calamba‚ Jose Rizal made changes in the plot and edited
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