the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer a boy named Matt is the clone of a powerful drug lord named El Patron. He is living with a woman named Celia when he got hurt and had to be taken to the Big House‚ then he ends up meeting El Patron and living in the Big House. Throughout the story Matt starts making friends with different people that treat him like a human instead of a clone‚ Matt has a choice to make to see if El Patron is worth it for his body parts or not. I believe the overall theme of this story
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Youth Empowerment in El Salvador: The Issue Since 2015‚ El Salvador has been deemed the most violent nation in the world‚ not experiencing an active war. With an unreal murder statistic of 30 per day (in a country of 6.3 million) ‚ the targeted party often becomes the prominent gangs‚ known as MS-13 and Barrio 18. The country‚ having lost a significant number of males and fathers in the civil war of the 1990’s‚ has been experiencing a generation of young men growing up without fathers. Without
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Nawal El Saadawi tells the story of a woman where men tear apart her existence and she faces brutality on a daily basis. Applying the motifs of knives and blood‚ El Saadawi portrays the discrimination of gender and the misconception that women are less than men in modern Egyptian society. Firdaus has always been enveloped in hatred and misery‚ such as being forced to endure the procedure of FGM. She does not remember much more than “a woman carrying a small knife or maybe a razor blade cut off a
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The holiday Dia de los Muertos celebrates life of the dead. In Mexico‚ the celebration is held from October 31 to November 2. The origins are a combination of inherited beliefs and Catholic teachings. The days are a lasting and enduring ritual when the living converse with the dead. The roots of this tradition go back to pre-Hispanic cultures of Meso-Americans. When the Spaniards invaded the country this celebration was rooted so deeply that even after 5 centuries it is still celebrated like its
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In the short story‚ “Los Vendidos” by Luis Valdez stereotypes and racism take the main stage. The story takes place in a shop called “Honest Sancho’s Used Mexican Lot” where Mexicans are sold very much like used cars‚ implying they are property. A woman named Miss. Jimenez‚ a secretary from Governor Reagan’s office comes to the shop to buy a Mexican for the administration. Honest Sancho‚ the shops owner proceeds to walk Miss. Jimenez around the shop showing her different “models” of Mexican he had
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graph. 19. El Niño computer model was the instrument that help scientist. The model was forecasting a cold ocean throughout the remainder of 1997. For more than a decade‚ this model had outperformed all others in predicting El Niños to come. 20. This gargantuan wedge of warm sea contains 20 or 30 times as much water as all the Great Lakes put together. 21. The wedge of seawater is less waters salty than normal seawater. The reason why is because it’s always raining over an El Niño‚ and the
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have influenced our lives since we were younger. Some people still believe in these cultural Bogeymans. One of them is “El Cuco”. I do not really remember seeing pictures of its face at all or even knowing how this monster looks like. But I can still remember the fear that would come to our minds just by hearing this name. Its appearance was supposed to be really grotesque though. El Cuco would come after any child who has misbehaved or disobeyed their elders. It would always come at night and eat those
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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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