Characteristics of Hazards Duration Magnitude Predictability Frequency Speed of Onset Spatial concentration Areal extent Number of hazards Hazard Hotspots A country that suffers from multiple hazards is known as a hazard hotspot. El Salvador‚ Indonesia and the Philippines are all considered to be hazard hotspots because they can suffer from: Earthquakes Volcanoes Landslides Tropical storms Floods Tsunamis The Poor Environmental hazards occur only when people and property
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birth. On the other hand‚ culture does not fully depend on migration‚ as most of the time migration happens because of social factors. Taking El Salvador as an example‚ El Salvador‚ an LEDC that has a main export of coffee‚ has a net migration of -8.78‚ this means that 8.78 people per thousands per year are leaving the country with different destinations. El Salvador’s emigration had been decreasing in the last decade until 2009 where the minimum emigration peaked‚ after this year‚ when everything
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Living in two places Some people live in a lot of places‚ some don’t move at all. It’s a different experience when it comes to live in different countries. It feels like you start all over again. The places I’ve lived in my entire life are El Salvador and the United States. They have their differences‚ but they both feel like home to me. United States is North America. There are places that are always cold‚ hot‚ or both. It depends on where you live. This country is really big‚ so that’s
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countries. In one of the‚ El Salvador‚ they encountered the problem that their manager announced its resignation. Therefore‚ they had to choose a suitable candidate. OEC didn’t have manufacturing facilities in El Salvador‚ but they had been selling there for more than 22 years at that time. The sales and profits proved to be improving every year. In 1993‚ OEC decided to construct a factory. The components of the machines would be imported and assembled locally as El Salvador could offer a big supply
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Book Review of "Hear My Testimony" By Maria Teresa Tula This is probably one of the most moving books I have ever read in my life. It is basically a narrative story of the life of an El Salvadorian women named: Maria Teresa Tula. Maria is a wonderful storyteller and the fact the she is describing her own real life experiences greatly add to the impact of the book. Most of the chapters in the book are just her telling about her life. She was born a very poor and sickly child‚ growing up
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PARK Overview “El Imposible” is a national park called the impossible. This national park is considered very important to El Salvador because of its size and biological diversity. The reason it’s called “El Imposible” is because of its steep passes that are almost impossible to pass. (http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/) Ecological Problem
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one of those people and his heroic actions he took and the attempt he made to stand up for the people of El Salvador made a big impact in the lives of the lower class Salvadorans‚ called campesinos. Throughout Romero’s life his views were changed based on the political climate of El Salvador and the well-being of the poor campesino people that lived there. Romero’s view of the people of El Salvador and their conflict with the government and the influence of the radical communist groups was converted
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The Johns Hopkins University How Should the US respond to Modern Latin American Revolutionary Movements? Chris Fernandez Terrorism and Counterterrorism/AS.191.390.01 Professor Max Abrahms 21 December 2012 Introduction and Thesis Ever since the tragedy surrounding the attacks of September 11th‚ 2001‚ the United States and her allies have placed an almost unmitigated focus on terrorism in the Middle East. While that focus is not misplaced‚
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Colonel‚” Carolyn Forche recounts a cruel encounter with the titles main character of interest while working for Amnesty International in El Salvador. The colonel personality can best be summed as a remorseless man in a chaotic country where violence is customary to the colonel and his people. He also cares not for the civil liberties of the citizens of El Salvador that he governs or the fact that he is revealing his evil personality to Forche with no compunction. The theme for “The Colonel” could be
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reasons to why they want to immigrate to different countries. How the government sees immigrants is that they bring trouble to the U.S. but that usually isn’t the case. For instance‚ in El Salvador there are girls that are terrified to go out in the streets because of all the gang violence. I’ve been to El Salvador and the things you see there are completely different. I can’t say that I feel the same because I’ve never been in the situation when I had to fear my life. You have to put yourself in
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