El Salvador has one of the most severe abortion laws in the world‚ criminalizing abortion on all grounds‚ even to the extent when a woman or girls’ health is in danger and even in the case of rape. Women and girls suspected of having illegal abortions are also
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big dreams and have known for a long time that education and hard work are the keys to success. I get a lot of my strength from my mom‚ who immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. She came to America to make a better life‚ far away from the civil war‚ drugs‚ and gang violence that plagued and tore apart El Salvador. As the oldest of three‚ I’m the first in my family to be in college and to study abroad. As you know‚ a studying abroad is quite expensive‚ but it is an investment that is
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Mayans were native Mesoamericans who lived in areas in areas as what we call today as Mexico‚ Honduras‚ El Salvador‚ and Guatemala. Their culture started around 250 AD and lasted for about 2000 years in which they made many achievements in agriculture‚ communications‚ and astronomy. Their religion included the worship of gods of nature such as corn‚ rain‚ and the sun‚ and believed all things to be sacred. Mayans religion occasionally held human sacrifices‚ but more common was the ritual of bloodletting
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customary and shaped me into the person I am today. My parents immigrated to the United States from El Salvador before I was born‚ leaving behind 5 kids‚ the youngest nine months and oldest thirteen years of age. Leaving behind their children was one of my parents’ hardest choice‚ but they believed that in the future it would have the best outcome. My parents had lived a dirt-poor life in El Salvador due to the Civil War that was going on the in the 1980s. They came to the U.S. in hopes of giving their
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El Salvador is a small South American country in the northeast bordering Honduras‚ Belize‚ and Guatemala. El Salvador is a very mountainous country and its capital is under a volcano. This makes the drug trade very easy for the gangs of El Salvador. The gangs of el Salvador are the Mara Salvatrucha and their rivals the calle 18. Both of these gangs are at war with the police and each other over drug routes. These gangs use the mountains for their operations. The gangs are considered some of the
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The Pain and Suffering Caused in the play Romeo and Juliet. Are Romeo and Juliet too young to marry? In the play Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo a 16-year-old boy who loves Rosaline‚ but soon gets over her when he meets Juliet. Juliet is a 13-year-old girl whose nurse wants her to marry‚ but Juliet doesn’t want to. Juliet then meets Romeo at the Capulet party and soon become star-crossed lovers. In the play Romeo and Juliet the three main hasty decisions are Friar Lawrence giving Juliet the potion‚ Romeo
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Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather Willa Cather is the author of the award winning novel Death Comes For The Archbishop written in 1927. She was born in 1873 near Winchester‚ Virginia and soon moved to Nebraska (Cather‚ 1927). During her childhood she was surrounded by foreign languages and customs. Even at her young age she felt a connection to the immigrants in Nebraska and was intrigued with their connection to the land. Willa also loved writing about the vanished past of
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magazine‚ and author of The Massacre at El Mozote narrates a horrifying crime against civilization committed by a branch of the Salvadorian army. Danner gives numerous points of views and names numerous eyewitnesses to piece together something that has been hidden by the government at the time. In December‚ of 1981‚ news reports were leaked to major newspapers in the United States about an atrocity committed and a total massacre of a village in El Salvador‚ known as El Mozote. A total of 75‚000 civilian
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Salvador Dalí Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí era una artista español que era considerado la personificación del surrealismo. Dalí nació en 1904 en Cataluña‚ España. Pasó el temprano parte de su vida con su padres ricos y asistió a La Academis de Bellas Artes en Madrid. Entonces‚ se marchó a unir el moviemiento surrealista en 1934. Pasó más su vida haciendo esto en Madrid‚ París‚ y Nueva York. El estilo que usó ser surrealismo‚ pero pintó su retratos y otros cuadros realísticos. Surrealismo es el
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I was born in a small town of El Salvador and I came to the US when I was seven years old. I lived and grew up in Los Angeles with my mom who provided for us by working from dawn to dusk in the many textile mill sweatshops around the city. Ever since I first came to the United States‚ college has been on my mind. I knew I wanted to pursue a higher education after high school but I had no idea how to begin. During my years of high school‚ I seized every opportunity offered to me so that I could get
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