El Salvador a Country Report 1.0 Introduction El Salvador or the Savior as the name can be translated is a very unexpectedly unique country. El Salvador is a country of many great geographical sites‚ a strange history‚ a blackened economic state‚ and an incredible agricultural base. The country has undergone many changes throughout its history. It was developed‚ owned‚ and operated by many different people and forms of government. This ?land of volcanoes? or ?the Savior? has been needed saving of
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El otono del patriarca Publicada en 1980 y ambientada en un supuesto pais situado a orillas del Caribe‚ El Otono del patriarca relata la vida de un dictador que muere viejisimo‚ llegando a conserver el poder durante mas de cien anos. A treves de sus recuerdos‚ el lector se entera de que es hijo de una mujer del pueblo‚ Bendicion Alvarado‚ unica persona a quien quiso de verdad; que no supo quien fue su padre; que su primera infancia transcurrio en la miseria y que llego a dictador‚ despues de
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Ground Zero It was 1945‚ and after years of grueling fighting in the most devastating war in history‚ Nazi Germany surrendered to the Western Allies. This was not the end‚ however‚ as both the condition and attitude of Japan showed they were still ready to fight. Military action needed to be taken against them. Luckily‚ the United States had been working on a secret plan called “The Manhattan Project‚” in which they were constructing a military weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. When
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El Niño & La Niña It should be recognized that the strong weather pattern called El-Nino-Southern Oscillation‚ or ENSO‚ is unfortunately an unavoidable occurrence. This weather formation is known as an essential process for maintaining long-term global climate stability throughout the year. El Nino and La Nina‚ two phenomenal and impacting events‚ generally occur in the ocean surface temperature across the central and eastern tropical Pacific. However these two weather extremes are two entirely
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Zero Dark Thirty Zero Dark Thirty depicts the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man. It begins with a black display with emergency dispatch calls from the terrorist attack on September 11‚ 2001. The main character‚ Maya‚ joined the CIA after high school and was committed to finding Osama Bin Laden. Maya was in search of Bin Laden before 911‚ and his attacks on home soil that sparked a much grander effort by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and from the assist
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Josh Copeland Professor Patton ENGL 1020M06 19 Feb. 2014 The Initiation Becoming an adult does not happen in a day. This process takes years of maturing and developing a brain that is capable of making smart life decisions. In the short stories “Stepdaughters” by Max Apple and “A&P” by John Updike‚ two young adults are put in difficult situations and forced to overcome them by making their own choices. In “Stepdaughters”‚ Stephanie‚ a high school student athlete struggles with her relationship
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for the volcano name‚ El Chichon only means ¨THE BUMP¨. El Chichon‚ one of many volcanoes that have been deadly to this world. The famous caldera has an elevation of 3‚773 feet‚ located on a convergent boundary. The volcano was considered quiet until 1982‚ which is now an explosive volcano. It has been said to erupt every 300 years‚ but there has been times when it has been overdue. Even though this volcano isn’t going to erupt for another 300 years‚ I would not live near El Chichon because it´s dangerous
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The municipality of El Salto is located in the central region of the state of Jalisco‚ Mexico. According to a 2010 census‚ the population reached 138‚226 residents (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)‚ 2010). The fertility rate reached a 2.4 which is slightly above the 2.1 replacement fertility rate (INEGI‚ 2010). In that same year‚ the census noted that there were approximately 32‚230 houses in the region; however‚ only around 31‚723 houses had electricity service‚ 26‚499 had water
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transportation vehicles in El Salvador is deteriorating and there is no standard set for them. So many people depend on the use of public transportation that buses are usually overcrowded and since nobody regulates the number of people who get into them‚ this is an actual risk for the passengers. Needless to say‚ there are no norms that regulate the behavior of passengers when using public transportation. Because of the gang issue‚ buses are a common place for violent crimes to occur. In El Salvador‚ buses
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As The Republic of El Salvador‚ we are trying to improve and cut down on our ecological footprint‚ and are making many changes to transition from being developing country to a more economically developed country. Known as‚ “The Land of Volcanoes” we are susceptible to many different types of natural disasters‚ such as hurricanes‚ earthquakes and volcano eruptions‚ and our lack of disaster prevention which lead to poverty‚ inequality‚ and have brought disaster and destruction to El Salvador. Climate
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