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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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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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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tax dollars. The Miracle League of El Paso provides disabled children and young adults in our communities who cannot participate in a sport on a conventional field with a place to play baseball. The Miracle League of El Paso removes the obstructions that stop children with disabilities off the baseball field and allows them to experience playing the field. The main obstruction for disabled children starts from the natural grass fields. The Miracle League of El Paso is about building self-esteem‚
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April 05‚ 2012 San Miguel El Salvador Before and Now San Miguel El Salvador has had many changes during the past 15 years. San Miguel is a big‚ beautiful‚ famous and very touristic city in El Salvador. El Salvador is located in Central America‚ and San Miguel is situated in the east side of the capital‚ San Salvador. San Miguel was founded on May 8‚ of 1530 by Luis de Moscoso who came from Spain. San Miguel is also the second city most important after the capital San Salvador. The surrounding areas
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El Corte Inglés can be considered one of the most successfully world case in its sector of business nowadays. The expansion along the history until it becomes a leader in the Spanish market was impressive. El Corte Inglés is originally a department store opened in 1935 in Madrid‚ Spain. From 60’s‚ the shop starts its expansion in line with the department store concept into other cities of Spain‚ and then diversified its commercial activities in other business sectors‚ like travel agency and supermarket
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Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man Salvador Dali (1904-1989) 1943. Oil on linen canvas‚ 46.1x 52 cm. Salvador Dali museum‚ St Petersburg. Surrealism ARTIST Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in 1904 in Spain. He was treated like royalty by his poor parents as they thought of him as the incarnation of his brother who had died 9 months before Salvador’s birth. This constantly reminded him of death later resulting in his obsession with death as seen in many of his artworks
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SALVADOR DALÍ Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening Painted in the year 1944 Oil on Canvas 51 cm × 40.5 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum‚ Madrid Personal Framework Salvador Dalí was born May 11‚ 1904 in Figueres‚ Spain. He was a writer‚ filmmaker and painter. From a young age‚ he was encouraged to paint‚ despite the weak relationship between him and his father due to domestic violence caused by his own fits. At 16‚ his mother passed away from Breast
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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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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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