One of the most transformative experiences in my life came while in El Salvador during my freshmen year of high school. My family traveled to the country to visit family members and while there I along with my siblings volunteered to help our uncle at his medical clinic. While volunteering I witnessed first hand how the lack of health care affects developing nations‚ especially the children in these regions. Growing up half of my life under low socioeconomic standards‚ I believed that I understood
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Education In El Salvador Vs. America; The education that matters May 26‚ 2017 Period 1 Education is available worldwide‚ every country has education‚ some it’s harder to get to than most. Many educations around the world are free‚ in the united states you get a choice‚ from free to paying for the proper education. However‚ in El Salvador you have to pay for your education no matter what grade level you are attending. In the United States and El Salvador there are three types of ways to build your
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Biodiversity and Endangered species Science Program conducts research on the biodiversity of El Salvador and the region‚ with the aim of establishing a scientific basis to support future operations of natural resource conservation. Biodiversity is the variety of living creatures on planet Earth. This term includes diversity of species‚ genetic diversity and ecosystem diversity. Conserving biodiversity is important because: 1. It is the basis of our own ecosystem‚ since trees are a source
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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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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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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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