Youth Empowerment in El Salvador: The Issue Since 2015‚ El Salvador has been deemed the most violent nation in the world‚ not experiencing an active war. With an unreal murder statistic of 30 per day (in a country of 6.3 million) ‚ the targeted party often becomes the prominent gangs‚ known as MS-13 and Barrio 18. The country‚ having lost a significant number of males and fathers in the civil war of the 1990’s‚ has been experiencing a generation of young men growing up without fathers. Without
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America was founded by multiple states‚ from different regions and subsequently different styles of life‚ which made the possibility of their union unstable and uncertain. But‚ because they were united by a common goal- to break free of Britain’s despotic sovereignty- the American colonies were able to win their independence from Britain and become the United States of America. This dichotomy between the states’ different styles of life and their shared goal laid the foundation for the forces of
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Dali’s Transition from Surrealism to Reality One of the most fascinating of Salvador Dali’s later works is 1954s The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory‚ a direct continuation of Dali’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory. Offering a darker interpretation of this earlier work‚ Disintegration features a flooded version of the original landscape‚ many of the original elements breaking down and literally disintegrating. Much of these changes in the makeup and composition of the painting
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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 change
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Once I was a kid‚ I had hard times getting used to the new surroundings of El Salvador. I moved there when I was 7 years old‚ not knowing to speak English nor Spanish. I wanted to be just like the others‚ playing‚ laughing‚ talking‚ and have fun. I really wanted to be with them and play with them‚ but it seemed impossible for me to do what they were doing. In my opinion‚ not being able to communicate is really the hardest thing a person can face. After trying over years to get along with them‚ and
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end of the Western Roman Empire in the year 476 A.D.‚ up until the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th century. However‚ the Middle Ages can be broken into three different parts for the purpose of this expository paper: Early Middles Ages‚ The High Middle Ages‚ and the Late Middle Ages. Each of these periods are characterized by the historical events that shaped Europe‚ but Western Europe and more specifically‚ Northern Europe will be the focus of this essay. Through events such as famine‚ migration
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For me‚ participating in the Experience El Salvador program would be an unforgettable opportunity. I have always loved to give back to the world and others in any way that I can. About a year and a half ago‚ there was a Christian children’s choir that visited and performed at my church. This choir in particular consisted of children who had been saved from horrifying living conditions in third world countries and were given the opportunity to have better lives and travel the world singing about their
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Between 1880 and 1930‚ despite heavy restrictions on immigration‚ millions of people from Eastern and Southern Europe emigrated to the United States. As they settled into the urban cities‚ native-born and second-generation American citizens saw these immigrants and their foreign values and behaviors as a threat and thus sought to “Americanize” and assimilate them into the mainstream American society. However‚ Americanization in the eyes of the native-born was different from how immigrants understood
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Salvador Dali Salvador Dali was born on May 11‚ 1904 in a small town called Figueres in Spain near the Pyrenees Mountains. This town was also near the French border in the principality of Catalonia. Dali was from a rich family and his parents built his first studio for him when he was only a young boy. He spent his summers in Cadaques where his studio was and he lived most of his adult life in an extraordinary villa near Port Lligat. When Dali was just a young man when he went to the Royal
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A sample of men’s clothing from Mindanao during the late 19th century or early 20th century. The clothing style and fashion sense of the Filipinos in the modern-day era has been influenced by their native ancestors‚ the Spaniards (the Philippines was a colony of the Spanish Empire for around 300 years)‚ the Americans (the Philippines was a territory of the United States for about 50 years)‚ and even the Japanese (Japanese soldiers occupied the Philippines during World War II)‚ as evidenced
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