El Colombiano

Moving from a country to another is already hard enough. Having to adapt and even learn a new language makes it twice as difficult. This is something that a lot of people in the United States have to deal with, myself included. I moved from El Salvador when I was nine years old. I had to get accustomed to practically a new way of living. I had to get used to a new culture and a new way of communicating. I started fourth grade here and I was put in an ESL class. My first year in school wasn’t as…

Growing up, I lived on mainstream television and movies. This and the paradoxical nature of El Paso Mexican culture greatly distorted my perception of being a Mexican. The media’s hypersexualized representation of a Latina did not appeal to me. I grew up too American to believe that I am like the Latinas on T.V. And I was reminded constantly…

for dormitory and classroom doors” (1), it’s a way to keep a gunman away from hurting students. Locking the doors will keep the gunman lock and not being able to move around the campus. I have being on a situation where I was locked at home. Back in El Salvador my mom used to go for grocery and leave me and my siblings at home. We were not able to open the windows or answering the phone while we were alone. My older sister was about 15 years old, one day we heard gun shooting right in front of…

Autobiography My mother is Maria Emerita Menjivar, daughter of Pascual Lopez and Andrea Orellana. Emerita was born in small town in Chalatenango, El Salvador and moved to Nueva Concepcion, Chalatenango. At the age of 30 years she gave birth to me. I was born in July 24, 1998, in Nueva Concepcion. My older sister’s name is Tatiana Menjivar and she was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. In my early childhood I moved residence three times before I was four. My grandparents, which I consider my…

look up to, and Wharton represents an invaluable opportunity in which I would be able to prepare myself adequately, in order to accomplish all that I have ever dreamed of. It would not only allow me to become an exemplary businessperson with the ethics El Salvador so desperately needs, but to later pursue a career in politics and help those, that one day I realized, are really struggling. I am willing to not only become the person “people look up to” but I will work restlessly until becoming a…

El Salvador finally has peace after twelve years of civil war. During recent years, violence and poverty have plagued the country due to over-population and class struggles which, caused discontent with social inequalities, a poor economy, and the repressive measures of dictatorship. One of the most violent and bloody chapters of El Salvador’s history has ended in January 16, 1992 that has changed the life for everybody in the country after twelve years of unstoppable wave of murders of…

citizens, and a peace treaty was formed twelve years later to permit this from ever happening again. The Cold War negatively impacted El Salvador more so than positively because the communist government in Russia influenced the Salvadoran government to violate the human rights of the citizens, which ended up creating a civil war…

throughout time, appearing everywhere from biblical texts to comic books. El Cid is an underdog himself, and, despite being centuries old, is no exception to people’s love of underdogs. In fact, he is so relatable to the people of Spain that his beliefs in regards to minorities were successfully used to support both the Inquisition and the Fascist regime. The perception of the monarchy as incompetent because of their mistreatment of El Cid within the text positions him as an underdog, and this…

I was born November 8, 1977, in San Salvador, El Salvador. I was raised around Ilopango which is a small town right outside of the capital and my birth place. It was much more rural, like a countryside really. It was a pretty place to grow up. The town was extremely small. There were only a few houses that were largely spread out throughout the town. In no way was my situation luxurious. My parents didn’t really want me, or any of us really. I knew my dad and my mother and where they were but in…

Candide is a satire. Satire is a mixture of different and unevenly matched styles in the verse ( Mikics, p270). The satirist became more pitiless and ferocious over time (Mikics, p271). Satire will depend on bizarre images of humiliation, ridicule, and physical violence (Mikics, p271). In the novel Candide, the character is naïve and travels around the world to have experiences to prove to the reader that evil does actually exist. Voltaire is the author of the novel, and he satirizes points in…