El Colombiano

Francois-Marie Arouet, who assumed the same Voltaire in authored Candide in 1759. Candide follows the story of a young boy as he is kicked out of the castle he resided in after kissing the baron’s daughter. Candide is forced to travel and experience the world, facing harsh conditions in order to reunite with his love, who he finds he no longer wants. The story begins as the introduce Candide, who resides in a castle located in in Westphalia. Also residing in the castle of Baron…

my mother about traditions that are celebrated in El Salvador, the types foods that are served, housing, and more. Through the things that I would learn through the interview, I was able to point out differences between the Salvadoran and American cultures. This final lab also allowed me to analyze how I will use my Spanish and knowledge in the future, to further my career and successes in life. In El Salvador, Christmas, the independence of El Salvador, and La Semana Santa are holidays/…

immigrants from El Salvador have to go back from where they immigrated many people are being forced to go back to nothing. This event is controversial because they have nowhere to go and they have until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the country or face deportation.But others believe that they have had time to recover and get the money its time for them to leave. President George W. Bush was the one that decided to help some Salvadorans living in the United States because 2 earthquakes rocked El…

people to like me and be my friend in high school, but this was the time to establish I was a certain person. At first, I would reveal my ethnicity of Guatemalan and El Salvadorean and people would respond, “ Isn’t that in Mexico?” or “It is the same thing as Mexican.” This actually disturbed me because I had travelled to both Guatemala and El Salvador and as to Mexico, but Mexico lacked something that the other countries had and that was family. I kept my emotions within me, half nodded,…

Honduras such as the fish. Some people might look at it and think that it’s nasty but it’s actually good. Almost every dish in Honduras will contain some sort of rice and a fruit or vegetable. Honduras has a beautiful cultural dance called Garifuna, El Grande de Grandes and Folklore Dances. These dances are exciting and very intense. The music sounds a lot like African and many different masks are worn. Cities from all over Honduras come together to compete and have fun with the traditional…

I hear krypton and I automatically think of Superman, the man of steel, so it inspired me to learn more about his one physical weakness. Where was is found? Who discovered it? Why is it so important? Why did they use krypton as this all might entity’s weakness? It is quite an interesting element to think about. Going back to Britain, krypton was very popular there. It was discovered by two chemist named Sir William Ramsay and Morris M. Travers on May 30th 1898 while they were researching a…

After being away for several years, Superman returns back to earth and is stronger than ever in the movie, Superman Returns, directed by Bryan Singer. After watching the film, Superman is portrayed to have qualities similar to Jesus Christ. They both leave and came back to earth, they are both saviors who protect the people, they both look out for the greater good of mankind and they both make promises. Although they are different people, both Jesus and Superman share similar qualities. In the…

Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God created an accurate portrayal of Lope de Aguirre’s quest for El Dorado in 1561. Using a firsthand account from Aguirre himself, Herzog is able to accurately show what happened. Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a 1972 German film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The plot focuses on a group of conquistadors who are in search of the legendary city of El Dorado. The main protagonist is a Spanish soldier named Lope de Aguirre who, along with others, is…

In addition to these economic policies challenging the democratic governance in El Salvador, violence and crime were defining the identity of this nation, and in response the government implemented an anti-gang strategy in 2003 known as the Iron Fist or Mano Dura (Hume 2007). The strategy urged for the immediate imprisonment of gang members whether they were intentionally involved in an act of violence or simply having gang-related tattoos. This led to contend that there were more violent crimes…

disagreements among the soldiers as to what to do with the children in the schoolhouse. Finally, they strafed the schoolhouse with bullets from their American automatic weapons and burned the schoolhouse and everything inside of it. So ended the massacre at El Mozote, everything dead and decimated, with corpses strewn about the town. They were some survivors. Rufina Amaya recounted a unbelievable story about how she was able to escape from the soldiers, in a crab tree (Donner 73). She…