El Paso

It was sometime in 2013, and I was still living in El Paso. I came down to Dallas for an event called Kaboom Town, which was July 13th. That’s where I met Trey. He was sitting next to my friend and I. I didn’t know I was moving down to Dallas until I went back home to El Paso, so I told him I was moving down to Dallas. It just suddenly happened. I was making plans to live in the Plano area, because I heard that Plano was a cool city. So I told him that I was going to go to Plano west high…

they represent. A law enforcement officer must be able to accomplish all of this goals and still contribute to society. To experience the same contribution law enforcement officers provide to the El Paso community on a daily basis, I had decide to volunteer my time in the Boys and Girls Club of El Paso. While there I had the opportunity to speak to the youths and even the organization…

a popular workout routine in El Paso that combines strength training, power weight lifting, speed work and endurance exercise, gymnastics and plyometrics. These workouts target all the main components of physical fitness through highly intensive body exercises. The practice has however been associated with high risk of injury despite its numerous benefits and popularity. All the same, you can minimize the chances of developing any complications by considering El Paso Manual Physical Therapy…

month. I became immersed in Spanish culture and became fluent in Spanish. It really benefitted me as I was able to skip Spanish 4 Honors, and go straight to Spanish 5 Honors Heritage. It also was great because my Dad was a diplomat at the US Embassy in El Salvador during that time, so when I went there this last Thanksgiving break, alone, I was able to effectively communicate with the natives and explore the culture more in…

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…

town-homes and houses as we struggled for financial stability. One day, my mother received news that one of her brothers was coming to the United States from El Salvador. She had not seen any of her brothers since she left El Salvador at the age of four, so she was excited to be reunited with him. My mother bought a house around the time he arrived from El Salvador, and he, having no place to live, moved in with my family. From then on, this first chapter of my life would be filled with pain,…

foreign direct investment or export is made. Overview of Honduras Geography Honduras is located in Central America. It borders the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua. Honduras also borders the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua. The geographic coordinates are 15 00 N, 86 30 W. There are two map references and they are Central America and the Caribbean Sea. The area total is 112,090 sq. km. This total area consists of land and water. The land…

help them all. I was not going to do anything here [in El Salvador] . . .I had nothing to hope for” (Abrego, 2014, p. 33). In Esperanza’s story her husband stopped providing for the family and she told Abrego, “ . . . I had to go around borrowing money, and I couldn’t keep doing it all the time . . . That’s why I made [the] decision [to migrate] (Abrego, 2014, p. 39). Amanda, who was better off financially and lived a more tolerable lifestyle in El Salvador than Gloria and Esperanza, lost…

As an ironic story that focuses on many problems dealing with philosophy and theology, Voltaire’s “Candide” stands to clarify and possibly teach a lesson to the people that would hold too much faith in these philosophies. Many catastrophic events happen to the lead character, Candide, as well as just about every other character in the story, in order to focus on the problems that lie in detaching yourself from responsibility of their own actions leaving it to God, to fate, or to nature when the…

father of four children; a young men who had the urge to survive and escape the brutal and genocide Guerilla (peasants vs. salvadorean army) of 1979. This extraordinary person is my father, his name is Davidio (David) Garcia. The Civil War took place in El Salvador in 1979-1992. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation (FMNL) drafted young boys and girls between the ages of twelve- eighteen with (for those who were promised land or power) or without consent. Most of this people were from the…