El Salvador

Salvador Predict school success: There were just a few things that would have predicted school success for Salvador. He had a mother who seemed willing to help him and she was also taking English classes to learn the language. He was moved into Ann’s classroom so that he could receive support in English but also learn in is native language of Spanish. Ann did not let the previous teacher’s opinions of Salvador affect how she treated and taught him in the classroom. He was held back a year and…

I interviewed Vileydi Bonilla about her experience of immigrating to the United States from El Salvador. She came here in 2015 when her family acquired visas. Vileydi was 16 when she arrived in Texas. I wanted to interview her about this experience in order to better understand how the immigration process works. Back in El Salvador, she had a large house, fresh food, and her life was filled with family interaction. Her family decided to journey to the U.S. to have greater opportunities in…

members’ participation in preventive maternal and child health and nutrition services and it required regular health and nutrition training workshops that were provided to women (Adato, Roopnaraine, and Elisabeth Becker, 2011, 1922). In the case of El Salvador, the following externality is crucial in order to apply conditional cash programs in the country. It is centered around the prior knowledge, or lack thereof, that the population has in regarding health and nutrition. Due to their…

artists. They seem to go above and beyond in their work, as well as show their strengths, weaknesses, joys, sorrows, dreams, and nightmares through their work. The first artist I chose was Salvador Dali. I chose Salvador Dali because he was an artist that was regarded as strange. I like the fact that Salvador Dali was so odd and so different from what seemed to be considered normal in his time. Dali didn’t conform to what was thought to be socially acceptable, but instead made his own…

Surrealist painter Salvador Dali painted The Face of War in the year 1940. His inspiration for this piece came from his personal experience of war in his home country Spain and from the speculation the start of the Second World War created. In this piece Salvador Dali gathered all the negative aspects of war and fused them in to a single piece. In this piece Dali gave war itself a face that broadcasts the evils of war. Dali unquestionably used this painting to criticize the society’s tendency to…

Human rights abuses were very widespread in Chile during the 20th century. Much of the government and police force was said to be corrupt and did what it needed to do for money. In Pinochet in Power: Building a Regime of Repression it goes into much further detail about how these abuses took place. The United States CIA had a special briefing paper titled “Chilean Executions” that they passed along to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger when they found out that the events were happening.1 It was…

The movie, Allende en Su Labertino (Allende and His Maze), was written by the Chilean film director and writer, Miguel Littin. Littin was born in the 1940s, was a supporter of Salvador Allende’s regime, and was exiled soon after the assassination of Allende during the rise in power of dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile during his military coup of the country. Littin is also known for his other films, such as one relevant to this same historical subject is Dawson Isla 10 from 2009 which was a…

The Untold Story She was just an eighteen-year-old that wanted a better life. Living in poverty was something she didn’t want to keep doing. So she made the decision of coming to the United States. How she was going to do it with a three-month old baby I had no idea, but she did. She was just an average teenager, with long curly black hair and beautiful tan skin with a will to have a better life. This eighteen-year-old is none other than my mom. Almost twenty-two years ago, she made the…

fulfill their enjoyment, to help them appreciate the pleasure of being a kid and knowing that everything is fine. These kids are like family; they not only have fun but they teach me everyday life lessons. Soccer in the Barrio is located in downtown El Paso, Texas, the poorest place in town. This is where I am every Tuesday, helping kids through sports and enhancing their English abilities. What is Soccer in the Barrio? Well, let me explain the simplest part first. A group of friends and I go…

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…