Honduras

The article “Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound the Law”, written by Ginger Thompson, was very informational to me. The counterculture in the article is gang members. Gang members are the counterculture because they are not the most powerful, influential, or widespread on the earth. Gang members are not respected and often times treated terrible. Gang members are not listened to and are supposed to obey the laws of the dominant culture. In some cases gang members might be the…

in my native country named Honduras. The school were very poor that it could only afford two teachers by that time. I was a quitted kid in the classroom and I used to get distracted all the time by the girls in my classroom, I used to share my snack with the girls and with the teacher. Having starting my schooling at small age were one of my big dream because I was born with what I wanted to do in the planet since I was a little kid I just to tell my teacher in Honduras one day I will become a…

Both of these natural disasters were big problems and caused a lot of damage in a day. However one of these storms caused more damage for a longer period of time. That storm was Hurricane Mitch because it took people 20 years to fix all the roads, houses and other building with their furniture. However the big flood did soak every building and furniture it could be dried from heat or put it in the sun. The people who suffered from the flood could keep their furniture and get it dried however the…

“In spite of everything, Enrique has failed again--he will not reach the United States this time, either. He tells himself over and over that he’ll just have to try again” (Nazario, 2006, p60). I chose this quote because it shows Enrique’s determination to reunite with his mother. This quote is spoken by the author, Nazario. This quote is inspiring to anyone who reads it. Enrique’s determination to reunite with his mother is an underlying theme of the novel. Here, he is being deported to…

When I was nine years old I moved all the way from Honduras to a small town called Visalia. All that was in 2010, now I live on Gibson street. My mom loves it here and I’m just over here wanting to move back. Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing my mom happy because since she got divorced she has been miserable. Visalia has given here something else to think about. I just don’t like moving to new places because I’m leaving all my friends and I’m just not comfortable with new places. I never bring…

First, I appreciate its diversity. Both of my parents are immigrants, my father from Singapore and my mother from Honduras. Growing up, I was fortunate enough to be able to experience both cultures. When I was, young I was able to visit where my mother grew up in El Progreso, Honduras. One trip I could never forget when my family and I were in Honduras was when we visited the Copan Ruinas where I could see firsthand an archaeological site of the Maya civilization. Secondly, being…

poor children a better living. After 11 years of tears, sadness and loneliness Enrique decides to go to North Carolina in search of his mother. Traveling from Honduras across the Mexican republic and “El Tren De La Muerte” The Train of the Death, Enrique sets off his long journey to find his mother. Enrique's mother, Lourdes, struggles in Honduras to support her young children, Belky and Enrique. She knows she will not be able to send her son and daughter to school…

family to find work in a different country. It is a story of living in poverty and hoping to got through the day without food. People think about their future plans and what they are going to do tomorrow, but in Honduras people hope to live another day and not got killed. In Honduras there are many mothers who leave their country to chase the American dream. They believe moving to America can fix everything, but they don't know the reality they are about to face. Many mothers moved to U.S to…

home is it? El Salvador is about 2-4 hours away from Pennsylvania. You would travel 1,665 miles to get to El Salvador from Pennsylvania. What countries are neighbors of El Salvador? The countries that are nearest to El Salvador is Guatemala and Honduras. Place Description of the place. It is a very small country with rocky edges. It is a bit smaller than the state Massachusetts. What is the climate? The months of November to April is known as the dry season. It is very…

In addition, the “chain of explanation” is a model that was created to characterize a technique used in the studies of political ecology by Blaikie and Brookfield (EVSP620, 2016). An example of a conceptual framework that exemplifies a link between ecological changes and political-economic forces are displayed in Figure I (Scoones, 1998). Figure I displays the relationship between livelihood, organizations/institutions, and sustainability. The model is used to derive five types of analyses. The…