Salvador Allende

“Bullet the Blue Sky” and “Minority Poem” are two poems which utilize figurative language, such as metaphors, similes, and symbols to artistically illustrate how minorities and third-world nations are treated by the United States and/or its government. “Bullet the Blue Sky,” written by the band U2, elucidates how the United States government employs deception and war to coerce foreign nations into adopting its political beliefs. Specifically, it elaborates on the journey of the protagonist, Bono…

concluded 214 kidnappings involving around 11,300 people let alone just reported kidnappings. Danger comes from every direction. Many have made the trip before and know first hand how brutal it can be. Honduras has the world’s highest murder rate, El Salvador the fourth, Guatemala the fifth. Much of the violence within the countries are perpetrated by gangs, the Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, the most vicious gangs in the Americas. Gangs are forcibly recruiting young men to join or someone in…

countries a red flag should have been raised and plans should have been implemented to combat this surge. With El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras being coined as the most violent, gang-ridden countries in the world and the majority of the emigrates coming from these countries and many are just in search of a peaceful way of life and better life expectancy. The government of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have long histories of being corrupt and the only one that benefits from any type of…

all around with a mix or blend of different latin cultures. With the Salvadorans holding the main key to the eighth chapter in “Harvest Of Empire:A History Of Latinos in America” it gives a description of the reason why some left their homes of El Salvador that being a civil war that broke out causing lots of casualties and as more strife came so did power struggles in which assassinations had to be put in place. Same went for the Guatemalans who had bad political struggles caused by the…

School, for eleven years. Vega had been gone for 18 years, living a better life in Canada. Vega then mentions how the only reason he came back to El Salvador was for his mother’s funeral and how if he came back, he would get some inheritance of his mother 's house, but only if he attended her funeral. Throughout the whole book, Moya ranted about El Salvador and how much he hated it with every reason he could possibly think of. Since he left before the civil war, Moya seems to have blamed…

Before Romero In many ways, El Salvador was no different than many of its South American neighbors during the 1970 's and 1980 's. The oppressive government that existed in El Salvador had much in common with the violent regimes running Argentina, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and others. Death squads, supported if not organized by the ruling governments, murdered with no fear of reprisal those they saw as enemies of the status quo. However, it was the global setting, not simply a continental…

Surrealism began in the 20th century in Europe, known to be the most influential movement finding its roots from the era of Dadaism and Cubism (The Art Story, Web.). As Surrealism came nearly after World War I and World War II, artists decided to recreate the destruction left behind turning into a fantasy. Fantasy: the imagination above the reality of life, which was illustrated as art. The combination of the two eras led to the creation of an art form that was unknown and out of the art world.…

After the Dada movement, Surrealism was born in the early 20th century. Dada was an artistic movement that brought about just as much thought as reactions to World War I did. The Dada movement was mostly based on irrational thoughts over rational ones, free art as well as human expectations. Unlike this concept, Surrealism did not have a war idea behind it, rather it had more of an imaginative notion. With guidance of subconscious dreams, Surrealism emerged, letting the imagination go untethered…

The Persistence of Memory (1931) was made in 1931 by Salvador Dali, the artwork is 24 x 33 cm, oil on canvas painting, and now the artwork is in The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The style of the artwork is surrealistic. The subject matter is a barren landscape with melting clocks draped over unrelated objects, caricature of Dali’s face on the ground, plus a rocky headland with the sea in the background. The focal point of the artwork is the strange caricature of Dali’s profile, complete with…

Psychology. (Biography.com Editors, “Salvador Dali”) Following Freud’s ideas, surrealists, like Salvador Dali, believed the conscious mind prevented imagination to flow and the psyche held all creative thoughts and ideas. Surrealism, an art movement that started in Paris and” sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination” (The Art Story, “Surrealism”), can appeal to those who see art in an eccentric way (pathos). Salvador Dali painted The Disintegration of…