Salvador

In a scene from the 2006 Peruvian film Madeinusa, Don Cayo—mayor of the fictional Andean town of Manayaycuna, breaks a clay pot full of food on the ground, as a gesture that signals the beginning of tiempo santo. As they file out of church after mass, the people of the town prepare to celebrate a period that starts at 3pm on Good Friday—the time of Jesus’ crucifixion—and ends at 6am on Easter Sunday, the time of his resurrection. According to local custom, during this period there is no sin:…

herself as a Chilean. Her childhood was spent with her maternal grandparents in Santiago, Chile, following the divorce of her parents.” (McCann) “Isabel Allende, daughter of Francisca Llona Barros and Tomás Allende and niece of former Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens, was born in Lima, Peru, where her father was serving as a diplomat. When she was three years old, her parents divorced and her mother took her home…

The left-wing nationalist movements in many Latin American countries had certain factors that held enormous political and social importance. One of the most significant and common factor of these movements was the issue of equal access of resources by the common people. This issue was also a major reason for high rates of inequality in Latin American countries like Cuba and Chile. Around 1950’s, factors like poverty and lack of basic needs posed some serious challenges to the development of Cuba…

rome to study. Just when Oscar was thirty years old he became an ordained priest, and decided to travel back to his hometown, San Salvador. After twenty- eight years of hard work as a priest he became a bishop. In 1977 he was made the Archbishop of San Salvador, and held that title till his death in 1980. While Oscar was a bishop there was a lot of violence in El Salvador, for poor people were being killed for standing up for their rights. Romero helped a couple of families…

better exemplify one's own imagination and mind. In the works "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, each uses the idea of the unconscious mind in which alludes to aspects of Surrealism through the setting, tone, and the use of motifs. Surrealism changed the creative style for many artists, but for Salvador Dali surrealism better explained…

Buñuel and Salvador Dalí created Un Chien Andalou. The film leaves a lasting impression on all its viewers and leaves them wondering what the purpose of the film was. It has no plot; it is a series of shots that do not link together. Title cards separate the shots and notify changes in time that do not match up with what is happening in the shots. The film pushed boundaries with its content and caused uproar among viewers. The purpose of the film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí…

human rights and refusing to decrease the amount of arms provided to the Salvadoran military. Even when the massacre of El Mozote was on two major American news outlets and broadcasted all over El Salvador, “… Regan sent to Congress the Administration’s certification that the government of El Salvador was…

less developed countries like El Salvador, the fight to stop the gun violence due to one problem of "In El Salvador and Honduras, there are a lot of gangs and drug trafficking, especially among younger men, and that has resulted in a big increase in gun violence." It’s getting to a point where the law enforcement is scared to engage and the citizens are afraid to intervene. Developed countries such as the United states and less-developed countries like El Salvador have to educate their citizens…

The life of my brother On June 26, 1996 in a Red Bluff hospital, Salvador Elmundo Argueta was born. After being born, the family moved to Orland, and that’s where he is raised. The two peaks of his childhood were both made at the house in Orland. One was when he jumped on the trampoline so high he thought he could get on the roof. Then on his birthday, he was blowing out his candles, when his older sister slammed his face on to the cake. Nick Graham his best friend, had many great memories…

don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people”. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser and future secretary of state, said a few months prior to self-proclaimed Marxist, Salvador Allende's democratic election as President of Chile. This quote encapsulates American political ideology during the Cold War and sheds light on the nature of the Allende regime that was toppled just three years after its democratic victory. The…