Salvador

Salvador Dali was one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century and he was also a well-renowned surrealist. Dali would create crazy things with his imagination; “Dali was renowned for his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocateur as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art,…

Cinematographer. Fashion designer. Photographer. Playwright. Salvador Dali was a man of many talents. Yet Salvador Dali was most known for his visual works. The symbolism within his works are references to the latest scientific discoveries in his time. He kept up to date the revolutionizing works impacting the science community at the time. I too am passionate and an avid reader of scientific journals. I enjoy making references to the latest scientific discoveries; making references to science…

El Salvador began the rating period with the world’s highest homicide rate, uncertainty over long-stalled corruption investigations, and a policing strategy that had failed to meet citizen needs—all root causes of illegal migration. Stemming this migration flow is the Embassy's top priority as laid out in both our Integrated Country Strategy and U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America. Leading one of the Embassy's largest sections, I knew instinctively that I had to hire additional…

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 economic support…

alle 18, which contributed to the increase in gang violence7. El Salvador was named the “deadliest peace-time country” in the world in March of 2014, having about 15 deaths a day. Deaths for the entire month added up to 3517. As of 2015, there are an estimated 7 deaths a day because of gang violence6. Most of the violence that is happening is between he two gangs, Calle 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, and gangs against the government, claiming that they are “freedom fighters”3 from a government that…

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…

The status of Latin American Governments has ranged from opposite ideological ends of the spectrum. After Salvador Allende, who was democratically elected by the Chilean people, was over thrown by Agusto Pinochet due to poor economic reform and a spike in inflation, the state of Chile efficiently turned around the economy because of neo-liberal economic policy enforced by not a democratic government but an authoritarian state. Pinochet’s powers associated with being a dictator allowed him to…

Isabelle Anne Romero, of Filipino decent, standing 5’3 inches was born October 10th, 2001, in Fresno California. Isabelle lives with both her parents and her younger sister Natalie most of the year. However half of the year her grandparents who are from the Philippines come and stay with her family. When they are in town it’s an absolute treat to everyone because of the homemade egg rolls that they generously share with the entire community. Isabelle playing both comp and varsity volleyball,…

The Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992) witnessed horrendous human rights violations that dismantled the physical and social fabric of Salvadoran society, leaving more than 75,000 dead and more than a one million as refugees. Fought between the authoritarian Salvadoran government and the guerilla Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), the twelve year bloody civil war came to an end with both parties signing the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992, with the assistance of international actors, most…

the elections that were believed to be rigged, similar to the 1977 elections depicted in Romero. During the 1980s, when Romero was being produced, the El Salvador Civil War was ongoing and deliberate targeting of civilians by death squads was a common occurrence as depicted in Romero.…