El Quisco Essays

  • Biography of Pablo Neruda

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    Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda was a poet who used his work to educate people on what life was really about, and that choice made him a controversial figure in South America. Like every author he did face criticism, but his wasn’t negative. He was a great political figure, and many people looked up to him for wisdom. BIOGRAPHY Nefali Ricardo Reyes Bausualto was born on July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile. Less than a month after his birth, his mother Rosa lost her long battle with Tuberculosis and died. From

  • The Violence of Love

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    challenging and demanding words altered the way I see ministry today. Oscar Romero was born August 15, 1917 in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador. Romero became a carpenter when he was 13, but Romero’s apprenticeship in carpentry didn’t last long because Romero had a strong calling to serve as a Catholic priest. At the age of 14, Romero left home and entered seminary school where he studied in El Salvador and Rome and became ordained in 1942. Romero spent the first two decades of his ministerial career in San Miguel

  • Superman: The Man of Steel

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    Whether you call him Kal-El, Clark Joseph Kent or the Man of Steel, fans and non-alike know him the world over as Superman. Recently, this iconoclastic character was reintroduced to a new generation with the film Man of Steel and so began for some a look back to another era where a bold new dawn of superhero action movies was born with Superman The Movie. An inevitable debate ensued about whether a modern, technologically advanced and possibly more faithful adaptation could outshine the original

  • Honduras

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    Las Minas; it stands 2,870 meters above sea level. There is also the Sierra de la Botija mountain range which is located along the border of Honduras and Nicaragua. There are also many other mountain regions such as Cerro El Pital, Pico Bonito, Montaña Cerro Grande, and the Cerro El Eslabón. These are only a few of the Honduran mountains. Honduras has a lot of mountains and some mountain ranges. Like I said before, Honduras has beautiful sandy beaches, these are actually the Caribbean and Pacific coastlines

  • Analysis Of Zack Snyder's Film Man Of Steel

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    Plato’s and Kyrpton’s use of such a structure. However, the difference between the two examples is the Kyrptonian’s, much like the society in Plato’s work, does not allow themselves to accept a higher truth. Whereas, the people of Earth follow Khal-El out of the cave and into the bright light that is, in a sense a greater reality. Thus clearly demonstrating that a society in which free will exists allows its people to develop and grow within truth; the society where it does not exists evidently obstructs

  • Comparison Of Pablo Picasso And Les Demoiselles D Avignon

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    The painting done by Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon), and the painting done by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Bathers at Moritzburg, may seem similar in many ways but are actually on opposite ends of the painting world of their time. Starting with similarities, subject matter would be the first thing an audience would recognize if both paintings were side by side, for they both contain woman nude. Furthermore the color palette is slightly similar when painting the

  • Commentary on The Poem of the Cid

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    Cid. ed. George Economou. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991). Nelson2 "Some Comments on the Song of the Cid". Lynn H. Nelson. Nelson1 "The Song of El Cid". Lynn H. Nelson. Routledge, Michael. "Songs". The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. ed. Johnathon Riley Smith. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Schneider, Joe P. "El Cid". The Catholic Encyclopedia.

  • Archbishop Oscar Romero

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    Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was born in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador on August 15, 1917. He was the second of seven children born to parents Santos Romero and Guadalupe de Jesus Santos. At the age of twelve, his parents were not able to afford his education and therefore apprenticed him to a carpenter. Oscar trained to be a carpenter, but he always knew he wanted to be a priest. When he was just thirteen years old, he left home to study at a seminary in the city of San Miguel (Kellogg). There

  • Polykleitos Of Argos Art Analysis

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    All artists are influenced by or incorporate issues and events of their time and place in their artworks. This statement is confirmed by a number of artists such as Polykleitos (5th century BC), Michelangelo (1475-1564) and the father of cubism, Picasso (1881-1973). Although some may be less influenced or may be one of the creators/fathers of their arts, all artists follow this statement as the time and place from where they were born helped mould the artists. Polykleitos of Argos, was a renowned

  • Our Moving Fate: A Study of El Greco’s Assumption of the Virgin

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    Our Moving Fate: A Study of El Greco’s Assumption of the Virgin El Greco painted his “Assumption of the Virgin” in 1577 for the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain. Born in Greece as Domenikos Theotocopoulos, (his nickname translates from Spanish into “The Greek”), El Greco was the top artist of the Spanish School, and was commissioned to paint “Assumption” to adorn the convent’s altar. The painting is a daunting size—over six feet wide and twice as tall—surrounded by a wooden

  • South Beach Company (SoBe) Flavored Mineral Water Strategy

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    water bottles. SoBe products are available throughout Canada, Puerto Rico, Aruba, Anguilla, St. Kitts, Nevis, Grand Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Bolivia, Antigua, Barbados, Guam, Bahamas, Bermuda, United Kingdom, Ireland, The British Virgin Islands, El Salvador, Trinidad, Mexico and Curacao. Beverages can be found in convenience stores, grocery stores, mass merchandisers and warehouse clubs, delis, gas marts, and select restaurants/hotels. A separately operating unit of Pepsi-Cola North America, SoBe

  • It’s Time to Ban the Use of Landmines

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    It’s Time to Ban the Use of Landmines El Salvador, 6 April 1992--Three siblings died near the Guazapa volcano last weekend when they stepped on a mine planted during the period of civil warfare. Ironically, their parents had returned to the area only a few days earlier. The children were four, six and eight years old. Parts from the three children's bodies were found as far as 30 metres from the explosion site. (qtd. in Grant 25) Antipersonnel landmines kill thousands of people every

  • Candide

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    Although wealth does not always bring happiness, El Dorado was one society where all it’s inhabitants lived lives full of success and happiness. In Candide, wealth proved to guarantee a person a step forward in life and some sense of freedom. Sometimes when one lives in an environment consisting of total equality, one may prefer to leave and go to a different place where they would be considered superior and everyone else inferior to them. The people of El Dorado were so wealthy that they abused the things

  • Justice in Romero

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    in "Romero" The influential and gripping film, " Romero", directed by John Duigan, portrays the life and death of Archbishop Oscar Romero. The movie shows the world through the eyes of the El Salvadorian people during the 1980's, when poverty and military rule flourished over the people. The country of El Salvador was run by an elite group of few who controlled most of the power and money, leaving the majority of the people deprived and powerless. This imbalance in the social system left much

  • The Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez

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    recollection of the time when she was nineteen and met José Luis, a refuge from El Salvador, for the first time. The forth and fifth parts, chronologically, go back to her tragic experience when she was seven years old and then her trip to El Salvador with her son, the fruit of her romance with José Luis, twenty years after she met José Luis. And finally the epilogue consists a letter from José Luis to Mary/ María after her trip to El Salvador. The essay traces the development of Mother Tongue’s principal

  • Research Paper On El Cid

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    El Cid was an astonishing hero. His nickname, El Cid Campeador, means many things. El Cid means “my Lord,” and Campeador means “the Warrior,” which was a title for a man. His real name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. He was a military leader, and a nobleman from Castilian. He conquered Valencia and was part of the Reconquista meaning reconquest. The reconquest occurred by the northern Christian kingdoms and on Moorish Spain there was an onslaught. He is mainly know by his works of literature. El Cid was

  • Environmental Issues In El Salvador

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    El Salvador El Salvador is located in Central America and borders Guatemala. El Salvador faces many struggles that relate to the environment as well as the economy. A civil war destroyed much of the country in the 1980’s. Today drugs and violence are destroying the county and that poses a serious threat. Deforestation, soil erosion, and several other environmental issues are threatening vegetation. El Salvador is a very religious country that has many historical and cultural factors. El Salvador

  • Honduran Migration Paper

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    history through key political, economic, and social events in chronological order to fully create an outline that explains current Honduran migration. Honduras, a nation of roughly 8 million citizens, is situated in Central America with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua bordering it. Roughly 90% of its citizenry is of mestizo descent, or mixed Hispanic and Native American ethnicity (Reichman, 2013). However, as previously stated, many of these citizens are escaping the nation in large numbers

  • The Assassination Of Archbishop Romero

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    work written by John Sacret Young, we witness the transformation of a modest Catholic as he is exposed to the violence and human suffering in his country. Romero begins his service as archbishop with the support of the rich and powerful Catholics of El Salvador's ruling class, including the wife of the Minister of Agriculture, towards the end of his life, and the film, he evolves into an outspoken advocate of the poor and oppressed peasants. The actor who plays the archbishop, Raul Julia puts in a

  • Indigenous Rights in Mexico and Central America

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    Belize 0.029 19 Mexico 12.0 16 Honduras 0.70 15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1%-9% El Salvador 0.4 7 Panama 0.14 7 Nicaragua 0.16 ... ... middle of paper ... ...past, and a step towards economic globalization. It implies the privatization