The Region of El Norte El Norte was a vast region composed of modern day South California, South Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and North Mexico. The people of this region, known as Norteños or Tejanos, had a struggling start, and fought countless different factors that could have set them back and even doomed them for extinction. Through all the bumps along the road the region of El Norte boomed and grew, forging its inhabitants to shape to the harsh conditions, making Norteños to be strong
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
El Salvador (The republic of The Savior) is known to be the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. San Salvador has been announced as the Capital City. It is considered to an important cultural and commercial center for the whole Central America. It borders with Guatemala, Honduras, The Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Fonseca. It’s the only country in this region not on the Caribbean Sea. El Salvador has a large presence of mountains and is also known as the Land of Volcanoes
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
The Story of El Dorado convinced numerous people of a path to riches. The idea of a land full of wealth brought many explorers through an endless journey, some of them ending in tragic situations. To this day, historians scrounge for any info they can find on this myth, pondering whether the fable was ever true. In order to discover the truth behind the myth, researchers will have to turn back long ago, to the 1500’s, where tribes and explorers fought tooth and nail for what they thought was rightfully
Christ. Throughout the movie Superman, the names and the actions of the characters were similar to those of the Holy Bible. Two of the major name references to the biblical version deal with Superman (Kah-lel) and his father, Jor-el. In the Greek language, the name Jor-el means “God,” while the name Kah-lel means “Little God.” Another instance where the name game is played is in the case of Superman’s parents, Martha and John. It does not seem as if there is any other way to make these names be closer
El Salvador is a beautiful country with a big population of 6.4 million. The main ethnics are White, indigenous Indians, and Mestizo. Many Spaniards settled and married native Indians therefore making Mestizo (both European and Indian blood) a popular ethnic group. El Salvador’s main language is Spanish, but Nawat is a native language that is spoken by elder Salvadorians. The El Salvador government is a republican setup. The Institutions include Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, and Military. The
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. Most of the beaches of Honduras are white-sand beaches that have a large variety of wildlife. Th...
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
the single figure and the groups need their own background. In the depths of the scene figures are rising from their graves. Naked skeletons are covered with new flesh and dead men help each other to rise from the earth. II. El Greco’s “Christ Carrying the Cross” El Greco’s real name is Domenikos Theotokopoulos and his Greek... ... middle of paper ... ...hnestock Hubbard, in memory of her father. It belongs to the Bashfored Dead Memorial Collection. At the begging, the idea that I had
El Paso is 256.3 square miles, so in my eyes it’s pretty big. From the alluring sight of the sunset that the west side of El Paso provides, to the desert view the far east side shows for miles on end there are just so many beautiful places to go. Yet of all the places to go there’s one that I always enjoy visiting, and that’s downtown. I love walking around downtown and exploring each of its stores, casting an eye over its beautiful buildings, and contemplating the atmosphere that is downtown.
Leaving the Cocoon I wasn't quite sure how to react. I had never been called a "white boy" before, especially by someone I hardly knew. As I turned my head not knowing what to expect, I found myself face to face with a grinning boy, whose crooked smile gave him an almost devilish appearance. This was my first encounter with Oscar Jovel, an El Salvadorian student on our trip to Thailand over the summer. You could imagine my delight when I heard that we would be living together with a Thai family
(Miller "Maya" Grolier). Honduras was once a part of the Mayan Empire. It had flourished between 250 and 950 A.D. (Seligson "Honduras" Grolier). The Mayans also had lived in Mexican states: Yucantan and Chiapas, British Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador (Burland 1770) By 1200 B.C., they had dominated trade routes. The trade routes extended from the modern Mexico state of Guerrero to Costa Rica (Miller "Maya" Grolier). The Mayans had constant cultural and commercial contact from other tribes
Part II: Estamos aquí porque nos estaban allí “We are here because we were there.” These are not merely words that bleed ink onto a page. But, it is a collection of the voices of immigrants from across the world who took a chance on America. The United States is to be this land of supposed freedom, great opportunity, and undefined possibility which is seductive and alluring to eyes of those not in the U.S. The uniqueness of our world as it clashes with the various distinctive idiosyncratic humanities
implementation, the EZLN rose up and captured the city of San Cristbal de las Casas and several villages in the surrounding area. In the span of eleven days they were able to take hold of more land than many other guerrilla movements, such as the FMLN in El Salvador, had done in years. However, the Zapatista’s did not act like most other guerilla movements. They were not interested in seizing state power nor did their revolt take on ethnic tones. Instead they claimed to be fighting for freedom, democracy
I come from a world where hope is a luxury and struggle is a birthright. My home country, El Salvador, saturated my young mind with images of extreme poverty, violence, and the bleak absence of any meaningful future for my generation. My earliest memories are replete with gunshots, gang fights, and police persecutions. The sight of dead bodies strewn about the streets was commonplace. The authorities charged with protecting children like me looked away in deference to their role as puppets in a government
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
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
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
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