San Salvador

Annotated Bibliography Monument: Monumento a la Memoria y a la Verdad. 6 Dec. 2003. Black Granite. San Salvador, El Salvador. Sept. 2004. This monument was created in order to commemorate the civilians lives lost during the Salvadoran Civil War. The monument was made to resemble the Vietnam Memorial; it is made of black granite and has in scripted the names of the war victims. However, the monument only has in scripted the names of 30,000 of the 75,000 war victims. The names are organized in alphabetical

The book “Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador” written by Horacio Castellanos Moya is a book written in third person. This book consists of two main characters Vega who is an art history professor who was born in Honduras and grew up in El Salvador then moved to Canada as he got older. Then we have the second character Moya who is the narrator of the book and writes the book based upon Vegas rant against El Salvador. Although many people can argue against what is the real main argument of

The book “Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador” by Horacio Castellanos Moya was written after the civil war that took place in El Salvador (1980-1992). The theme of this book is a man ranting about all the things he dislikes about the country. The author uses this fictional character to express his feelings. This is a great book, in my opinion, because the author talks about all the topics that need to be checked by including his opinion, using facts, and literary devices. The author, Horacio

many obstacles. Our personal background is the key aspect that differs us from every other individual. My sister and mother’s nationality is Salvadoran. My sister was born in a city called San Miguel, El Salvador. My mother was born in the capital of El Salvador known as San Salvador. My mother was raised in San Miguel. The pueblo they lived in was called Nueva Guadalupe. It is a poor town that the water did not run everyday or at anytime. The water ran every other day, but only in the morning for

The earthquakes in El Salvador in 2001 In 2001, El Salvador suffered two earthquakes with one month from one another, the first occurred on Saturday, January 13 at 11:34 a.m. and the second on Tuesday, February 13. These earthquakes severely affected most of the departments of the republic, bringing destruction and human losses. It is estimated that the total number of deaths for both earthquakes was 1259. In economic terms, El Salvador suffered an estimated loss of 1603.8 million dollars, due to

I remember looking through the glossy window. The rays of light shining on my face, warming and illuminating every speck on my skin. Glancing down at the puffy white clouds and thinking ‘This is it in just a few minutes i’ll be home.’ Green. Green. That was all i could see the planes every different shade of the verdurous colour one could ever imagine. The anticipation was killing me. Literally. Who knew that in just a few minutes i would be comforted by those warm hugs and those sweet kisses from

At the heart of this nation, in the core of its most fundamental principle, is the belief which states, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” It is here, in this declaration of freedom and prosperity, that the hearts of all those who dreamed of a better life were stirred. Likewise, it is a belief which has captured the minds of poets, writers, artists, and the media

El Salvador now known as the Republic of El Salvador is a small and densely populated country located in Pacific Coast of Central America. The major issue in was the coffee which was a very profitable business in El Salvador providing 95% of the country’s income. Sadly a very small percentage of population was making use out of it (around 2%).This led to the conflict between the classes. Social American Centralist party led the poor people against the government regarding this injustice. The civil

The year is 1977 in El Salvador, a time of deep public and political unrest, where injustices are high among the people and there exists a great divide between the rich and the poor, it is during this time that the Vatican elevated Oscar Romero to the position of Arch Bishop of San Salvador. Romero is elevated in hopes that with his quite, passive demurer and diminishing health that he would accept the status quo and not cause a military dispute; however, much to everyone’s surprise, Romero became

try and piece together something that has been tucked away by the government at the time. In December, of 1981, news reports were leaked to major newspapers in the united states about an atrocity committed and a total massacre of a hamlet in El Salvador, known as El Mozote, or the Thicket. At first, the account was of over a thousand civilians, women men and children with no guerrilla affiliation were massacred. Danner pieces together the testimonies of the survivors, and interviews with