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with one parent who was born in El Salvador and the other who has Mexican roots but was born in the United States. For the purposes of confidentiality my interviewee will be addressed as Ana from here on out. In this interview paper I will discuss the experiences that Ana faced growing up in a tri-racial household. I will also evaluate her experiences regarding assimilation to the lectures and reading assigned through out this course. Ana’s father was born in El San Salvador. He migrated to the

In Catch 22, we begin to realize some of the characters in the book are acting out of fear and not what they believe is right because of the things they see and experience throughout the war, usually we don’t see people acting out fear and moral justification, only one or the other. One of the most important characters that the readers see acting out of fear is Yossarian, and throughout the book the reader experiences the systematic breakdown of Yossarian as he begins to grow tired of the constant

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

three centuries of world changes. The first artist that will be analyzed is El Greco from Mannerism and the second one is Gustave Courbet, a representative of Realism. An interesting fact about these two artist is that even though they lived in different epochs they have chosen the same theme for one of their paintings and this allows to a more detailed comparison in order to see how the historical context and the movements

Richard Armendariz, born in 1970 in El Paso, is a prolific American painter and printmaker. Renowned for his self-developed techniques, such as carving and burning, the artist produces multi-layered images referring to cultural memory of a specific place. Raised and educated in Texas, where he lives until now, Armendariz received a BFA degree from the University of Texas in San Antonio (1994-6), continuing at the Univeristy of Colorado in Boulder (1997-9). Beginning only in 1994, the artist has been

El Greco is a well-known Greek artist whose work during the Spanish Renaissance made him famous. Born 1541 in Crete, El Greco eventually made his way to Venice where he found himself under the instruction of Titian (El Greco). After moving to Toledo, Spain at age thirty-five, he continued his career as an artist until his death. Some of his works include The Holy Trinity, The Assumption of the Virgin, and The Burial of Count of Orgaz (El Greco - The Complete Works). All of these paintings show his

Oscar Magallanes Oscar Magallanes American, 1976, Los Angeles, California Magallanes was raised in the Azusa Barrio of Los Angeles. His artwork is influenced by the cultural and social elements of his upbringing. At the age of fifteen, he was expelled from high school, but was accepted into the Ryman Arts program at the Otis-Parsons College campus which encouraged him to become a professional artist. The experience of participating in two distinct worlds continues to inform the work. By introducing

Honduras is located in Central America between Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. On Honduras’s northern border is the Caribbean Sea and on the southern border is the Gulf of Fonsecena which connects to the Pacific Ocean. Honduras has about 112,000 square miles of land (This is about 82 percent the size of Arkansas). The terrain of Honduras is mostly mountainous with some lowland areas near the coasts. Almost half of this terrain is forest while about 30 percent of it is used for agricultural

Columbus explored the country in 1502. Honduras, with four other Central American nations, declared its independence from Spain in 1821 to form a federation of Central American states. In 1838, Honduras left the federation and became independent. In 1969, El Salvador invaded Honduras after Honduran landowners deported several thousand Salvadorans. Five thousand people ultimately died in what is called “the football war” because it broke out during a soccer game between the two countries. Food: beans and

In this chapter the author describes the religious impact specifically Catholic Church on the politics of Guatemala; while Catholic influence was strong in Guatemala, the church had to work to keep out other religious influences such as Protestantism. The primary source is about archbishop Oscar Romero, he taken aback by the death of his friend who died at the hand of the government security forces; in his speech he says while there is a lot of suffering in the country, in the end God has a plan