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    Traveling can be enjoyable and frightening at the same time. Being from Honduras, my family would travel back in forth from the U.S. to Honduras every summer. Being able to experience living in two different cultures was a good experience and allowed for a more understanding approach of different societies and how the identity of the people living in those Society’s is unique. My favorite part of traveling was when it was time to go to the airport and getting onto the airplane. For the most part

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    kids not to give in to the hype and avoid trick or treating at all cost. “We are Christians and we do not celebrate the death, evil spirits, witches, or the devil!” to take part in it means eternal condemnation to your soul. In Honduras or at least in the old days in Honduras, there is no such celebration for Halloween. My sisters and I attempted to create our own costumes a few times, but really no one goes out at night. Halloween simply doesn’t exist there. Now I can admit Halloween is a big thing

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    We, the people of the Republic of Honduras, declare independence from our unresponsive government. We have come to realize that this government have not fulfilled the duty of protecting all of our universal human rights. Some of which have been violated, such as: no discrimination, the right to life, no torture, equality before the law, no unfair detainment, the right to privacy, and other rights. We feel the need to overthrow the government that was put in place for this republic. As people,

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    Back in 2003, while a missionary in Honduras, I came across a gentleman in a small village in central Honduras who, from my point of view, was poor, out of work and had a need the size of Texas with a family that almost matched the population of Texas. At the time, and being new in the mission field, all I could do was to compare him to my standard of living. I had nothing else to go on. My immediate reaction was to help him. I thought to myself, “I am going to offer this man a job and help him come

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    My life since childhood was very quiet I was born in Honduras I grew up in a healthy environment with my family my dad, my mom, and the neighbors were very good people but just always had to be someone bad in our community but in the end most people of that community were very good people we help each other. I have a big family I have 9 brothers with me is 10 we are 6 women and 4 men are all large and some married and to have children I am the last child of my parents, I grew and 5 years led me to

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    In my point of view Nike was responsible for compensating the workers in Honduras because of corporate social responsibility. Nike should be socially responsible to do the “right thing” before their corporation decided to closed down their factories in Honduras. The right thing such as established proper procedure for employees benefits for post-employment, implement appropriate compensation, and set-up a wide-operational meeting in helping the employees understand the reasons of the closure. The

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    Republica de Honduras, also known as Honduras is visited by tens of thousands of people every year, regardless of having the highest crime rate in the world. One of the most visited islands in Roatan. The main language is Spanish and some of the Immigrant languages include Arabic, Armenian, Turkish, and Yue Chinese. Three major geographical regions include the interior platue of hills and mountains, the Caribbean lowlands, and the Pacific lowlands. The interesting country of Honduras is filled with

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    countries, like Honduras, teenagers do not get to go to school unless they are sponsored, because they cannot afford books, school supplies, school clothes, or shoes. It is not that these teenagers in Honduras choose not to go to school, but more of the fact that they do not have the money to attend school. Although there is a definite difference between high school students in the U.S. and in Honduras when it comes to school availability, students in the U.S. and students in Honduras

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    War had both positive and negative impacts on Honduras. The Cold War positively impacted the formation of the democracy in Honduras, increased military action due to the US providing aid, and the US imposing laws for protection on Honduras. The negative impacts consisted of poor treatment to the citizens of Honduras as well as the military gaining too much power to extent where they did whatever they thought was necessary. The Cold War impacted Honduras in both negative and positive ways, but the negative

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    The trip to Honduras When I woke up that morning I was ready to go to Honduras. We stayed in Anthony’s key . Anthony’s key is a beautiful Island resort. I went with my sister, my dad, my mom, My grandpa, and my grandma. We got to do things such as snorkeling, canoeing, and horseback riding. It was a very fun experience for all of us. The first thing we did was go canoeing. We went canoeing almost everywhere. Sometimes I would get up early in the morning just to canoe around the island. I would

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