Leaving your home is always scary, but I believe different countries help us get perspective. And that is exactly what I got when I traveled to Bluefields, Nicaragua. My church supports two missionaries in that Central American city, so we decided to go to the beautiful coastal town of Bluefields. Traveling to that part of the world had been a dream for many people in my church, including me. A small group of people planned the trip and soon we were on a plane anxiously awaiting our new experience
The Managua earthquake occurred in Managua, Nicaragua on December 23rd, 1972 at 12:29 am Central time. It was measured as a magnitude 6.2 earthquake. This is part of the reason why I chose this earthquake. It was a large, but not massive, earthquake, yet the damage that it caused is startling. It is a perfect example of the importance of being prepared for an earthquake. Also it is interesting because the city experienced a magnitude 4.6 earthquake 4 years prior to the event, it is surprising that
The impossible took place on July 17, 1979. President Somoza resigned and the Sandinistas FSLN entered Managua, giving full control of the government to the revolutionary movements. The hatred toward the Somoza family helped to Nicaraguan succeed as the Cubans did. When the Sandinista revolutionaries arrived on the coast in 1979, they found a local population
Way of Life in Nicaragua Most Nicaraguans are mestizos. That is that they have white and Indian ancestors. Their way of life is somewhat similar to that of Spanish Americans in other Central American countries. Most people belong to the Roman Catholic Church and speak Spanish. Most of Nicaragua's people are poor farmers. Many of those in the Pacific Region are peasants who work on their own farms, cooperatives, state farms, or large private farms. In warmer areas, agriculture workers
ranges, the highest of which, the Cordillera Isabelia, reaches an elevation of more than 6890 ft, cut the highlands from east to west. In the west is a great basin, or depression, containing two lakes, Nicaragua, the largest in Central America, and Managua. The two are connected by the Tipitapa River. A chain of volcanoes, which are a contributory cause of local earthquakes, rises between the lakes and the Pacific coast. In the east, the Caribbean coastal plain known as the Costa de mosquitoes (Mosquito
The life of Roberto Clemente was one of greatness, not only because of his skills on the baseball field, but because of his contributions to the world as well. He started life from the bottom of the totem pole, but strived to improve not only his life, but the life of others. He wanted nothing more than to be equal, and too be seen as that, but not only did he have to fight through poverty, but through racism as well. Roberto may have been one of, maybe even the best player from the ‘60s, and what
U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua, 1911/1912 In the years leading up to the First World War, there were two major powers that competed for political influence in Latin America, those powers being the United States and Mexican governments. The U.S. intervened more directly in Nicaragua on two separate accounts in 1911 and 1912. The objective was to ensure rule of government that would be ideologically similar and friendly in terms of foreign affairs with the United States1.This in turn meaning that
1. There are many reasons why I would like to go on this Gonzaga Outreach program. The main reason is because I would like to get more connected with the Gonzaga community since this is my first year and I still have many more people to meet. Yet I want to go on this trip because I want give back to the people that don’t have much but learn how I can become more open to things and live a more simply life. 2. When it comes to participating in service, I did food and friends twice with Ms. Fitzsimmons
D2L grades s I wish I could have seen it before leaving the U.S I left the U.S Saturday to my country and in my village its almost impossible to get access to internet I have to travel one hour by foot and two hours by bus to go to the capital Managua. I arrived early this week to The US and few days ago to ORU. I saw that on D2L my grade for the final was 0 I'm not sure if you actually were able to see my answers on the final or it didn't go through. I talked to IT Since i did my assignment
The Walton International Scholarship program is a blessing in the life of every single person that has it. First of all, WISP is a program that gives scholarship to people from Central America and Mexico so that outstanding students can attend one of the three Christian colleges in Arkansas: John Brown University, University of the Ozarks, and Harding University. The students attend the four years of college then they have to go back to their countries and stay there for unless four years. My Story:
In this paragraph, I am going to talk about basic information of my country Nicaragua. Nicaragua was formally known as the Republic of Nicaragua. The capital of Nicaragua is Managua. Nicaragua declared its date of independence on September 15, 1821. Nicaragua’s national holiday is Independence Day. Throughout the rest of the paper I am going to be talking about the geography, society, government and politics, and the economy. Now that we have some basic information on Nicaragua, we are not
English and what he said was typically typed out in the exact way he had pronounced the word and yelled at by the spectators watching the game. Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash on his way to deliver food and clothing to earthquake victims in Managua, Nicaragua on December 31, 1972. After his death people had begun to call him an “Irreplaceable hero” and talking about his success in his baseball career (The New York Times). Clemente’s obituary in The New York Times had described him as being a
There I was, in mid August, on the humid, old fashioned bus. In the heart of Nicaragua, where you pass nothing but rundown houses, small huts and shacks that fit anywhere from five to fifteen people. Dozens of people wandered the side of the road, searching for a place to stay. Poverty was everywhere, and it broke my heart. Seeing little kids roaming freely, with little to no clothes and no parents in sight. It was the crack of dawn and I knew I had a busy day ahead. I was surrounded by high schoolers
In the months of March through August of 1980, Nicaragua began a radical experiment in revolutionary popular education. The Frente Sandinista de Liberacíon Nacional (FSLN), blamed the Somoza regime using the country’s widespread illiteracy and lackluster educational infrastructure as a tool of politically imprison and disenfranchise Nicaragua’s poor. After the ousting of the Somoza regime, the FSLN-led government sought to repeal the sociopolitical norms of the Somocismo through instituting mass
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Jean Kirkpatrick: Machiavellian Wonderwoman In 1979 Jean Kirkpatrick published Dictatorships And Double Standards, an article dealing with U.S. foreign policy under Jimmy Carter, including policy toward the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Kirkpatrick argues that Carter “abhors only right wing autocrats” ((43) and that he ignores the primary goal in foreign policy which should be U.S. interests. In her world view, the end justifies the means and stability should be sought over any sentimental notions
With many sources that attempt to explain why youth join gangs, studies based on empirical research are optimal to reveal the critical factors. This paper will focus on the key sources that are based on empirical methodologies as the base for comprehending why youth join gangs. The research has a pattern that reveals youth join gangs because of pre-existing delinquency, homophily, and low socio-economic status. One of the critical factors that explain why youth join gangs is pre-existing delinquency
How do you control a population from discovering the truth about the vast atrocities that their same government purposely commits against their citizens? Simple. You keep them illiterate. Keep them from learning information unveiling the truth about how government institutions and policies are set to marginalize and discriminate against them. You refuse them the opportunities to better their lives by limiting the means of acquiring knowledge that Freire would argue would help alleviate them from
The United States’ Role in Causing the Nicaraguan Revolution The Nicaraguan revolution of 1979 is an event that many American citizens may not know about. What is likely less understood is the United States’ role in the cause of this revolution. The US actually played a very important role in causing the Nicaraguan revolution. The US did three major things that strongly influenced the revolutionaries to revolt against the government. The US helped create the National Guard of Nicaragua, a group
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States was the most dominant power in the Western Hemisphere. European nations conceded to the United States their right of any intervention in the Western Hemisphere and allowed the United States to do whatever they wanted. The United States took this newly bestowed power and abused it. The United States intervened in many Latin American countries and imposed their policies on to these countries against their will. A perfect example