San Pedro Sula (Spanish pronunciation: [sam ˈpeðɾo sula]) is a city in Honduras. The city is located in the northwest corner of the country, in the Valle de Sula (Sula Valley), about 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With an estimated population of 873,824 people in the main municipality, and 1,245,598 in its metro area (2010), it is the second largest city, after the capital Tegucigalpa. It is the capital of the Cortés Department. As of 2013 San Pedro Sula has the
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store in their lives’(Fishman, 2006). Therefore, Wal-Mart is a company, which has truly been affected by globalization around the world. Wal-Mart has 8500 stores in over 55 countries which include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Advancements in transportation, logistics and ICT with the lowering economic barriers has armed retailers such as Wal-Mart to go beyond their
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the time. This project has greatly benefitted the Philippines. Ethical and Social Responsibility Issues The ethical issues within the Coca-Cola organization is that the company is trying to get where they do not have to promote child labor. In El Salvador in the sugar plantations child labor still exists. It is getting to the point where children who are as young as eight years old are working as employees. These children are working in hazardous environments and getting cuts and sores that they have
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“Isabelle Allende” While working as a translator, translating English novels to Spanish, Isabel Allende was fired for taking it upon herself to change the female protagonist to make her seem more self-sufficient, charitable, and smart. Furthermore, it comes as no surprise that several of her novels revolve around the theme of women challenging male authority. Her themes center on women’s experiences as well as magic and mysticism and stem from her own life experiences. Isabel Allende was born
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In 1980, El Salvador entered one of the most brutal and longest wars which lasted 12 years. This war caused the deaths of 75,000 people including that of Monsignor Oscar Romero. Oscar Romero was the archbishop of El Salvador during the civil war. Many people were persecuted if they spoke out against the government, and Romero did exactly that. He spoke out about the social injustices, and was killed for defending his people. Oscar Romero said “si me matan resucitaré con el pueblo salvadoreño”
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UNIVERSIDAD CENTROAMERICANA “JOSÉ SIMEÓN CAÑAS” TEMA: INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE EL PROCESO DE CREACIÓN DE UNA EMPRESA MATERIA: CONTABILIDAD FINANCIERA I INTEGRANTES: FERNANDO ERNESTO HERNÁNDEZ GONZALEZ 00216814 PERLA MICHELLE HERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ 00187314 RODRIGO ALONSO HERRERA CASTILLO 00228414 MARIO JOSÉ LEMUS UMAÑA 00170914 NIXON GABRIEL MEJIA ROMERO 00205714 ANTIGUO CUSCATLÁN, MAYO DE 2014 Contenido INTRODUCCIÓN 4 OBJETIVOS DEL TRABAJO 5 OBJETIVOS GENERALES 5 OBJETIVOS ESPECÍFICOS
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Fantasmas en El Salvador Desde la última década de 1880, se han reunido muchas pistas a revelar el motivo de la guerra civil en El Salvador. Por al aumento en la población y las tensiones entre las clases sociales, El Salvador ha sido rodeada por la violencia y la pobreza por muchos años. Los problemas dentro del país han estado sucediendo por más de cien años por las tensiones entre los ricos y los pobres. Mientras que muchas personas discuten sobre las causas de la guerra civil en El Salvador, no había
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“Recycling and environment. To analyze the NGO CESTA in El Salvador” Presented to Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 LITERATURE REVIEW 4 THEORY SECTION 5 RESEACR DESIGN SECTION 7 ANALYSIS 8 RESULTS 10 CONCLUSION 11 REFRENCES 13 INTRODUCTION Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnologia Apropiada better known as CESTA, it was founded by a group of teachers in 1980, as the first environmental NGO of El Salvador. CESTA is an organization that for more than 30 years works with topics
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Salvador Meza Soc 323 Interview/Historical Project- Spring 2016 As I began this project I noticed something that you can only really notice once you actually see it with your own eyes, a lot can happen in 75 years of living! I was blown away by all the events around the world that have taken place. What I really liked about this timeline was that it tells you the person age at the time of the events taking place, that is a cool feature because I can read something like “first human in space,
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born and raised in Northeast Ohio. I recently moved to North Carolina to become more spiritually invested (and to be closer to the beach). During my free time I love to travel and help others. Last summer our church took a construction team to El Salvador where my life was forever changed. Over the last five years I have been trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life and it wasn’t until I started faithfully attending church and devoting my life to God that I finally realized what direction
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