For this blog post I want to focus on “Brushstrokes” by María Eugenia Echenique. I first want to say that I love how her text begins: “I have held my pen in hand for five minutes, and I still do not know what I am going to write about.” Right from the very beginning I […]
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Have you ever stopped to analyze the national anthem of your country? That’s what this week’s readings made me do. “De la paz en la dicha suprema,Siempre noble soñó El Salvador;Fue obtenerla su eterno problema,Conservarla es su gloria mayor.” This excerpt of the national anthem says that El Salvador always dreamed of being in the “supreme bliss” of peace and how achieving this was an eternalContinue reading “Week 6 | Mutation of Emancipation”
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