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Passion Blog #5- Kluiverth Roa and the American Missionaries Detained
When I decided to write this blog, I thought I would just concentrate mainly on the history of Venezuela and on the protests that happened a year ago on February of 2014. Recently though, there have...
View ArticleThoughts on the Deliberation I Attended.
I attended a deliberation on Friday afternoon that was about how to decrease sexual assault in college campuses. They divided the discussion into three sessions: The first one was about how to help...
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Passion Blog #6: Reminiscence and Violence
One thing about Venezuelans is that whenever we are outside our country and we recognize a Venezuelan accent in a person, we have the tendency to talk to that person or listen to their conversation. My...
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Passion Blog #7: Stuck between Cuba and a hard place.
Some of you might have heard of the abrupt ending of the discussions between Cuba and the United States to re-establish diplomatic relations. There is no official cause as of yet as to why this...
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Civic Issues Blog #3: The Need for Bilingual Nurses.
According to a study conducted in 2009 by George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services department, seventy-four percent of hospitals in the state of California alone...
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Passion Blog #8: Ramblings of an Instagram User who is Tired of Seeing...
Floor of Maiquetia One of the most recognizable “icons” of Caracas is the floor of a hallway in the main airport of the city, Maiquetia. This floor was designed by an artist named Carlos Cruz Diez, who...
View ArticleRough Draft for my issue brief
Water pollution refers to the degradation of water quality, and it is one of the biggest environmental challenges that the world is facing today. Waterborne diseases caused by water pollution have...
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Passion Blog #9: “The List.” How the government takes advantage of misery.
Two weeks ago I talked in one of my passion blogs about the recent sanctions that President Obama placed on seven Venezuelan officials accused of violating human rights, and how his actions might have...
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Passion Blog #10: Expectation vs. Reality.
I once made a post about Leopoldo López, the leader of the opposition party in Venezuela who has been in jail as a political prisoner for about a year and two months. Mr. López is one of my biggest...
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Civic Issues Blog #4: Bilingual Education Continued.
In my very first civic issues blog, I talked about bilingual education in the United States, and some of the most commonly used programs regarding education for non-English speakers in U.S. schools. On...
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