- Marti was born in Teotepeque and attended Salesian secondary school of St. Cecilia of Santa Tecla and then he entered university of El Salvador
- Marti droped out of collage to fight for his community and nation.His major was was political science
- He was arrested for taking part along with other students in a protest against the Melendez Quinones
- His polotical party stood up to help the poor and the underprivileged with a socialist ideoloy
- Marti organized to start a revolution with Alfonso Luna and Mario Zapata
- La matanza was a peasant led rebellion that ocurred in January 22. The uprising was quickly suppressed by the government, then led by Maximiliano Hernandez whose army was vastly superior in weapons and soldiers, who then proceed execute any one who stood against it. The rebellion was a mixture of protest and insurrection and ended in ethnocide, claming the lives of anywhere between 10,000 and 40,000 peasants, other civilians many of them Indigenous people.
- Marti was asasenated
- I do admire Marti because ha stood up for the poor people's right. I don't think I would do anything different than he did.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
eating and drinking etiquette
eating etiquette
- Do not just walk in and eat
- it is considered rude
- Japanese respect food
- they eat with wooden chop sticks
- hold the chop sticks in halves with one hand, fore finger and middle finger as if holding two pencils, let the middle finger slip between the two sticks
- one stick will rest between the forefinger and middle finger/the other between the middle and ring finger.
- pick up bowl of soup with one hand and sip on the edge
- slurping is a good sign of a good appetite
- dip your chop sticks into your soup to pick up small chunks of beans and seaweed
drinking etiquette
- when you're in a group do not drink until everyone is served
- you pour everyone elses beer but not your own, someone else has to do it for you

- customers pour drinks for each other from bottles of beer as a gesture of companionship
- they raise their glass to salute and shout "kampai"which means cheers
- if someone buys you a drink you have to buy them one too
- a customer may invite you to drink out of his cup and buy you a drink
- it is not appropriate to get drunk
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