...privilege and misfortune of becoming familiar with two different cultures: my family’s culture that was from their birth country, Guatemala, and the culture of the United States of America. I say misfortune not because it was a disaster, catastrophe, or bad luck; I say it because sometimes you get so used to being in one culture that you start to forget about your family’s origin. Guatemala and the United States are two different countries with different cultures: their people eat different foods, dress differently, and speak different languages. Guatemala has a national dish that is tamale. A tamale is made of a corn masa that is flavored with a Spanish seasoning called achiote and stuffed with tomato recado, which is a flavorful thick sauce, roasted red bell pepper strips, and chicken, beef, or...
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...Essay 1: ABQ Strategic Planning Opening a new electrical hand-tool manufacturing facility in San Jose City, Guatemala can and will be a very advantageous proposition of the stakeholders of ABM Inc. Due to the current state of Guatemala, ABM can exploit Guatemala’s down economy for a reasonable corporate gain; while simultaneously help rejuvenate Guatemala as a nation and economy. Due to the current landscape of the economic sectors in Guatemala, it is important to remember what their roots are. ABM’s addition of a manufacturing facility is a bit of an unknown for the local people. As such, we need to ensure that we are viewed in the best was possible to the nation, and to the people of this country. As such, below, I have outlined a strategic plan designed to make ABM profitable, while maintaining a high level of ethics, and being viewed as a “good neighbor and business partner” of the people and government of Guatemala. CORPORATE STRATEGIES: Maintain high quality and expectations: by manufacturing high quality, low cost, just in time electric tools that enhance our enterprise value. Make our partners (Guatemala) successful: through collaborative, trusted relationships and partnerships, assisting the government of Guatemala with increased revenue streams, narrowing the trade deficit and assisting with the creation of private financial operations. Take care of our people: by providing a safe, clean, and enabling work environment; secured by on-staff security detail...
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...of their own even if they are incapable of producing offspring themselves, including my own family. I currently share a home with my nine year-old sister who was adopted from Guatemala when she was only ten months old. Although my dad and stepmother raised her since she was an infant, she is definitely unique from me and my natural brother. He and I tend to shy away from excessive social interaction while my little sister thrives on it. Everyone in the neighborhood knows Alanna. Alanna has given us so much just by being a part of our family. Without our dusky, curly haired girl, our lives would be bleak and boring. Adoption has given my stepmother a chance to raise her own child when she otherwise could not. Having a child was so important to my stepmother and biological father that they spent thousands of dollars and countless hours working with an adoption agency. International adoption was more appealing than adopting within the country because the likelihood a biological parent would try to regain custody in the future was far less likely. My parents decided to adopt from Guatemala using a private agency because the adoption process was much shorter than using a public agency. In addition, children were much healthier and did not suffer from attachment issues. The children up for adoption in Guatemala lived with foster parents instead of orphanages so they received more one on one interaction. The adoption paper work was...
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...Carranza CAS 355 12/14/09 The Effect of Globalization in Guatemala’s Biodiversity Guatemala is a country territorially small, but with a unique natural and cultural in the world. It’s condition as the linkage between two continental spheres, also with the variety of terrestrial and edaphic (physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the land) forms, the amplitude altitudinal, pluvial and thermal, between some other factors, are responsible of the existence of a great variety of ecosystems and of species. Also, Guatemala is one of the countries around the world with a big ethnic diversity. This natural and ethnic diversity have generated many ways of interaction and use of the wild species, as to an intense domestic adaptation that has become an important support for the diet of Guatemalans and of many habitants of many other countries. Guatemala has being denominated Mesoamerican Center, is one of eight important world centers of cultivated plants. It is also part of the Mesoamerican Eco-region, which is one of twenty-five terrestrial eco-regions most important in the world, not only for its large biodiversity but also because of the high threats of itself (Galvez, 2000). This essay will present some of the elements of most importance of the biological biodiversity in the development of the human kind, as its relevance of the natural capital. Guatemala it’s a place of big amplitude of different live organisms that interact as to form complex connections...
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...developing countries, by domestic and transnational companies. The lands are mainly used for the production and export of food and biofuels. The reason why countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China or India are acquiring lands is because they need to grow food to feed their own populations. Indeed, these countries already suffer consequently of water scarcity preventing them from being able to grow enough food for their growing populations. 2. How do land acquisition in Ethiopia and Sudan by South Korea and Saudi Arabia affect food security in Egypt? Egypt is a nation of bread eater requiring millions of tons of wheat per year and in addition Egypt is also the world’s leading wheat importer and subsidized bread. Or, in order to have enough bread for the population Egypt’s grain is either imported or produced with the water of the Nile River. The Nile flows through Ethiopia and Sudan before reaching Egypt. However, according to the Nile water agreement; Egypt is entitled to 75% of the Nile’s river flow. Yet, now those developing countries are acquiring a lot of land in Ethiopia and Sudan with the intention to grow food with nil’s river water regardless of the water agreement. It is fear that demand of water reaches a point where there will not be enough water reaching Egypt in order to sustain its agricultural production, leading then to food security issues in the future. 3. Explain the Nile water Agreement. The Nile water agreement is a legal piece signed...
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...Guatemala is a country located in Central America. It has a population of about 15.47 million and the size of 42,043 square miles. Guatemala has many economic and social challenges. Its problems continue to grow. They have the fifth highest murder rate of any country in the world, and seventy five percent of its population are living below the poverty line. Children that are raised in Guatemala are accustomed to the idea that guns are normal, whether it is for protection or violence. “The number of serious crimes that go on, causes people to be afraid and to deem it necessary to carry weapons, like guns. For example, at local gas stations a security guard carrying a gun at the entrance to protect against the theft and crime that goes on (Elbein 1). Children may be getting accustomed to this, but they do not desire to live like this. Many of these children want to have a job that they can earn more than minimum wage. Unfortunately, for the majority of the children that is an unobtainable goal. This is why many children choose to leave the country. They want to live in a country where they are not struggling for every dollar, and they are not in constant danger. The consequences of the next generation of children emigrating could turn into a serious issue, as a result the population of...
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...Mexico is located to the south of the United States. Central America is considered the landmass that brides North and South America. Seven countries make up this area: Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. There countries connect the southern region of Mexico to the Northern region of Columbia. Mexico spans more than two thousand miles from north to south. Nicaragua is considered the largest country in Central America, in comparison to the other nations. El Salvador on the other hand, is the smallest country. All seven countries combined would only equate to twenty-five percent of Mexico’s overall area. The climate within these countries is said to be temperamental, ranging from dry to rainy depending...
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...Case Study Eman Hasan BSHS422 July 15, 2011 Instructor: Dr. Princess Clarke Case Mother of four, Maria Gonzales was 30 when she sought help with her saddening situation, six months after moving into the community from Guatemala. Her husband, the family’s only means of support, was last heard from when he decided to travel within Guatemala with hopes of finding work. Intake A primary intake is required before any assistance can be presented to the client. The history of Mrs. Gonzales and her family must be taken into consideration as a foundation from which the human service professional should start working. Research should include such topics as medical, mental and demographical situation. All will be included in a file that will be used as Mrs. Gonzales’ records, on which to build the case to be started. This record will also be a great way for the human service professional to seek a needed translator or any other means of help needed to find additional information that may be needed with fathoming the family’s necessities, such as housing or even possible employment. The information for the intake will, in the mean time, have to be attained from Mrs. Gonzales, her children and anyone that the considered a close individual to the family. This will be used, and will be considered very valuable information about the family’s physical and mental welfare. All of the basic information of the family structure must be the main topic, for the time being...
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...Child Labor in Guatemala Most children in California stay home and watch cartoons while the children in Guatemala work all day and do not get paid enough for how hard they work. Is that fair to the children in Guatemala? They deserve a fun childhood like most American children in California. Guatemala’s child labor laws are not enforced as strictly as California. Most Guatemalan parents take advantage and send their young children off to work to help gain a little more money. Children should be able to have fun and enjoy their childhood, not worry about making money for their family. Parents see how Guatemala’s workplaces do not enforce these labor laws seriously so they think they should not either. Child labor in Guatemala should be illegal to children under fourteen because many workplaces violate their child labor laws by putting young children in horrible working conditions with low wages. Guatemala’s labor code sets the minimum age of fourteen for employment. The government can provide work permits to children under fourteen who have parental permission to work. They are also supposed to report how many people they have in their family and how much money is coming in so they can be allowed to have their children work. Usually that is not a problem because a big population in Guatemala is poor. In the article “Child Labor Entrenched in Guatemala Free Trade Pact Hasn’t Eased Plight of Kids” Lacey states, “Children younger than 14, who require parental permission to work, are...
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...Mi Vida Guatemalteca I was born in Guatemala, raised for some time there and then moved to California. I remember my life back in Guatemala and what my daily routine would be. As I became accustomed to life in the United States, I found my routine changing as I no longer had certain responsibilities. What I would go do at five in the morning I would never do here, but me waking up at ten is never acceptable back in guatemala. There are many differences between my life here and Guatemala but there are similarities. I was raised in a little town name Santa Rosa, and it is customary that all children between the ages of eight to thirteen should go down to the pasture and milk the cows before eight in the morning. Also, once that was done you had to get ready for school and catch the bus to the city. Once school was over you had to rush back home so your mom could give you your errands and chores that had to be done before you could go out and play. A typical student would wear khaki pants, blue or white shirt, and black shoes because if you didn’t you would not be allowed into school. Lastly, before bed you would go down to the pasture again and move the cows to a different pasture for some fresh grass and water. I moved to a city called Desert Hot Springs, where I no longer had to wake up early to go to the pasture, but still wake up early to help my mom make breakfast for the whole family. I would go to school for almost nine hours and come home to chores that did...
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...Written Assignment Unit 7 If the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods can have such a negative impact on public health, should steps be taken to reduce these flows? What other options are there for lowering the spread of global diseases? Trying to stop or roll back advance of globalization by reducing migration, tourism, commuting of people, decreasing delivery and availability of food and manufactured goods, governments and nations will not achieve good results in improvement of public health. Example from the learning material about the spread of the disease:" In 1996, a shipment of strawberries from Guatemala that was infected with cyclospora bacteria led to an outbreak of illness in the United States that sickened...
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...Nicole Fano Dr. Barrett World Civilizations: Latin America 21 Oct 2013 Paper One: Guatemala According to World-O-Meters, a real time world statistics website, there are more than seven billion people in the world. Is that not incredible? Over seven billion people. Yet, most of us will never truly or try to understand all the different types of cultures or their history that make up the total population in the world. Being a young lady who is half Filipino and Italian, it has always interested me how different the Filipino and Italian cultures are when comparing the two. These differences range from the food to mannerisms and traditions. However, there is one thing in common with these two very different cultures, they have a history of how they came to be. In order to truly understand all types of people, we must take the time to look at their history and learn about it. In this paper, I’ve chosen to take a deeper, more in-depth look at Guatemala and the ways people lived prior to the 1800s in terms of transculturation, hegemony, and the Columbian Exchange. “Transculturation” is the merging and converging of cultures. According to Maureen Shea, author of Culture and Customs of Guatemala, when Christopher Columbus arrived, it was “an encounter between European and Mesoamerican worlds” (2). The Europeans had arrived to establish “dominance while the Mesoamericans fiercely resisted the invaders, especially initially”. However, they found it “advantageous to acculturate...
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...free encyclopedia Religion in Latin America is characterized by the predominance of Catholic Christianity, as well as by the presence of other world religions. Contents [hide] * 1 Christianity * 2 Indigenous creeds * 3 Other world religions * 4 References * 5 Further reading ------------------------------------------------- Christianity[edit] The majority of Latin Americans are Christians (90%),[1] mostly Roman Catholics.[2] Membership in Protestant denominations is increasing, particularly in Brazil, Chile, Guatemala,El Salvador and Puerto Rico.[3] Brazil has an active quasi-socialist Roman Catholic movement known as Liberation Theology.[citation needed] Anglicanism also has a long and growing presence in Latin America ------------------------------------------------- Indigenous creeds[edit] Indigenous creeds and rituals are still practiced in countries with large percentages of Amerindians, such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. Various Afro-Latin American traditions such as Santería, Candomblé, Umbanda, Macumba, and tribal-voodoo religions are also practiced, mainly in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti. ------------------------------------------------- Other world religions[edit] The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab in Maicao, Colombia. Argentina hosts the largest communities of both Jews[4][5][6] and Muslims[7][8][9] in Latin America. Brazil is the country with more practitioners in the world of Allan Kardec's Spiritism. Practitioners of the Judaism...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS PHYSICAL FORCES …………………………………………………........……... p. 3 ECONOMIC & SOCIOECONOMIC FORCES ...………………………...........… p. 4 SOCIOCULTURAL FORCES …………………………………………........…..... p. 5 COMPETITIVE & DISTRIBUTIVE FORCES …………………………...........… p. 6 MARKETING & MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT …………………….........… p. 8 APPENDIX ……………………………………………………………........…….. p.9-11 BIBLIOGRAPHY …………………………………………………………............ p. 12 PHYSICAL FORCES Location: Next door neighbor to the huge market that will be created under the North American Free Trade Agreement: Mexico, United States, Canada (with 360 million consumers), and member of the Central American market (with 30 million consumers). This geographic proximity substantially lowers time and costs of communications and transportation and makes a "quick response " framework possible. Political Relationship: Congressional, municipal, and first-round presidential elections took place on September 9, 2007. The final round of presidential elections took place on November 4, 2007. Inauguration for the new president and the new Congress took place on January 14, 2008. The next presidential elections are scheduled for September 2011. Common and violent crime, aggravated by a legacy of violence and vigilante justice, presents a serious challenge. Impunity remained a major problem, primarily because democratic institutions, including those responsible for the administration of justice, have developed only a limited capacity...
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...Central America Expenses Transport Bus Chetumal to Belize City – 200 pesos Mexico Departure Fee – 600 pesos Taxi to Water Taxi Terminal – 3.5 USD Water Taxi Belize City to Caye Caulker – 12 USD Water Taxi Caye Caulker to San Pedro – 17.5 USD Belize Departure Fee – 40 Quetzal Bus Belize City to Bus Terminal before Guatemala Checkpoint – 9 USD Taxi Bus Terminal to Guatemala Checkpoint – 5.5 USD Taxi Guatemala Checkpoint to Flores – 60 USD Honduras Entrance Fee – 26 USD Bus Flores to San Pedro Sula – 74 USD Bus San Pedro Sula to Ceiba – 12 USD Boat Ceiba to Utila Islands – 52 USD Boat Utila Islands to Ceiba – 48 USD Taxi San Pedro Sula Centro to Tamarindo Hostel – 4.50 USD Taxi Tamarindo Hostel to TikaBus – 7.50 USD TikaBus San Pedro Sula to Managua, Nicaragua – 64 USD Nicaragua Entrance Fee – 30 USD Taxi Managua to Granada – 56 USD Bus Granada to San Juan Del Sur – 8 USD Nicaragua Exit Fee –6 USD Bus San Juan Del Sur to Rivas to Nicaragua Border – 8 USD Bus Nicaragua Border to San Jose – 22 USD Taxi Bus Station to Costa Rica Backpackers Hostel – 8 USD Food Caye Caulker – 46USD San Pedro – 42.75 USD Flores: Dinner – 10 USD 2nd Day Lunch – 15 USD 2nd Day Dinner – 10 USD Ceiba: Dinner – 5 USD 2nd Day Breakfast – 1 USD Utila Islands: Unlimited Drinking Water – 5 USD Groceries 1 – 13.5 USD Dinner @ Mermaids – 3.9 USD Pizza 2 for 1 – 11.75 USD Ice Cream – 1.30 USD Groceries 2 – 7.50 USD Lunch @ Cheap Place 1 – 4.50 Lunch @ Cheap Place 2 – 4...
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