...Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo On February 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. With the stroke of a pen, the Mexican-American War officially came to an end. The signing of the treaty ended the territorial disputes that caused the conflict between both countries. In the treaty, the United States government was obligated to pay Mexico fifteen-million dollars. In return for the compensation, The United States expanded its territory. The territory that was obtained via the treaty eventually became New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, and some of Utah.[1] This treaty, especially in the long run, benefited both the United States and Mexico, but there are many arguments about why the war started. Some argue that the United States was power hungry and was continuing its “bulling” of the continent to fulfill their belief that it was God’s will for the United States to control the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This has now become to be known as Manifest Destiny.[2] Then there are the counter arguments that the dictatorship of Mexico sent troops to invade the United States and killed Americans. In a message to congress on May 11, 1846, President James Polk said, “Mexico invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.”[3] There are many arguments that say the United States is a racist nation and that this war, like many others, was because of white racism. Whether the battles were all racially motivated will never be...
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...The Treaty of Guadalupe of Hidalgo established a new border, as well as numerous political issues even for me, Peter Hansborough Bell. In 1849, I campaigned for Texas governor and stated I would retain Santa Fe by force, due to negative circumstances, my point of view on this decision has changed. Succession is the topic front page newspapers statewide. Spruce Baird was sent to establish government however had no luck, and Santa Fe showed great opposition. Among other issues, General Kearney interfered and intended to uphold the military government and president Fillmore sent military reinforcement and stated that there would be forced used if Texas intended to occupy the region. After weighing the possible outcomes, I have decided to go against...
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...ippingU.S.-Mexico Shipping Options White Paper In brief Understanding what can happen at the U.S.-Mexico border with your truckload shipments could impact the decisions you make—and whether or not you will actually get what you pay for. By reviewing the process and your options, you will be able to develop better, more efficient strategies to help minimize costs and risk. Contents Cross-Border Shipping: A Primer 1. Carrier restrictions 2. Cargo inspections 3. Cargo insurance 4. Equipment availability Northbound Shipments, Step by Step Southbound Shipments, Step by Step 7 Tips for Choosing a Cross-Border Provider C.H. Robinson | U.S.-Mexico Cross-Border Services 4 4 4 5 6 6 7 8 2 If you’re not already shipping products via truckload across the U.S.-Mexican border, it’s probably only a matter of time, considering that Mexico is the United States’ third-largest trading partner.1 More than 18,000 companies with U.S. investment already have operations in Mexico,2 and many others ship their products across the border. This white paper will better prepare you to join them. There are two distinct methods of truck transportation across the border: transloading and direct service. In transloading, product is transferred from one trailer or container to another at a warehouse or terminal before crossing the border and being taken to FIGURE 1 Main land-border the final delivery. In direct service, a trailer or container crossings...
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...The Mexican American War also known by many Mexicans as the War of the Northern Invasion lasted from 1846-1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848. This Treaty gave the United States well over 500,000 square miles of territory. That was more than half of Mexico’s national territory. The war happened due to U.S. wanting to expand further into western territories and Texas wanting to succeed from Mexico. However, the struggle of Latino (Mexicans) descent is much more important to the history of Latino Americans. Tens of thousands of Mexicans became foreigners of a land they once owned and were indigenous to. The treaty protected these now foreigners or at least they were supposed to be. The land the Mexicans had...
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...Our Lady of Guadalupe, or also known as Virgin of Guadalupe, is a very religious figure to Catholics after appearing to Juan Diego. In 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego in Tepeyac Hill (Mexico) to send a message to the Bishop. She requested that a shrine to her be built where she appeared. In order to be sure the Bishop requested a sign to make sure Juan Diego wasn’t lying. Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego once again, demanding him to collect roses and take them to the Bishop. When Juan Diego opened his cloak to show the roses, an image of the Virgin was imprinted on the cloak. The cloak is now venerated at the shrine known as the Basilica of Guadalupe. Along with that Our Lady of Guadalupe was proclaimed patroness...
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...JT1: Write about 5 things you do every spring? Since this is our first journal topic I feel I need to describe myself a bit. I am 27 years old, I am originally from Brownsville, TX and there is not a day I do not miss it. I moved here for a better opportunity and with that I have found better opportunity. I have started class at ITT and I found a full time management job in my career field. I have two kids (animals) which I call my own. Emma and Squeaks are my pride and joy, one cat one dog there is a never dull moment in my family. I am grateful for all of our seasons, some only have one or two. I can’t say I love spring but it does have a plus for the great weather. My spring adventure can be a bit boring at times, in a sense that I hate heat! I am a fall/winter type of girl, but who can go wrong with sitting by the pool! If I had to tell someone about my spring would have to start off with the Comal River. It is located in San Marcos, Texas, right next to Schlitterbahn. Floating this river takes about three hours to go all the way around their route. During this trip you can drink, swim, relax, enjoy the shoots, and jump off the trees and stones. The river is about 10 feet deep some parts may be deeper. This trip to the river always turns into a family vacation to visit my father and sister who both live there. After the river would be our family ranches. Second would be the beach, feeling the sand between your feet can be a huge stress reliever. I am originally from Brownsville...
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...Sons of Guadalupe. Don’t eat the bear Sometime before its eighteenth century settlement by Spanish priests and pobladores, California had been referred to as El Rincon del Mundo (the edge of the world). To the Spanish mind of the age it was truly out there at the edge of their known world. It was too far north from Mexico and the rest of Spain’s vast empire. Some thought it might be an island called California inhabited by women and ruled by a queen called Calafia. California’s name itself was the fruit of the imagination of a Spanish novelist, Garci Ordoñez de Montalvo. He envisioned this California as a place of unimaginable mystery and fantastic visions maybe even paradise itself. Guadalupe, like the southwest itself, has changed hands a number of times: first the Chumash Indians settled and inhabited the area, then the Spanish, then the Mexicans. The United States ultimately forced Mexico to surrender California and the present-day southwestern region through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The vitality of the imagination, its revolving door of ethnicities, the resiliencies of the residents and its return to its essential Mexican roots have enhanced its fundamental quality across the years. Presumably the town takes its name from the patron saint of Mexico: La Virgen de Guadalupe, or from an 1843 (or 1840) Mexican land grant called Rancho de Guadalupe, originally deeded to the original Mexican residents, Teodoro Arrellanes and Diego Olivera. Arellanes and...
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...Alberto Puppo/Luis Raigosa Comentario de texto sobre el Proceso militar de Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla “El indulto es para los criminales, no para los defensores de la Patria”. Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla es, para la mayoría del pueblo mexicano, el “héroe” más significativo durante el proceso de independencia. Ya sea por lo aprendido en la escuela o por lo enseñado por nuestros padres, este individuo pasó a la historia de México como una persona de rectitud envidiable y valor intachable. Pero, ¿fue realmente la persona que idolatramos como pueblo? Comúnmente pensamos que murió a sangre fría y sin consideración a manos del ejército realista. Lo que la mayoría de la gente no conoce es sobre el proceso militar y eclesiástico al que fue sujeto. Mismo proceso que nos disponemos a comentar. Antes que nada, es necesario aclarar que este no es un estudio sobre la independencia de México o sobre el movimiento insurgente durante el mando del Cura de Dolores. Tampoco es una explicación sobre la lucha armada entre el ejército insurgente y el realista. Y menos es un artículo sobre las causas de la independencia de México. Simple y sencillamente, es un comentario sobre el proceso militar contra el Miguel Hidalgo. No más, no menos. A pesar de lo antes mencionado, es necesario poner en contexto el perfil de Miguel Hidalgo, su proceso militar, la independencia y los demás movimientos emergentes en América...
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...Onion Strike During the year 1979 a group of Mexican American farm workers organized a strike to protest poor wages and bad working conditions in Raymondville, Texas. Raymondville was known for its agricultural area and it was also known as the onion capital of the world. Mexican Americans realized they were being treated poorly and that they were Americans as well and had the exact same rights as the whites who were living at Raymondville. Juanita Valdez was one of the leaders in charge of the onion strike. She thinks there was change in the community and that they were successful with the strike because it marked the birth of a political movement. The people from Raymondville knew they needed change in their life’s and had to do something about it so they organized strikes that either helped Raymondville for the better or for the worse. The strikes affected the people from Raymondville in the long run instead of helping them. The leaders who organized the strikes were Tony Andrea and Juanita Valdez and they believe the strike was won in their favor, but many local residents such as Thomas Rains a former Raymondville school board member stated “The strike crippled the onion business that fueled much of the local economy.” Willacy County used to be the main county as far as onions are concerned and it was all lost after the onion strikes protest. Instead of bringing progress towards the community it decreased job opportunities to Mexican Americans. As of result of protesting...
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...http://www.studymode.com/download/?id=50431478&token=c... Globalisation has benefited the richest countries at the expense of the poorest. By asmulicious | Studymode.com 1. Globalisation has benefited the richest countries at the expense of the poorest. Globalisation is the transportation of trades, ideas, technology and capital from national economies to international economy. It promotes free trade, free market, capital flow, communication and allows more competition. The process is possible through recent advances in telecommunication, for example most of US and British service sector relocate its call centre facilities to low wage countries such as India, where they earn high profit by paying low wage to its labour and provide low standard of living. Another example is the clothes industries designed in high wage countries, manufactured in low income countries then sold in UK or other part of Europe and America counties. Rich countries take advantage poor countries in order to gain good returns. The process occurs through multinational companies who goes to poor countries and buy their factor endowment at cheaper prices and sell at higher prices. An example OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) act as joint venture uses Nigeria to extract crude oil earning billion of dollars from it and “leave the residents of the area like horse manure.” (www.nigeria-planet.com). U.S imports about 10% of Nigerian crude oil. They extract oil and leave Nigeria to...
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...For an Apodaca, the Fourth of July is an important holiday. While most people celebrate our Great Nation by lighting fireworks, we Apodaca’s sell them. It started over 40 years ago with my grandma, she would sell fireworks on a table in front of her house and eventually she traded up to one of the many yellow wooden stands that we have today. Today, there are four generations of Apodaca’s that work at our bright yellow stands. I am a part of the third generation and this past year was the first year that I got to take on more responsibility and trust me when I say it wasn’t a walk in the park. Some people might think that what we do is easy, but boy are they wrong. There is more to running a firework stand than what meets the eye. One of the first steps of working at a firework stand is the preparation. This year, my cousin and I were in charge of cleaning the stands. These stands have been locked away, collecting dust, for about a year so they are immensely dirty. We have to wipe, sweep, and wash down these old run down stands. By the time we were finished, I felt icky and gross, and this is only the beginning. Although the stands are dirty, that doesn't even compare to unloading the heavy boxes, and sorting them while my uncle does inventory. Once all the boxes unloaded, we arrange the fireworks onto tables based on their classification: sparklers, smoke items, fountains, etc. This year, my uncle decided to make or job even more difficult by telling us that he needed a table...
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...Introduction The Hispanic world is dominated mainly by Catholicism. It is estimated that in the United States alone about 70% of Hispanics claim their practicing religion as being Catholic. Hispanic Catholics believe that health is a gift given by god and should not be taken for granted. The prevention of illness and injury is an accepted practice that is accomplished through prayer, the wearing of religious medals or amulets and keeping religious relics in the home. The visiting of shrines, offering prayers and the lighting of candles is a frequently observed practice. Many homes have shrines setup with statues and pictures of saints and candles are lit here and prayers are recited. Other notable minority religions of the Hispanic world also include: 1) Protestant 2) Judaism 3) Islam. Catholicism When the Spanish conquered the new world they were determined to spread the Catholic faith with no regard to the indigenous religions already present at the time they arrived. This introduction of the Catholic religion to the indigenous peoples brought about what is called religious transculturation when the Catholic religious practices mixed with the indigenous religious practices. Transculturation created an incredible variety of celebrations, rituals and physical representations of the elements of the Catholic religion such as Jesus, the cross, the saints, the novenas and the rituals in general. Celebrations Many of the celebrations of the Catholic Hispanic...
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...The Count of Monte Cristo 1) Three ethical issues revealed in the film are vengeance, mercy and honesty. Each is interwoven throughout the film to develop characters and the plot. Once Edmond Dantes is innocently placed in prison, he believes his future consists of one action: vengeance. He must punish those who have hurt him such as Fernand Mondego and Monsieur De Villefort. As he suffers in prison, he rejects the idea of God and mercy inscribed on the prison wall, and lets his hatred and need for revenge overwhelm his soul. Once he is taken under the wing of Priest, this need for vengeance begins to slowly fade away, as evident in his decision not to kill Jacopo during the knife fight. However, his need for vengeance always simmers, such as when he becomes wealthy by finding vast amounts of gold and is asked what he wants to buy, and he replies “revenge”. He also takes small measures of emotional vengeance when he denies his identity to Mercedes, when he won’t let Villefort kill himself and when he places the pawn in the chest for Mondego to find. His decision to offer mercy to Mondego at the end almost costs Mercedes her life, as she is shot by a fleeing Mondego. But, in the end, he realizes Priest and Mercedes were correct and it is best to give mercy to one’s enemies. With the themes of vengeance and mercy, the theme of honesty is also experienced throughout the movie. Villefort lies about the murder charges against Dantes, which causes his father to commit suicide...
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...BICOL REGION ITENERARY DAY 1 05:30 H Flight to Camarines Sur 07:00 H Check-in at the Villa Del Rey Hotel 08:00 H San Fransisco Church Ruins Quince Martires Park Naga Metropolitan Cathedral Archbishops’ Palace, Universidad de Santa Isabel, Oragon Monument 13:00 H Lunch at Geewan Restaurant 14:30 H Arrival at Camsur Watersports Complex 18:00 H Arranged Dinner at Camsur Watersports Complex 19:30 H Arrival at the Hotel DAY 2 06:00 H Breakfast at the Hotel 07:00 H Check out at the Hotel 09:30 H Check in at Jennifer’s Kababayan Hotel 10:00 H City Tour: Lignon Hill Daraga Church Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine 13:00 H Lunch at Graceland at the Pacific Mall 14:30 H Cagsawa Ruins Adventure 18:00 H Arrival at Embarcadero for Dinner at Bigg’s Dinner 19:30 H Arrival Back at the Hotel Day 3 06:00 H Wake up call/ Breakfast 08:30 H Hayop-Hayopan Cave 11:00 H Lunch at the Hotel Check-out at the Hotel Departure to Donsol 14:00 H Arrival at Dancalan Beach Resort Whale Shark Watching 17:30 H Dinner at the Resort 18:30 H River Cruise Firefly Watching Lantern Parade 20:00 H Arrival Back at the Resort Day 4 06:00 H Wake up call/ Breakfast at the Resort 08:30 H City tour for Local Pasalubong 11:00 H Lunch at the Resort 13:00 H Check out time at the Hotel 15:00 H Arrival at the Airport, Departure back to...
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...Closer to The Heavens Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe illustrates a story about Catholic religion. The Lady from Heaven played a major role in the Mexican City, Tenochtitlan citizen lives. During a time when refuge was hard to find, the people of Mexico City found peace, on the hill northwest of the city. Senora tells Juan Diego “ Know and understand I am that I am forever the Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God …” (Burciaga 1995, p.105). As she gives him insturtions on going to Bishop Zumarraga. The Lady of Guadalupe is a part of the Raza simply means that The Lady of Guadalupe blesses all, heals all, and sees all people as equal. Even the poor are able to have blessing vested in them. The attitude of the people of Raza changed on December 12, 1531. Selecting Juan Diego was a divine choice, the chosen one was obedient, and possess abundant amount of faith to deliver the message. He says “I beg of you, Senora send an important person, known, respected and esteemed to take your message so that he will believe it ( Burciaga, p 106). Juan faith was not wavering, although no one took his confessions seriously, he continued to stay the course. During that time many of the people of Mexico City were poor and needed to strength in someone other than the elite. The people who were oppressed would not have believed in a the story if it came from a person of a different social change. The lady from Heaven told Juan “you are my ambassador worthy of my confidence “ (Burciaga,...
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