...My life has been divided into two geographical locations. The first one, traces back to a small town in the mountains, outside of Guatemala City where I lived for sixteen years. Although Guatemala is a green paradise, it was the insulated and forgotten green world that became my cage. For a time, I was hopeless, I thought about my present and my future as something inextricably tied to a rotten fate without opportunities for educational excellence. Growing up, I was surrounded by poverty. I was lucky to attend school. The school consisted of a simple concrete block building, that had no windows, doors, or even desks. School protected me from the devastating conditions and violence that surrounded me, thus, becoming what was the greatest part...
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...The movie “El Norte “is the one of the most successful and influential movies to represent the immigrants state. Director Gregory Nava’s gives the story of Guatemalan siblings Rosa and Enrique’s journey in a melodramatic way. The movie is divided to three main parts, Guatemala, Mexico and United States. The story of Rosa and Enrique’s shows us community, the power of language and culture in different countries. The story begins in Guatemala; it shows the happy family life which Rosa and Enrique have. Their family friends are visiting and they are talking about the life in United States. Rosa’s godmother says she has been reading Good Housekeeping magazines for ten years but she could not dare to go to El Norte. They are dressing colorful traditional Guatemalan costumes and appreciate their traditional music which is playing on the street. Their father Arturo is working as a coffee picker when he leaves home to attend a meeting against the unfair working conditions, Enrique runs after him to stop his father. Enrique asks his father not to go to the meeting because his mom was afraid that he will get in to trouble. Arturo said” I am afraid too but we can’t go this way we have to fight for our land”. The message that director wants to give us is in the Arturo’s statement to his son, “Poor have a heart and soul we try to teach this to rich too“. Arturo was honest man who was after his rights. Their father was killed terribly, so their life totally had been changed. Enrique was...
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... The Truman Doctrine, which provided support for free countries struggling against communist and totalitarianism, Prevent communism countries and the Soviet Union from encroaching on free nations and Shore up support among western nations for those countries fighting Communist expansion, was an important step into defeating communism. However, two major failures occurred when we lost China to communism and when the Soviet Union acquired a Nuclear Bomb. The successful communist revolution in China created fear over the increasing communist threat. Led to purges in the state department of officials who “failed” to predict the fall of the KMT or were suspected of Communist sympathies. “But Beijing was certain to want much in return, Truman insisted, and making concessions to the Chinese would only make them increasingly aggressive”(Maximalist P.60). In the fall of...
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...Tavion Smith Grade: 11 Bible Coursework 2014-2015 “The death penalty serves no useful purpose in our society today.” Introduction: A description of the term ‘death penalty’. The term death penalty is a legal process by which a person I put to death as punishment for a crime. The countries that still partake in this is Afghanistan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Botswana, China, Cuba, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Malaysia, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vietnam, and Yemen. The methods of death penalties still in use are decapitation, electrocution, firing squad, gas chamber, hanging, lethal injection, shooting, and stoning. 1. A discussion of the differences between ‘manslaughter’ and ‘murder’ and a discussion of the recourse a convicted murder has after being sentenced. Manslaughter is a legal term for the killing of a human being, in an approach considered by law as less culpable than murder. Murder is the illegal slaughter, with malice aforethought, of another human. Manslaughter is divided into two categories voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary manslaughter is when a person kills a person with the intention of malice but, justifying circumstances present themselves resulting in them becoming less culpable. Involuntary manslaughter is the illegitimate killing of a person without the intention to kill. There...
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...Developing Countries The list of developing countries shown below is adhered to by the ISI, effective from 1 January till 31 December 2013. You can find the list that was used for 2012 here. Countries are divided into developed or developing according to their Gross National Income (GNI) per capita per year. Countries with a GNI of US$ 11,905 and less in 2010 are defined as developing (specified by the World Bank, September 2012). Afghanistan Guinea Panama Albania Guinea-Bissau Papua New Guinea Algeria Guyana Paraguay American Samoa Haiti Peru Angola Honduras Philippines Argentina India Romania Armenia Indonesia Russian Federation Azerbaijan Iran, Islamic Rep. of Rwanda Bangladesh Iraq Samoa Belarus Jamaica Sao Tome and Principe Belize Jordan Senegal Benin Kazakhstan Serbia Bhutan Kenya Seychelles Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Kiribati Sierra Leone Bosnia and Herzegovina Korea, Democ. P. Rep. of Solomon Islands Botswana Kosovo Somalia Brazil Kyrgyz Republic South Africa Bulgaria Lao People's Democ. Rep. South Sudan Burkina Faso Latvia Sri Lanka Burundi Lebanon St. Kitts and Nevis Cambodia Lesotho St. Lucia Cameroon Liberia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cape Verde Libya Sudan Central African Republic Lithuania Suriname Chad Macedonia, the F.Y.R. of Swaziland Chile Madagascar Syrian Arab Republic China Malawi Tajikistan Colombia Malaysia Tanzania, United Republic of Comoros Maldives Thailand...
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...Honduras is located in Central America, between the two countries of Guatemala and Nicaragua. You may find it pretty easy to fund Honduras on a map because its about the same size of Tennessee. The exact location of Honduras is 15 degrees North longitude and 86 degrees East latitude. Honduras covers 43,278 square miles, which is approximately the same size of Tennessee, as I stated before. The country of Honduras is full of all different kinds of land types including; wetlands, mountains and tropical rain forests. The Olancho Forest Reserve, which is the largest pine forest in Latin America, is also located in Honduras. The Olancho Forest Reserve is about the same size of Connecticut. Despite having a large forest reserve, Honduras has lost 30% of its forests in the past 25 years (Culture Grams,2005). Honduras is made up of mostly mountains and is the only country in Latin America that does not have a volcano. Due to having no volcanic soil, the food production is very low in Honduras. The climate of Honduras varies from location. In Honduras, the temperature and weather is more subtropical in the lower elevated regions of the country. In the higher elevated portions of the country, the climate is more temperate. The warmest part of Honduras is the South, except for the north coast, but the south is drier than the rest of the country. Rainy season in Honduras falls between the months of May-November, on contrary the hottest part of the year is from March-May. Summers...
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...four types of economic systems. Give an example of a country that illustrates each type of system. Market capitalism is an economic system in which the price and productions of goods and services are determined by their availability and consumer demand rather than by government or state regulation. An example of market capitalism would be the United States’ mixed market economy from which goods are produced, bought, and sold with prices and production being determined by consumer demand with limited interference from government regulation. Centrally planned socialism differs from market capitalism in that the government or state determines what goods and services will be produced and consumers demand is not a significant focus. China would be an example of a country that uses this type of economic system, the states decide which goods consumers’ need and that is what is produced. Centrally planned capitalism is similar to centrally planned socialism in that the government or state determines what goods are to be produced, but allows private companies to produce them. Sweden is an example of centrally planned capitalism due to two-thirds of businesses being owned by the government, the remaining companies produce what is perceived to be needed. Market socialism differs from the other economic systems in that it is complete and self-regulating; production is communally owned and operated with profits being divided among workers. Vietnam used this system for a brief...
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...Writing Assignment The World Factbook Mexico Economy - overview: Mexico is democratic country with a capitalistic economy or free market economy. It has plenty of natural resources and developing companies primarily own by the private sector it contains a combination of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture. Current management has increase competition in railroads, electricity generation, seaports, airports, natural gas distribution and telecommunication. The distribution of the income inside the country remains unstable. Regarding the free trade agreements, Mexico has with over fifty countries including Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, the European Free Trade Area, and Japan putting more than 90% of trade under free agreements. In July 2012 Mexico joined the pacific alliance with Chile, Peru and Colombia. The presidents Felipe Calderon productively pass pension and fiscal reforms in 2007. As the worlds demand for exports dropped Mexico’s GDP plunged 6.22% in 2009 asset prices dropped and so do remittances and investment. In 2010 the GDP growth was positive by 5.6% with exports, particularly by the United States, Leading the way. In 2011 growth slowed to 3.9% and recover to 4%. In 2012 Mexico’s legislature passed a labor reform which was signed into law by President Felipe Calderon by November. The new pact for Mexico was signed by the new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, along with the leaders of the country's three main political parties: the Institutional Revolutionary...
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...It is no different to Queen Elizabeth, who was the person to whom Columbus asked for money to be able to navigate. The Maya empire extended to: Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras. They had the Mayan Calendar, which predicted time and space, also used to know when to plant crops and perform religious rituals. Many now wonder what happened to the Maya, there are many theories explaining the end of the Maya, but there is nothing concrete. The Aztec empire, were people quite developed in the military aspect and identified by making sacrifices of cactus red fruit (which meant human hearts and blood) as a praise to the sun. They were located in Tenochtitlan which was the Aztec capital built on a small island of Lake Texcoco. This empire was maintained during the years 1200 to 1500AD. The Aztecs created the Chinampas that were floating gardens made to expand their limited land. The...
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...denial if they were ever suspected. Covert action is a third option when “soft” exercises of national power such as diplomacy, economic sanctions, or informational power are ineffective in influencing conditions abroad on one hand, while the use of overt military force is undesirable or not feasible on the other.1 Covert action is traditionally divided into three categories: propaganda, paramilitary operations, and political action. Propaganda involves disseminating specific message or viewpoints to a target audience. As an example, in the late 1940’s, the U.S. covertly used propaganda to assist anti-communist political parties in Italy and France during close elections. Paramilitary operations involve training, equipping, and supporting paramilitary groups in target countries. A successful example was when the U.S. supported the Afghan guerrilla fighters during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s into the 1980s. An example of an unsuccessful paramilitary operation is the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the 1960s. Finally, political action involves influencing the political situation in a particular country, whether by influencing current government officials, election results, economic situations, or civic groups. Political...
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...one term and was elected to serve a second term, while there he served as a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He won the 35th office of President in 1960 with one of the closest victories in the history of elections. He was the youngest president to be elected to the office at that time. (The Biography Channel webite. Retrieved 04:52) During his time in office, President Kennedy was drawn to foreign affairs due to the challenges brought on due to the Soviet Unions growing nuclear arsenal and the Cold War battle that provoked fear in the hearts and minds of third world nations. He capitalized on the spirit of activism and created the Peace Corps; by the end of the century over 170,000 volunteers would serve in 135 countries. He also created the Alliance for Progress to foster greater economic ties with Latin America with the hopes of eliminating poverty and preventing the spread of communism in that region. (The Biography Channel webite. Retrieved 04:52) President Kennedy doctrine was to support containment of Communism and the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere “to respond flexibly to communist expansion, especially to guerrilla warfare”. (Roskin, 2010) The President understood that reforms were badly needed in order to avoid revolution. “Those who make...
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...Small Facts on Costa Rica: Costa Rica is a country located in Central America that is ranked as one of the most visited international destinations. Costa Rica actually means "Rich Coast" and was officially the Republic of Costa Rica, and is a country in that is bordered by Nicaragua (to the north) and Panama. One of Costa Rica’s main sources of income is tourism; Costa Rica is a peaceful and democratic country, and it has not had an army since the year 1949. Although the country is small and it covers 0.03 % of the surface of the globe, and it shelters a 5% of the existing biodiversity in the entire world. 25.58 % of the country is composed of conservation and natural protected territory. Costa Rica is divided into...
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...“ADDING VALUE TO NICARAGUAN FORESTRY” ASSET RICH BUT CAPITAL POOR! VALERIA ZELAYA Background During the 70’s and 80’s, Nicaragua suffered from civil and political unrest. In 1990, the country had its first democratic elections in 30 years, which lead to a process of slow political depolarization, and economic recovery. Nicaragua’s Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) is the largest block of tropical forest in Central America and a key source of high value timber for local and international markets. Land classified as suitable for forestry usage occupies about 6.2 million hectares; divided as 1.8 million ha for conservation and 4.4 million ha for sustainable use1. Despite this endowment, Nicaragua’s annual wood exports are only US$15M2, representing 1.75% of Nicaragua’s total export. From these exports, 95% is unprocessed wood and 5% is manufactured goods, indicating a feeble commercialization of value-added wood products. Other neighboring countries with less forest area and potential have much greater export income from wood products. Additionally, private sector investment is limited and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the wood sector have difficulty in accessing legal and certified raw material creating inefficiencies in the wood value chain due to a lack of integration and coordination of the value chain. The LAC Facility identified the wood sector as one of the potential sectors for growth due to the availability of hardwood species and a significant number...
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...Honduras has a population of 9,113,000, which gives it the 96th largest population out of all the countries in the world. The growth rate of the population is expected to be 2.8%, which the government believes is too high for their country. The adolescent pregnancy rate is extremely high and a major cause of the population growth rate increasing. Within the next ten years, the population is expected to grow all the way to 10,700,000. The dominant religion in Honduras is Roman Catholic by a significant margin due to the fact that 63% of the population identifies as such. 23% of the population identifies as Evangelist Christians, while the remaining 14% identifies as other religions. These other religions include Jews, Episcopalians, Greek...
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...environmental and political grounds. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Statistics estimations, world total exports of banana accounted for 16,8 million tonnes in 2006. Bananas are also a very important staple commodity for many developing countries, together with wheat, rice or corn, hence the relevance of bananas for food security. Some of the main banana producing countries, such as India or Brazil, are hardly involved in international trade. In fact, only about one fifth of total banana production is internationally traded . Nevertheless, the share of banana trade in world banana production increased slightly in the last decades (from around 18% in the sixties and seventies to over 22% in the 1990s and 2000s). The international banana market shows a highly regional character. The banana industry is a very important source of income, employment and export earnings for major banana exporting countries, mainly developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Asia and Africa. According to FAO statistics, world banana exports are valued a total of US$5,8 billion in 2006, making them clearly a vital source of earnings to many countries. A strong bond exists between banana-generated income and household food security. Export volume or price changes bring about income changes for those directly employed in banana production, both as smallholder farmers and as wage earners on banana plantations. In addition, secondary...
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