...of November, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She got married to Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer who gave Georgia her first gallery show, in 1916. She moved to New Mexico after his death, thus most of her works were based on inspiration from the environment and natural landscape there. “O'Keeffe was one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century. She took to making art at a young age and went to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s. Later, while living in New York, she studied with such artists as William Merritt Chase as a member of the Art Students League.” (Bio. (Biography.com)). O’Keeffe’s most famous works include Black Iris (1926), Oriental Poppies (1928), Black Cross, New Mexico (1929), and Cow's Skull with Calico Roses (1931), the work which this report shall focus on. She passed away on the 6th of March, 1986, at 98 years of age. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses: the Focus of this Report Figure 1: Georgia O'Keeffe. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses. 1931. Figure 1: Georgia O'Keeffe. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses. 1931. Introduction to the Artwork This painting is called Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, and was painted by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. It was completed in 1931 in New Mexico, where Georgia was inspired to paint it. This painting portrays the skull of a cow on layers of what appears to be canvas. The skull has two artificial roses made of calico in it; one in the left ear and one...
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...Monarch Butterfly’s Reign By Mario Lopez ITT Technical Institute SC4730 Environmental Science Mr. Ramirez 1/15/2015 According to National Geographic monarch butterflies travel up to 3,000 miles each fall to their wintering site in central Mexico. In 2004, an estimated 550 million completed the winter migration, while in 2003 only 33 million arrived. Further, between 2012 and 2013, there was a 43.7 percent decrease in the area occupied by the butterflies in the winter sanctuaries, the decline has numerous reasons: climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss, agricultural use of pesticides and herbicides Monarch butterflies are known for the incredible mass migration that brings millions of them to California and Mexico each winter. North American monarchs are the only butterflies that make such a massive journey, the insects must begin this journey each fall ahead of cold weather, which will kill them if they tarry too long. Monarch butterflies reflect ecosystem health and biodiversity, they are pollinators which make them very important for plan reproduction, and ecosystem sustainability. During the journey north, monarchs produce four generations, and share habitat with small birds and animals which feed larger birds and animals. Monarch butterflies begin life as eggs and hatch as larvae that eat their eggshells and, subsequently, the milkweed plants on which they were placed, short after that the larvae become juicy, colorful caterpillars, then create a hard...
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...Defining Latino and Hispanic can be tricky specially if you were born in Mexico. I was born in Mexico, and I consider myself Hispanic because I speak Spanish natively. I also consider myself Latino because Mexico is part of Latin America, and Latinos don’t always have to speak Spanish. I think defining Latino and Hispanic is a personal choice to decide what they want to be identify as. It is important to feel comfortable to say where you come from because everyone should feel proud of where they come from. Some of the things that I think it is crucial to define an ethnic group is to ask that person where they were born. A lot of people who meet people who speak Spanish think they are Mexican but that is disrespectful because a lot of people speak Spanish and they don’t always come from Mexico. Another thing that is crucial to define an ethnic group is to ask that person what they preferred to be identify as because some people get offended. People like to have stereotypes on people based on how they look and I wouldn’t want that because that is disrespectful because you can’t assume someone is from a specific race if they look a certain way....
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...Hernan Cortez was born in 1485 in Medellin, Spain. He was known as Hernando or Fernando Cortés during his lifetime. He lived from 1485 to 1547. Cortez was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico for Spain. He came from a famous family and his father was a captain in the Spanish army. His parents wanted him to become a lawyer and sent him to school to study law when he was fourteen. Cortez did not want to become a lawyer and came back home when he was sixteen. Cortez heard about the discoveries of Christopher Columbus in the new world and he also wanted to travel and see new lands. In 1511, Cortez joined Diego Velazquez on an expedition to Cuba and became a powerful and wealthy person on the island of Cuba. Cortez had wanted to go to Mexico for many years and in 1518, he was finally put in charge of an expedition to Mexico. Cortez heard of the gold and treasures of the Aztec empire. He had 11 ships, 500 men, horses, and cannon. He also had the help of a native woman named Dona Marina. He wanted to conquer the Aztec empire and take their treasure for Spain....
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...Ancestral Pueblo, once called the Anasazi . The Ancestral Pueblo culture centered in the southwestern United States, especially in what is now the Four Corners area, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet. In that region, about A.D. 1100, the Ancestral Pueblo built homes called cliff dwellings in canyon walls or under rocky overhangs.The...
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...Drastically Impacted World History has been impacted by so many civilizations and trade it is quite unbelievable. Yet, what is a great example of World History being impacted? A good example of World History being impacted or altered is the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange is not just about the mere exchange of trades and goods. It includes the idea that the Europeans changed the very culture of many people in different areas. For one, the Europeans brought a smallpox epidemic to the America’s, which almost wiped out the people living there. This is not the only way Europeans impacted other civilizations. Many people living in China received many new crops. One crop in particular is the potato. The potato will eventually become important...
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...Mexico City The short story Mexico City from 1950 was written by Ray Bradbury. The original name for this story was The Window. It was later named Mexico City and Calling Mexico. All three names make sense considering what the story is about. This short story is about an elderly man, Colonel Freeleigh, who lives at home alone. He has a nurse visit him because he is ill. He never goes out and experiences things. He has not been out for ten years. The only excitement in his life is the phone in his room, which he uses to call an old friend Jorge in Mexico City. Jorge lets Freeleigh listen to the bustling noises of the big city outside by laying the phone by the window. When the nurse realises that Freeleigh calls home, she decides that he is not allowed to use the phone anymore, as the excitement overworks his weak heart. This makes Freeleigh desperate, which causes his chest pains to get worse than before. He calls Jorge once more, to listen to the sounds of the city life again. He imagines himself in Mexico City. At the end of the short story, his three sons visit him. The sons know that they cannot come because he is ill, but they came when the nurse was out. When they arrive, they see him lying, dead on the floor. When one of the sons, Douglas, picks up the phone he hears the closing of the window. Freeleigh’s prison cell of a home obviously makes him uncomfortable. His phone means a lot to him, as this is his only way to talk to the world outside. In the beginning of the...
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...On May 1st 2013, the website released an article “Global Trade: U.S./Mexico Trade—7 Steps to Close the Gap”, which is about the strategies the U.S exporters and importers should acquire to improve the efficiency of trading goods through the border. By following these strategies, the U.S companies will more likely to get the most value possible when entering the Mexican market. This article explains very well why and how we, the U.S importers and exporters, should acknowledge these strategies. At the beginning of this article, the author introduces some facts about the increasing activities through the border between the U.S and Mexico. In 2012 alone, the trading values were $216 billion dollars in the U.S export and over $277 billion dollars in imports, which make Mexico the second largest export market of the U.S. We are expecting that in 2 more years, the our export to Mexico will be doubled from 2010. The author makes it very clear that the Mexican market is an” incredible market” that continues to grow 5 percent every year. By increasing exporting, the government is hoping to create millions of jobs. From the facts that the author mentioned above, it’s a huge motivation for the U.S companies to take advantages of this large and growing market to obtain the most benefit out of it. However, to succeed, the U.S importers and exporters have to understand the trending of the market and changes in regulation from both governments. The author mentions some challenges that could...
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...medium franchisers may lack in resources and capabilities, strategic alliances with foreign partners are the most viable way of establishing themselves in different markets, which is what happened to Silver Streak Restaurant Corporation (USA) in Mexico. Since the 90’s, even with the crisis of 1994 with an important devaluation of the peso, Mexico became an interesting market because of their industrial property law, a development of trademark protection legislation, changes in the law which made it possible for small players to have the same protection as larger chains, the establishment of franchising as a viable business enterprise and legal guidelines for the provision of information prior the signing of contracts, and must important the NAFTA which put Mexico in the eyes of potential franchisors. NAFTA entered into force on January 1, 1994, and gradually eliminated most of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade among its members, more than tripling cross-border movement of goods and services. Of the three NAFTA countries, Mexico changed the most after signing: Whereas NAFTA merely superseded and expanded the then-in-force Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement, it gave Mexico a new partnership with two financial giants. Mexico was coming from a planned economy with a market restricted to imports and foreign investment, and it had begun to transition gradually into an open market economy starting in the mid-1980s (Pinto, n.d.). Regarding the advantages above, they were...
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...It’s seemingly that Walmart de Mexico bribery scandal is far from over. Many investigations has been carried out to fully answer what acctually happened in the past, what system failed, and who was responsible for possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which bars bribery of foreign officials, but questions of accountability recently remain unanswered. It also means that Walmart leaders have succeeded in hiding all the important clues to avoid sanctions. The whole thing began when Walmart de Mexico was alleged orchestrating bribes to obtain building permits, zoning variances, and environmental clearances at Mrs. Pineda’s alfalfa field in 2003. As Walmart started digging the ground at Mrs. Pineda’s field months later, it provoked fierce opposition coming from strong protests, nearby residents, and archaeologists. By offering donations, personal gifts and other bribe payments, they could get approvals from each level of authorities, records and interviews from the New York Time (NYT) report. The secret held even after a former Wal-Mart de Mexico lawyer, Martiza Munich, contacted Wal-Mart executives in Bentonville, Ark. She had former Sergio Cicero’s, Walmart de Mexico executive’s information about “irregularities authorized by the highest levels” in 2005 and hoped to meet soon. Then immediately Mike Duke, Vice chairman, WalMart International in 2005, sends detailed memos outlining Cicero’s allegations to Walmart senior management (– including Lee Stucky...
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...purpose of this paper is to inform people about the residential burial methods used in Thailand and Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. In one of the articles I found it describes residential burials by saying, “Residential burial” or “intramural burial” has often been used to denote subfloor or other types of burials within residential structures, such as those within structure walls. (Residential Burial in Global Perspective Ron L. Adams Simon Fraser University and Stacie M. King Indiana University, PG. 3) This is to give a basic idea on what will be further discussed in this paper. In the article that was found, there were multiple burial sites where archeologists found remains and burial methods all over Thailand. These places in Thailand where they found these residential burial sites are, “The mortuary remains from most of these low mound sites including Ban Kao (Sørensen 1967), Non Nok Tha (Bayard 1984, 1996–97), Ban Na Di (Higham and Kijngam 1984a, 1984b, 1984c), Khok Phanom Di (Higham and Thosarat 1994:23), Nong Nor (Higham and Thosarat 1998), Ban Wang Hai (Pautreau et al. 2001), Ban Lum Khao (Higham and O’Reilly 2004:301), Noen U-Loke (Talbot 2007:305), and Ban Non Wat (Higham 2008, 2009a; Higham and Thosarat 2006), have all been discussed explicitly in terms of being “cemeteries” (Residential Burial and the Metal Age of Thailand, PG 60) According to the article, “Occupations fall within the time range of just before 2000 B.C.E. to about C.E. 500.” (Residential Burial and the...
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...If given the opportunity to travel back in time to any point in history I would travel back to Roswell, New Mexico on July 4th, 1947. On this day supposedly an unidentified flying object crashed near a ranch just outside of Roswell. The government sent out a report that the object that crashed was a government weather balloon. Many think that this is a government cover up for what really crashed, they believe it was an alien spacecraft. I am not very big on conspiracy theories but I think it would be interesting to see the events of that day. I would wait all day near the site of the “unidentified flying object” crash to see what happened. I think that it was probably nothing fancy like an unidentified flying object and was probably a weather balloon. After waiting all day I could see what really happened. If there actually was an unidentified flying...
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...It is a wonderful experience knowing some interesting facts about North America. As I've done several researches and readings about it, I learned so much about this great continent which is the 3rd largest continent in the world. It is consisted of Twenty-four countries in North America. There are approximately 502 million people inhabited North America. And North Americans speak English, Spanish, or French. Its name came from explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Mexico City is the largest city in North America. It is the only continent that has every kind of climate. The Mount McKinley in Alaska is the tallest point in the continent. Death Valley in California is the lowest point in the continent. North America is a continent of wide diversity, with...
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...national symbol “La Virgen de Guadalupe” to unite the country. Nowadays, Mexico is facing one of its hardest periods of all times. As the drug war is taking control over the whole country, other major problems such as insecurity, unemployment and poverty are taking part of Mexicans lifestyle. This had lead to a series of internal problems that have caused the population to distrust the government and try to find a solution to all these problems from a different source: faith. Mexico’s national identity has always been recognized as being one of the strongest and most distinguished identities in the world, with a united and rich culture, full of beliefs, memories, history and symbols; Mexican culture was something Mexicans always felt very proud about. But with such problems affecting the country, Mexico needs more than ever maintain this feeling of feeling proud about being Mexicans, to start being positive about things getting better and continue improving in order grow and share their culture they are very proud about. The media is always playing an important role in Mexican’s lifestyle. In this case, we choose to make the example of Mexican Television and how it has played an important role reinforcing national identity with a known Mexican symbol “ The Virgin of Guadalupe”, a symbol that is full of history and which has united Mexicans before. We will analyze the way that the media in Mexico has taken this religious symbol with the purpose to increase the confidence...
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...Learning Team Reflection Marlon Bailey, Timothy Granger, Nadia Martinez, and Sherie Ralston MGT 598 August 3, 2015 Dr. James Bottorff Learning Team Reflection During Week, Three Learning Team B will discuss this week’s objectives with our team. This paper will explain the topics we feel comfortable with, any topics the team members struggles with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in each of our fields. Steeple The topic Sherie struggled with was Steeple. “To take a closer look at the business system and ‘bigger picture' factors in which the business operates; it is useful to use a technique like the STEEPLE analysis. STEEPLE, like SWOT, is an acronym. It stands for ‘social (demographic), technological, economic, environmental (natural), political, legal and ethical’ factors” (Wickham & Wickham, 2008, p. 129). Sherie was unaware of how effective these tools are to help organizations monitor changes that take place in the environment of the organization. She learned that these tools played a significant role for any organization regardless of their products, services, and their industry. Balanced Scorecard After reading the paper by Kaplan and Norton, Timothy discovered through other readings that they are somewhat the basis for using the balanced scorecard system. Although at first it seemed a little foreign to him, he discovered that most companies only take the tangible items that are backed with a financial gain to assess the corporation's...
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