...Green ANT 450 Professor Legg Malnutrition in Guatemala Guatemala is a Country in Central America right underneath Mexico. Its true name is the Republic of Guatemala. Guatemala consists of many indigenous Mayan people. It has a very heavy Spanish influence. Mayans are called the indigenous people as opposed to the westernized Ladino’s that have European blood in them and usually live in a more urbanized areas. More than half the Guatemalan nation is composed of indigenous Mayan Indians. The national language is Spanish. The five main Mayan languages are Quichí, Mam, Qanjobal, Chol, and Yucateca (Nacie L., 2011). In addition to these five main languages there are 21 dialects that branch off of these There are many factors that contribute to the extremely high rates of malnutrition in the country of Guatemala. Poverty, socioeconomic status, and education level all play a part. The disadvantaged Guatemalan is considered indigenous. Much racism goes on between indigenous and non-indigenous “Ladino’s.” Ladinos mainly rule the country (BBC, 2012). The amount of education is directly correlated with the amount of money made. The per capita GDP of Guatemala is $3,177 ranked 16 out of 19 in all of the Latin American Countries (Edwards, 2002). Guatemala has an approximate population of 14,027, 000. The life expectancy for men is 66 years old and for women 77 years old. Guatemala has the largest economy in Central America but it also has the lowest growth rates of human development...
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...the most rewarding moments of a parent's life, and I'm certain any mother would agree. Though not all women are graced with the natural ability to create such precious life, it doesn't mean that bringing a new child home is not possible. Adoption gives families the chance to raise and love children 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...
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...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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...Trajes típicos de Guatemala Since the 1930s, most men have worn European-style clothing, but women of the highlands still wear the brightly colored garments distinct to each Mayan village. The wearing of traditional clothing or traje típico has evolved into a way to preserve ethnic identity and pride in both Guatemala and in the United States. Mayan American women may wear traje at home and especially at cultural events like fiestas, church meetings, and weddings. The huipil is a multicolored, intricately embroidered blouse. The corte is an ankle-length brightly woven skirt that may also be embroidered. Traditionally, hair is kept long and worn in a braid or ponytail. On festive occasions women may also wear colorful beaded or silver necklaces and sparkly earrings. The cloth for traje típico is traditionally hand-woven on a loom, but today machine-produced cloth is widely available in Guatemala, although the hand-woven might be preferred for special occasions No cabe duda que uno de los motivos que más colorido le imprime a la cultura Guatemalteca son los trajes típicos utilizados en diferentes regiones, sobre todo en la parte occidental del país.Son verdaderas obras de arte, que para muchos pasan desapercibidas entre las actividades cotidianas de sus portadores que irradian color en las carreteras, las fiestas patronales, los parques, los poblados y los mercados.Sus detalles y variedades son el motivo que guía e inspira el pincel de aquellos que difunden nuestra cultura a...
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...Toni Baldock 10 October 2012 The Eye in the Lens As a child, I loved looking at the pictures in the National Geographic magazine. I was intrigued by the cultural differences from around the world. I was amazed to see photographs of African woman bare breasted and comfortable with themselves. To me it has always been shameful for any women to be bare breasted because that was what I was raised to believe; that is the way of our culture. The magazine took me to many lands and showed me things I knew nothing about. This was when I became aware of the world around me. I realized I wanted to be a part of more than the town I lived in, the school I went to, or the people I knew. Through the eyes of documentary photographers I have seen the world from many different points of view, but I want to see the world in an intimate experience. I have a deep desire to engage with other cultures and capture moments that the rest of the world will be able to see through my photographs. I want to one day soon become a documentary photographer. Documentary photography is an effort to create a truthful expression of lives and cultures of our world and human actions. It can only be truthful and honest if it is left unedited and captures true events as they are happening. Hans Durrer is an author and intercultural coach. He describes photography as this: “Photography is still about the eye behind the lens. It is about being a filter, and it is about recording. It is about leaving one’s home...
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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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...FAWAZ Ziad 11:30 to 14:00 Marketing 240 : Century of the self Edward Bernays, who was born in 1891, and died in 1995, isn’t someone famous. Few people might know him now. However, he’s surely the one who has most deeply upset society across 20th century. He pushed people nowadays, to get rich people’s lifestyle, by modifying considerably the materialistic and financial weight of industries and companies among society. But he also increased their symbolic ascendancy on the consumer by creating techniques so the consumer will be pushed to consumption. In politic, he also contributed to shape the passive and malleable individual of present day by inventing strategies which would pacify the citizen, hypnotizing and mesmerizing him transforming him into mass consumer. It is indeed him who created “Public Relations”. Not only that he accomplished spectacularly exploits, by using manipulation techniques, he’s also one of the theorists who believed that democracy should be smothered by satisfying one’s consumerist pulses. He was Freud’s double nephew. He perfectly knew the main ideas of psychoanalysis since he had immersed really soon in this field, by his familial environment. Freud’s ideas have been reused, but not really for therapeutic purposes. As the creator of “Public Relations”, he was very asked by companies to help them selling their products by touching buyers’ emotions. Let’s see first the accomplishments of Bernays, and then how Freud’s ideas have been used to submit...
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...overview of the textile industries in two emerging countries: Guatemala and India. The document analyses, compares and contrast the differences in the institutional structures of both countries and offers specific details and analysis of the textile industries for local and international businesses. Guatemala Republic of Guatemala is located in Central America bordered by Mexico to the North, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Belize to the North East Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast. The country is mountainous with small desert and sand dune patches, having many hills filled with people, except for the south coastal area and the vast northern lowlands of Petén department. Two mountain chains enter Guatemala from west to east, dividing the country into three major regions: the highlands, where the mountains are located; the Pacific coast, south of the mountains; and the Petén region, north of the mountains. All major cities are located in the highlands and Pacific coast regions; by comparison, Petén is sparsely populated. These three regions vary in climate, elevation, and landscape, providing dramatic contrasts between hot and humid tropical lowlands and colder and drier highland peaks. Volcán Tajumulco, at 4,220 meters, is the highest point in the Central American states. Demographics Guatemala is a country of youth; 70% of its population is less than thirty years old. The capital city, Guatemala, is located in the geographical heart of the country and...
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...In Guatemala Juan added Cabrillo to his name which was originally Juan Rodriguez. He became a wealthy man, a landowner, miner, merchant and a shipbuilder. Juan was very successful in Guatemala, his fortune consisted of gold mining, while the mining job was going on he broke up families so the dads could go mine for him. The women and girls were turned to his soldiers who made them be slaves. Later on he built the San Salvador, a ship that would later be taken on the...
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...I really enjoyed reading all the stories in today’s chapters. There were a few areas of interest that seemed to show up in all three stories – such as immigrants being underpaid, abused, and facing racism. The subject I am mainly going to discuss in this response is minimum wage, not for the general population of U.S. citizens, but for illegal and undocumented immigrants. Abel tells the story of his travels from Guatemala to Mexico to America over the course of about 6 years. When reading his story, I noticed that all of his jobs had lower than the minimum wage. This was often the case for undocumented employees – as they were very easy to find and would work for any amount of money. Though the minimum wage nationwide was $3.80 in 1990 (U.S. Dept.) – when 18-year-old Abel...
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...Hispanic American Diversity ETH 125 May 9, 2010 Erin DiCesare Although the label Hispanic or Latino American is used to link numerous groups of people together, there are many groups that make up the Hispanic group. While they do share many similarities, it is the dissimilarities that set them apart from one another. The facts provided will differentiate between the linguistic, political, social, economic, religious, and familial conventions and/or statuses among Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Central or South Americans (with a focus on Guatemalans) who reside in America. Cuban Americans Cuban Americans are continuously trying to clear their character as being involved with drug trafficking, and create a mental picture of the culture in which they belong to. With the lack of higher paying jobs being offered, it is easy to see where this false impression comes from, particularly when involved with jobs relating to the trade market. Cubans are classified as being in the lowest poverty class of most Hispanic groups causing higher divorce rates. While Cubans are still known to follow the Roman Catholic Church, this group is less likely to be dedicated. Among those that do practice, about 28% attend divine events or services one or more times a week (Pew Hispanic Center, 2010). While practicing Santeria as a religious preference in the present day may be more common among Cuban Americans. The immigration of Cubans to the United States had...
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...In this world, I come from a loving family whom my parents migrated from the US illegally from Guatemala and gave birth to me and my older brother in Nebraska. They risked their lives in order for us to have a esquist life and to succeed without living in poverty. As a hardworking family, we have faced numerous events that could of separated my family apart for a very long time. Now every person that I’ve seen was and is the same way, whether it was alcohol, women or even God. Family, dreams, children and even power. They couldn't keep going unless they were drunk on something else. They were all slaves to something just like my father who was a slave to alcoholism and my mom who was a slave to family after me and my brother were born. Throughout the years my dad has been getting multiple DUIs and was deported to Guatemala when the immigration police caught him, while coming back from work when. My family didn’t want my dad to stay there, so we hired a secret organization to illegally transport him in. After he came back we started to become a family again, but one day when we weren’t at home mostly everything precious got stolen. All four of us had to work in order to replace everything that got stolen that night....
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...health institution with utilization of maternal and child health services is negative, as distance increases the level of utilization decreases. Factors such as scarcity of vehicles and poor road condition, high transportation charges etc. limit the accessibility to the health services. A study in rural Tanzania, for example, found that 84 per cent of women who gave birth at home intended to deliver at a health facility but did not due to distance and lack of transportation (Bicego et al. 1997). A number studies...
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...Traditionally Latina women from were not part of the labor force. They were heavily dependent upon to provide unpaid labor within their communities. After NAFTA and free trade zones created throughout Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean factories and companies favored to employ young women. Their reasoning was that the women were good workers with agile hands and would be cheap and docile unlike the men. It was common for women to be paid in Honduras $43 a week for 20 hour days, El Salvador for 70 hours being paid 56 cents per hour. “In 1992, they were 45 cents for El Salvador; 39 cents for Honduras; 26 cents for Costa Rica ; and 62 cents for Guatemala” (Gonzalez pg 262). Because of the call for women to work, it brought disruption to the family social order. As young women were leaving their villages in search for work, the men eventually followed, but the men couldn’t find work so they migrated to the United States. This left single moms to fend for themselves and their children. In Mexico make shift homes out of discarded garage doors and metal siding for roofs were erected. Shanty towns were created in horrible dangerous conditions with no running clean water, no sewage systems, no proper electricity, or indoor...
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...As a matter of scholarship, civil wars lack the extensive breadth and volume of study that interstate conflict enjoys in international relations. This is especially surprising considering the remarkable longevity and death toll associated with intrastate wars. The Republic of Guatemala, a post-colonial representative democracy, is the most populous Central American country; incidentally, this nation of sixteen and a half million people have been wrought with the military and socio-political disputes provoked by the ethnic and socio-economic status of its citizens. The resulting civil war had been one of the most deadly and enduring military contests on the American continent. The fighting between the government and rebel groups lasted over...
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