beating even faster, while I was waiting for my instructor to come and take us to the patient floor. At 6:30, we went up to the 3rd floor and our instructor assigned each of us a patient. My patient Flora, is a thirteen year old adolescent female from Guatemala. She has sustained 70% body surface area flame burn including face, chest, and back, upper and lower extremities in November of 2001. It was a total mystery what had happened, how she was burned. The person who saved her stated that the patient’s
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Nicaragua Quarter 1 Project Jacob Honeycutt The capital of Nicaragua is Managua. Three other cities that are important in Nicaragua consist of León, Granada, and Ometepe. Leon is the 2nd largest city in Nicaragua and it is located along the Rio Chiquito river on the west side of Nicaragua. Granada is in western nicaragua and is Nicaragua's 6th most populated city. And lastly, Ometepe which is in the center of Lake Nicaragua. Nicaraguan food includes a mixture of indigenous, Spanish cuisine and
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couples in the developed world international adoption appears to solve two problems at once. However recently Romania has stopped all international adoptions amid claims of corruption and human trafficking. Similar stories have clouded adoptions from Guatemala. Despite these difficulties international adoptions by US citizens have tripled in the past 5 years and legislation has been passed to make it easier for these adopted children to obtain citizenship. While some children complain of a feeling of cultural
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Revolution was an important theme throughout the Cold War. Revolutions begat, molded and then finally brought an end to the Cold War. In 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution forced Vladimir Lenin, the new communist leader, to withdraw from World War I on the side of the Western Allies and to sign a separate peace agreement with Germany. The suspicions that this aroused among the Allies were the seeds of the Cold War. In 1949, the New Democratic Revolution of China ended the Kuomintang (KMT) rule and established
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1) Some of the visible signs reflect the current increased economic interdependence among countries is setting up general agreements on tariffs and trade allowing free trade among nations and lowering barriers, some of these trade agreements include Normal Trade Relations, and the World Trade Organization. Some reasons for this growth and interdependence and for the rise in global integration is the need for growth in providing international goods and services, there has also been a growth in international
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At the age of 26, in 1921, Sandino fled the country after he attempted and failed to murder a young man named Dagoberta Rivas. He spent the next few years travelling from Nicaragua to various Central American countries like Honduras to Guatemala and ended up in Mexico. Mexico was undergoing it’s own revolution at the time, so this is probably where Sandino got his first exposure to the taste of nationalism. During his stay in Mexico, he met different people with a variety of political views
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For example; in Guatemala there are two central markets one for consumables and the other for the typical goods. This is evident in the countries of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia
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Quiz Review Word Bank 1. Fair trade 2. Guanxi Connections usually referring to government contacts and influence. 3. ATC In 1994, as a result of the Uruguay Round of negotiations, GATT was absorbed into the WTO. The WTO also absorbed the MFA, which was replaced by the ATC. The purpose of the ATC was to phase out the MFA and its quota system over ten years. 4. Free trade a agreements (FTAs) 5. Intellectual property rights The WTO is not just about liberalizing trade
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Professor Wandra Polk 01.31.2013 Summary and Personal Response Se Habla Espanol by Tanya Barrientos was about a Latina girl who struggled with her identity. She was born in Guatemala but has lived in America since she was three years old. In the beginning she was somewhat embarrassed by her Hispanic heritage. Tanya felt inferior to the white people because of how she looked and because of her last name. The tone of the essay
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Financing Industry: The commercial banks finance the industrial sector in a number of ways. They provide short-term, medium-term and long-term loans to industry. In India they provide short-term loans. Income of the Latin American countries like Guatemala, they advance medium-term loans for one to three years. But in Korea, the commercial banks also advance long-term loans to industry. In India, the commercial banks undertake short-term and medium-term financing of small scale industries, and also
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