eLearning as Priority of the @LIS Programme: Linking Europe and Latin America on Information Society Fabio Nascimbeni, MENON Network 1. The @LIS Programme, bridging EU and Latin America on IS issues The cooperation programme @LIS-Alliance for the information society - is the result of the political dialogue between the Heads of State or of Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1999 and aims at extending the benefits of the information society to all citizens in Latin America and at reducing the digital divide between those w...

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Others would argue that religion is a force for social change for example with liberation theology in Latin America, a movement wanting change for the poor. ... For example Maduro believes that religion can be a revolutionary force as in the case in Latin America social change came about by inspiration from the Catholic priests. ... Bruce used the civil rights movement in America during the 1950's and 1960's as an example of religiously motivated social change. ...

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The Cambridge Dictionary of the American Language only has "The belief that women should have the same economic, social, and political rights as men- (The Cambridge Dictionary of the American Language 67). ... Other sources, such as the Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, iterates "that the word feminism means she who suckles' from the Latin word fendecus, meaning fruitful. ...

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In Isabel Allende's postcolonial novel Eva Luna, the ending both reinforces and subverts traditional ideologies in the Latin American society of that time which spanned from the 1930's through to the 1970's. ... Allende conveys traditional values of a Latin American society such as the subservience and inferiority of marginalised groups like women, people of mixed blood, or mestizos, and lower class persons - all of which characterise Eva herself. ...

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Review and Discussion Most Americans are busy people and a great number of them schedule their daily routines down to the minute. ... Likewise, Perez, Ramirez and Kranz (2007) report that some Latin American countries such as Mexico feature a more relaxed attitude about punctuality, and being a few minutes late is not typically considered to be a significant social faux pas. According to these therapists, "Some Mexican-American families may operate under different time expectations, and an explanation of time limits may be necessary. When the need arises, they should be informed of the impor...

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But for the sake of this essay, I will only be discussing Marxism theory and apply it to a small country located in Central America, Guatemala. ... Lets first discuss some background information on Guatemala, as mentioned previously it's a small country located in Central America. ... It has been demonstrated that women in Guatemala have suffered the most violence than in any other Latin country. Women in not only suffer from violence they also suffer for lack of health resources, "The overall situation in Guatemala, Central America, regarding programs caring for women's reproductive...

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The two types of collective consciousness are the traditional communities united by a sacred written language in the forms of Latin and Arabic, and the modern nations united by print languages. ... The origins of nationalism can be seen in the Creoles of North and South America. ... They may not even realize why they are doing it; they just know they hate America and that all their fellow terrorists are doing it, so they should too. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. ... African-American women took up leadership roles, as previously demonstrated by Baker and Robinson, while white college-aged women started getting involved with the SNCC, especially after Freedom Summer in 1964. ... Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the PCSW issued a report titled American Women in 1963, which exposed and denounced sex discrimination and outli...

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This is a story of the Great Possibility, what America COULD be, and what it has lost by not working past its prejudices and fears. ... Because of the subordinate status Mexican American students received an inferior quality of education and subtractive curriculum . As a result even today there is a pattern disproportionate academic performance among Mexican American. ... Central to this discussion was the political involvement of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in protesting school segregation. ... Without placing blame or guilt; Takaki discusses, the Mexican American ...

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women and their resources were centrally involved in prevailing development policies and practices, though not in ways that benefited women. Appropriating women's resources - land, time, food and energy resources, paid and unpaid labor, community networks for maintaining health, political and econ...

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America's inner cities -Vs- Third World Countries At first, it might appear impossible to compare conditions in America's inner cities with those that characterize overpopulated countries of the Third World. ...

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For example, Alan4 argues, that the increasing pressure of structural adjustment policies the depressed urban workers are forced to work in insecure and low paid informal sector in Latin America, namely Bogoto and Colombia. ...

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