The church had a dual role in Latin America. ... From an early point in the history of Latin America, the regions have enjoyed a certain level of autonomy. ... As stated earlier, the Latin American economies were based on mining and agriculture. ... The great depression, for example, affected Latin America hardest of all; Chile lost 80 % of its export income. ... During the nineteenth century, many Latin American countries gained their independence. ...

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However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all too often acted in its own interests and has allied itself with some very unsavory characters to promote such interests. ... The Mexican War The first in a long line of US intervention in Latin American affairs began rather peacefully in 1821, when American Moses Austin obtained a land grant to establish a colony in sparsely populated Texas, then Mexican territory. ... This...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. ... Four contemporary Latin American films, Memories del Subdesarollo (1968), El Mariachi (1993), Amores Perros (2000), and El Yuma (2012), seem to show the transition of cinema into an era where female roles are not subjected to such phallocentric notions. ... An analysis of these four contemporary Latin American films provides a way to look at the progression of the female presence in cinema. ...

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Case in point, the vast majority would distinguish the Boston Pops as entertainers of "Classical music" or John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath as an issue "Classic" of American writing, despite the fact that they have little to do with relic. ... The recovery of Greek learning was supported by becoming contact between the Greek and Latin holy places at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438 "1445 furthermore by the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, after which Greek émigrés escaping the city took up habitation in Italy and brought home the bacon by instructing ...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states and non state actors alike, that attempt to resist these often ill defined phenomena captured by the all embracing notion of 'globalisation'. For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do...

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Introduction Opium grown in the fields of Afghanistan often ends up as heroin, sold in cities and towns around the world. The following statement indicates the underlying fact of an underground market; drug trafficking. Drug trafficking is a global black market system dedicated to the cultivation, m...

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American capitalism was ever as powerful as the 20th century. ... More specifically, United Fruit Company, an American company, created relationships with Central America's dictators, manipulated government to gain enormous privilege in that region and left behind labor unrest and economic crisis. ... " (4) May Stacy commented in her book 'The United Fruit Company in Latin America. ... In the beginning of the 20th century, U.S government paid Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica and some other Latin America countries foreign debt from European power, Central America and Caribbean coun...

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Kaufman notes that during the formative period of the Republic, the founders paid close attention to the balance of power in Europe and "deftly exploited the rivalries it spawned: first to win independence for America; then to consolidate the American Republic; then vastly to expand the realm of it (Kaufman 9). ... The Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States would not interfere in European affairs across the sea and stated that any efforts by European powers to colonize land in the Americas would be viewed as an act of aggression towards the United States. While the doctrine did stipulat...

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History Citibank's origins go back to the early years of the American Republic. ... Primerica With more than 100,000 full and part-time representatives, Primerica is the largest financial services marketing organization in North America. ...

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The life of Eva Maria Duarte Peron compared to the life of Ernesto Guevara Lynch de La Serna. Evita Peron, born Eva Maria Duarte, in contrast to the heights to which she rose, came from very humble beginnings. Eva was born in 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina to Juana Ibarguren. Eva's father, Juan Duarte had a fifteen year long affair with Juana, although he was already married. The couple was stable though Eva and her four siblings, Blanca, Elisa, Juan, and Erminda were all legally acknowledged by their father. ...

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Headquartered in London, the HSBC group operates in five regions: Europe; Hong Kong; the rest of Asia Pacific; including the Middle East and Africa; North America; and South America. ... The HSBC brand was adopted by its Mexican subsidiary, G F Bital, early in the year and in September the majority of the bank's North American businesses, including Household International, were united under the name HSBC North America.    ... Strategic acquisitions through the years increased market share and customer numbers especially in the Americas. ... HSBC's partnership with the Mexican Amer...

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It was, as well, the only possibility for many countries to improve their economy: especially in Latin America, where Mexico just stopped refunding its debt because it couldn't pay anymore. ... For example, we can see in England and in America as well, that the differences in income between upper and lower social layers are larger than they have ever been since collection of income distribution statistics began at the end of the nineteenth century. ... Two third of the African countries depend on exportation but the problem is that their economy is usually based on one or two raw materi...

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Essentially, what is taking place here in the homeland makes clear causal sense: harsh to almost deadly conditions in Mexico and other Latin countries, combined with an obvious need for cheap labor on America's farms, as well as employers that have grown accustomed to not being reprimanded for employing undocumented Hispanic workers has created the perfect storm to breed an enormous number of illegal immigrants working here in the states. ... Early in America's history, the agriculture business emerged as a profitable part of the American economy, and farmers and plantation owners qu...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". ... It has been outlawed in Britain bit in America it is still allowed. ... In America, Asia Africa and the Middle East most countries still hold on to the death penalty for certain crimes and use it at their will. ... Anti capital punishment campaigners in America view the higher cost of executing someone over life in prison but this is (whilst true for America) has to do with the endless appeals and delays in carrying out death sentences that are allowed under the American legal system where the average time sp...

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Brazil is a member various trade groups for example WTO, G-20, The Cairns Group and Brazil is also part of Mercosul which is an a pre-eminent regional trading agreement in Latin America. ... Also Brazil has the largest economy in Latin America nations and second largest in the western hemisphere. Brazil is part of Mercosul, which is a pre-eminent regional trading agreement in Latin America. ...

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Betye Saar Betye Irene Saar was born in 1926 in Los Angeles, she is an American artist known for her part in the black arts movement in the 1970s, in her work she challenged negative myths and stereotypes existing of African Americans (Hillstrom, 1999: 581). ... It depicts a doll made to look like a "typical" or stereotypical American black woman, but strangely carrying a broom in one hand and a shotgun in the other. ... "Ethnic" has Latin and Greek origins – ethnicus and ethnikas both meaning nation (Clark, 1947: 187). ... The second part of the construct, identity...

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According to this view, it makes little sense for America to produce textiles at home when they can be produced at a lower cost in Honduras or China (which unlike Honduras is a major source of American textile imports). Importing textile would benefit America as well as China. Firstly, it would lead to lower prices for clothes in America, which would enable consumers to spend more of their money on other items. ... Last year the Bush administration announced it would give American farmers an extra $175 billion during the next decades. The yearly subsidy the US gives just to American cotton far...

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In January 1994, the United States, Mexico, and Canada implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ... The free trade established by MERCOSUR also involves countries within South America. ... Before MERCOSUR there was ALALC, the Latin American Free Trade Association. ... After ALAC, came ALADI, the Latin American Integration Association. ... The main point of MERCOSUR is to set up free trade among South American countries and to encourage new countries to join (americasnet.com). ...

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Not only is it, the largest nation in Latin America but in addition it is the most varied in geography, climate, population and culture (Rist 1). ... Not only was it importing manufactured goods it was also importing the cultures and the way of life of others mainly from Europe and North America (Duran 1). ... These films were mainly imitations of what was being done in North America and Europe but the only thing that was Brazilian were the themes they dealt with such as crime and politics (Martin 266) where the crime thriller Os Estranguladores (The Strangles) was one of the popular films. .....

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The global marketing strategy will be evaluated (product strategy, price strategy, promotion strategy, and place strategy) to determine what parts of IKEA can be standardized and what parts must be adapted to meet the target requirements. 1.3 Introduction of Mexico Mexico is located in North America, though traditionally; it is known more closely with Central and South American countries. Mexico is a federal constitutional republic in North America, with an estimated population of over 113 million. ...

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Orff never actually belonged to any Nazi party but his work was considered to be some of the greatest examples of Nazi art, and unlike Shostakovich, Orff never wrote music in praise of his leader or reflected anything to do with Nazi Germany, but his cantatas, which were controversial, were set to German medieval poetry (in Latin and Bavarian dialect), and classical texts by Catullus, Sappho and Euripides in the original languages, along with additional Latin lyrics by the composer himself. ... Orff came under fire for this score and was even investigated by an American officer in charge of po...

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The UN has sponsored a Global Compact to establish and promote a shared set of core values in the areas of labour standards, human rights and environmental practices between the UN and the business community The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) develops economic and social policy for its 29 members, which include the countries of North America, Western Europe (including Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) and Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. ...

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Only a matter of decades later individuals such as Bo Jackson, who played elite level baseball and American football in the US, are exceptional cases. In American Football, for example, specialisation by position has been taken almost to the extreme with separate offensive and defensive units and over fifty differentiated playing-positions. ...

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Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. ... Mexicans have been the main source of cheap labor in America. ... To become American is the main outcome of migration to the United States. Slowly many immigrants are faced with the confusing problem of learning a new culture, the "American Culture". ... Such organization was called the "Citizens for an Educated America: No on Unz." ...

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American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; various polls have revealed that young women see themselves as "too fat" while in fact they are often below standard norms for body size[40]--but fashion has served up the newest ideal of "heroin chic": a fashion industry "look" that overlaps with "high art." ... There was a time in America when skin bleaching was so popular that it had its meaning to it. ...

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