Latin-American Studies

Q 1 The media industry plays a significant role in the shaping and popularizing of ideology. It influences peoples perceptions about social trends and culture. The film industry, particularly, presents models who inspire and promote new ways of thinking. In the case of Carmen Miranda, her success in Hollywood placed her on a global pedestal to illuminate the Latin American image. Her role as an actress and samba singer promoted the Brazilian cultural aspects to the white American audience both on...

Dream People walking around towards places they go Like ants in suits of gray, black and color Some briskly in a rush some pace real slow From this face to that ground, nobody is taller These feet over the edge of a narrow plank of wood Either a slight step back or further on wont do A safe stride gradually to the left neither could To face the right angle render this one view to two Really quick breaths drying these words A dawdling murder of a young childlike mind Relief is at hand soaring with...

Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow. In my quest to find a Guyanese who has contributed to the great land of Guyana, I chose Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow.  Critchlow founded the first labor union of the Caribbean called British Guiana Labour Union (BGLU) at the early age of 20.  May 1st, Labour Day or May Day is a holiday that celebrates Critchlows contribution and accomplishments in improving the working conditions of so many laborers. Critchlow stands tall as an important figure in the origin and...

The Hispanic American population is made up of many ethnic communities. They share a number of similarities. Such include the use of Spanish as their primary language of communication and the fact that they are predominantly Roman Catholic believers. However, the various Hispanic American communities have differences in their levels of assimilation into the main stream culture as well as their reasons behind coming into the American nation. This paper gives a discussion on the linguistics, politics,...

History of Borderlands can do much to illuminate existing political influences about immigration to the United States. Most Americans, perhaps with the exclusion of those in the Southwest, visualize United States as absolutely distinct from Mexico. Borderlands histories and researches illuminate the convoluted integration of the people. Also evident from literature are the territories of the United States and Mexico developed through time. Mexicans have much deeper information of this long-term...

Positive aspects  of Ordinary tourism include getting acquainted with different places learning about different cultures and wide variety of chances of broadening our understanding  from the world perspective. The disadvantages  associated with it are cultural distortions where people coming from different parts of the world may leave varied impressions on the people living in the tourist places and their impact may dominate all the more if the tourist influx is high to a tourist...

Dear name of friend, I am very excited to hear that you are planning your trip to Ecuador It is a very nice place and I would like to make a visit to the place soon. I heard a lot of positive comments about the place, especially with regard to its ecotourism industry. I checked out the website you gave me and there are some thoughts I would like to share with the activities enclosed in the Piedra Blancas ecotourism project. As an ecotourist, there are a few things that should be noted of Piedra...

Measures are used to monitor the millennium development goals progress of countries, especially with five years before the targeted completion (UN 2010). The discussion compares measures for three Latin American countries, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. The percentage of population living with less than a dollar per day is a measure of poverty level. In 1990, Peru had extremely low poverty levels relative to Brazil and Bolivia. In the latest data, Perus poverty levels almost quadrupled, Brazil significantly...

December 1996 was the historic month for the Guatemalan army and guerrilla fighters, as they signed the peace accord that brought to an end the bloodiest and longest civil wars ever held in the history of Central America. The conflict continued for thirty six years and according to the 1999 report of Truth Commission sponsored by United Nations, it left in its wave more than 200,000 dead or disappeared, with majority of them being Maya Indians. Ninety percent of these killings were caused by the...

Juan Manuel de Rosas was born on March 30, 1793 to one of the richest families in the Rio de la Plata Region. His original full name was Juan Manuel Jos Domingo Ortiz de Rozas y Lpez de Osornio but later change his family name from Rozas to Rosas after her mother accused him of stealing some of their cattles. He worked as an arriero1 at a young age in the fields and then married Mara de la Encarnacin de Ezcurra y Arguibel. Later on, he built a meat-salting plant that flourished in a short period...

The relationship of Latin America with the rest of the world has always been interesting and complex because the countries belonging to this part of the world are viewed and treated uniquely by the rest of the world, even by their neighbors. How and when all this began cannot really be pinpointed at once. History only shows that the development of Latin America is very different from the other parts of the world. The countries from this region reached their current status because of the hardships...

Dozens of young Latinos interact on the Mexican border forming the basis for which the identity formation among Mexican-origin border youths is studied. Such study was done in a concise way by Bejarano, which is revealed in his book. The book captures the labyrinths these youths navigate to finally shape their identities. Along this border, Latina and Latino youths find life already challenging and the borderland is indeed a place that presents continual affirmations and contradictions about identity....

Latin America refers to a geographical region in the Americas which is under a vast use of the Romance languages. The Romance languages are those which have a common stock, Latin. Some of the countries herein also speak French. As opposed to what many think of Latin America as a small region, the area is so huge, spanning about 21,069,501 kilometers squared. This means a lot. First, that Latin America cannot be wished away in world politics, international affairs or in the pursuit of the American...

Latin America is the region stretching from the far north starting from Mexico, to El Salvador, to the Honduras to the French Guyana to the south extending to Brazil, Bolivia, to Paraguay and down to Argentina. The region is rich and poor in many ways. From their economic diversity to social diversity, to political diversity to ecological diversity. The Latin Americans has ecological diversity supporting bioprospects, for new medicine and products for commercial uses. They have the payment for environmental...

Latin America is home to a wide diversity of people some of whose roots can be traced back to Africa and Western Europe. That most countries in Latin America are classified as either developing or underdeveloped is not in contention. That, however, must not be construed to mean that Latin American countries, and their people, are insignificant in world affairs. In fact, Latin America is home to the worlds largest water tower (the Amazon basin), a booming beef industry, a flourishing sugar industry,...