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    The Colonization of the Americas The colonization of the Americas was a time defined as when Europeans began to explore and colonize the Americas around the 1400s, but disrupted many native civilizations in their way. The Europeans realized that they needed some type of work force to help start this new world after killing off most of the Native Americans, which was a starting point for the Atlantic and triangular slave trade to support plantations in the New World. Throughout the hundreds of years

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    The United States has been a heavily involved in Latin American affairs for a long time, and there is great controversy surrounding how good of a neighbor we have been. As the “Colossus of the North”, this country holds enormous power. The question is; have we used our power for good or for evil? At times, we have been generous to Latin American countries. We returned the Panama Canal to the Panamanians and created free trade with Mexico through NAFTA. However, the negative impact we have had outweighs

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    Gay Marriage in America

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    Gay Marriage in America Gay marriage has been one of the most common topic under discussion, arguments and quarrels since couple of years in almost every nation of the world. Looking deep down to the region of United States, same-sex marriage or gay marriage has not been legalized and documented in most of its jurisdictions. However, it is prudent to note that with the beginning of the twenty first century, only a few of US states have legally recognized the gay marriage through court verdicts

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    History Latin America is composed of seventeen countries which was colonized by Spain’s and Portugal. They are large in diverse population with four hundred and ninety million people in total. The percentage of the Indian and African that lives in Latin America is basically seventy-five percent just in the cities. The industrial and development grew since the 1960’s; also the free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) proposes to integrate economies of Latin America, North America and the Caribbean (except

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    For many immigrants who emigrated from Europe, the New World was an opportunity to escape the oppressive reign of monarchs and the papacy for a better life, and a way to experience what they believed to be true freedom. Although, not everyone expressed, or experience freedom in the same way. For men, and those who were not indentured servants, were provided more opportunities in the European colonies than they did at home, for the colonists, freedom meant owning land. Some people such as, Johannes

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    Both North and South Americas span across many latitudes. This means that they experience many different climates. North America is very wide and experiences continentality. South America is more narrow and does not experience the same level of continentality. Both Americas have rain shadow effect in their south west. They have desert areas created by this rain shadow. South America has a huge tropical area that North America does not experience, but South America does not have an arctic area like

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    describes Latin America. Latin America homicide rate is 23.4 per every 100,00 people ( Luhnow). This is homicide problem has been the effect of other problems in this region. Most solution found aren’t a permanent solution or is process over time. Homicides in Latin America are on the rise due to government corruption and drugs; there is tech by an automating services and putting them online (Moreno) and there is no good solution for stopping drugs. According to The Economist Latin America homicides

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    Brand Recognition Telcel América is a wireless service from TracFone that is mainly targeted for Hispanic consumers, primarily the Mexican community living in the United States. Telcel has a very powerful presence in Mexico. Telcel brand is America Movil 's Mexican unit. Telcel brand is well known among persons having strong ties to Mexico, and crossers all along the south border states of the United States of America. TracFone introduced Telcel America as a spin off from the original

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    colonization effort. Great Britain began its expansion in the seventeenth century and reached its pinnacle in the nineteenth century. The original thirteen colonies established in North America primarily defines this expansion. These colonies would grow and through revolution, would eventually grow to become the United States of America. The establishment of these colonies generally corresponds with Puritan movement and the subsequent division growing between this movement within Parliament and the Monarchy

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    political economy of North America. During that year, some significant events took place that resulted to the beginning of a new era. In Mexico, a new political leader exerted the country towards entering the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Mexico made an alliance with the United States that would ultimately create a free trade zone stretching from Central America all the way to the North Pole. Rather than incorporating the movement of workers of North America into the alliance, the United

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