Barrios Unidos

his essay “César Chávez Saved My Life” Daniel “Nene” Alejandrez tells his story of the struggle and anger towards many injustices that happen around him and his journey from channeling that anger through crime to using it to start a foundation Barrios Unidos, to help men in prison overcome poverty, and the drug and violence culture surrounding them. In his essay, Alejandrez uses key scenes from his life to convey his main theme of spiritual connection to overcome the many hardships the Latino community

“James let’s go before it's dark. I'm not trying to be on the streets while the gangs are out,”said Sergio. James and Sergio start to walk back home from Santa Fe’s training grounds. The two are part of Santa Fe’s Under 18 soccer squads. As it gets darker in Bogota, the gangs of Bogota loom the streets. Most of the homes are abandoned or heavily damaged. Moving through the city they can hear guns being fired. As James and Sergio are walking home they find their route back home is blocked off by

Introduction Righteous Dopefiend is an ethnography written by Philippe Bourgois, who is a Professor of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Jeff Schonberg, who at the time was a graduate student of medical anthropology at the University of California. The ethnography takes place on the streets of San Francisco where Jeff and Philippe followed two dozen homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers over a 12-year period. Righteous Dopefiend depicts the trials and

With the abundance of government programs available to the ghettos are often misused and of course are abused by those trying to avoid working or by others who really do not need such services. With those problems plentiful the government should enforce a checks and balances program to make sure such programs are not abused and if so penalize the abusers by reducing benefits, force “persuade” them to return to work, or cut them off from benefits immediately which would seem very harsh for their families

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois is a result of a fascinating ethnographic study of several crack dealers and the people that surround them in El Barrio. El Barrio where Philippe studied is located in New York’s Spanish Harlem. Being a predominately Puerto Rican living in the ghetto, he stood out from the white middle class. Many residents thought him as a crack user, pedophile, or undercover cop because that is primarily the only type of white person that comes

El objetivo de las autoridades locales es que París se conserve como la ciudad más conectada del mundo. El alcalde considera altamente ventajoso contar con tal conectividad, tanto para el empresariado como para el turismo en general. En Estados Unidos los casos son varios. Las autoridades de la ciudad de Filadelfia tienen instalada una red inalámbrica que cubre toda la ciudad que es de 350 Km. El

The movie Romero is a movie that was released in 1989 which covers the life, career, and eventual assassination of the Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. Upon his appointment as archbishop the local government assumed that he would go with the status quo and help them to quell dissent. Romero met the early expectations of him that the government had, and did not rock the boat in terms of speaking out against the government. Romero later does the opposite of this, after personal experiences of the

libro en Italia. Empezó a leer el libro en el avión de vuelta a Nueva York, y de inmediato supo que tenía que tener los derechos de publicación de los Estados Unidos , sin importar cuál sería el costo. Rowling entregó el manuscrito completo para el segundo libro de Bloomsbury. Harry Potter llega a Estados Unidos Los lectores en Estados Unidos se reunieron Harry Potter después de un mes, el segundo libro fue lanzado en Gran Bretaña. En julio y septiembre de 1999 , los libros segundo y tercero fueron

EL ÁRTICO AMENAZADO El Ártico es el área alrededor del Polo Norte de la Tierra. En el Ártico están incluidas zonas como Rusia, Estados Unidos (Alaska), Canadá, Groenlandia, Islandia, la región de Laponia, en Suecia, Noruega y Finlandia, y las islas Svalbard, y el océano Ártico. El Ártico en su mayor parte está formado por banquisa, el hielo marino es una capa de hielo flotante que se forma en las regiones oceánicas polares. El Ártico está sufriendo un proceso de deshielo

Historia del Gobierno Corporativo en el Mundo. Definiciones y objetivos del Gobierno Corporativo El tema de gobierno corporativo (GC de ahora en adelante) se origina con la idea de la empresa moderna. Se identifica inicialmente con la delegación del poder sobre la toma de decisiones hacia administradores distintos a los dueños. Tanto Adam Smith (1776) como Berle y Means (1932) expresaron sus reservas acerca de la viabilidad de este tipo de firmas. Smith, al referirse a las compañías por acciones