Latin American

Comparison and contrast between Slavery in the United States and the Latin America The term Latin America is generally used to refer to the nations that speak Portuguese or Spanish and are located to the south of the United States. It has been approximated that the percentage of slaves that ended up in the United States that were imported from Africa is only 6 percent (Franklin and Alfred, 13). The majority that ended up in the new worlds were tasked with laboring in tobacco, coffee, sugar or other

Can I Change My Name to Avoid Discrimination?-Response It is Ethical to modify your name to prevent unconscious and conscious bias, if the act advances your best interest, without causing you harm. This point my be modified to the most extreme limit that will benefit you. I will analyze a few examples from the article and apply Act-Egoism to it. Although I am not the biggest fan of Act-Egoism, I think that this theory would offer a solution for this article. Kwaame Appiah thinks it is reasonable

Spanish explorers “discovered” and established colonies in several now Latin American countries. Over time, fellow European countries followed suit and ventured to the “New World”. As Latin America’s natural resources started to deplete from European demands, its precious people and lush lands were depleted as well. Today, Latin America is still struggling to recuperate from Europe’s invasion and now Western capitalism. However, Latin America seems have been silenced by the world, therefore their story

Industrial Revolution & Latin America in The Nineteenth Century ● Only Japan underwent a major industrial transformation during the Nineteenth Century. ● India, Egypt, Ottoman Empire, China and Latin America experimented in modern industry. ● They were nowhere near the kind of major social transformation that had taken place in Britain, Europe, North America and Japan. ● The profound impact of European and North American industrialization was hard to avoid. After Independence in Latin America ● The struggle

American attitudes towards Latin America can be summed up as an extension of larger global directives, and the exclusion of foreign powers in the region. This was highlighted especially during the Cold War as US involvement was essentially in competition with the USSR. Latin America was therefore a mere pawn in the larger context of US-Soviet competition for global dominance. The actions and methods used are also characterized by the lack of an international authority, or an atmosphere of inter-state

Historical perspectives on Latinos and the Latin Music Industry Non-Latinos in the postwar Latin Music Industry Latin music’s popularity had exploded in the years prior to WWII When major record labels would drop Latin music artists from their roster, some Jewish entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to enter the record business Latin music had been a reasonably profitable business during the height of the mambo craze. The fusion between

De los medios a las mediaciones (1987) is considered one of the key works of Martín-Barbero not only in the Latin American context, but worldwide. The book had been translated in four languages and, according to WorldCat, is held by 578 libraries worldwide. The Handbook of Latin American Studies describes De los medios… as an "Important contribution to Latin American cultural studies [that] focuses on popular culture within a general theory of hegemony. Also relates how mass media define national

The Solitude of Latin America Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, fifteen years after the publication of his book One Hundred Years of Solitude. His speech accepting the Nobel Prize, lived up to his stature; a brilliant author and narrator seamlessnessly blending the real with the unreal, the ordinary and the magical. The speech offers glimpses into Marquez’s thoughts pertaining to Latin America, to his childhood and to humanity as a whole. Marquez’s speech

Introduction Traditional healers also known as curanderismo are important part of Latin American culture, society and a way of life. Traditional healers have been a part of Latin American culture for thousands of years and even today are considered as important as the traditional health care professionals (Avila, 1999). The services of these healers are used extensively and they are well respected and admired members of the community. Not anyone can be a healer and in order to become one a special

Throughout Latin American History there have been several important leaders, but one leader in particular changed Latin American history forever. This particularly important early nineteenth-century leader was named Simón Bolívar. Simón Bolívar as a leader stood out from all the other leaders, because he played a crucial role in Latin American Independence. He was a revolutionary, an intellectual, and a visionary man that made Latin American independence successful during the nineteenth century.