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Central and South America, 2005.
An examination of the cartography in Central and South America and the lasting effects of colonialism in the region.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper includes a simple identification of nations from the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Twenty-six nations are listed alongside a map of the region. The paper further discusses some of the lasting effects of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism on this region, including culture, economics, and politics.
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"By the early 1500s, both Spain and Portugal had well-established colonies throughout this area of the world. Spain's influence spread throughout all three sub-regions, while Portugal's influence was localized primarily in Brazil (Kicza, 2003)."
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The History of Trade with South America, 2006.
A history of American trade with South America from 1775 onwards.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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The history of American trade with South America is indeed an interesting one. Not least of all American trade with its neighbors to the south has been interpreted in at least some quarters as another means by which the powerful America has dominated the weak, comparatively poor South American nations. With this in mind, this paper looks at the trade history between the United States and South America from the end of the eighteenth century onwards and scan it for instances of intemperate or unfair American practices. In particular, the paper looks at America's historic trade relations with Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama as well as - briefly - the infamous Banana Wars.
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Women in South America, 2004.
A discussion of the status of women in the countries of South America.
1,743 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper looks at various issues regarding women and their rights in South America. The issues discussed include abortion, job status, presence in the media, legal and ownership rights, and education. The writer looks at the major issues faced by women in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, and other countries as well. The paper also looks at the history of the feminist movement in the region.
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"Feminism has played a large role in helping to secure a number of women's rights in South America. Women's movements have been active in Brazil in the past decades. The movements grew in the 1980s as Conselho Nacional de Direitos da Mulher--CNDM, a council on women's rights, was created. The early Brazilian feminist movement had links to the resistance to the military regime, and connections to human rights organizations. As the movements grew, violence against women (in the forms of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and domestic violence) became an important focus of feminist groups."
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Economic Development Strategies in South America, 2002.
Examines economic strategies of structuralism, neo-liberalism and Marxism and how they are applied to three countries in South America.
1,606 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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Since World War II developing countries in South America have been provided with the option of adopting one of three different economic development strategies-- structuralism, neo-liberalism, and Marxism. This essay examines the economic and political results engendered by each approach and determines what these results suggest for future economic policy choices in the region. Three countries lend themselves to this analysis. Cuba, since the overthrow of the Batista regime and the establishment of Castro's Marxist government, has pursued economic development along Marxist lines. In Argentina a structuralist economic order under Juan Peron gave way to a neo-liberalist orientation. In Chile, a neo-liberal experiment between 1974 and 1990 took place and this experiment has led to structural change in the national economy.
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"Under Raul Alfonsin and the Radical Party, efforts to reconcile democratization with rapid development and social justice were largely frustrated by a succession of failed stabilization plans (Smith, 1991). A catastrophic economic collapse led to a convincing victory by Peronist Carlos Menem in the May 1989 presidential contest. This ushered in a wave of neoliberal, free market reforms designed to restructure the Argentine economy along the lines of a so-called Washington Consensus (Smith, 1999). In essence, Menem rejected the structuralist, populist, and statist postulates defended by Peronism since the 1940s."
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South America in Literature, 2008.
A comparison of the accounts of South America in "The Cloud Forest" by Peter Matthiessen and "One River" by Wade Davis.
1,892 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper compares two different visions of different portions of the vast continent of South America. It compares Peter Matthiessen's vision in his book "The Cloud Forest" with Wade Davis' vision in his book "One River." The paper discusses the different perspectives that the two books are written from and describes the different accounts of each writer of the continent.
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"By comparison, Matthiesen's book is a more conventional account by a travel writer of the countries through which he passes and the people he meets. Both books do a good job of evoking a sense of the people and their lives, and there are clear parallels between the people of Brazil and those of Chile and Argentina, all of which are addressed in these two books. Both writers are observant and write well about what they experience. The descriptions of the countryside in both books is vivid and compelling, and taken together, these books say much about the different parts of South America and make the people of each area seem very real to the reader."
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The Emerging Market of South America, 2004.
A look at the on-going process of integration and cooperation between the countries of South America.
1,808 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper presents an overview of the on-going attempt at regional and economic development in Latin America. The paper looks at the structure of the organization devoted to this attempt, its membership, its objective, programs and projects implemented to promote these objectives, and some of the problems and obstacles these countries face in their attempt at cooperation and development.
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"The first attempt at the regional development of Latin America through the cooperation of the member states was through the Latin American Free Trade Association, set up in 1960. On 12 August 1980, the foreign ministers of the 11 member countries of the Latin American Free Trade Association signed an agreement in Montevideo, Capital of Uruguay. This announced the establishment of the Association for the Latin American Integration. The treaty officially entered into force on 18 March 1981. On the same day, the Latin American Free Trade Association stopped its activities."
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South African Foreign Policy and Implications for America, 2006.
A review of the impact of South Africa's foreign policy on the USA.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses how South Africa is an influential country on the African continent. As a result, its relations with near-by neighbors and its friendliness with Washington will greatly impact American standing and policy goals across the wide expanse of Africa. With this in mind, the following paper explores how South African foreign policy impacts America vis-a-vis the war on terror. Specifically, the paper looks at the complications which have arisen from South Africa's recent embracing of rogue states like Libya and Cuba and the paper also examines how South Africa's interventionist behavior under the aegis of the African Union can be used to protect American interests abroad and American lives at home by combating terrorism "over there" before it comes "here".
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South American Financial Markets and Institutions, 2000.
A focus on the economy and financial institutions of Brazil and Argentina and how they shape South America and Latin America.
1,836 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper discusses how that, although South America has immense natural resources and very diverse eco-systems, nearly one-third of the people live in poverty and how the region has to battle economically and socially to overcome this. It examines how South America?s economic barometer is not only shaped by the United States, but by the policies and fiscal decisions of both Brazil and Argentina. It evaluates the economy and trade history both Brazil and Argentina individually, their relationship with MERCUSOR, the South American Common Market and the challenges facing both countries today in achieving some form of financial stability.
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"The United States is deeply involved in the economics of every corner of the globe and influences each region to a different degree. Although our southern neighbors share our hemisphere and many of our concerns, South America seemingly receives less attention than the markets of Europe and Asian. Henry Kissinger, a former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to the President, once said ? South America is a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica? Despite this rather frivolous comment by Kissenger, the fact is Latin America, encompassing Central America, The Caribbean, and South America is very important to the United States. For example, Mexico is our largest trading partner next to Canada. We will also trade more with Chili than India and send more to Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay than China."
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Human Rights And Economics In Latin America, 2002.
Reviews literature concerning the association between economics and human rights violations in South America.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 15 sources, $ 135.95
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Reviews literature concerning the association between economics and human rights violations in South America. Identifies different perspectives. Causes and theories of human rights abuses. Economic factors and problems; investments, free-trade, narcotics. Role of government and military. Authoritarian system of government. Weak government infrastructure. Social stratification. Revolutionary activity. Democratic institutions and economic development.
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"Human Rights and Economics in Latin America
Introduction
In the late 1980s, U.S. General John R. Galvin, former commander-in-chief of the American Southern Command, commented that there was no strong basis for democracy in Latin America (Manwaring & Prisk, 1988). It was General Galvin's opinion that while every country is different and South America is not a homogenous unit or organization, the revolutions of Latin America in the struggle for independence were revolutions of a Spanish elite to free themselves from Spain in order that they could do whatever they wanted to do in running their governments. The neglect of indigenous people or for the vast majority of the poor and the campesinos that emerged during the struggles for independence has continued to the present day. As ..."
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South American Populist Leaders, 2002.
Shows two perspectives on the politics and the people of South America by studying the lives and philosophies of leaders Che Guevara and Rigoberta Menchu.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the lives and ideas of Rigoberta Menchu and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Both are/were leaders of populist movements, but each brought his/her own perspective to the task of working actively for political change. In studying two narratives of their lives, "The Motorcycle Diaries" and "I, Rigoberta Menchu", the reader learns that their ideas and their actions stem from the profound experience of injustice that both encountered in different ways - Guevara on a motorcycle trip around South America and Mench through the experience of life as an indigenous person in Guatemala.
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Nationalism in Latin America, 2002.
A look at the nationalistic leaders in South America - Eva Peron and Che Guevara.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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After WWII a new group of political leaders emerged in Latin America. This paper examines this group and explains how it appealed to the working class voters that were ignored by previous rulers. The author shows how these new leaders were colorful, confrontational and were worshipped by the masses. Also examined are the rise and fall of these leaders which was equally spectacular. This paper looks at two leaders, Eva Peron in Argentina and Che Guevara in Chile, as examples of this new generation of leaders. Their lives reflects the promises and failures of this time.
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"Throughout the history of Latin America, new generations of leaders have appeared promising to bring prosperity to all Latin Americans. Around the time of the Great Depression, another one of these new generations of leaders made promises of prosperity to the people of Latin America. This new generation was known as the nationalist. They sought to rearrange the economic and social balance of power in Latin America. They wanted Latin America to control their own economic destiny, not foreign powers Great Britain or the United States. This trend swept across Latin America. The promises made by nationalist were grand but they failed to live up to the lofty expectations. The expectations and downfall of this period can be represented by the lives of two people, Che Guevara and Eva Peron."
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Early Colonies of the Americas, 2006.
This paper examines the early establishment of the Spanish and English colonies in the Americas as quests for gold, God and glory.
2,435 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper explains that, soon after word of the great wealth and abundance of potential converts, discovered by Christopher Columbus, spread across Europe, other nations expeditiously sent their own ships to the new world to establish settlements, extract the land's wealth and convert the natives. The author points out that, while the Spanish immediately laid claim to Central and South America and later ventured north into New Mexico, the English followed over a century later by establishing their first permanent settlement in Virginia. The paper stresses that each group of settlers had different reasons for choosing to colonize the Americas. The author concludes that these groups' expectations for their colonies, their relations and early encounters with the natives and their fundamental long-term goals catalyzed the experiences of the early colonists and ultimately shaped the structure of these early American settlements.
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"By 1622, the settlers of the Chesapeake had established what they considered to be a peaceful and friendly dynamic with the Indians, living in a hierarchical, dominating peace with the natives. In the massacre of 1622, the Indians cunningly preyed upon the English settlers' sense of safety and their naivety to the Indians' true feelings regarding their relationship. Although the efforts of the Indians were largely successful, it was also the catalyst for their demise, as it brought about a valid excuse for the English to assault the natives and steal their lands which, it can be argued, had been their intention from the start."
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South American Indians, 2005.
An examination into South American Indian history and societies.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper examines the theoretical approach, explores its historical underpinnings, and examines the main features that characterize South America. It is evident that understanding how and why South American societies developed as they did requires investigating the influence of environment. This paper focuses on environments subsistence and related levels of sociopolitical integration from Teirra del Fuego to the Amazon Basin and the Andes because these factors have all interacted as the history of South America. "
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"South American Indians: An Analysis of Course Themes In discussing the theoretical approach we are taking in this course, exploring its historical underpinnings, and examining the main features that characterize it, it is evident that understanding how and why South American societies developed as they did requires investigating the influence of environment. Our class survey of the archeology and ethnography of indigenous South Americans over the past thirteen-thousand years is focusing on environments, subsistence, and related levels of sociopolitical integration from Teirra del Fuego to the Amazon Basin and the Andes because these factors have all interacted as the history of South America has unfolded."
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Rainforests, 2006.
An analysis of environmental challenges in Central and South America.
2,050 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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For several decades, many Americans have been aware that the rainforests of Central and South America are shrinking as well as the fact that the lost of significant amounts of rainforest could well have a negative effect on the entire world as well as the immediate areas in and near the former forests. This paper examines how the environmental issue of rainforest loss, with its accompanying soil erosion, contamination of the water table and loss of biodiversity, is caused by many factors that interplay with each other.
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Introduction
Deforestation
Cultural Contributions
Conclusion
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"Consideration of humankind's impact on the rainforests should begin with the people who have the longest histories there. The indigenous peoples of these rainforest lived for millennia without doing unrecoverable ecological damage (Barnham & Coomes, 1997), even though "slash and burn" farming was a traditional way of life. In "slash and burn" agriculture, the people simply cut down the wooded area and/or burn the vegetation off so they can use the land for their own agricultural purposes (Morrison, 2001). When these groups of people farmed in this manner, however, they moved on to new areas when the land became depleted. Gradually, the rainforest reclaimed the disused farmland, reducing the impact of this farming approach (Morrison, 2001). "
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Vos and Voseo, 2008.
An analysis of the use of voseo in Central and South American countries.
1,117 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines how the voseo is an archaic Spanish way of addressing another person using the vos instead of the tu. The use of vos in its formal and aristocratic use has been lost mostly in America but it survives in its family and casual use in some countries in South and Central America. In particular, the paper examines how, although the vos and its use have changed over the centuries, it has experienced different developments depending on the historical and geographical context of the particular country's political and social events. The paper also looks at how today the voseo is the more popular way of addressing somebody in the southern cone and countries in Central America such as Nicaragua.
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"In certain regions of Colombia and Venezuela, the vos is used only in contexts of great trust and familiarity. The tu is used in Bogota and it is spreading over the province. In South America, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, people talk using vos on a daily basis. Among these countries, there are not many differences in the way that people use it. It is the typical and characteristic talk and address of the Rio de la Plata. Parents and children address one another using the vos. Young people, even not knowing each other, will talk using vos. However, two adults who don't know each other use the usted. There is not a class differentiation, its use is related to knowledge and age. Sometimes, elderly friend will talk to each other using the usted even in Buenos Aires. The use of vos has a loving and approachable element: it creates an instant trust specially when pronounced from older adults to young people. "
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