Valley of Mexico

1. Should someone be able to patent life? Life should be able to be patented with many exceptions. Anything with a brain should not be able to be patented as that would be inhumane. However, tampering with the genes of other forms of life can become helpful to society. For example, microbes that can eat up oil spills can save many other living beings in the ocean. As well as this, having variety in foods is vital to prevent diseases wiping out a species of food that many people rely on. It…

Guatemala has many amazing and unusual facts like, there are 22 different native tribes that each speak their own language but, the official language of Guatemala is Spanish. The capital of Guatemala is Guatemala City. The city has over 5 million residents making it one of the most populated cities in Guatemala. The tallest mountain in Guatemala is the Tajamulco volcano it has in altitude above 14000 ft. Furthermore, there are many more awesome facts about Guatemala. There are many different…

From religion to language Mexico has been a melting pot of mixed culture and people. From the many indigenous people already on the land to the catholic spaniards immigrating to Mexico, the country is filled with many different traditions and beliefs. For Example, the great Virgin of Guadalupe is a honored and cherished figure throughout the country of Mexico. “One only has to enter a church to find icons of the Virgin of Guadalupe, one of the most revered figures in Mexico whose very depiction…

distinguished themselves both as international narcotics traffickers and highly competent executioners (Mexico Gulf Reporter), they thrive on torture, dropping enemies into barrels of acid, beheadings, castrations, and the dismemberment of victims before they die. A former deputy attorney general, then in charge of Mexico's Office for Organized Crime Special Investigation, said Yucatán state and half of Mexico belonged to the Zetas. Their professional trademarks include decapitations of…

Culture Identity is a better understanding in comparison to other cultures. Culture Identity is shaped by family, life’s expercision and perceptions of the world. It also influences everything from how we relate to others to who we are.Culture Identity is something that everyone has, I think that my cultural identity is very interesting because it involves different things. First of all, my ethnicity is hispanic, I come from two hispanic parent. I have always been raised in a hispanic household…

wasn’t even planning on coming here helped colonize it to what Texas is today. Cabeza originally heading towards Mexico and ended crashing into what is now modern day Galveston Island and made Texas what it is today. Cabeza traveled all the way around Texas and soon met up with an Indian tribe who took him as a work slave which he soon escaped from them and he and his partners walked to Mexico city over a 21 month trip and a lot of friendly and not friendly indian tribes. Cabeza De Vaca: How did…

intellectuals brought with them a liberal attitude and a staunch abolitionist point of view. As the Civil War began, many of these German intellectuals and farmers opposed secession from the union. In the summer of 1862, they planned to travel to Mexico in order to avoid conscription into the Confederate army. A group of 94 Confederate soldiers led by lieutenant McRae followed after them. They approached the Germans in the night and massacred them with little resistance. While the Confederates…

Ever since I can remember, my life has always been filled with culture. From multiple quincerias to every dinner having a side of beans and rice. However, I wouldn’t change it for the world because thanks to my distance to the border, it has made a large part of who I am. Growing up, I remember I would always been teased for how close I lived to the border; that I could walk to the border, and if I kicked my ball over my fence, it would land in the Rio Grande River. Besides growing up very…

Femme de Rien With pledges of equality and nativist attitudes injected in the veins of Latin America for independence efforts, Spanish diplomat’s wife Frances Calderón de la Barca reflects those empty promises through her 1840 journal entries about Mexican high society. In her account, Calderón describes the tension surrounding her decision in wearing what she called a poblana dress, the Mexican elite worried she would appear as a “femme de rien” as if the dress worn by a woman from Puebla was…

During the Romantic Era in the United States, the previous rationale of uniting the country and correcting domestic affairs was transitioned towards westward expansion and nature; making the exemplary American a man of the frontier. The United States was no longer content with its success of the American Revolution, and sought to expand its country. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French for merely pennies per acre. The Louisiana Purchase was the start of…