Bolivia

The destruction of the Earth’s Lungs: During any given moments in the average human’s typical day, a large portion of the Amazon rainforest will have just been destroyed by bulldozing government agencies that work on an industrial scale in efforts to increase marketing globalization. The Amazon in South America is the largest rainforest on Earth despite it’s increasing destruction, the Amazon remains as half the planet’s remaining rainforest, inhabiting a diverse group of species of plants and…

Introduction The United States has many enemies, both foreign and domestic. While everyone realizes that the threat of terrorism is a real and imminent threat, many do not recognize this threat from any area other than the Middle East. For this reason, it is important to focus all over the world, and address each threat on an individual basis, especially whenever that threat is only a few hundred miles away from American soil. This threat, is the Colombian based organization known as the…

series of misfortunes caused by some of the factors inherent to the region such as tropical disease, and poor management, the project was eventually handed over to an American man by the name of Percival Farquhar, who was hoping to move rubber from Bolivia to the Atlantic coast, where it could then be distributed from ports with greater ease (Sherwood). Even after the implementation of measures such as a hospital and some medical structures to reduce the risk of malaria epidemics and other…

The wars of independence in Latin America must not only be traced back to the impact of the Bourbon reforms but take into consideration the other factors and how these factors are more important for the origins of the wars of independence, such as the French, American and Haitian Revolutions and the creole discontent. The Bourbon reforms, in the 18th century, were aiming to establish administrative uniformity in the region, but also to strengthen Spain’s control of its colonies. This could be…

Throughout history, leadership has always played a huge role in determining a countries success. By having an influential leader, citizens of a nation are able to thrive in more than one way. Leadership allows growth, prosperity, organization, and control within a certain city, state, region, or country. In most countries, leadership is presented in the form of government. That is, an organization which has the governing authority or ruling power over the society, usually in the form of a…

On December 7, 1941, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor marked the beginning of the United State’s formal engagement in WWII. At the turn of 1942, the U.S. began military deployment to the western shoreline of Europe. These watershed dates stand out as symbols of the U.S. military commitment in Europe. However, the United State’s engagement in Europe began far before Japan’s attack on U.S. soil. The lend and lease program signed into law by President Roosevelt was essential for an Ally victory in…

Incan people; since then, one single plant has shaped the course of history, partly because of its adaptability and nutritional benefits. Evidence of the first potatoes places them on the Chilean coast and throughout the Andes mountains in Peru and Bolivia almost 13,000 years ago, and names the Incas as the first to cultivate them in approximately 8,000 B.C., officially beginning the process of domestication. At first glance, the original potato was seemingly unfit for…

Friedrich Katz, born in Vienna, Austria as a young child he had to flee his native land to seek refuge with his family in the United States, later moving into Mexico. It was through his rough childhood that he was influenced by the Mexican culture. He earned his doctorate degree the University of Vienna. He is known to be a great scholar of Mexican history for his time, it was he who placed a new platform on the Aztec civilization, his book The Ancient American Civilizations, details…

Today, every aspect of our civilized world is connected. You can call, text, message, chat, and video chat family in New York when you 're visiting Melbourne, or you could be in Bolivia and friend someone on social media that lives in St. Petersburg. The technology that we have today allows us to stay in contact with the rest of the world 24/7. Because of our advanced and technologically connected world, a new issue has arisen in our world of communication and relationships with others. While it…

The independence movement in Venezuela, like in other countries in Latin America, was a tumultuous one. Even after the achieval of independence, Venezuela still struggled to maintain a successful government. Before the independence movements, loyalty to the Spanish rule was the common sentiment; a loyalty that would continue even during the Peninsular War. This caused many revolutionaries like Simon Bolivar to resort to wear the mask of Fernando VII in the juntas due to the lack of support…