Costa Rica

Desaparecer On May 30, 1498, conquistador and explorer Christopher Columbus set sail on his third voyage to the New World. After his first two voyages around the Caribbean, the adventurer finally set foot in what would today be modern-day Venezuela. These first steps into the New World would forever change South America culturally, historically and economically. Today, due to the historical prevalence of their previous European colonizers, South America has begun to develop into a growing…

“Arr! Arr! Arr!” is a classic exclamation of Tim the “Tool Man” Taylor, played by Tim Allen, whenever he talks about a fundamental aspect of a man’s nature on the sitcom, Home Improvement. Such outbursts are common in the 90’s show as it represents the call of the “manliest of the manly men,” who Tim is attempting to relate to through his faux television show, Tool Time. The target audience of Tim’s vlog of the 2010s show, Last Man Standing, is the men who are on the verge of losing the title…

World War II: The Four Freedoms Because the United States had been supporting isolationism and were creating and supporting non-interventionist groups, such as the America First Committee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt it was time for a change in America's stance on the involvement of war. To do so, he delivered the Four Freedoms Speech on January 6, 1941. The Four Freedom Speech had been addressed to Congress in effort to move the nation away from the foreign policy of neutrality.…

The Pot Calling the Kettle Corrupt Many of the social ills in Central America are inadvertently caused by corporate and government crimes of the United States. Regardless, Human beings deserve the right to flee poor economic systems, and support from their peers while transitioning. The people of The United States need to hold elected officials accountable for their crimes; we must push for rights of all the innocent peoples often tastelessly referred to as “illegal immigrants.” Envision the…

This book “Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods” provides a comprehensive and up to date look into research from the last few decades on Cryptic Female Choice (CFC) in arthropods. This book is built around research from a variety of experts in the field who together build a book structured around key behavioural, ecological and evolutionary questions in regards to specific taxonomic groups of arthropods, such as, spiders, harvestmen, flies, moths, crickets, earwigs, beetles, eusocial insects…

Anthropology 3AC: Research Paper A Comparison of Immigration: Chinese Peril The Yellow Peril, the yellow plague, the yellow spectre, they were all names used to describe the immigration of Chinese immigrants coming from mainland in search of work and jobs. Arriving in the new landscape, most Chinese men took menial jobs as a way to support their families back home and enjoyed a comparatively wealthy way of life compared to back in China where they were treated horribly by their own government,…

Introduction The Latino/a migration to the United States that occurred over the course of the last century was a phenomena mired in unfounded speculation because many “experts” struggled to properly explain the reasons for such massive amounts of Latino/a immigration. However, there are three central theories to explain the Latino/a migration to the United States. These three theories are the push-pull theory, structural theory, and transnational theory (Ramirez, 2016). Both the structural…

The Death Penalty is a punishment by execution to someone convicted of a capital crime or first degree murder. Since the beginning of America’s Death Penalty history, over 17,277 people have been legally executed. “Efforts to abolish the death penalty in America go back over one hundred years and have continued to the present day” (Galliher, Ray, and Cook, 1992; Haines, 1996)(Wozniak,1). The death penalty is the most disputed and controversial punishment in history. One side seen of the death…

Li Shang Lin A10457218 Problematics of Democracy and the Important of Democratic Stability Democracy does not exist without any problems. One of the main problems that undermine the stability of democracy is not solely about the triumph of one party or another but rather the cost of maintaining democratic stability. The issue at hand is cost and is specified into two types, transition and compensational costs. Transition costs include conflict, potential, instability and social polarization…

This was the night that I was so nervous that I could have vomited seventeen times. I was just a freshman, there hasn’t been any freshman to do the thing that I did in my school, ever. I was asked to sing the national anthem at the first home volleyball game, but I had no idea what this would lead up to. Sure, I had been asked to sing at other events, but I hardly ever went through with it and when I did there was never as many people as there was at this game. Being a freshman is hard enough at…