Guatemala

Trade Agreements is among a lot of the mini topics we discussed in class. All of these topics relate to our discussion in different ways, regarding to Kenya and places like Argentina and women in Guatemala, are important. You see places like Kenya getting into the IMF business and you see places like Guatemala with Globalization. You have all these places that we learned about, tying into the topics that I talked about above. All these places have experienced something like this one way or…

“Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law? Or are we a nation that gives them a chance to make amends, take responsibility, and give their kids a better future.” (Navarrette, 3) This quote as in November 2014, Obama opens doors to the immigrants by giving them a chance to live the American life. Also back in 2008, President George W. Bush signed a Law called William Wilberforce…

According to a study done by the United Nations, Latin America is considered the most violent region in the world. It accounts for every 1 in 3 deaths worldwide. As a whole, Latin America's homicide rate is 23 deaths for every 100,000 people, nearly double the rate in Africa, which is sometimes mistakenly believed to be the most violent continent. Most of the time the crime, violence, and murder take place in Northern South America and Central America. I have a friend who emigrated here from El…

to maintain the livelihood of the village. They are in a remote area at the base of a volcano, making it more difficult to seek other laboral means. Maria and her mother are out in the fields everyday cultivating coffee, an important export from Guatemala. They tend to crops carefully and rid it of pests. Seeing Maria dutifully work in a monotonous and tedious job gives us a transparent sense of her maturity and growth at her age. She even prepares to fight off snakes from damaging the…

Maid in America and Maria in Nobody’s Land documentaries are more than enough to give a clear picture on how illegal border crossing could be. Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey, a recount story of a Honduran boy who is crossing borders (Honduras-Guatemala, Guatemala-Mexico, and Mexico-U.S.) in search of his mother is best to elucidate the praxy of border crossing. The journey Nazario narrates is akin to what Sin Nombre illustrates. Aforementioned in the introduction, once people succeed in crossing…

match. I feel that I can enjoy my job while helping those in need. But, then I realized there are so many more people that need helped in the entire world, not just the community I would work in. I feel called to serve those in need. My trip to Guatemala was a life changing experience, but it soon became a sad thought when I was there, in…

"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the hero is revealed. -Unknown. Therefore, heroes aren't fiction characters in books or movies. They are real life people who keep going forward even in the darkest days. I know some people might say "Justin Bieber isn't a hero, he is just another artist." Well to me, Justin Bieber has helped me by his songs. In his song Believe, it says, "Cause everything starts from something, but something would be nothing." That lyric itself…

Fruit and shame the current leader of the country. However Kinzer states that "Guatemala 's communist party was a modest affair. Even at peak it had only a few hundred active members" (135) which goes to show that the US government had ulterior motives when it came to overthrowing the government of Guatemala. Kinzer uses arguments like this war because it shows that the US couldn’t come out saying their true plans for Guatemala because our society would not have supported it as…

parades, the costaleros (person carrying the image on their shoulders) carry pasos (images) to the catedral (main church). Other celebrations are fallas which are burnings of ninots (sculptures made of paper mache). Alfombras (carpets) are made in Guatemala with colorful sawdust. Alfombra makers paint the sawdust and make it into shapes and symbols in the streets, like crosses and stars. Cascarones symbolize good luck. People in Mexico make cascarones. Cascarones are made for Semana Santa.…

charities. With some of the money I would help the families that children that suffer from cancer. I would also build schools in third world countries. I would visit those countries to provide children with food, water and other resources. I grew up in Guatemala which is a poor country. My family and I moved to the United States when I was eight years old. I know what it’s like to not have all…