History of Mexico

International trade is an important part of today’s economics. Everything we use today from our phones, our cars, our clothes and even the food we eat is because of international trade. America is dependent on global trade; in fact they are the world’s second largest importer. Main imports are: capital goods, which is 29% and consumer goods that is 26% (tradingeconomics.com). Trade is extremely important in The United States. Imports in the US reached an all-time high of 240524 USD Million in…

I develop a friendship in my neighborhood with a person who is a Mexican Cultural and I learn about their culture when I was over there for the weekend. I listen to Mexican music and went to the groceries' store with them. I learn that they like to season their food a lot and I try chilaquiles for the first time. I even learn how to make chilaquiles too. They were telling me about the religion and most Mexican are Catholics. I ask their mom what different language do Mexican culture speck, she…

In 1475 Vasco Nunez de Balboa was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Mexico into a poor family. As a young boy, Vasco Nunez de Balboa dreamed of becoming a famous explorer and a Olympic fencer. However, his Olympic dream never came true and he later became a Spanish conquistador and an explorer to search for wealth in the New World. After Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, Vasco Nunez de Balboa joined an expedition to South America in 1501. A year after joining the expedition,…

citizens of Mexico and later led to the largest Mexican migration in history. With over 1 million Mexican citizens fleeing the country in search of a better life, the United States’ patience…

interpretations about the process of writing history. There are a dozen of materials that have been written using different perspectives over the last century. According to generations of Americans and immigrants, the genesis of Texas revolution is recounted as the simple tale of outnumbered defendants that were overwhelmed by an invading army. The defendants sacrificed their lives in order to bring into existence the Republic of Texas. The history of the Alamo has assumed an impervious…

Norman comments about some claims that include situations where citizens testifying at public hearings have accepted cash in exchange for making pro-Wal-Mart statements. In other cases, he claims, groups protesting Wal-Mart expansion have ceased to protest after accepting donations from the company or its partners. Mr. Norman cites an example that happened in 2004 in Tallahassee, FL where a group opposing Wal-Mart’s construction of a store said that a real estate broker representing the…

Nowadays when we hear the word “Border”, with everything going on politically speaking the majority of us are indoctrinated to think of the U.S.-Mexico Border. A great amount of people think of the idea of the now famous wall to be built under our new president’s enforcement of it. From speaking with my group members, the topic of the border struck close to home for most of us. Personally there are a few words that pop up instantly when the word border is said, demarcation, stereotypes, parents,…

border between the United States is not only used and an actual dividing line in the movies but a division between the families. The division between the families is felt between the members who were born in the United States and the members born in Mexico. In the movie “Mi Familia” the son, Jimmy, and his siblings do not remember the struggles that their family had crossing the border. The hardships that their family went through put a border up between the family members. This theme is also…

is practically unanimous with the North American Free Trade Agreement, now better known as NAFTA, its intended objective in the eyes of the United States and Mexico was to stem the flow of migrants from Mexico. This was to be achieved by allowing more businesses to open and hire locals. However, after many years of NAFTA being in effect history has shown that it only helps to inflate the problem. Economically, Mexican industry can no longer compete with the Americans, as Alejandro Ramirez,…

artefact is called the Dresden codex; it is one of the four Mayan books that still exist today. It is kept in the collection of the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden, Germany. The other three are in secure places in Madrid, Paris and in Mexico City. The Dresden codex consists of 39 leaves, inscribed on both sides, and 358 centimeters long, the codex was folded in an accordion like-manner. The Mayans adapted their system of writing called glyphs, from the Olmecs around 50 B.C.E.…