APES Extra Credit Assignment PG 5 IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, ENSURING A FUTURE FOR SHRKS People are killing so many sharks for fins, and it causes them to get closer and closer to extinct. Sharks are important to marine ecosystem, because they play a key role in climate change and food webs. Some countries ignore the importance of control the amount of sharks, which they eat and sell for money, they catch. In order to help the population of sharks to go up, EDF and Mote Marine Laboratory of…
Their economy depends on their exports. Mexico’s largest trade partners are: The United States, China, Japan, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Mexico has become the US’ third-largest source of imports and the second largest export market. This has made the two-way trade in products surpass $590 billion. Their main export is manufactured products, silver, fruits, vegetables…
The film Sin Nombre depicts the issues that currently plague Central America. Gang affiliation and the increasing violence that is taking hold of the communities as well as migration out of Central America. The increase insecurity and violence has propelled many to head to the United States in search of a safe and prosperous future, as was the case of Sayra and her family. Benito or “Smiley” introduced to the gang as the gang acts as a source of order in the town that appears to have been…
export coffee, building acres and acres of land in which indigenous people worked on for very little pay. Guatemala did not solely depend on coffee though, during the 1880s and beyond, the United Fruit Company (UFC) formed many banana republics in Honduras, Guatemala and so forth. This company in fact had more economic power than the governments in the countries they were…
and industrialists to invest Latin American industries. Whenever America’s financial interests were threatened, the US used this policy to justify intervention of the nation’s economy and/or government. The US carried out the Dollar Diplomacy in Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Haiti. In Nicaragua a civil war broke out and threatened America’s financial interests. The US inserted Marines in Nicaragua to restore order…
Throughout the years a prodigious amount of people be having a difficult time choosing a president that benefits the United States. By being concerned with the pros and cons about a president they are choosing that will become an influence in their lives. Personally, being a lucid presidential candidate who will make a positive change throughout my presidential years will benefit everyone in the United States. Becoming a president one has to be focusing on the concerns the people are having…
Although all corners of the world from “Berlin to Tanzania, Paris to Rome, and Montreal to Honduras…pointed at the United States as the architect of Allende’s downfall,” Tanya Harmer’s Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War, is one of many voices that argue for blamed to be shared amongst multiple parties. Harmer deduces that the cataloging…
People are always on the move in this new modern age. Cars, Trains, and Planes help us move around from places with relative ease. The United States has always been a destination where millions of people have wanted to go throughout the foundation of it. In recent years, many people have migrated towards here from neighboring Latin American countries. This poses the question, should illegal immigrants be banned? the answer to that is no, it should not be banned. The reasons have to do with the…
It borders Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize and the Pacific Ocean. The country itself is completely mountainous except the areas near the coast as well as the famous Mayan ruin city of Petén. Many of the mountains in Guatemala are in fact volcanos, which are very prone to erupt. It…
Safe passage to Cambodia would be guaranteed -- no one could touch them. The Fabachers could pretty much tell Stevie and the feds, investors, plus everyone else to go jump off a bridge and that was exactly what they intended to do. But everything depended on the rendezvous point. Getting to that spot would be harder than they thought -- three of the four people on the yacht wanted the other three dead. THE THIEVES HAD nearly a hundred million dollars, as well as merchandise scattered all…