Nicaragua

Current Event In 2012, peace talks began to bring a bilateral peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). These talks have been a move towards a conclusion, although with many set backs from both parties (Colombia Country Profile, 2015). The Colombian government and the FARC agreed to a cease-fire in December 2014. In 2013, the Colombian government used a provisional, partial agreement on land reform and political participation with…

belong to this community would say: "The squirrel is beginning to climb the tree." Hispanic are a very good example of differences in speech. In the United States there are people from many different Hispanic countries such as: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and others. The people from each of these countries have different dialects. For example, Puerto Ricans and Cubans have different names for the same things. We Cubans say "pomo de leche" while the Puerto Ricans say "bobo." Both…

The Belize- Guatemala territorial dispute is in imprinted in history from more than a century ago. Today it still floods, Belize and Guatemala’s social media and news reports; and is the hottest topic for discussion in everyone’s mouth currently in both countries. This dispute is the cause of Spain’s claim to the New World also known as the Treaty of Tordesillas. Mayas had driven out the Spanish, and shipwrecked English seamen had begun settling in the area. The Godolphin Treaty of 1670 stated…

The video about The Tree if Life is very interesting because it is about the voladores ritual. This ritual is about a 1500 year old rite that is performed in the video by the Totonac Indians. The Totonac Indians are from Huehuetla, Puebla, Mexico. What happens in the ritual is usually about five flyers climb to the top of the pole and then, hang down by a rope which is wrapped around the pole. Four of five flyer are hanging upside down and rotate around the pole with the rope until they reach…

What are the components of this multiple opportunity structures and how do these components support the use of gender norms and sexualization as a basis for political legitimacy? Sperling describes the components of the multiple opportunity structures as comprising of cultural, economic, political, international, and historical opportunity structures. First, the political opportunity structure addresses the changes made to the Russian political system in a way that created space for the…

The War on Drugs directly impacts the life of almost every American. The program began as a fight against drug abuse and the spread of dangerous operations including and related to drug trafficking into American cities. Each new president, for the most part, has continued the programs of their predecessors. The naissance of the government’s anti-drug program began under the presidency of Richard Nixon. He set the ball in motion by classifying marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug and by directing his…

Every morning in grade eight, I would wake and throw on my white blouse, my rainbow plaid skirt, my matching plaid tie, my green knee high socks and my black leather shoes and go off to school. I wasn’t a good student throughout elementary school, I had breezed by at the bottom of my class. My grade eight English teacher even told my parents and I that I was going to fail high school English if nothing changed by next year. While everyone was studying with their SSAT tutors and stressing over…

Human Language: Innate or Constructed? Human language is a unique characteristic among species on planet Earth. Though many creatures use various methods to communicate, no known creatures other than humans have a language that vastly describes the universe. Is this ability innate or is it the product of environmental factors? In order to answer this, one must investigate a wide array of phenomena. First, it would be beneficial to define what language is. Though the exact meaning may be…

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who proposed reaching Asia by means of a westward route across the Atlantic Ocean, and instead discovered and explored the Caribbean, as well as parts of Central and South America. Initially sponsored by King Ferdinand (1452-1516) and Queen Isabella (1451-1504) of Spain in 1492, Columbus is popularly believed to have been the first European to land and therefore discover the "New World" of the Americas. He is also credited with opening…

actions of states to act in self-defense when an armed attack occurs but there is actually a more expansive understanding of this approach that aids in dealing with the complex international relations of our current standing. In the landmark case of Nicaragua v. United States, Stephen Schwebel states that Article 51 does not say “if, and only if, an armed attack occurs” meaning that the application of self-defense is not explicitly restricted to armed attacks (Arend, 93. 2003). The…