President of Mexico

I was asked to research and report on a current world issue. I chose to research the drug world in Mexico. Before researching this topic, I already knew drug trade is a common thing in Mexico, drugs are imported and exported from and to Mexico and many people are killed because of reasons related to drugs. A couple of things I wanted to know about this topic were how drug trade has affected Mexico economically and the normal way of living and how much violence had been directly tied to the…

On an early Friday morning in 1997 at her Los Angeles home , Pulitzer prize winning national bestselling author Sonia Nazario, had an unexpected and personal conversation with her Guatemalan housekeeper Carmen. This conversation sparked a curiosity on why mothers from Central America, like Carmen, would leave their children & family for a life in the United States. This curiosity ultimately led to Nazario creating her book, “Enrique's Journey”, in which she uses several rhetorical devices,…

Imagine walking back to town after a long vacation, after arriving and looking around one may find that no one is there and the place is completely abandoned. Thats a lot like what happened to the Mayans. The Mayans lived in Mesoamerica from 1800 B.C. to 900 A.D. The Mayan civilization reached its peak of power in the sixth century A.D. and had a peak population of two million. The Mayan are most known for disappearing in 900 A.D., a mystery still unknown. There are many theories around their…

were some goods that the Europeans got from the Americas. Most Spanish men were obsessed with three things: Gold, God, and Glory. To obtain these things, they had to go to the Americas. Hernan Cortes, a Spaniard, heard about El Dorado and went to Mexico in 1519 to find it. He ran into a native girl named Malinche, who can speak in the Aztec and Mayan language. She also learned how to speak Spanish very quickly, so she acted as a translator. Cortez then arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan,…

leave their old life to start a new. Mexico is in deep poverty and their workforce is not trained and treated unfairly. For example, around 25 million Mexican workers make less than fourteen dollars a day, and they believe that if they escape to the US they can start a new life. Furthermore, forty-five percent of the population exists under the poverty line, and ten percent of the population live in extreme poverty situations. Next, it may not seem like it, but Mexico is actually a very rich…

In an overview of this week’s readings the central focus of material was primarily centered around the illicit network that has emerged in Mexico as a direct result of political corruption and economic benefits for drug traffickers using the U.S market. The “War of Drugs” has ‘failed’ claims Eduardo Porter, acknowledgment of the growing drug problem doesn’t seem to be the problem instead Porter explains the thought of “eradicating the illegal drug market” (Porter) as an impossible task. Instead…

Mexico and USA have a lot in common, but we also have a lot of our own costumes. Here is 4 differences and 4 similarities us and Mexico have. Let’s start off with a difference their families, unlike us, often all live in their grandparents house and stay their. Only a small portion of them move to live in their own houses. Here in the USA the big portion of us go off to live our lives in our own houses. Here we are the ones with the advantage because we have enough money and wealth to do this…

In Jose Clemente Orozco's fresco Epic of American Civilization: Anglo-America (panel 15), Orozco uses the visual elements and design in planning out this work. Shape and form are present in the work, but also, value, color, space, time, and lines are used as well. Orozco makes use of these elements to show the ideas that are being formed in this piece. The use of shape is present in this work as buildings and people. The buildings are two-dimensional shapes that form the structures while…

before he became a first his skin fryer before one became a Franciscan Friar he was a soldier. He was in a position of authority in the Franciscan order but knew God was calling him to a deeper need, that of outreach and education. He went to New Mexico in 1540 to colonize and evangelize. Following the expeditions ahead of him, which were mainly aimed at getting riches, Juan one was different and wanted to be a missionary. He was known for being authentic, kind, gentle, full of zeal for the way…

Did you know that chocolate can help us get smarter and Can it help us stay healthy? Chocolate comes from a cocoa pod and that comes from a tree. We found out that we could eat the cocoa pods seeds because of animals. The animals eat a white, stringy pulp that covers the seed and the animals spit out the bittersweet cocoa seed. We thought that we could use it to make something new. We ground the seed and mixed it with water, spices, and chilies which made the first chocolate drink. My claim…