the presentation in ESTEP about “Jewell Castro’s Representations of Family and Identity in Samoan American Art”. This paper also describes about Jewell Castro’s life‚ Tales of a Fisherman I & II‚ MFA Thesis Show: Red House: Daughters of Salamasina and The Fa Samoa. Jewell Castro was born in Chicago and raised in San Diego. Her mother was from Manua in American Samoa. Castro is known for her Samoan art. During the lecture‚ I got an opportunity to know more about her techniques and dedication towards
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Before 1850‚ Cuba was governed by Spain. However‚ the United States wanted to acquire Cuba for the following reasons. Firstly for commercial reason that is‚ Cuba would be a good market for American goods. Secondly‚ a slave state‚ planters form the Southern States of the United States wanted to acquire Cuba so that it would be made into a state where slavery could be continued. Thirdly‚ a military base‚ many Americans felt that Cuba could be used as a military base to protect
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Imagine this: you are 13 years old‚ just about to finish middle school getting ready to start high school with all your friends‚ when one day you came home from school and the bombshell hits. Your mum sits you down and tells you the news that nobody wants to hear at that point in life‚ you find it hard to remember the whole talk. all you seem to remember are the words‚” WE ARE MOVING.” when you finally get to terms with it‚ you ask where to‚ with the hope it won’t be too far so it won’t be a complete
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socialist nations. Socialist nations have thrived in the past and have had economic success similar to capitalist nations. The USSR industrialized rapidly and became a world superpower just in time for World War II. Cuba and Venezuela both adopted socialist forms of government that solved many of their social and economic issues. Fallacies have been found in the communist philosophy but similar issues are found in competing economic philosophies. The constant battle between capitalism and communism lead
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(Have you experienced waiting on an intersection‚ for the light to get green‚ only to be overtaken by another vehicle with a siren?… Me too.) Ihad the chance to watch the inaugural program of the newly-proclaimed president of our country‚ Benigno Aquino III‚ or more commonly known as Noynoy to the masses. The excerpt above was mentioned by his excellency during the early stages of his speech. Even though it’s not the crux of the speech‚ I could easily relate to what he said‚ for I myself experienced
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“Rise and Fall of the Tokugawa Regime” The Tokugawa period (1603-1868)‚ also called the Edo period‚ was the final phase of traditional Japan. It was a time of internal peace‚ political stability‚ and economic growth under the shogunate founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu. As shogun‚ Ieyasu achieved dominance over the entire country by balancing the power of “potentially hostile domains with strategically placed allies and collateral houses” (McClain 1944 pg. 31). It was an era of oppressive rule where
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from other cities. What makes Miami different from other cities is the profound affect the Cuban and Haitians immigrants had in that current time and forward. How major events like the Cold War (1947-1991) which was over the struggle of capitalism vs. communism affected the growth of Cubans and held back the Haitians in Miami. Events like these cause the Cuban people to advance while on contrast barely help the Haitians. Cubans have advance more politically than Haitians because of the “Golden Exiles”
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“The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine caused the United States to invade Cuba in 1898.” On February 16th‚ 1898‚ the U.S.S Maine was bombed and destroyed‚ killing more than 250 people that were onboard. The press flooded the newspapers with headlines reading‚ ‘DESTRUCTION OF THE WAR SHIP MAINE WAS THE WORK OF AN ENEMY’ (words coming from Assistant Secretary Roosevelt) and ‘NAVAL OFFICERS THINK THE MAINE WAS DESTROYED BY A SPANISH MINE’ (New York Journal). Most of the information was coming from eyewitnesses
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Most people forget the role that the sun plays in our lives and they need to be reminded. SO our news team investigated the role that the sun plays in our lives. To start our investigation we researched all the things that the sun provides us with and the results were surprising. We found that the first effect of the sun going out would be that be the earth would be very dark and the temperature would quickly drop. In other words our climate would be a lot cooler. Another effect of the sun disappearing
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5. How attractive to PepsiCo is the proposal to buy 30% of Deltex for 1.1B pesos (US$360M)? Based on the information in the case‚ Pepsi could invest US$360 million in exchange for 30% equity of Deltex. So we have to calculate the value of 30% equity of Deltex. First‚ we calculated the discount factor by using average unlevered beta of US independent bottlers‚ US 10 year Treasury bond as risk free rate and assuming market risk premium 10%. We came up with 9.83% of WACC. Next‚ we calculated Deltex
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