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    1) Compare the treatment of indigenous people in the United States and Canada. Why was their not a significant metis population in the United States? What does the difference mean? The treatment of the indigenous people in the United States was different from the treatment in Canada. In the United States westward expansion brought settlers and government forces into conflict with the indigenous people of North America. The indigenous people resisted the efforts of the United States to push them

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    great love out of the world. [Oscar] Love was a rare thing‚ easily confused with a million other things‚ and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. He told them about Ybon and that they’d started to dream the same dreams and say the same words.” (Diaz 321) Oscar even in his last minutes of life he kept saying how the love he felt for Ybon‚ as it felt to love someone was.The love that Oscar had by her was so great but he didn’t love himself and never worried about him‚ he need to stop doing these

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    different perspectives. In addition I think it is important to look at the overall motivation behind the Spanish conquest. In Bernal Diaz second writing in the book he speaks of the Spanish movement from Santa Maria de la Victoria to San Juan de Ulua. When The Spaniards arrive they have their first meeting with representatives from Moctezuma. According to Diaz‚ Cortez treats the ambassadors very well‚ and it seems that Cortez is quite intended on making a good

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    ZARA CASE STUDY: THE COMPANY WHERE EVETHING COMMUNICATES Paloma Díaz Soloaga and Mercedes Monjo ZARA CASE STUDY THE COMPANY WHERE EVERYTHING COMMUNICATES Paloma Díaz Soloaga. Head of Fashion Communication and Management. Centro Universitario Villanueva. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. SPAIN soloaga@villanueva.edu Mercedes Monjo. Responsible Textile International Marketing‚ Men’s Collection Carrefour. SPAIN This case has been published by the Journal HARVARD DEUSTO MARKETING

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    Before I was born my parents had started looking for names they could give me. Since they had no idea if I was a boy or girl they came up with names for each sex. Each male name they had in mind for me had value along with each girl name. My mother and father had come up with a list of names they each liked.   So once I was born my parents decided they wanted a family name and dubbed me Gabriela Patricia. Gabriela is my uncle’s name in feminine form and my mother was very fond of it and thought it

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    perpetuating dominant social discourses (Robinson & Jones Diaz‚ 2006‚ p.89). The resulting experiential knowledge acquired from parents and teachers through such an upbringing has major implications for the ways in which students filter information that ‘encompasses a variety of social‚ cultural‚ economic and symbolic meanings that shift across socio-economic class‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ ‘race’‚ age and sexuality’ (Robinson & Jones Diaz‚ 2006‚ p.82). Thus‚ the filtering of such meanings suggests

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    Civil war had destroyed both social stability and the economy. Also‚ few people had enough political experience to bind Mexico together. The first constitution‚ spread in 1824‚ giving state legislators the power to elect both the president and the vice president. A result of this constitution‚ caused a series of weak presidents struggled to form an effective government. During this time‚ Mexico’s political elite began to divide into two opposing factions: conservatives and liberals. The conservatives

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    addition it seems that Cortes and Montezuma were in good terms with each other. But in the two accounts The Bernal Diaz Chronicles and Letters of Cortes writes that when Montezuma and his lords and nobles received Cortes and his men they touched the ground and kissed the earth as a sign of peace. In addition these two accounts reveal to us that Cortes places a necklace on Montezuma. The Bernie Diaz Chronicles mentions that the necklace was made of glass stone with many designs and variety of colors. In the

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    self-sacrificing and a loner. He was very dark‚ mysterious and his eyes appeared snakelike and venomous. He was not impressive to the people he encountered and members of the Junta suspected him of being a spy and working for the secret service of Diaz. He consistently showed loyalty and generosity‚ and the members of the Junta still did not did not like or trust him. Felipe presents himself to the office of the Junta and stated he wanted to work for the Revolution. They offered to let him

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    For example‚ the way Porfirio Diaz‚ Victoriano Huerta‚ among others acted‚ led us know that their unique interest was to get what they wanted without caring about the working people paid the consequences. In fact‚ this was something I just reminded few days ago because the elections

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