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    Karyn Pham  Professor Gray  English 103  6 April 2014  Connecting Two Worlds     In essays “Living in Spanish” by Marjorie Agosín and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚  the narrators both experience the struggle of language and its barriers in America. In their essays‚  they explain that having the capability to speak proper English and assimilating themselves to  American customs.  Although there were many obstacles and challenges faced when adapting to  America‚ they did not dismiss their true heritage and culture

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    During the 1800’s US and other colonies from Europe wanted Latin America to become a source of materials‚ and to become a market for goods. The US and Europe nations started to build mines‚ railroads‚ and bridges. The US and other nations began working together while both using the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine is an principle of the US policy‚ but then the governments of Latin America started to think that the US was going to use the Monroe Doctrine to defeat all of Western Hemisphere

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    One of the major issues facing Latin America is the production and distribution of illegal drugs‚ which include cocaine‚ marijuana‚ heroin and more recently methamphetamine. This geographic area is crucial to the illegal drug industry because it is the world’s only source region for coca‚ which is used to produce cocaine (this is harvested in Colombia‚ Peru and Bolivia). Also‚ Central America‚ Mexico and the Caribbean are the main corridors for transporting drugs to the United States and Europe

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    Latin America Test Study Guide 1. Explorers for Spain and Portugal: a. Portuguese i. First to launch large-scale operations ii. Prince Henry supported explorations‚ established court—sent expeditions west to Atlantic islands‚ south to Western African coast—Portuguese settled Azores and Madeira Islands‚ learned about African coast—gold and slaves iii. Wanted water route around Africa to India—Bartolomeu Dias attempted‚ pushed back iv. Vasco da Gama

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    LATIN AMERICA WHAT IS IT? Term thought to be coined by French Emperor Napoleon III‚ during occupation of Mexico Reference to cultural commonalities shared by those who speak Romance languages: Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ French. Confusing point‚ since some countries in region are English speaking: Belize‚ Jamaica‚ Guyana; Suriname- Dutch speaking 34 nations‚ 590 million Geography Region south of Rio Grande to tip of South America. 8 mill sq miles‚ Huge‚ 2.5 times size of U.S. Frozen windswept land

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    Political systems are built in a country to manage the institutions of resource allocation‚ citizen’s rights and national security. When the government is no longer satisfactorily maintaining these institutions‚ political change is bound to occur. In Latin America‚ during the 30’s and 40’s‚ the governments of Brazil and Argentina failed and therefore political revolutions overthrew the old regimes. Getulio Vargas and Juan Peron rose to power with Populist platforms appealing to the masses. In order to maintain

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    Disconnected in a Connected World Technology is supposed to connect us‚ but just take a look around and see how disconnected we truly are. Everywhere we go people are on their cell phones: texting‚ tweeting‚ and snapchatting. The list could go on. Someone we know could walk walk right by us and we might not even notice because our eyes are to focused on the screen. While technology has enriched our lives and extended our reach of communication‚ it has disconnected us from those around us because

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    associated with Latin culture ("Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet"). As noted in “Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet‚” (2011) document from the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center website‚ Brazil did not make divorce legal until 1977. “In recent times‚ due to more Western cultural adaptations and increased financial autonomy‚ women face less of a stigma when divorcing and have greater freedom to choose this option ("Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet")

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    Contents Question-1 2 Question-2 3 Question-3 6 Question-4 7 Question-5 8 Question-6 9 Question-7 10 Question-8 11 Question-1 Discuss the two basic “media access control” methods for shared media used in the TCP/IP suite. ANSWER: In the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model of communication‚ the Media Access Control layer is one of two sub layers of the Data Link Control layer and is concerned with sharing the physical connection to the network among several computers. Each computer

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    The Latin America debt crisis What Happened Both internal and external for Latin Americas roller coaster economic performance in what was known as the crisis. During the 50’s and 60’s there was favorable conditions in place to maintain steady employment creation‚ capital investment and overall economic expansion. But this period ended in 1973 amid the first world oil crisis rocked the world economy and caused an era of debt-led growth among the oil importing Latin America countries. Latin American

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