FUTURE‚ A LATIN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE by Ana-Maria Gonzalez “Education leads to a brighter future.” Quite a clichéd phrase‚ actually. So popular‚ that people tend to forget the true significance of it. It is known that Latin America faces numerous problems that makes looking into the future a discouraging view; but we fail to realize the lack of education may be the root of these issues‚ including violence‚ unemployment and poverty. Even though education is widely available in Latin America‚ people
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Challenges Facing the Australian Catholic Church of the 21st Century There are many challenges facing the Catholic Church in Australia during the 21st century. The decline in religious vocations‚ falling mass attendance‚ married clergy‚ female ordination and the role of the laity are all issues contributing to the challenges of the Australian Catholic Church. Religious vocations are on a steep decline. As stated by the Pope‚ in regard to Australia‚ "mainstream Christianity is dying more quickly
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Imperialism: US colonizes Latin America Reflection Paper In the early 1800’s‚ countries in Latin America were still under the rule of the Europeans. This meant that even though they gained “independence”‚ they were still controlled by the Europeans. The United States‚ however‚ had recently gained its independence from Britain‚ & was now recognized as an independent nation. The U.S. wanted to expand its territories to get raw materials and a market for their industrial products. Since European
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The Globalization of Latin America Louis O. Rollins Excelsior College- Albany‚ NY BUS 506- Information Technology 15 March 2015 Dr. Bonnie Kincaid Abstract: Globalization is the big buzz word in the world of business. Countries now seemingly depend on each other more and more these days to get the goods and services that they can’t get in their own countries. These goods and services‚ over the years‚ have become an integral part of the daily lives of the people all over the world. The fact that
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were secret Catholics because they refused to conform to the state religion. Consequently ‚ Shakespeare involved in an underground movement of secret Jesuit priests and recusant British aristocrats who wanted to consign Queen Elizabeth’s Protestant England to “the old religion” and restore loyalty to the papacy .And as John Shakespeare–William’s father–was a recusant ‚ he fined for refusing to attend Church of England services. Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna was recorded as being Catholic. Some people
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CULTURE AND THE BEHAVIOR OF ELITES IN LATIN AMERICA Carlos Alberto Montaner The author explains that Latin America can’t manage to achieve an economic and social development because of the elite who leads the countries. The author focuses his article on the politicians‚ the intellectuals‚ the left‚ the military‚ the businessmen and the clergy. They are leader groups who do not participate to the development of the country. But the author adds also that we can’t just blame them because they are
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Edward hall has stated that the context that is surrounding the information is a very important part of communication and therefore the information that is being told should be relevant. A bias within international communication is‚ that a lot of countries have different kinds of communication contexts. Therefore these differences should be studied before communicating on an international base. Every culture has either a low context communication or a high context communication and that is what
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El señor presidente is seen as one of the first “new novels” introduced in latin America which seeks to break from traditional realist novel and undertake a magical realist stylistic technique. Rene Prieto suggests Asturias “is one of the forefathers of the on-going literary revolution” (p.5) which proposes Asturias aims to expose the true reality of Latin American society‚ which deals with the struggles of political corruption during the dictatorship regime of Manuel Estrada Cabrera. Unlike a traditional
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candidate that would be a transitional pope. The cardinals choose someone they thought would be rather harmless‚ simple‚ and out have a quick term as head of the church. So in October of 1958 they elected Angelo Roncalli. As pope‚ Angelo took the name John the XXIII‚ which was almost blasphemous‚ because anyone who knew anything about church history knew the last John was 500 years ago and was considered a false pope. Pope Jon XXIII choose his name in hopes to restore legitimacy to the name. On January
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against the Catholic church at the same time‚ Ulrich Zwingli. Ulrich Zwingli was a well-known reformer in Zurich who fought against the Catholic church in many ways. Zwingli was born to a farming family in 1484 and studied at various schools until he ultimately became a priest. While he studied scripture‚ he focused on salvation and what it meant to be saved. His focus in life was to understand God and salvation‚ and to help others to be saved. Zwingli openly spoke out against the Catholic church and led
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