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    The Mexican Spanish dialect is one that began to form in 1521 during Spain’s conquest of the Aztec Empire. The various dialects which are Latin America originate from either Castilian‚ the written and educational standard in Spain‚ or Andalusian‚ which is spoken in the southern regions of Seville and Andalucía‚ Spain. When Europe began colonizing the Americas‚ both dialects were carried over into the Latin American regions. Castilian was integrated in large cities and administrative areas such as

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    The Causes of Poverty in Mexico | |[pic] |Are you aware that 20 million people in Mexico live on less than two dollars a day? Sixty million people‚ half the Mexican | |population‚ live in poverty‚ and 20 million of them live in extreme poverty. Most of the time‚ garbage is their food‚ and some | |days‚ they don’t even eat anything. This critical situation in Mexico is caused by individual‚ geographic and political factors. | |The purpose of this essay is to analyze these three main causes

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    conflict of colliding cultures and values begin. Flor‚ who was abandoned by her husband‚ needed one last opportunity for change in order to give her daughter a better life and future. Flor‚ who does not speak any English‚ decides to emigrate from Mexico to the United States. In order to raise Cristina properly she needed as much of a security of her own culture as possible so she rolled through Texas‚ just 34% Hispanic‚ to Los Angeles‚ 48% Hispanic. Flor felt she was right back at home in Los Angeles

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    Josh Gilman-Chun 4/7/16 Period: 6 Argentina vs. Mexico Argentina is a vast country located in the southern part of South America. The eighth largest country in the world‚ it is the second largest country in South America after Brazil‚ and it’s about one-third the size of the United States. Argentina is bordered by the Andes Mountains and Chile to the west. Mexico on the other hand is a land of extremes‚ with high mountains and deep canyons in the center of the country‚ sweeping

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    Victor Frankenstein‚ was a well educated man who spent the majority of his life dedicated to science. The times when not buried in research he spent with his family and his soon to be wife Elizabeth Lavenza. Victor eventually went off to college where he met a few men who also shared a love for science the way he did. While at college Victor became fascinated in re-creation and bringing the dead back to life‚ The Creature. The Creature‚ made from all artificial matter in the science lab by Victor

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    power of the economically advanced indigenous societies that already existed‚ and to generally exploit the labor power of the indigenous peoples (pp. 135 – 138). 1. In the Caribbean‚ the Spanish encomiendas used indigenous labor in gold extraction; the abuses on Española‚ however‚ were so dramatic that the Spanish king Ferdinand had to issue the Laws of Burgos (1512) to regulate

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    This was also the most severe recession in over a decade with GDP falling over 6% in 1995. (A.M. 2012). This crisis came about because of the large scale reform in Mexico during the 80’s. Among these reforms were president Miguel de la Madrid’s (82-88) decision to liberalize trade

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    Who Am I? While learning the Spanish culture‚ to get a more in depth understanding‚ I took the liberty of interviewing my Spanish speaking peers via Facebook group chat. While interviewing I found a common trend that within the Latin/Hispanic culture in regards to family gatherings‚ food‚ and tradition. “When we party my mom makes me greet EVERYONE! And I hate it.”- Danny Saldaña an 18-year-old Mexican who family comes from Mexico City. In the Mexican tradition its considered rude or disrespectful

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    the United States from Mexico. They sought for a brighter and better future for us and fought tooth and nail to give us the world they didn’t have growing up. Ever since I had stepped foot on U.S soil I never had the chance to go back. The sacrifices that permitted me to be able to attend school for free and giving me a better head start than I would’ve had if we’d stayed couldn’t mask the effects of the move. I didn’t grow up being enriched by the colorful culture that Mexico has‚ I missed out on

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    Comparative Politics Project Vicente Fox and Mexico Comparative Politics Project The Vicente Fox victory shows that Mexico has accomplished the rare feat of ending an authoritarian regime by voting it out of office. The level of corruption that kept the rich getting richer and leaving the rest to live in poverty was the catalyst to help Fox and the National Action Party‚ PAN‚ overcome the long ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party‚ PRI. The countries middle class‚ entrepreneurs‚ wealthy and

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