Essays on Americas

“Every election is determined by those who show up,” Canada is a country with nearly twenty-six million eligible electors according to Elections Canada, however, only sixty-eight percent of these citizens showed up to the polls on election day in twenty-fifteen. This number is an upgrade...

Peru is affected by archaeological discoveries of many civilizations, from the highlands to the coast. Two decades in the past, a national Geographic team located Juanita the Ice Maiden, an Inca princess sacrificed on Mount Ampato greater than 500 years ago. handiest inside the remaining...

Abstract This paper aims to chart the adoption of the principles and practices of mixed-use within Canada, from its origins to its current implementation. Drawing on some examples where mixed-use has been established as an instrument in planning policies, the paper aims to bring to...

Introduction Food security is having access to nutrition and affordable food and water. Peru has struggled with issues of chronic hunger and malnutrition for years. High rates of poverty, gender inequality, and lack of access to education have contributed to hunger-related issues throughout the country....

Peru is the third country with the largest export of avocado food products, generating approximately 250 million dollars a year. The purpose of the essay is the analysis of their relationship and the history between Peru and Mexico in matters of export-import in many sectors....

The largest country in South America and the fifth largest nation in the world. Brazil, is known for its hot, arid, and humid dense forests, including the Amazon, the world’s biggest jungle in the north. Not only that but the immense plateaus, and long coastal...

In 1976 General Jorge Rafael Videla overthrew the government of Isabel Peron and led a military dictatorship all the way through 1983. In 1976 it was argued by Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Massera, and Orlando Ramón Agosti in the military junta of March 1976 that...

In all cultures, people have different values, beliefs and traditions that make their cultures unique. Cultures do not vary only from country to country, but they also vary from family to family. In the United States there are many different ethnicities, races and genders which...

Many aspects of Brazil’s society make it different from the United States. The weather, ethnic and racial populations and landscape are just a few of the surface differences. But when discussing work place cultural attitudes, one of the primary differences can be found in the...

Abstract What are the cultural differences and similarities in dating and marriage culture between Brazil and the United States and how does this affect relationships? This paper explores the cultural factors that affect love and marriage in these two counties. An external search for information...

The Canadian Counter Culture in the 1960s – 1970s: it refers to an antiestablishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom and United States of America then spread throughout most of the western world. It was all started by the youth. Many people...

Before the Panama Canal was built, and before the country of Panama had its independence from Colombia, there was much debate on where the canal should be placed. A majority of scholars and intellectuals agreed that Nicaragua was the most ideal location because the country...

The case study I have chosen for this paper is the population control in Peru. The Fujimori administration is when Alberto Fujimori was president of Peru. President Fujimori was in office since late July of 1990 to late November of 2000. At this time, the...

With the Quiet Revolution and developing national self-assurance during the 1960s, the Quebec provincial government played a considerably more dynamic job in migration strategy. In this unique situation, migration to the region came to be seen as an apparatus to fortify the francophone idea of...

The game of lacrosse that we know today is far from what it was at its’ origins in early North American society. Some of the earliest forms of what we know as lacrosse were called baggataway or tewaarathon. According to Morrow (1989), there were approximately...

In 2012, Québec and Canada encountered the best ever understudy smack in the narratives. The smack kept going a while from thirteen Feb to seven Sep 2012 and set understudies in Québec alongside to the commonplace administration with the issue of education cost increments. Significant...

Introduction In Peru, there is a group of indigenous people referred to as “The Mountain People”. They have a very interesting way of living, and for many years have been forced to adapt to extreme ways of living to keep themselves and their culture alive....

Today Peru is going through a drastic change in government following years of corruption and confusion. The government has been investigating three of the former presidents. This has all climaxed as the current president, Martín Vizcarra, used a power given to him in their constitution...

The study of civil wars has grown in importance for both scholars and practitioners since the 1990s. With many preoccupied over finding causative factors explaining the onset and duration of internal conflicts. Scholars, such as Hans Enzensberger (1993), Martin Van Creveld (1991) and Robert Kaplan...