Essays on Americas

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...

Mexico during the early 20th century was a state of unease, high tension and resentment as a result of land exhaustion, political unrest, economic and social inequality. There is still some unease regarding the validity of the Mexican Revolution from 1910-1920. As there were various...

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...

After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada responded quickly by developing several concentration camps for Japanese civilians of any descent, including Canadians. The individuals at the camps were stripped of their homes, businesses, and even separated by their families. In the novel Obasan, Joy...

A “Chinatown” is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people who have established their population in an urban setting, often seen in a prospering city like Toronto. Being a multicultural city, the immigrants who have slowly migrated over time have come to see that the acceptance...

Since the beginning of Teddy Roosevelt’s administration, he needed to imperialize the United States. He accepted that building a waterway in Latin America would be a decent method to imperialize. It would associate the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and would be a lot snappier...

In the modern age, opportunity can present itself in a flash but just as quickly it can leave your hands. As cannabis is becoming a new age cash crop, more and more countries are getting in line for a slice of the pie. Countries are...

Costa Rica is a country in Central America with beautiful destinations. Even though Costa Rica is known for its volcanoes, beaches, and waterfalls, they have many social and economical problems. One of the main problems in Costa Rica is poverty and giving children the best...

Costa Rica’s infrastructure has been improving over the years though it is still not very strong. It has some major highways but in general, road conditions are not good. It is placed close to the top of the Global Innovation Index but ranks low on...