Essays about America Page 5

Did you know Finland has one of the highest graduation rate and Mexico has one of lowest graduation rate, Why is that? Finland is a country in Northern Europe with population of six million people and its considered to be a homogeneous country. Finland is a parliamentary democracy with a multiparty political system. Sauli Niinistö…

Is there a systemic discrimination practiced by the health care members in the Canadian health care system? The medicare, since its inception is widely used as an exemplary model for healthcare around the globe due its ground principles of universality, accessibility and comprehensiveness. The issue of discrimination arises when these core principles are disregarded by…

Taking a political approach to the Mexican drug wars is essential to understand how power relations amongst the stakeholders within this conflict have shifted over the years and how it has led to this violent escalation. The first part of this political section will analyze Mexico’s political transformation since 2000 and explain how this led…

In a stump speech, Mexico’s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised potential voters “We’re going to end the corruption, the impunity, and the privileges enjoyed by a small élite. . .[so that] the leaders of this country can recover their moral and political authority” (Anderson 2018, 8). Obrador’s election in July marked a significant shift…

Conflicts about race in Brazil has brought fourth much analysis and research over the years and has allowed individuals to question the ideology that Brazil is a racial democracy. Understanding the main aspects of a racial consensus allows us to analyze it not only as myth or legend, but also as constitutional obligation. The society…

Abstract Have you heard about York University, UBC and Western University? They are all my dream universities. I hope to have the opportunity to complete my study life in this kind of school. Each of them has its strengths and areas of expertise. I would like to study business, so the business courses in these…

Evidently, her experience as an organizer and the position she held within the UFW distinguished her from other Latina women in the movement, as well as rendered her visibility in the public. However, one can clearly see that her recognition as a leader stems from the positions she held as well as the dominance and…

In an attempt to advertise burger flavors from cross-border regions, Texican Whooper from Europe has been faced with criticism from Mexico. Mexicans have protested against this advertisement claiming it shows disrespect to their national flag. The people of Mexico feel so since in the advertisement, a short man is seen dressed in a wresting artier…

Labor and Legality is an ethnography by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz in which the lives of undocumented Mexican workers who work as busboys in the Chicago area are portrayed. Ruth Gomberg-Munoz is a socio-cultural anthropologist which research interest focuses on political economy, migration race, class and urban ethnography. Her interest in Mexican workers grew by waiting tables…

Many academic writings recount how Jews were expelled from Spain or subjects of conversion to Christianity in the 15th century (Bejarano 2012). Universities teach about the Inquisition in Latin American countries like Colombia and how Jews and their descendants in both the Iberian Peninsula and the Colonies were persecuted over centuries. But the books usually…