OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America looks at the political, economic and social history of Latin America. Mr. Galeano argues that the More Developed Countries played a main role in the "Lesser Developed Country" status Latin America has been...

The Monroe Doctrine The nineteenth century was an exciting and vibrant era that not only dramatically altered the physical face of our nation due to the rapid development of large cities and manufacturing facilities, but also helped modify and shape the values that have come to define our Amer...

Golazo is a local Seattle company that started in October 2010 by co-founders Richard Tait and Alex Rosnast in order to provide energy and sports drink goods. The name Golazo came from the Spanish word meaning a brilliant goal in soccer (Golazo, 2010). Often, passionate soccer fans scream this word ...

Religions Spread Through Conquest When studying history, both in a professional and academic sense, we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal conezts of human nature, a bond that forms from continent to continen...

Isabel Allende, a Chilean author famous for many Latin American fiction works, incorporated magico realismo, or magic realism, into her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Magic realism is described as the interest of displaying a common or daily scene in a story, but implementing a strangenes...

The alternating struggles for political independence in Brazil and Cuba. One may be stating the obvious by saying that both Cuba and Brazil are both Latin American countries when asked to make a comparison between the two. But this is one of a very shortlist of similarities between these two very...

Magic Realism appeared as a critical term for the arts and it later extended to literature. The term was first used by the German critic Franz Roh in 1925 to characterize a group of Post-Expressionist painters. Franz Roh described it as a form in which "our real world re-emerges before our...