Mesoamerica comprises most of the lower region of Mexico and upper Central America. It consists of a broad range of ecological environments, from deserts, grasslands, and coniferous forests of the northern and central highlands to the dense tropical jungles and savannahs of the lowlands. Much of its...

Engineered Risks "The Silent Spring", by Rachel Carson states how pesticides, which are used to kill unwanted plants and insects to improve and protect agriculture, dramatically inflict harmful effects on the environment and life itself and intentionally have failed to have been told to...

The Inca and the Aztec were alike in some ways but also had very large differences. The Inca lived on the northeastern coast of South America from 1450 AD to 1535 AD. The Aztecs lived in central Mexico from 1325 AD to 1523 AD. Let\'s look at the agriculture. The Inca had an advanced agriculture s...

"The Porfirato" is the name given by historians to the period 1876-1910 in Mexico.The Mexican government was under the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz,who was responsible for implementing Mexican Modernization during his 34 year reign. Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915) was of Spanish and Indegenous...

The twentieth century, specifically the period of after WWII was a period of great change for Latin America. One of these changes has been immigration from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and etc. Many people incorrectly believe most Latin Americans...

Million of Immigrants settled in United States, its diversity of different culture during 1900 – 1930. California is one of the highest Mexican Immigrants settled in this state. Almost all worked as agricultural wage laborers. Mexican Americans ancestry became object of one of the larg...

Mexico, the United States\' neighbor, directly to the south is a country of many contradictions. It is typically looked at as poor or \"third-worldly\" by many, yet it is has one of the most advanced public telecommunications network in the world. Its capital Mexico City is as cosmopolitan and mod...

While still in office, President Bill Clinton emerged from a meeting with 33 Western Hemisphere leaders and made an ambitious pledge. By 2005, he promised, a ''Free Trade Area of the Americas would stretch from Alaska to Argentina'' and ''will be the world's largest market.'' He had the idea of comb...

The Aztecs The history of the Aztecs begins with the Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica. The greatest power the Americas had ever seen, the Maya were advanced in agriculture, as they had learned from the Incas, and built huge cities, with pyramids that told the movement of the planets and the earth...

In the past fifteen years, the sugar industry has been under has been under fire for numerous different reasons. Most of which has been the destruction of the Everglades and its habitat. Since then, sugar farmers have did their part to help protect the Everglades by donating millions of dollars an...

NAFTA On January 1st, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, creating the world's largest free trade area. Among the main objectives is the liberalization of trade between Canada, Mexico and the United States, to stimulate economic growth and give the NAFTA countri...

The region now known Buenos Aires had outgrown Spain's political and economic domination in 1776. By May 25, 1810 a revolution broke out because of the discontent with Spanish interference. Soon in 1816 it led to an independence from Spanish rule. Independence revealed the furious regional disc...

FTAA: A Risk for Latin America All pregnant women deserve the right to keep a job in safety conditions, but this is not the case for Laura Martinez, A 19 year old single pregnant women who lives in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Laura already has a one year old child. In order to feed herself and her chi...

My artist\'s name is Diego Rivera, and he is a Mexican painter who made murals on social themes and who was one of Mexico\'s greatest artists. He was born in Guanajuato and went to school at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He studied painting in Europe between 1907 and 1921...

Native American civilizations thrived in the Western Hemisphere before Europeans discovered the "New World." These civilizations had many similarities and contributed much to the development of the Latin American culture today. Each civilization was a part from each other, however they had...

Mexico is located in North America between the United States and Guatemala and is divided into 32 states. Guanjuato, Mexico, is bordered by San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Queretaro, and Michoacan. Guanajuato is divided into 46 municipalities; some of the most important are Celaya, San Miguel A...

Aztecs The story of the Aztecs is a remarkable one. The Aztecs managed to form an Empire from a simple hunter-gatherer group. They were fierce warriors pragmatic builders, the Aztecs ruthlessly created an empire in the fifteenth centu...

In Helena Maria Viramontes', "Under the Feet of Jesus", historical factors play an integral role in depicting life as a migrant laborer. Capitalism, colonialism, racialization, as well as exploitation are a few of the forces that prove to be important in mediating the political, social, and cul...

Physical Characteristics of Mexico Mexico's Geography, Topography and Climate It is estimated that Mexico has an area of nearly two million square kilometers, commonly defined by several regions: Central, Western, Northwestern, Baja California, Baja California Sur and the Northeastern Region...

Fausto de Elhuyar the man, the myth, the legend lived from 1775-1833. Elhuyar was no ordinary chemist. Along with being the co-discoverer of tungsten, he has written and published many of his works. He was the founder of the Royal school of mines in Mexico. Now that I've given you an overvi...

Mexico\'s membership of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since 1994 has attracted major investment from foreign countries. The focus of the foreign investment is on manufacturing. Nearly all the world\'s major companies are now present in Mexico. For example, according to the Economi...

There were many country-splitting issues that characterized the United States in the 1800s. A major one of these was Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States was destined to extend its territory west to the Pacific Ocean. The country separated as many people supported the idea, and many o...

Mexico Report Mexico is a Latin country with very distinct qualities. In this report I will cover the very basics of Mexico's history, culture: flag, parties, and food; people, government, military, transnational issues, communications, transportation, and geography. Mexico is v...

Diego Rivera\'s painting, \"Mecanización del Campo,\" contains a great amount of symbolism and meaning because it is a reflection of the feelings he cannot put into words. The figures represented in this painting are that of a woman, sitting in the center, three men standing on the right, three oth...

Part 1 The first inhabitants to occupy the Americas were Europeans from Spain and England. These settlers had the greatest deal of diversity spread through cultures and over the land. Each in itself created its\' own powerful empire and ruled and governed its people. These two groups also fought for...