GEO 373 Latin American Geographies Essay One There are quite a few imaginative geographies that can be found from many authors completing travel writings relating to Latin America. To fully understand where these writings are coming from‚ one must first know what is meant by ‘imaginative geographies.’ According to the author‚ Gareth Jones‚ imaginative geographies can be categorized by connections of global cultural flows as ethnoscapes‚ mediascapes‚ technoscapes‚ finanscapes and ideoscapes
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2010‚ Argentina became the first Latin American county to legalize same-sex marriage. Allowing for the first time thousands of Argentinian people to be legally allowed to be with those they love. This law became passed in spite of venomous opposition from the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church opposing the LGBTQ community is not a 2000’s phenomenon‚ however. With the recent rise in acknowledgment for these once marginalizes groups‚ historians of colonial Latin America have taken an interest in these
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Revolutions have flourished through our history and have been mostly successful. All Revolutions cause Chaos that create similarities and differences between them. The Chinese and American Revolution has many similarities and differences. Three similarities between them are the American Sons of Liberty is just like the Chinese National revolutionaries group‚ they both were taxed on‚ and they both had people smuggle. Three differences between them are instead of the British soldiers massacring
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Clothes in Chile and general Latin America Clothing styles throughout Latin America vary from region to region and have been influenced through several different sources. Fashion in Latin America today and traditional fashions of Latin America differ dramatically. Climate‚ location‚ isolation‚ population‚ economy‚ history‚ colonial influences are many of the sources that have helped to contribute to these changes. Traditional Latin American fashion varied form region to region but maintained a distinctive
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French Revolution/ Napoleonic Era WHEN THE KING TOOK FLIGHT * National “Constituent” Assembly‚ the new assembly not only set to work drawing up France’s first constitution‚ but engineered a wholesale transformation of French political and social structures that went far beyond anything most of them had requested in their grievance lists. * During the French Revolution‚ the Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792. It provided the focus of
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Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers. Tales of Parasites and People.” Desowitz mainly focuses on river blindness throughout Africa but discusses how this life-altering parasite was brought to Latin America and where it is prevalent. Desowitz (1981‚ p. 92) states that river blindness was first introduced to America in two waves. The first wave was in 1590 when slaves from West Africa were brought to Columbia and Venezuela for gold mining. The second occurred when Napoleon III sent Sudanese troops to
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The countries that led most of the exploration of South and Central America were Spain and Portugal. They have introduced many changes to the new conquered territory. It all begins with the search for better access to new routes of trade with Asia. At the European explorations‚ countries like Spain and Portugal were the pioneers in the discovery and conquest of new lands. Portugal and Spain during their voyages accidentally came upon the western hemisphere; then soon started to exploit the new land
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 Slavery in the Americas was quite diverse. Mining operations in the tropics experienced different needs and suffered different challenges than did plantations in more temperate areas of Norther Brazil or costal city’s serving as ports for the exporting of commodities produced on the backs of the enslaved peoples from the African continent. This essay will look at these different situations and explore the factors that determined the treatment of slaves‚ the consequences of that treatment
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Latin America is as isolated as Gabriel Garcia Marquez pinpoints in his novel 1000 Years of Solitude. A Nation filled with poverty and scared by the mark of imperialism modernization has happened at a slower rate for the people of this region. As a result of this Latin Americans are limited in their use of the internet and other forms of digital communication. Research shows that Latin America is not as isolated as it has been in the past. This is due to the introduction of the cell phone. Cell
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Revolutions in the eighteenth century saw a drastic change for Europe‚ which had been mainly ruled by monarchies since the fall of the Roman Empire. One such revolution was the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic Wars that followed. This drastic change in France spread to neighboring countries like Spain and Portugal‚ and in turn spread to their colonies in the Americas. The Napoleonic Wars enabled the citizens of Spanish America and Brazil to question their systems of governance‚ which
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