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    ranch named Sayulapa. The population of Sayulapa is approximately 100 people or less. Where my father’s culture says “ incest is better than OK.” And example is my uncle married his cousin’s daughter. This is acceptable in my father’s culture because the population is very compact‚ so it is hard to not fall in love with someone who is part of you family. It is very difficult for my family in Mexico to navigate around without an automobile‚ especially when the city is at least two hours away from where

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    Asian History in Mexico From attending the Mexican/Asian presentations last Tuesday I learned some new interesting facts about Asian/Mexican history. I found it interesting that there was a good deal of Japanese immigration over to Mexico. Before this presentation I never would have guessed that Japan and Mexico really had any history together. An interesting quote I noted from the second presenters slide was “I am 60% Mexican and 60% Japanese”. That being said‚ it is clear that a good number

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    In what ways are history and heritage similar‚ and in what ways are they different? For many years the difference between heritage and history has been confused. Often the line between the two is merged creating a general measure of difficulty when it comes to separating the two. ‘The relationship between heritage‚ history and memory has been subject to much debate recently among geographers‚ historians and cultural critics’1. However it is clear‚ that ‘Heritage is not history’2 and that ‘Heritage

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    book he mostly talked about the iideas of democratic and republican forms of government. The society should be organised. Included many preliminary ideas regarding specilization. If everybody does what they´re good at‚ then we will have more staff (e.g. shoesmaker) – everyone shoud be specialized in what they´re good at. Politics by Aristoteles Aristoteles work criticizing many of Platons ideas regarding how society should be run and examining different forms of governments. It began a discussion

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    1985 Mexico City earthquake The 1985 Mexico City earthquake‚ a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck Mexico City on the early morning of 19 September 1985 at around 7:19 AM‚ caused the deaths of at least 10‚000 people and serious damage to the greater Mexico City Area. The area most severely hit by the earthquake had the highest concentration of hospitals. Most of the damages occurred in secondary and tertiary hospitals. Thirteen hospitals of six or more floors were partially or totally

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    The economy of Latin American countries such as Argentina have often focused on only one main product at a time and imported many of the other products needed. Argentina especially followed this economic strategy in the late 1800’s. Latin American countries focus on one product it does well and does not stray from that product. The countries were just following trends and taking advantage of what the market dictates is a worthwhile product. This strategy can fall short of having long-term success

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    In what ways are the government deficits harmful to the economy? The Bad The main worry about deficits is crowding out. Crowding in was just described ?€" it occurs when deficits cause output to go up and business confidence is increased. Crowding out comes about when deficit spending raises interest rates. There is a limited amount of funds available for investment‚ and when government competes with the private sector for a share of these funds to finance its deficit spending‚ it drives the cost

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    In studying a nation‚ different factors and aspects have to be well examined: history‚ geography‚ people‚ government‚ cultureeconomy‚ education‚ and environment of that country. In our case‚ restrictions of time and effort imply confining to some issues‚ namely culture and economy. Tanzania is a nation where religion‚ culturehistory and traditions vary differently when compared to others especially in its culture. Tanzania has originated from two countries‚ Tanganyika and Zanzibar‚ which were

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    BUSINESS CULTURE AND ETIQUETTE IN MEXICO BUSINESS ETIQUETTE IN MEXICO 1. Greetings 2. Names and Titles 3. Business Meetings 4. Conversation Topics 5. Negotiation 6. Business Entertaining 7. Gift giving 8. Practical Advice Business Culture & Etiquette Guides GREETINGS The usual form of greeting is shaking hands. A man should wait for a woman to hold out her hand first. Men‚ who already know each other‚ usually embrace each other. The usual form of an embrace is as follows: first

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    other cities. This was the first written history. Their class structure was prevalent in the architecture. The Mayas economic system revolved around Maize. The Mayas treated maize similarly to how they would treat a God. Maize gave the Mayas the ability to become a civilized society. It became a prosperous crop which allowed them to be healthy and reproduce. It is clear in the “Popol Vuh” that the Gods created human beings out of maize.[1] The economy ran on maize because it however the crops

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