A year ago I had to come to live in the United States‚ had many concerns‚ including the main concern was the trip as it was a long journey from Nicaragua‚ I had to travel alone and added to this had to take two planes. Finally came the day of travel‚ take my things I said goodbye to my family‚ my parents and my brothers. My parents came to me the airport‚ from the time I was in my house until the time you arrive at the airport had in my mind the thought that the plane was going to leave me‚ when
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“Please ma’am‚ I’ll love you forever.” The line sounded rehearsed‚ as if he had spoken these words multiple times a day for many years. His glossy brown eyes penetrated my startled blue ones for as long as I let them until I turned away. His dirtied innocent face was one that came straight out of a UNICEF commercial‚ the sort that caught you off guard during a commercial break of your favorite TV show. Wistful faces of impoverished children flick before your eyes as a concerned voice insists that
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The Third World places like Asia‚ Africa‚ and Latin America were all mostly developing nations they were very poor and politically unstable‚ they didn’t have great education or technology. The Soviet Union‚ United States and sometimes China tried to get support in the Third World. They tried backing the wars of counterrevolution‚ liberation and revolution. Smart spies of the United States and Soviet Union also called the CIA or the KGB were investigating and many things such as many convert‚ or secret
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necessary for such purposes‚ The same for the organization and good functioning of sports and recreational associations and federations‚ with the support of the national and international community. Baseball Baseball is the most popular sport in Nicaragua and its national team enjoys a strong tradition in the field of world amateur baseball with several sub-championships conquered. Nicaraguan baseball has players who have managed to be part of the Major Leagues
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as unequal pay; limited career opportunities; harassment in every form; and‚ unfair health and reproductive rights. Being luckily born into a dying middle class‚ I have had access to education and many life and career favorable circumstances. In Nicaragua‚ I am privileged‚ and yet I could not stop feeling hopelessness for a long time. My privileges mean little if they are not used for a greater cause. I come from a business and finance background. For the over seven years I have been in the labor
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happened at our missions conference at our church on October 2011. The missionaries from Nicaragua invited our family to come visit them for a week. I didn’t want to leave the United States. I was sad to think about traveling that far away and leaving behind my family and friends. We started praying about going and in February of 2012 we boarded the plane at Gerald R Ford International Airport and headed to Nicaragua. I was still sad‚ but it was kind of exciting to be on an airplane for the first
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world through your own eyes. My significant change came at an early stage‚ without any hesitation my parents sent my sister and I to Nicaragua for 4 years. After we landed the only person I knew that spoke English or was from Miami was the flight attendant itself‚ after that it was my sister and I against a family that we briefly recognize. It was mentioned that Nicaragua‚ was a poor country but at that time‚ it was nonsense to a seven year old child that basically was given everything with just a cry
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Growing up in Nicaragua‚ my family had never been one to have an abundance of money. At the age of 10‚ my mother had to wake up at the crack of dawn everyday to pick up the fallen fruits from trees‚ go into the city and try to sell them to tourists in hopes of making enough money so that she and her brothers could eat that day. She was forced to become the adult of the family when she should have been in school like the other kids her age. She was deprived of the one thing that meant everything
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Cecocafen: Providing Hope in an Unstable Market Case Synopsis This case explores the viability of an inexperienced coffee cooperative buying a dry processing mill in Nicaragua. The Center of Northern Coffee Cooperatives (Cecocafen) is only two years old and believes that it is vital to their social mission and business strategy that they control the entire production chain to improve quality and ensure consistency of its product. The cooperative faces substantial challenges in completing
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TITLE PAGE: CASE STUDY 1 Case Study Martina Ferrine December 2‚ 2014 Devry University Professor Morello TITLE PAGE: CASE STUDY 2 Questions for exploration: What did some reform-minded Catholics in Nicaragua hope that the pope might do during his visit to that country? What position did the pope eventually make clear to the Nicaraguan priests? Why were some Nicaraguan Catholics disappointed with the pope’s position on political action? What did they correctly
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