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Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

Wal-Mart Banking in Mexico

The Finance Ministry in Mexico have formally approved Wal-Mart and issues a licence for Walmex (Wal-Mart de Mexico) (Adler, 2006)....

The Subculture Of Malls As Locations With Social Function

represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that peo...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

Latino Groups in the United States

disappearing, worsening their economic situation (Verdugo, 2006). However, their large numbers and increasing activism give them a...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States

not do. Mexicans work for wages that white people laugh at. They slave away in agricultural fields producing the food we eat and w...

Mexican Cement Company CEMEX

the latter 1980s and the 1990s, mainly through acquisitions (Podolny and Roberts, 1999). What also helped was liberalization of fo...

Body, Gender, and the Discourses of Mexico, Islam, and Hinduism

of both a man and a woman. These are considered to be pure beings made of Divine Consciousness which can be whatever they need t...

Frida Kahlo's Colors and Artistic Intimacy

as well as her physical problems from contracting polio as a child and injuries that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925...

Economic Collapse of Mexico Analyzed

correction to the exchange rate of the Mexican peso but the confidence was soon shattered as the crunch began to be felt in financ...

A Look at Two Mergers

the FTCs complaint is true, "alleging that the systems three hospitals extracted huge price increases from payers after the deal a...

Douglas Monroy's Thrown Among Strangers and California Ranchos

were transubstantiated into ranchos" (Monroy, 1993; 127). These ranchos eventually came to have a very romantic depiction in stori...

Mexican Identity and the Significance of Porfirio Diaz

really contingent on the efforts of the leadership that was around at the time. Meyer explains: "Porfirio D?az controlled the des...

California's Migrant Mexican Farm Workers

CUOM, which is a group of Mexican workers who worked in the Imperial Valley (2005). In 1933, a strike was called and three quarte...

Mexican Revolution and the Impact of Intervention by the United States

the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a time of tremendous social upheaval. During this decade-long turmoil roughly ...

Mexican Immigration According to Rodolfo Acuna and Ernesto Galarza

culture and was a leader in the Chicano movement of the 1950 and 60s. Galarza saw the treatment of Mexican agricultural workers as...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

different and tied to their country of origin. II. Mexican Americans Mexican Americans, as well as Puerto Rican and Cuban Amer...

Frida: A Reaction Paper

surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...

1911 to 1914 Revolution in Mexico

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

Death in the Paintings 'My Birth' by Frida Kahlo and 'The Trench' by Jose Clemente Orozco

me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...

Immigrants Today and of the Second Wave and a Consideration of Their Financial Status

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

Urban Modernization, Rights of Workers, and Mexico

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

The Mexican Government Analysis of Alan Riding

principal emphasis in this article is on the centralization of the Mexican government, as evidenced by the authoritarian nature of...

Development of the Mexican Economy

in an emerging market. An emerging market is "a country making an effort to change and improve its economy with the goal of...

Analysis of Stories Featured in The Burning Plain by Rulfo

flood. While many might examine such as story and wonder why anyone would go to such extremes over a dead cow, this...

Mexico's Identity Remaking

hero" to be integrated to the revolutionary capital (Moreno, 1997). Contradictory views of the Revolution began to evolved from...

Muralists of Mexico, Orozco, Siquieros, and Rivera

The aristocratic sections of society had fully embraced all things European and as such had negated their Indian and native origin...

Patrolling the Border

responding to electronic sensor alarms and aircraft sightings, and interpreting and following tracks" (U.S. Customs & Border Prote...

Immigration of Mexicans and Italians

amount of concern over Italian immigration today. Italy is a relatively small country that poses no stress to the United States to...