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Papers On Mexico
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Ethnocentrism/Mexican-American Experience
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A 3 page essay that examines 2 texts and their historical perspective on Mexican American experience. Ethnocentrism is defined as the tendency to evaluate all other groups of people according to the values, standards and cultural traditions of one's own group. In other words, ethnocentrism connotes the idea that the way a particular society acts, believes, worships, and lives is the one "right" way and all others are perceived as "pagan," "primitive," or simply "wrong." Racism and bigotry find their roots in ethnocentrism and while racism is acknowledged in contemporary Western society as wrong, the roots of ethnocentrism are much harder to eradicate. This is shown by the scholarship of Rodolfo Acuna and Miguel Leon-Portillo and their accounts of classical indigenous and early mesoamerican history. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khacupor.rtf
Free Trade Agreements: The Realist Versus the Liberal Perspective:
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This 16 page paper details the differences in the realist versus the liberal perspectives in terms of free trade agreements. More specifically, this paper examines the world's largest free trade agreement: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in order to highlight the underlying idiological issues. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
Filename: GSFreeTr.rtf
Frida Kahlo
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This 9 page report discusses the short life of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and her remarkable paintings. She created art that has become recognized as some of the most provocative and profound paintings of the 20th century. Her work was generally small and almost always extremely personal. She created numerous self-portraits in a style that was both filled with fantasy and themes of native Mexican art, archaeology, and myth. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWfrida.rtf
Galarza & Acuna/Mexican Immigration
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A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses 2 books by these authors. Authors Rodolfo Acuna (Occupied America, 2000) and Ernesto Galarza (Barrio Boy, 1971) both discuss the centrality of Mexican immigration to American history and progress, but they do so from different perspectives that each shed light on Mexican immigrant experience. Acuna focuses on the role of Mexican immigrant labor to the success of agricultural endeavors in the US Southwest and how this contributed significantly to American prosperity. Galarza's book, as an autobiography, is a more personal account that reveals the route that naturalized Mexican-Americans have been compelled to follow in order to achieve success in the US. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khgalac.rtf
Gary Jennings/Aztec
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A 6 page book review and essay that consists of 2 parts, each 3 pages in length. The first half of the paper offers a synopsis of the novel Aztec by Gary Jennings. The write covers the structure and main topics of the novel, describing how it informs the reader about Aztec culture. The second part of the paper then compares Aztec culture to the modern world, pointing out similarities and differences. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khgjaz.rtf
Globalization Across Mexico's Borders and NAFTA
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An 8 page discussion of the impacts the increased contact between cultures that has occurred because of NAFTA is having on Mexican economy and culture. The author discusses the relative value verses detriment of these impacts. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PPnafta3.rtf
Harvey: “The Chiapas Rebellion”
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This 8 page paper discusses Neil Harvey’s book “The Chiapas Rebellion”: why he wrote it, what his arguments and hypotheses are; how he develops his arguments and his conclusion. Bibliography lists
Filename: HVChipas.rtf
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