Communes of Chile Essays

  • San Miguelito

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    San Miguelito... It has what you like is officially founded April 14, 1597 by a group of tarascan Indians and Mexicans from the village of Tlaxcalilla, commanded by the Mexican Francisco Jocquinque. In the application of Foundation, approved by Luis Valderrama Saavedra, Mayor of San Luis Potosí, settled at the new town, you were granted 2 thousand 500 rods of land in table, measured from the orchard of the convent of San Francisco more or less in the present street of Pascual M. Hernandez. Quickly

  • The Cause Of The Great Chilean Earthquake In Chile

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    considered one of the largest registered in history happened on a Sunday of March 22, 1960 at around 3:11pm local time in Chile. Its epicenter was registered near the neighborhoods of the city of Valdivia, Chile and had a magnitude of 9.6 on the Richter scale. After the main shock, a series of major Earthquakes were registered between May 21 and June 6 that affected much of Southern Chile. The quake was felt in different parts of the planet and produced a tsunami that hit several towns along the Pacific

  • Ecuador Grapes and Wine

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    the world. Its cultivation started in Egypt and then extended around Europe in countries like Spain, Italy and Portugal. Traditional producers and exporters are European countries, but in a few years grape production has increased in countries like Chile, which currently is the second largest exporter of this fruit. Late last century, growing grapes was consolidated in Ecuador, but just with a few hectares from tropical climate. During the last 15 years Ecuador has started to be more competitive in

  • Chile Changed My Life

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    Karen Andrade International Studies 492 Professor Kenneth R. Curtis December 1, 2014 Chi-Chi- Chi- le- le- le- Viva Chile “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone” by Wendell Berry. As I traveled to Chile for the study abroad semester program, this was my experience as Wendell exposed in her quote. As I heard many of students say, “Studying abroad changed my life”, the phrase that

  • Capitalism Is Based On The Same Principles As Mercantilism

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    The History of Capitalism Capitalism is based on the same principles as mercantilism. The accumulation of means, materials, land and other things, this accumulation is called capital and “the property-owners of these means of production are called capitalists” (Hooker 2). Productive labor, human work that is necessary to make goods and distribute them, takes the form of wage labor. “The means of production and labor is manipulated by the capitalist using rational calculation in order to realize

  • Youth Civic Engagement and Communication for Development and Social Change

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    against alien immigrant to the Indian state of Assam (Youniss, Bales, Chrismas-Best, Diversi, McLaughlin, & Silbereisen, 2002), as the anti-corruption movements in Latin America and Asia, as the protest of school pupils and university students in Chile against the government education policy, and not least, “Arab Spring”, the uprising of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, which it gained worldwide attention (KAS, 2012). According to United Nations (UN) (2007) World Youth Report, youth defined