One such confrontation was the thirty-six-year civil war waged from 1960 to 1996 in the small Central American country of Guatemala. The many parties involved in the war would state different reasons for it. A careful scrutiny of the issue, however, reveals that the causes of the Guatemalan Civil War were racism towards and oppression of the native Mayan citizens, disputes regarding the use and ownership of land, and a desire for economic and political power. Mayans have been oppressed and systematically eradicated since Spain conquered Guatemala in 1520 (“Guatemala: A Brief History”). Although cruelty by the Spaniards ceased with Guatemala’s liberation in 1821, new groups arose to continue the oppression.
The rough Winter most likely was the cause to 70 deaths. Based on the “Background Essay”, “Then, in the awful winter of 1609-1610, another two-thirds of the settlers died.” Harsh winters were bound to happen. There was nothing anybody could do about it or prevent it. The colonists could have prepared for it, but because they did not have the current technology, they could have not possibly predicted that a rough winter was coming their way. According to “Document D”, in 1607 August through October “Summer sickness kills half the colonists” The summer of 1607 was so severe that it killed 50 people.
There were 288 local businesses looted and burned, which were not capable of being rebuilt and never returned following the Watts Riots. With all of those businesses lost, the jobs occupied by residents were lost as well. The black community had a high unemployment rate, and the popular belief was that black people were not being afforded equal opportunity regarding employment. Poverty soared with the high unemployment rate. In the end, 288 businesses worth an estimated $200 million were looted and destroyed.
Corruption, school-dropouts, and alcoholism are to blame for most of the poor. The land the Native-Americans live on is hard to harvest; therefore farming for food and vegetables can be hard. Property rights on the reservation tend to be non-existent, and weaken prosperity for this culture. Most of lands that Native-Americans live are communally, no one is able to get a clear title to his or her land, making is hard to borrow money or establish credit for improvements or investments they will benefit families. This is called tragedy of the commons, when everyone owns the land no one really owns the land which results in rundown housing due to lack of investments on the property or housing.
HAITI: THE JEWEL OF THE ANTILLES Haiti was once called The Jewel of the Antilles because it was the richest colony in the entire world and the busiest trade center in the New World. Economist estimate that in the 1750s Haiti produced about 40% of all the sugar and 60% of all the coffee consumed in all Europe by 1780. The colony employed a thousand ships and 15.000 French sailors. In France the products were refined, packaged and sold all over Europe. There were incredible amount of fortunes that was made from this tiny colony on the island of Hispaniola.
Haiti A Third World Country Strayer University SOC 300 Deborah Sarmiento Nicole Braun March 10, 2013 HAITI A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY 2 Haiti A Third World Country Haiti today is in a state of near-complete disorder, verging on chaos in some areas. The trauma of repeated, massive flooding in the northwest has only exacerbated Haiti’s already desperate political, economic, and security situation. Moreover, there is little reason for optimism in the near future. Haiti’s police force is in complete disarray; the only forces capable of bringing some degree of order are the understaffed UN peacekeeping force, currently operating at just over half its mandated strength, and the loose patchwork of illegal but armed gangs and militias that have taken control of various parts of the island. The latter have demonstrated disturbing patterns of open violence and a lack of respect for the rule of law.
The CIA equipped and trained more then 400 men fight under the command of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, and these men were also used for propaganda campaigns. They even created a Voice of Liberation radio station which would inform its listeners how the government is disloyal and can’t be trusted. The operation successfully ended leading Arbenz's to resign from office. The "Ten Years of Spring," is referred to the decade of dramatic social, economic, and political change that had occurred in Guatemala. This question has been asked many times “Why Do We Fight?” I honestly don’t think there is one single answer to this question because every single fight has its own reason and why it has occurred.
The Central African Republic has the second lowest level of human development in the world. Out of the 4.9 million people that live in CAR, 2.5 million are food insecure. No human on earth can survive without food and residents of CAR are struggling to feed their families a healthy meal. When food is available, the prices skyrocket so much that almost nobody can afford to feed their families. Subsistence farming is used in the Central African Republic to make ends meet.
The problem with starving people in America is that, first of all people are starving. Then you have people who might die from not getting enough food. If homeless people have kids then it makes babies not get the nutrition that they should be getting. It just spreads all over tell about half of Americas population will be homeless or starving. No one should ever have to live through that, ever.
The poor children living in the harsh conditions in Africa and any other children with similar circumstances. Those types of poor children live lives that are much worse than most of the stressed adults in North America. There are millions of children who are six years old and they have the responsibility to take of not only themselves, but their siblings as well. If that wasn't harsh enough, they have little to no access to the supplies they desperately need. They have nobody to look after them.