Venezuela College Essays Samples For Students

Jose Antonio founded 35 years ago in Venezuela youth orchestra that according to his bio has “transformed thousands of kids’ lives in Venezuela.” In the TED Talk that this essay analyzes, he gives a speech recounting that journey, and also gives insight into what he believes would have an impact all around the world on students. He uses the personal anecdote of what he was able to do in Venezuela to challenge a change in the education system all over the word. This essay analyzes the rhetorical techniques that Antonio employs in order to make his point and convince his audience ...

In 1595, Sir Walter Raleigh made an appearance as first British since he required claims of the mythical city of El Dorado in British Guiana. The city was within the river system called Orinoco that is now found in (Venezuela British Guiana, & British Empire Exhibition, 57).
- Dutch was the first who completed a practical company by creating 3 colonies entitled Essequibo, Berbice and Demerara. However, there were weakened colonies among the three that were challenged by French pirates and privateers.
- During the American Rebellion, the connection between the two states started declining since the British was ...

Considering that no apparent reason has been attached to Leopoldo Lopez detention, people have come out for his defence particularly the many countries that embrace freedom and human rights. From a critical perspective, Leopoldo Lopez deserves his freedom; because the charges are not true. This paper will, therefore, present views that oppose Leopoldo Lopez’s release.
On the flip side of this case, Leopoldo Lopez ought to be detained owing a number of reasons. As perceived by those in favour of his detention, he should remain in detention for having spearheaded protests that have since destabilized the country (Latin Times ...

Maduro has been one of the most controversial leaders in Venezuela’s history given that he has carried on Chavez’s terrible economic policies that has caused a great nation that used to be a superpower in Latin America to be in crisis both economically and politically. Maduro, like many other leaders in Latin America that are on the outs, is the symbol of an ending of an era that is too far to the left in Latin America. What Maduro stood for as a leader carried on the ideals of Chavez and Guevara in Cuba. These ideals are ...

Life without the very basic necessities like water, food and electricity seems like a myth to the residents of America, and we all hope that we do not live to see a day when that happens to our country. For some unfortunate countries, however, the situation is not that massive of a myth rather these shortages are parts of the problems that the people of Venezuela face in their everyday lives. Right now, the country of 30 million people has become one of the worst examples that may be set for the people of the world to follow.
But ...

For the past five decades, Venezuela has enjoyed a stable and rising economy. The country was one of the founding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The citizens of Venezuela have over the years continued to enjoy the revenues generated from exporting petroleum product. The government has provided well-equipped hospital facilities, subsidized food products and provided free gasoline to its citizens (Globe mail 2015). However, Venezuela is not reading from the same script it read twenty years ago. The country is plunged into an economic and political crisis. Oil prices have dropped by more than fifty percent and ...

Coca Cola most recent financial statements for the year the fiscal year ended 31st December 2015, addresses foreign currency exchange risk in Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosers about Market Risk (Coca Cola, 72). The company faces significant foreign exchange risk because it operates in 72 currencies and earns $23.934 billion from operations outside the United States (Coca Cola, 72). Coca Cola operates in over 200 countries and faces three types of foreign exchange risk, transaction risk, translation risk, and economic risk. The company manages its foreign exchange rate risk on a consolidated basis.
The transaction risk is the ...

 To date, in the fourteen Latin American countries, those in power are leftist politics (the issue what kind of leftism and the degree of radicalism it is about) will be discussed later. Regardless of all the uniqueness of the moment and the apparent dissimilarity of modern Latin American lefts with their predecessors, there is a clear tendency, which is characteristic for the Latin American model of development as a whole – a tradition of powerful leftist movements, the struggle for social transformation. Facing deep structural crisis, the continent came into a long strip of the struggle against the dictatorship, local ...

Questions and Answers Based on Geert Hofstede's Ideas

Questions and Answers Based on Geert Hofstede's Ideas

Definition:

Power distance is the term used for nations that have an expected gap in power among citizens, which are not disputed by the citizens, but accepted as part of the societal reality.

Summary:

When examining the nations of Bhutan, Russia, Venezuela, and Japan one can clearly see that a high degree of power distance exists in both Bhutan, who scored 94 and Russia, who scored 93. Venezuela had a fairly high power distance of 81. Japan scored the lowest on in comparison to the other countries at just 54.
Definition:
Individualism is ...

Members of missionary orders spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans in the 16th century. Who were these missionaries? Whose side were they on European or the American original peoples and why? Elaborate and provide examples.
In the 16th century, there were a number of missionaries who spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans. The time of the age of exploration, the Europeans realized that there are many people with different cultures especially in America. This is what caused missionaries to be sent in order to spread Christianity. Most the missionaries were sent by some of the countries that ...

Foreign Direct Investment in Venezuela’s Petroleum Industry

Q.
Under the term of the new regulations announced in 2004 governing FDI in Venezuela's oil sector. What are/where the potential implications for oil production there, the long-term profitability of PDVSA, and the economic growth in Venezuela.
A.
In October 2004, Hugo Chavez the Venezuelan President announced that the royalties that the government would charge for drilling the oil along the Orinoco oil belt in the country's southeast would be increased. He hiked due the government to 16.7%. He also changed the terms on any new joint ventures with foreign oil companies. For new ventures, royalties ...

US Foreign Policy and Latin America During the Cold War

The Alliance for progress was a multi billion dollar aid program that was devised by the Kennedy administration to foster economic relations with Latin America and also thwart the growth of communism in the region in the aftermath of the cold war. The Alliance for Progress was a result of the cold war between the USSR and the US, the Cuban revolution and the US fear that communism could take root in a region that was poor, unstable and economically underdeveloped. Latin America was largely colonized by the Europeans and the relation between the US and the continent was ...

Terrorism is not as much about killing a maximum number of civilians as sending a message about its aims and aspirations. ETA, a Basque separatist, nationalist group has stood for the independence of the Basque province since 1959 deriving encouragement from Marxism, nationalism, and other kinds of ideological influence. To achieve its strategy, the multi-compartmental group with a complex and secret structure of limited interconnections has used a set of tactical approaches like killings, intimidation, and humiliation. While its leadership has been subject to rotations due to it being targeted by the authorities, it has forged multiple ties with similar radical or extremist organizations ...

Everyone Wants to Be a Homeowner. Why Not a Foodowner?

Thesis Statement
People like to invest in the housing rather in food because of the long term benefits associated with housing and for securing the future.

Explanation

People want to make healthy investment decisions. This is because of The Individual’s Economizing Problem, the wants of people exceed their needs because of the scarce resources and limited income, so they want to make such decisions from which greater output can be obtained. Josh Barro describes the same phenomenon in the article Everyone Wants to Be a Homeowner. Why Not a Foodowner? In the New York Times, that people want to own ...

1.Who was Gen. Augusto Pinochet and what did he do on Sept. 11, 1973?
He was an army general in Chile and on Sept. 11, 1973 successfully staged a coup of Chile.
2. Who filmed this documentary and how did they gain access to Pinochet's Prisons?
A European film crew talked their way into the concentration camps. They filmed many things that they were not supposed to, resulting in some of the only recorded records of what was happening.2. Who were people detained and on what grounds?
People were detained if they were perceived to have ...

Finance

About the paper
The objective of writing this paper is to perform an in-depth yet succinct analysis of the financial statements and Management Discussion &Analysis (MD&A) section of Procter and Gamble (P&G). The attempt made will constitute a one-run discussion of all the financial statements and MD&A section within the accounting framework and a format of an accounting paper. The conclusion will thus assist our readers as how the company has performed during the recent years and how the management access their financial performance. However, before we initiate the core discussion, we will provide a brief discussion relating to ...

Latin America as emerged as a country characterized by political instability and uneven development. The increasing trend in political instability is motivated by instability in Brazil and Venezuela and sustained by the constant high levels of violence and crime in Central American states. In South America, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela were the least ranked countries in terms of conflict and political instability. In Venezuela, there was an increased risk of violent crime, demonstrations, and political instability since the economic crisis had deepened and the anti-governments reactions had risen. The research was conducted in 2015 which took into account the ...

The price that is paid for poverty does not just affect the poor, it affects are paid for by the society in which that poverty exists. In any society that has poverty, the most vulnerable victims of that poverty are children, who are subject to live in the situations that they were born into. On a micro level, children growing up in impoverished conditions will carry emotional scars, which limit them throughout their adult lives. On the macro level, society will be harmed at various levels due to the prevalence of poverty within their societies. As will be outlined in ...

Introduction

Economics can be defined as a branch of social science which involves satisfaction of unlimited needs with scarce resources. It entails analysis of trade by use of intuitive graphs and mathematical elements. Economics is a field of science because of the presence of uniform laws guiding it and as a social science it studies human behavior and the choices they make. It is essentially divided into two macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics is the branch that studies large scale economics. It concerns itself with how industries and consumers’ functions at a national or international levels. Microeconomics, on the other hand, deals with small scale ...

Introduction

This historiographical essay relies on the works of six authors to discuss the nature of guerrilla warfare and its implications on political, social and economic stabilities of the nations in Latin America. The articles address aspects of terror acts carried out by both insurgents and regimes to engage each other. The historiographical essay is also important in using historical accounts from articles to discuss the factors that contributed to success of revolutionary wars in nations such as Cuba and Nicaragua. The approach taken by the essay is chronologically reviewing by year of publication, what different authors wrote on the ...

Article Summary

Inflation is often described as a situation of ‘too much money chasing too few goods’ in terms of classical economists . This is the situation now in Venezuela. With the fall in the oil prices in the world market the country is going through an economic strain. To tackle the situation of hyperinflation the government is importing loads of banknotes . In recent times it has been observed that most of the governments print currency notes through professional private agencies that use better technologies that make the notes safe from being counterfeited, like watermarks and security strips.
A number of concerns ...

Venezuela’s private property rights

The Venezuelan government has been autocratic in snatching land away from their rightful owners and handing it over to others which is clear violation of property rights. The cause behind this action ownes back to a decade when the opposition party to President Hugo Chavez lobbied with business elites and plotted to shrink the economy by controlling agricultural output. This was enabled by big land owners (‘Latifundistas’ in Venezuela) started stalking almost 6.12 Lacs Hectare of land and shunned any agricultural activity on their land (Fuentes 1). This loss in agricultural output started reflecting in terms of fall in ...

Latin American countries had adopted capitalism as an economic system that arose from the industrialized Europe and the more developed United Sates. However, capitalism did not solve the societal problems of many Latin American societies. Instead, capitalism created a society where a group of elites controlled the state and the economy of many Latin American countries. Even with the rapid economic development that many Latin American countries experienced in 19th century, economic development was not witnessed among the lower middle class and the peasant farmers. Abject poverty was still a feature of a large percentage of the Latin American populace. The urban poor ...

The process of drafting a foreign policy involves decision making which is crucial to take actions to make changes in the world and these actions are monitored and evaluated based on the feedback to assess the efficacy of decision making. There are four models such as rational model, bureaucratic model, organizational model and conceptual model which can best explain the foreign policy. The theory of rationality or rational actor model comes from the assumption that rational decision making is important to analyze the action, exchanges and foreign policy between governments, states and non-state entities. This paper will discuss about the ...

Introduction

Countries all over the world are facing racial, ethnic, tribal and racial diversities. However, developed countries like America and United Kingdom have been facing these problems, since many decades as people from all over the world come here to try their luck. Sometimes, the local people do not feel comfortable dealing and facing the people from other groups, countries or religion on the basis of which, the immigrants face much difficulties. This essay articulates these racial, ethnic, tribal and gender diversities in South American countries like Argentina, Mexico and Bolivia.

Gender Diversity

The leadership in South America has put all their ...

The majority of underdeveloped countries, Venezuela being one of them, face some serendipity on the world, which include science, politics, orchids, investments and techs. For these countries, trouble-free wealth seems as being the sure path into failure, with Venezuela being an ideal example of that.
Firstly, as a result, Chavez Hugo made a threat of nationalizing banks in case they failed in complying with the necessary agricultural loans credit quota. Unfortunately, Chavez was simply lying considering that private banks are abiding to the quotas while the public banks disobey this credit quota. Furthermore, Chavez has plans of making it mandatory ...

Which is better?

The Presidential election is coming up so a lot of important subjects are being discussed. One popular topic is over the type of economic system that is best for the United States. The two most talked about are on the opposite ends of the political spectrum: the Capitalist Self-Sufficiency model and the Social Welfare Net model. Both models seem to have valuable characteristics.
For example a social welfare safety net maintains that to help people who have fallen on hard times is a good idea for the economy. When people are given some support during hard times it is easier for ...

Question 2: Energy and Risks

Energy is fundamental to life. Without the resource, billions of individuals would remain hungry and cold. The prominent source of energy emanates from fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, and oil in the developing and industrialized nations. Despite providing numerous benefits that sustain human, plant, and animal life, the fossil fuels also present disadvantages that have resulted in ecological damage, political disruption, and production failures. This paper attempts to compare the political and environmental challenges introduced by natural gasses, coal, and oil as well as possible remedies that can alleviate the problems.
The greenhouse emissions that arise from ...

1. Introduction
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries – OPEC coordinates and unifies the policies among the oil exporting developing nations. The increase oil production has an impact on the supply and demand side and impacts the prices and incomes of the OPEC countries. The examination will answer the research question what are the effects of increased oil production in the OPEC countries with the focus on the Middle East member countries.

Problem

The Middle Eastern countries with the production of oil impact the international price of oil and also their incomes. The OPEC countries, which are among the biggest ...

Geography

Colombia is one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia back in the year 1830. Colombia is bordered by Panama to the Northwest, Venezuela and Brazil to the East, Ecuador and Peru to the Southwest. Colombia is the forth-largest country in south America with a total area of 1,138,910 square kilometers. Colombia has tropical climate as most of it mainland is located within the tropics. The climatic variations in the country Colombia are mainly influenced by altitude. The country can be divided into climatic regions, the hot country, ortierra caliente this is ...

Introduction to Econometrics

Part 1

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Australia 11.43 29.35 2.87 2329.68 2.87
Austria 12.07 23.32 4.41 1507.99 3.93
Belgium 13.17 23.80 4.43 2108.47 3.82
Bolivia 5.75 41.89 1.67 189.13 0.22
Brazil 12.88 42.19 0.83 728.47 4.56
Canada 8.79 31.72 2.85 2982.88 2.43
Chile 0.60 39.74 1.34 662.86 2.67
China 11.90 44.75 0.67 ...

CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a Delaware corporation with its headquarters located in Houston. The CITGO Company deals with refines, transports and markets gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, petrochemicals, lubricants and other petroleum-based industrial products. PDV America owns the CITGO Company, indirectly entirely owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA); the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s national oil company. The company has employed 3700 employees. It owns and runs three incredibly intricate crude oil refineries in Lemont, III., Charles, La., and Corpus Christi, Texas. The company owns one of the biggest factories in the nation with a capacity ...

Introduction

The movie “Bolivar Soy Yo” that was released in 2002 is detailing an actor’s story who is well known because of his “El Liberator’s” interpretation and he was called Simon Bolivar. The fiction and the reality began to mix because of the strong public admirations and the role. Later, after reaching the stage-acting limits, the actor believes himself to be Bolivar.
This film was developed in Colombia and the country had experienced a deeper conflict among its states for more than half a century. Columbia is in the middle of about fifty years and still in conflict ...

Abstract

Foreign investment is becoming more and more common. Millions of investors directly or indirectly invest in foreign markets these days. However, the process of investing in an asset in a foreign market is more complex than that of investing in the domestic market. That is why a stepwise screening process is important to select the potential markets and sites. The standard steps recommended by most of the investment manager investing in foreign markets include the identification of basic appeal, assessment of the business environment, measurement of the potential of the market and selection of site based on financial analysis.

Introduction

Flows of ...

Emphatically, oil is an essential product in the entire universe. The mentioned product swanks upon human dependence coupled with the sole drive of myriad economies. Oil prices significantly impact on the country’s economic expansion. Consequently, it is vital for oil producers to consider the cost of production. The cited cost, adversely dictates innumerable populace utility on the valuable product. Worth mentioning, the current news on oil prices is out rightly encouraging. The paper endeavors to explicitly highlight on the current information regarding oil prices.
Prevalently, oil prices have significantly reduced. Myriad factors have instigated the mentioned fall ...

Children are the most defenseless victims of poverty within a society. Poverty has a number of causes, but it’s effect on children is the perpetuation of what is known as a vicious cycle of poverty where kids of a certain economically disadvantages lineage go on to have few opportunities as adults. Research has shown that their children get caught in the same poverty trap and the causes of poverty then go on to have the effect of producing more impoverished children. From a long view, one of these effects is that a society becomes disadvantaged because it has a portion of its population living in ...

Economic integration is something many economists have proposed to protect the finances of regional blocs. The first modern example of an economically integrated federation is that of the United States. Its success has been subject of study for centuries and was the inspiration in the design of the Eurozone and many other economic alliances in the world that seek to increase the living standards of their citizens by letting them have a more active role in international trade. One of the most recent economic blocs that have come into being in America is that of the Pacific Alliance. It is ...

Slavery began in the late 16th century to early 18th century. Africans were brought to American colonies by white masters to come and work on their plantations in the South. They were treated harshly with no payments for all their hard work. In addition, they lived under harsh living conditions, and this led to their resistance against these harsh conditions. The racism towards the African Americans who were slaves was at its extreme as they did not have any rights; no civil nor political rights.
The conditions were worse for the slaves, and they decided to resist in ...

Terrorism is one critical area in the world that has caused a lot fear, death and threat to millions around the world. Taliban, Al Qaeda and ETA are some of the major terrorism groups formed in different parts of the world. Al-Qaeda and Taliban are somehow the same. These two terrorist organizations have Islamic roots although they have differences in the doctrines and ideologies. On the other hand, ETA which stands for Basque Fatherland and Liberty is based on the Marxist principles within the Spanish Basque provinces of Alava, Guipuzcoa and Vizcaya. The three are designated as foreign Terrorist Organizations ...

North American Free Trade Agreement is a regional trade agreement that was entered by the United States, Canada and Mexico on January 1, 1994, with the aim of bolstering trade relations and volumes in the region. Just like any other free trade area agreement, NAFTA was intended to reduce the business trading costs amongst the three countries for the benefit of the member states.
This paper discusses the many advantages and positive aspects that have been brought about by this trading block, and the impact that this free trade agreement has had on the economies and citizenry of the ...