Essays on Chile

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Pre-Spanish Era Religious Practices Political Structure Material Culture Spanish Occupation Material Culture

The Culture after the Spanish Conquest

Religious Influence of the Catholic Spanish and the Remaining Ethnic Groups Influences of the Protestant Church Religious Fighting between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church Current Economic and Cultural Development Cultural Development Introduction Argentina is considered by Calvert, Donghi and Eidt (2016) as the eighth largest country in the world but is considered to be only third within Latin America (Buenos, 2014). The reason for this is that the land area of Argentina with 2.78 million square kilometers is larger than Mexico and the Texas state combined ( ...

A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through central Chile on the fateful morning of 27th February 2010. The epicenter was 100 kilometers north-northwest of Chile. The devastation was massive and economic and ecological impacts were debilitating. This paper attempts to present a detailed report on the aftershocks of the earthquake. A comprehensive discussion is expected to impart a holistic understanding of various consequences of this natural disaster. Chilean earthquake, marked as the 5th strongest earthquake since 1900, significantly altered geographical boundaries. The city of Concepcion shifted around three meters to the west, and the capital Santiago moved eleven inches ...

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According to the New World Encyclopedia (2016), a gender role is an arrangement of behavioral standards related especially with guys or females in a given social gathering or framework, regularly including the division of work amongst men and ladies and the orderly complex of kid raising and socialization forms driving youth toward developing to propagate a similar example. Sex based parts incidental with sex-based parts have been the standard in numerous customary social orders, with the particular segments and workings of the sexual orientation/sex arrangement of part division fluctuating extraordinarily from society to society. Sexual orientation part is a ...

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Executive Summary SunEdison is a renewable energy company. Its revenue comes from semiconductor wafer manufacturing, solar energy business and TerraForm Power (wind power and global business). The company has recently filed for bankruptcy due to poor operational performance and its inability to serve its $11 billion debt. Luckily for the company, first and second lien holders have provided the required capital to continue operation. Overall, the renewable energy market is growing at a very high rate. However, due ...

Exports and Imports

When it comes to exports and imports, Chile ranks highly as one of the best countries in the international market trade. Chile has several trade agreements with big countries such as the USA, Canada, and others in the European Union. Chile’s ability to perform well in the international trade is favored by its ranking as one of the least corrupt countries in South America. Chile main export products include fruits, pulp, copper, paper fish, wine and chemicals (Morrison, 200). Most of these goods are exported to the United States of America. Additionally, exports to China, especially for copper, ...

Recent years have seen significant changes in the economies of both Mexico and Chile. Given this, it can be useful to examine the current economic situation in Mexico and Chile, comparing the two. While many people in the United States might tend to think of these two nations as being identical in nature because of the fact that they have Hispanic cultures and the Spanish language, there are in fact many differences. For example, Mexico since the late 1990s has been able to benefit from the existence of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement). This has allowed it ...

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment

Source: IRENA (2016)

Renewable Energy Capacity Country Data

The primary sources of renewable energy for each of the three countries are indicated as follows; Argentina- hydropower Bolivia- hydropower Chile- hydropower In Bolivia, solid biomass had the greatest increase in the generation capacity compared to the other sources of renewable energy. The capacity increase from 16 in 2006 to 52 in 2015. In Chile, there was significant increase in the generation capacity of almost all the energy sources. However, hydropower showed the largest increase in the energy generation capacity between the year 2006 and 2015. The capacity increased from 5093 to 6320 between the years.

Policies to Support Renewable Energy

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Skechers is a high performance and lifestyle footwear company located in Manhattan Beach, California, which was founded in 1992 by current CEO Robert Greenberg and his son Michael. It was first incorporated in 1992 in California and then reincorporated in Delaware in 1999 while keeping its headquarters in California (Skechers, 2016b). As of fiscal year 2015, it owned and operated in the United States 119 concept stores, 155 factory outlet stores, and 117 warehouse outlet stores. Internationally, it also owned and operated 82 concept stores, 41 factory outlet stores, and five warehouse outlet stores. It has more than 1340 ...

The cold war marked a period of political tensions between numerous countries after the end of t the Second World War. These tensions were mainly between the communist nations and the capitalist countries. The most opposing parties within this conflict were the USA and the now defunct USSR. In the 1970s, the cold war mainly referred to the period that spanned between the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis beginning October 1962; all the way to the Détente period from 1969 into the 70s (Shaw 71). The Cuban crisis arose from a confrontation between the Soviet Republic and ...

A goal of this paper is to identify the episodes from the life of travelers that affect their future outlook and personality formation. The first film is «Diarios de motocicleta», shot in 2004 by Walter Salles (Diarios De Motocicleta), and the second one is «Sin dejar huella», filmed in 2000 by María Novaro (Sin Dejar Huella). Mainly it is necessary to investigate the factors that influence the change of orientation of the main characters. You can affirmatively say that the basis for the change in the mood of the characters is the class division, especially if you take ...

Demographic

Geography Chile is one of the Southern South American countries that borders the South Pacific Ocean and is located between Peru and Argentina. The country geographic coordinates are 30 00 S, 71 00 W, and occupies a total area of 756,102 square kilometers that include 12,290 square kilometers of water and 743,812 square kilometers of land. Compare to other countries in the region; Chile is slightly smaller than the size of Montana (CIA). The general climate of the region is temperate climate with Mediterranean in the central region, desert in the north, and damp and cool ...

Remote Environment

Seasonality in Salt Business The demand for salt is seasonal in nature. The largest proportion of salt sales is to government and municipals. The salt is used during winter to deice roads. However, winter season only last for three to four months in a year. The production of salt is also seasonal since it is affected by the elements of nature. One of the method that is used to produce salt is solar evaporation. It is only feasible in seasons where there is adequate sunshine. Compass Mineral has diversified its business. For instance, the company also manufactures fertilizers and ...

For the first time, the initiative of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was put forward by New Zealand, Singapore and Chile in 2003. In 2011, after the accession of the US the concept of the agreement was essentially changed. Since 2011, nine countries were conducting negotiations on accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership: USA, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Chile, and Peru. Canada and Mexico joined the negotiations later, and in 2013, Japan joined them. Currently, these countries make up the basic structure of the partnership. There is a possibility that the Republic of Korea, as well as Taiwan, ...

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The associated issues of copyright protection and digital rights management are pressing ones these days. Particularly for the music industry, there is a growing trend among consumers to download music illegally via torrents without giving a second thought to the ethics or legally of their actions. On the other hand, many have suggested that unreasonable laws and the length of time that copyrights last explain the many copyright violations we see today. This essay will examine the nature of copyright law and its original intended purpose in English common law, as well as how the founding fathers of the ...

1. The production of fish from Aquaculture has become a major business, and it is an important solution to meet the world’s protein demand. It is a process of farming aquatic organisms such as fish, shellfish, aquatic plants, and others. It is the fastest-growing animal food-producing industry grown in the past decade reaching 120 million tons of fish in 2010 that represents around 30% of the world’s protein suppliers. Different species are cultivated through farming including abalone, finfish, crustaceans, mussels, oysters, cockles, clams, and scallops. It is an expanding industry, and it is forecasted to produce 180 ...

Pablo Larrain's movie reflect on the events of the 1988 Chilean referendum on a character named Rene's Saavedra who runs a television show aimed at ending General Augusto rule. Coexistence between idealism and rebellion are among the major elements covered in the film. The "NO" film not only entertains but it provides shades light on cultural and social problems affecting the Chilean citizens. One of the major issues raised in the movie is social injustice and the need for democracy. Chile's ruler was a dictator called Augusto who made the life of the various Chile citizens miserable (Stern 7). ...

Introduction

The term principles of economics as will be used in this study refer to unique techniques and notions that are often utilized by economists in adjusting economic activities. The term is often associated with an economy that designates proficient uses of resources by societies with a rationale to achieve their set goals. A shared understanding of the concept in any society is that irrespective of the geographical position where the concepts are applied, the use of the principles of economics applies in a similar way whatsoever. However, other researchers such as Crawley, (2015) assert that economic principles refer to ...

The debate between capitalism and socialism has leaned unevenly towards capitalism in the past decades, after the threat represented by communism has silenced the voices of pundits and academics almost entirely. However, history has shown that global capitalism does not necessarily answer the economic problems of poor countries, and even developed nations, such as the United States, are struggling in this economic environment. While some authors argue that the precepts of capitalism and socialism are too different to be combined, and capitalism and socialism only make sense in their purest forms, others believe that socialist ideas must be engrained ...

Indigenous Language

Introduction Language is a very essential communication tool across the globe. It is defined to be the capability to use and attain different systems of complex communication that people use. There are many different language systems that are used all throughout the numerous races in the world. Linguistics is the scientific study mainly focused on language. Way back in the 20th century, there had been so many arguments about the origin or language. One is that language arose from the logical and rational thought while the other argument would be it arose from emotions; Immanuel Kant is one of ...

Contributions made by the United Nations to disaster management.

In the 21st Century, there has been the continuous increase in the disastrous occurrences. Any of these has been natural disasters while others are man-made disasters. A disaster is a disruption of the normal functioning of a given locality causing widespread and enormous human, material, economic or environmental losses exceeding the affected community's ability to cope with the losses. This means that the affected community may not be able to fund or handle the scope of losses and effects after the disaster using its resources which are limited. Disasters in this case mainly result from a combination of hazards, ...

 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 ...

Research paper about Lithium

Introduction Metal minerals are critical for the economic development and technological advancement. In the world, many minerals play an important part in easing and improving the development of new and advanced materials. Lithium mineral is an example of the mineral found in some various part of the world and is use in multiple applications in industries. This research paper majorly focuses on lithium production and manufacturing. It gives the brief history of mining and production of lithium, the countries, and companies that are well recognized for the mineral production. It also gives the industrial application of lithium. Furthermore, the ...

Background to the Falkland Islands War

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. They lie three hundred miles to the east coast of Argentina and about eight thousand miles to Britain. Stanley is the capital of the islands. The two nations have laid claim to the Islands since the British seized them in 1833. It was later made a crown colony in 1841. The Falkland Islands War broke out on the 2nd of April 1982. Most of the inhabitants at the time were of British descent. However, it is claimed that the British drove out the Argentine populations that had hitherto been ...

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This paper gives an insightful preview of the Panama's economy. It analyzes key data from the current major economic indicators to comprehend the state or nature of Panam. The analyzes espouse data and statistics drawn from the Panamanian Bureau of Statistics and Economic portfolios. It analyzes both the endogenous, exogenous economic factors, as well as their impact on the Panamanian economy. One of the most conspicuous endogenous factors is the Panama’s unsustainable development growth models. Its economic growth mostly focuses on the economic indicators while ignoring critical and pressing aspects such as social as well as environmental problems. ...