Essays on Honduras

A general move to broaden the security agenda occurred during the 1980s by expanding the focus from the security of the state or the nation to an alternative focus on the security of the people, or the global collective. The human security can be affected by economic welfare, environmental concerns, cultural identity, political rights, and military issues. In recent years, environmental degradation is increasingly being considered as a security problem by not just the environmental activists but also the security establishment as they have become more responsive to the idea. In late 1989, the journal of the International Institute ...

A. Select a leader who you feel has exhibited exemplary ethical conduct and do the following:

1. Discuss at least two ethical traits that the leader demonstrated. A good example of an individual that exhibited ethical leadership is Sallie Krawcheck. Krawcheck is the current CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest, and Chair of the Ellevate Network. Her previous employment include head of Bank of America’s investment banking division, CEO of Merrill Lynch’s wealth management division, and CEO of the Wall Street research company Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.. In an industry wherein fraud and dishonesty are rampant, Sallie Krawcheck’s ethical leadership was exemplary. As observed by Fortune Magazine columnists, the quest for an honest ...

Citizenship and Instruction Program

Experience and Community Need BronxWorks, is a settlement house and multi-service organization with proven track record of leading immigration services since 1998. That year we first collaborated with SEEDCO to launch a series of initiatives that target low-income immigrants with limited English language proficiency. Our organization leveraged resources to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) services and civics classes from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to more than 250 participants in 2015 and over 600 participants since its inception. For over 18 years, we have provided citizenship and ESL instruction to New ...

Original Cruise Inc. Big Money on the high seas

CNBC aired in 2009 a special program about the business of the cruises industry. The industry is concentrated in three big players: Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian. The Report (CNBC) was using the study case of Norwegian with the collaboration of the Chief Financial Officer of Norwegian. The first goal of the cruise company's managers is to fill up the ship before set sail. According to the interview, the most important part of the business is not by the ticket selling of cabins before the ship set sail but after the ship set sail. There are related businesses with ...

The response of states to the emergence in the second half of the 20th century as a result of civil unrest and armed conflicts of large numbers of refugees in Africa and Latin America became the adoption of a number of regional agreements. For example, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) 1969 on Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and the 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees included in the number of refugees also people fleeing from war or civil armed conflicts, seriously disturbing public order in the country. Time has proved the necessity and effectiveness of these instruments ...

In Case Study 14, three countries - Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras – are analyzed. These countries were Spanish colonies in the past and share similar geographic features (Todaro & Smith 767). However, they are very different in terms of the economic and human development. Costa Rica is the most developed of three countries, because it has been able to stay away from the military conflicts for 65 years (Todaro & Smith 770). On the contrary, Guatemala and Honduras are very unstable countries. Nevertheless, all three countries have good prospects nowadays. The foreign aid is very important for the developing economies that ...

Introduction

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created on 25th November 2002 by the USA Federal Government. The role of the department is to increase the security and safety of USA homeland. Hence, it safeguards the Americans from activities related to terrorism and the threats of illegal immigration. The USA Customs and Protection (CBP) is under pressure to deal with the multifaceted security and humanitarian challenges because thousands of unaccompanied children arrive at the country’s borders. Specifically, the agency faces a challenge of caring and handling the children. This case study reviews the issue offer border control because ...

In 2004, Honduras signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (“CAFTA”, or “CAFTA-DR”). It was approved by the U.S. in 2005 and fully implemented by Honduras in 2006. CAFTA was a U.S. initiative in the mold of the earlier North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”) among the U.S., Mexico and Canada, on a smaller scale. Other signatories to CAFTA were Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Prior to CAFTA, under the U.S. Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act and similar preference programs, the U.S. had already granted duty-free access to most exports from the same CAFTA ...

Examining culture-specific differences

Examining culture-specific differences

Part one: The West Georgia Community Mobilization Initiative (W-GCMI).

The West Georgia Community Mobilization Initiative (W-GCMI) was a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in West Georgia between 2000 and 2004. The project was scheduled to run for four years under full implementation by CARE International. The W-GCMI project targeted vulnerable communities. It aimed at mobilizing the communities through their leaders towards various projects that improved their lives. CARE provided various grants through community based organizations as a way of enhancing community mobilization. Through this initiative, the communities were empowered to manage finances and develop mechanisms to end suffering. While ...

Introduction to Econometrics

Part 1

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David Tuff was a 24-year-old security guard at Villlage Square Mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mall is managed and operated by Blue Mountain Company, which also has a security services division that trains and supplies security guards to several shopping malls in some Midwestern states. Tuff strongly opposed Blue Mountain’s new company policy to order and escort intoxicated persons (including drunk drivers) off its parking lots and onto the public roads. He feared that drunk drivers might harm innocent people and that doing so would jeopardize his license, as he was required by law to report any illegal behaviour (drunk ...

FINDING SOLUTIONS TO BORDER CONTROL CRISIS

Illegal refugees pouring across the US-Mexico border to fulfil the American dream is not a new phenomenon. However, recent occurrence alarmed the whole nation as thousands of unaccompanied Central American children refugees jeopardize their lives to seek refuge in the borders. According to US Customs and Border Protection’s data, the number of “unaccompanied alien children” encountered in the southwest border, specifically in the Rio Grande Valley, has disturbingly increased from 19,418 in 2009 to 67,339 in 2014. It has become an international humanitarian crisis desperately in need of a solution. These children are escaping from the ...

The film Who is Dayani Cristal? Was dubbed as one of the most proactive films to come out in 2014 The film deals with the hazards of immigrating to the United States. The ‘death in the dessert’ film by Gael Garci and Marc Silver deals with the timeless political debate over the reform in immigration policies in the United States and related issues such as the increasing border security. According to Paley p. 1 the strategy of the film proceeds similar to a detective story divided into three strands. The film was cleverly weaved together because during the first part, a ...

Part 1: Background information

Honduras is approximately 1000 miles from Miami. It is located in the north- central part of Central America. It borders El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Honduras is a mountainous country, with river valleys and coastal plains. It is a small country with an area of 48, 200 square miles. The capital city of Honduras is Tegucigalpa. The main language is Spanish. In 2012, statistics showed that the population of Honduras was 8,296,693. Honduras is a democratic constitutional republic. As of 2014, the president of Honduras is Juan Orlando Hernández and he won with a National Party ticket. Honduras has a constitution, ...

There are many aspects by which a country and be judged and found gender biased. Determining factors include education, employment opportunities, as well as rates of domestic violence. All of these contributing factors will often paint where the women of a nation stand. In many countries around the world, these traits are seen very clearly. The women of India are at an obvious disadvantage, as are the women in many African cultures. However, some societies around the world have hidden gender inequalities. The people of Honduras provide a good example of how plain the inequality can be without being noticed by the ...

Sexual trafficking is a form of human trafficking that is targeted towards sexual exploitation. Studies show that human trafficking is on the increase across the globe with variant forms. Such human trafficking includes trafficking for sexual exploitation or sexual human trafficking, trafficking for forced labor, child trafficking and so forth. Human trafficking is indeed a menace as it is identified as the second most serious organized criminal threat to Central America, besides drug trafficking (Seelke 272-277).This comparative essay takes a close look at sexual human trafficking that is one of the human trafficking methods predominant in Central America as well as ...

Introduction

Over the past decade, drug crimes and drug abuse have garnered a lot of attention. It is estimated that every year about $110 billion is cost to the country through drug related accidental injuries and deaths, health care, criminal behaviors, dependency treatment and so on. Both the state and federal laws prohibit the manufacturing, possession, and the sale of certain controlled substances such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, and ecstasy. Drug's relation to crimes is through the effects drugs make on the user's behavior by influencing him to commit violence and other illegal action connected to drug trafficking. In 2004, ...

Basketmaker II And Maya

Introduction The culture of Southern America and Mexico are highly reliant on the previous existence of various indigenous societies. Some of the most common communities that existed in the region are the Basketmaker II and Mayan. Each of the two groups of people is unique in the practices it executed in its activities.

QUESTION ONE

Introduction These people are mainly known to have originated from the New Mexico. They were mainly involved I weaving activities that saw them command exclusive respect in the region. The group of people existed between 1500 BC and 500 AD. Also, the people engaged ...

Thesis

This paper is on the risks faced by illegal immigrants in their attempts of crossing border. We will uncover through trend who are the most common offenders in illegal immigration. Reasons why immigrants attempt to cross the border and how new reforms will affect life of those who have been deported.

Article: How Immigration Reform Will Put Migrants' Lives at Risk (Olsen & Gaffney).

For past 2 decades, border between Mexico and United States has become home for migrant death crisis. In this time, close to 6,000 immigrants have lost their life in attempt to enter United States with many more missing and never to be seen or heard from again. ...

Education

In the case of American School in Honduras, the changes in the appointment of the General Director’s position or Headmaster for the past three years will significantly affect the school’s operations. The removal of Mrs. Kitten who taught for 15 years and later on resigned the directorship after several years due to unannounced problems with the School Board is alarming. The fact that the General Director position was vacant for one year and occupied by Mrs. Just as an interim General Director while maintaining her teaching duties, and was transferred to Dr. Tomorrow for 2 and a half ...

The rate of criminal activities especially involving homicide, murder and other human rights violation crimes has been prevalent in the United States and Honduras in the recent past. Honduras is currently among the leading countries with the highest violent criminal activities in the world including drug trafficking and homicides. In the last one year, there were over six thousand intentional homicides reported from Honduras. This rate has increased significantly especially after the Peace Corps provided by the United States to Honduras were withdrawn from the country. The rate of criminal activities is also high in the US and ...

The United States has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world with nearly 300 million guns. There are several companies that manufacture guns and ammunition in the US notably Colt manufacturing company, freedom groups, smith and Wesson just to name but a few. The right of the people of America to bear arms is enshrined in the second amendment. At independence the US government enacted a constitutional amendment that allowed states to create militias of their own; this involved recruiting ordinary civilians and giving them training on firearms without them necessarily having to go to military school. With ...

Located in the north eastern part of Central America, Belize is famed for being the only English speaking country in Central America even though Spanish and Kriol are also widely used for official purposes. The country borders Guatemala and Mexico to the west and south respectively. The island’s size is close to 23,000 square kilometers, and with a population of about 300,000 according to the 2010 census, it is ranked least densely populated in Central America (Belize Statistical Office, 2013). The 3.15% population growth rate, however, makes it the second highest in this region after the Cayman ...

The United States of America is a huge superpower that has a wide variety of interests around the world and has intervened in many countries since World War II. It claims to represent freedom, human rights and democracy but in reality its main concerns are political, economic and military power. When it invades countries or overthrows governments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, its main goal is to control the labor, raw materials and natural resources of those areas. Of course, it also has a very powerful media and propaganda machine that diverts people’s attention, deceives and misleads ...

The United States of America is a huge superpower that has a wide variety of interests around the world and has intervened in many countries since World War II. It claims to represent freedom, human rights and democracy but in reality its main concerns are political, economic and military power. When it invades countries or overthrows governments in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, its main goal is to control the labor, raw materials and natural resources of those areas. Of course, it also has a very powerful media and propaganda machine that diverts people’s attention, deceives and misleads ...

Question one

Article: Land Loss and Garifuna Women’s Activism on Honduras’ North Coast In respect to the issues pertaining to the human rights issues covered in the sixteen communities mentioned in the article, how well can the government step in to address matters pertaining to the poverty levels and sufferings in the catchment? Consider gender equity as well as social justice in handling this question.

Question two:

Article: The Garifuna Fight back. By Helenn Drusine Capitalizing on Helen’s arguments, it is clearly portrayed that Maylor Florentina, Trujillo are highly frustrated and hungry about all the problems they face. In ...

2009 Coup in Honduras

The history background of the 2009 coup in Honduras is one which was characterized by imperialistic domination, poverty and exploitation. On the 28th of July 2009, a trained army stormed into the residence of President Manuel Zelaya and forced him out of power by taking him prisoner and banishing him from Honduras. The army which carried out this action was rumored to belong to United States, and it is a wonder that the coup happened without Washington’s tactic approval or knowledge. There was a close association between the pentagon and the Honduran army. Early, on the Thursday ...

Anastasio Garcia Samoza clinched the Nicaragua presidency in the year 1936. This happened after winning the hotly contested elections under the Liberal Party which was conducted after the resignation of president Sacasa earlier in the same year (Diederich, B., 2004). Hence, he established a Somoza dynasty that consecutively ruled for 43 years. Meaning, when Anastasio was assassinated in 1956, he was succeeded by his son, Luis who passed the throne to his brother, Anastasio upon his death in 1967.

The regime

The Samoza dynasty was characterized by a lot of weaknesses and evils done during their entire period in power. This was ...

1. Hyundai started its business in the year 1967 by Chung Ju Yung. After its inception company started growing at a good pace and started its operations in various countries. At initial stage Hyundai faced some challenges when company entered in Canada. Hyundai had not succeeded in Canada but that failure was a big lesson for Hyundai. The company learned various things from that failure and Hyundai utilized the same in the future. All the experience turned out to be advantageous for the company that it was having over its competitors. Comparative and competitive advantages played a major role in Hyundai ...