Who is helping to guard immigrants from kidnapping and murder?

The topic I’ve selected is related to Immigrant´s Human Rights.

The human migration phenomenon has a number of causes and is as old as the aspiration of humans to improve their life conditions. This research is focused to argue the strong necessity of create an international organization dedicated to preserve, survey and defend the human rights of the immigrants in Latin America, especially those who are in a social disadvantage that puts them in vulnerability or endangers their very life.

SWOT Analysis: the annual check-up for a business

Hi everyone, here there is my topic of my research paper: SWOT Analysis

This kind of analysis is useful for managers in order to know whether the business goes for the right way or does not.

SWOT means strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and thereats for the business.

As individuals, we recognize the importance of scheduling an appointment for an annual medical check-up to protect our health. Similarly, successful business owners and managers undestand the importance of scheduling an annual SWOT analysis to ensuere optimum business health.

The Mabo case

Hi everyone; sorry I couldn't post last night. Cablevision took my payment but suspended their service and I won't have it back for 24 hours. So here I am at an internet cafè near my house.

Eddie Mabo was an Australian Aboriginal born in 1936, on a small island in Torres Strait, in the very north-east of Australia. At that time these islands were strictly controlled by the government, and as a teenager Eddie was forced to leave the island for doing something silly. He worked in many places, including as a gardener in a university, where he also read a lot of books and listened to people giving lectures. Here he had a conversation with some university professors, where he talked to them about his island and his people. The professors realized that Eddie thought the land belonged to him. Gently they told him that no, the land was Australia's, because nobody owned that land.

This is to say that the Aboriginal people, who had lived in Australia (and on the Torres Strait Islands) for thousands of years, were considered to be "nobody" and had no right to own any of the land they had lived on. It was known as "terra nullius".

Well, Eddie Mabo was completely shocked by this, and decided to take it to the High Court to challenge this law and win back the land for his people. It took over ten years of legal discussions, and in fact Eddie Mabo died (aged 55) before the High Court finally announced the verdict in 1992: that the Aboriginal people did have "native title" (ownership) and had the right to claim their land.

This legal decision became known simply as "Mabo" or "The Mabo case" and was a historic decision that has opened up new laws which make it possible for Aboriginal people to claim native title in Australia.

You can find out more about him at this site:

http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Mabo_Eddie.html

One other thing that you may not know is that when an Aboriginal person dies, their tradition is to never speak the name of that person again. They consider the name to be finished and it's a way to respect the pain of having lost that person. If anyone else in the town has the same name, they have to change it because it can't be spoken again.

So while white people talk about Eddie Mabo, now that he is dead his name is not spoken by the Aboriginal people. When they refer to this case they call it the Native Title decision.

I've referred to him by name only so that you will know more about him, and because his name is mentioned in the movie "The Castle".

See you tomorrow!

A tale they won't believe

Hello everyone! I thought I would post this video of the song you heard on Friday. Again, it's sung live (I think this will be the last live video I'll post, or else you'll think that's all I watch), by Weddings, Parties, Anything. It is played even faster than the studio version, and it really shows the lead singer telling the story and the way the fans love the song. Still kind of gruesome, though! I don't know why, but Blogger won't let me post the actual video, so here's the link to the Youtube page ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnNqxI5EdiI

If you found any "strange but true" stories on Snopes.com that you'd like to share here, or would like to tell a story of your own (some of you had some good ones!!), feel free to do so!

OK OK, seeing as how you are forcing me, I'll tell you one of mine. : ) I've eaten some interesting things over time; let me tell you some. I've eaten frogs legs and snails in my primary school, grasshoppers in Oaxaca, hamburgers made with dog meat in Belize, ants in Mexico City, and roasted bush turkey, barbecued kangaroo and kangaroo tail soup in Australia! I think the funniest thing though was when my husband and I first arrived in Mexico City and we went with our friend Ricardo to eat tacos at his favourite taco stand. We asked Ricardo what type of tacos they had there, and he replied (in English - we didn't know much Spanish at the time), "Well, there's tripas, and ..." We said "Tripas? What sort of meat is that?" So he pointed around his stomach area and said "Hmm, tripas, they are, umm ..." - he didn't know how to say it in English. I helped him out: "Ribs? Are they ribs?" Our friend replied, "Ribs ... Tribs? Tripas? Yes, tribs, tacos de tribs, tripas, that's it!" So we ordered a lot of tacos de "ribs", which, when they arrived, didn't look (or taste) anything like ribs!!! :D

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Coyoacán, cultural heart of México

Hi guys: In our last class our teacher Shelley told us to work in groups according to our county or Delegación, I think we all did a pretty good job because regardless its size and problems we all love Mexico City and our hometowns.
As you probably noticed we, the coyotes team, needed more time and space to describe wonderful Coyoacán for it has so many museums, churches, parks, bookshops, little cozy cafes, galleries and so on that it is also called México’s cultural heart … nonetheless it has many many troubles too, one of them is to keep in good shape its historic treasures, like La Conchita Chapel, located in the Barrio with the same name.
Because of this and other problems some neighbors got together and organize -many years ago- citizen’s groups to protect our Barrios, its historic plazas, parks and churches. La Conchita Chapel is really old (XVI Century) and urgently needs a great maintenance job. As you can imagine this sort of work requires not only lots of money but the coordinated actions of several government offices. We neighbors don’t know what part is the more difficult for our authorities: the money part or the coordination part; we suspect the second one.
At any cost we the asociaciones will keep on working towards this purpose because it means a lot for our generation and the ones to come, we owed it to them.

Top Gear and Mexico ... Your opinion

Your next writing task is to post your own opinion about the comments made by the three hosts of the popular car show Top Gear in a recent episode on the BBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F61nG4SzODY&feature=related

Your post should be at least 5 lines long; express a clear opinion with regard to the subject; use at least 3 opinion expressions (for example: quite frankly, in my opinion); give at least two facts which support your opinion; and contain less than 6 mistakes of grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary.

Your opinion paragraph must be posted as a comment to this post before 23:59, Monday 14th March. You'll have time to work on it a little next week during class. Don't post your comment until you are completely ready. You'll need to sign in ("acceder") in order to publish your comment on this post.