PPT-LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America

WRITERS AND ARTISTS WHERE ARE WE Week 1 Introduction Modern Latin America chs 12 Week 2 Dimensions of History Modern Latin America chs 3 and 5 and website Primary Documents 37 39. Pushpak Bhattacharyya. CSE Dept., . IIT . Bombay. Lecture 31: Information Retrieval. IR and AI. . AI Perspective (pre-web). . Planning. Computer. Vision. NLP. Expert. Systems. Robotics. Search, . Reasoning,. Introduction to Latin America. WHY HISTORY?. HOMILIES AND BROMIDES. “I hated History… just a bunch of facts and dates… Ugh!”. “Who needs it? Stuff that happened so long ago!”. “History is bunk.” (Henry Ford). Juan Carlos Moreno . Brid. . Deputy. Director . ECLAC - . Mexico. . . JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY,. New Delhi, . January. 2012. Global growth has slowed sharply after the recovery from the crisis. Chapter 20. Latin American Background. Peoples of Latin America. Peninsulares. - . Spanish-born whites (highest class). Creole. - colonial-born whites (minority). Mestizo. - mixed European and Indigenous descent (majority) . Introduction to Latin America. HOW TO READ. MODERN LATIN AMERICA. … and learn to love it!. CASE STUDIES. Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution. Cuba: Key Colony, Socialist State. The Andes: Soldiers, Oligarchs, and Indians. Recap from the CIA . Factbook. Data Chart. Why do you think the countries of Latin America are not as well off as the U.S.?. Recap from the CIA . Factbook. Data Chart. Why do you think the countries of Latin America are not as well off as the U.S.?. Cold War Period. TODAY’s OBJECTIVES:. Explain the political context in Latin America after WWII . Explain . how the Cold War affected . Latin America. Following . WWII – the political grouping into three “worlds”:. Iran Rodrigues, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida . iranmr@ufl.edu. . Overview. Democracy and Justice in Latin America. Political. institutions and Government. Brief Political and Economic history. Revolution and Reaction into the 21. st. Century . By: Roman Gonzalez, . Clark . Lurot. and . Veronica . Pasamante. . Overview. Latin America not as involved w/ WWII . Cold war  new revolutionary motives. In Latin America, most of the countries are quite ____.. They are what we would called ____ nations because they are still mainly agricultural based and do not have a great deal of money per person, or ____ income.. A DEATH . FORETOLD:. MOTIFS AND ALLUSIONS. Gabriel . García. . Márquez. , 1927-2014. “MAGICAL REALISM”. Controversial term. Imagination>objectivity as path to human truth. Sublime>mundane, absurd>logical. Mexico. Central America. Caribbean Islands. South America. Why do we call it . Latin. America?. We call it LATIN America because most of the European countries that colonized this region spoke Spanish or Portuguese. Both of these languages are derived (or come from) the ancient Latin language. Thus we call this region Latin America.. SS6G4 A-B-C. SS6G1. The student will locate selected features of Latin America and the Caribbean.. . a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map:. . Amazon River. , . Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Mountains, . and. GEOGRAPHY . Lesson #1. In your group…. Five . places . to visit there. Four land features . Three things that come from Latin America. Two events that happened there. One person you know of who came from there .