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Hacienda

2009-03-29T03:51:39Z

DeTorre: New page: A '''hacienda''' is a large farming estate found in parts of Central America and Mexico. It is similar to a plantation, but the hacienda is uniquely Spanish in nature. Th...

A '''hacienda''' is a large farming estate found in parts of [[Central America]] and [[Mexico]]. It is similar to a plantation, but the hacienda is uniquely [[Spain|Spanish]] in nature. They differ in other key aspects as well; plantations are based on the desire for profit and are thus more efficient in land use, while haciendas are based on the desire for social prestige and self-sufficiency.
Because of the emphasis on self-sufficiency, haciendas are not closely tied to external markets, which stands in direct contrast with the modern plantation.

Hacienda farmers (known as ''peones'') are usually given their own small plots of land for growing [[subsistence]] crops, and even then the hacienda can be so large that it would be impossible to farm every acre of land.

The hacienda system was made illegal in [[Mexico]] by the Constitution of 1917, which instituted land reform. Remnants of the system still remain in rural Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, as part of the legacy of Spanish colonization.

==References==
*de Blij, Harm, and Peter Muller. Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts. 10th ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

[[Category:Agriculture]]
[[Category:Central America]]
[[Category:Mexico]]

User:DeTorre

2009-03-29T03:15:21Z

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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst 
Are full of passionate intensity." 
-William Butler Yeats

Talk:World History Midterm Exam

2009-03-29T03:04:38Z

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== Post answers here for grading (the enrolled students have already taken this exam) ==
1.C 2.B 3.A 4.C 5.C 6.D 7.E 8.E 9.C 10.C 11.E 12.E 13.D 14.C 15.D 16.B 17.D 18.E 19.A 20.A 21.A 22.C 23.C 24.D 25.D 26.C 27.D 28.A 29.B 30.C 31.B 32.E 33.C 34.D 35.A 36.A 37.A 38.B 39.B 40.E 41.D 42.B 43.D 44.C

Some of the honors questions are pretty hard, I have to admit. [[User:DeTorre|DeTorre]] 23:04, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

Eric Shinseki

2009-03-29T03:02:22Z

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'''Eric Ken Shinseki''' is the current [[Secretary of Veterans Affairs]], serving under [[United States]] President [[Barack Obama]]. A native [[Hawaii|Hawaiian]] of [[Japan|Japanese]] descent, he was born in 1942 and graduated from [[West Point]]. He was wounded in action in the [[Vietnam War]] and eventually became a four-star general in the Army.

His highest post in the US Army was Chief of Staff, which he held from 1999 until his retirement on June 1, 2003. He is perhaps most known for his vocal criticism of Defense Secretary [[Donald Rumsfeld]]'s strategy for the [[Iraq War]]. Testifying to the [[Senate Armed Services Committee]], Shinseki claimed that hundreds of thousands of troops would need to remain in Iraq for postwar stabilization, a figure that was disputed by both Rumsfeld and [[Paul Wolfowitz]], the Deputy Secretary of Defense.

After Obama announced his selection as Secretary of Veteran Affairs, Shineki resigned from the boards of Honeywell International and Ducommun Inc., both of which are heavily involved in US Army contracts. However, he will continue to receive an undisclosed amount of compensation from these corporations.

==References==
*[http://www1.va.gov/opa/bios/biography.asp?id=76 Official Biography - US Department of Veterans Affairs]
*[http://www.history.army.mil/books/cg%26csa/Shinseki.htm US Army Biography]
*[http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-06-shinseki_N.htm Shinseki pledges to fix gaps in veterans' care - USA Today]

[[Category:Obama Administration]]

Eric Shinseki

2009-03-29T03:01:44Z

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Cajun

2009-03-29T02:28:31Z

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'''Cajuns''' are a group of [[France|French]]-speakers who live in the [[United States|US]] state of [[Louisiana]]. They are the descendants of French colonists who initially settled in the Acadia region of [[Canada]] (modern-day [[Nova Scotia]], [[New Brunswick]], and [[Prince Edward Island]], as well as parts of the northeastern United States).

During the [[French and Indian War]], in what Cajuns refer to as the Great Upheaval of 1755, several thousand of these settlers were deported by [[Great Britain]], to whom the Acadians refused to swear loyalty. The Acadians were forced to move southward, with a great many finding a home in the Atchafalaya Basin. It was here that "Acadian" became "Cajun", and generations of racial intermixing with non-French [[creole]]s created the distinctive Cajun culture.

[[Category:Louisiana]]