Landforms
Landforms

Author: Gallopade International

Publisher:

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780635065377

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Your students can use the Landforms: Earth's Amazing Face! Bulletin Board set to help them participate in class activities as well. They will find their job assignments to be fun and will work to achieve their "star" status. The Landforms: Earth's Amazing Face! Bulletin Board set makes bulletin board creation easy for teachers and educational value high for students! Coordinating bulletin board borders are also available. Landforms: Earth's Amazing Face! Bulletin Board set includes more than 30 individual bulletin board pieces and an activity for students that involves making an item that teachers can put up as part of the bulletin board display! Landforms: Earth's Amazing Face! Bulletin Board set is creative and colorful while also being highly educational and unique. Both elementary and middle school teachers will love them; in fact we give both an elementary activity and a middle school activity as the student-work portion for each bulletin board! Saves time! Saves money! Looks great! Creative and fun! Interactive student involvement! High educational value! Great visual to help meet state social studies standards. The 31 pieces of the Landforms Bulletin Board set that can be cut out and placed on bulletin boards, doors, hallways, windows and media centers include: One 16.25" x 3" header an image and the following corresponding words: Landforms The Earth's Amazing Face There are four 8" x 5" images with the corresponding word include: Plains Plateau Delta Peninsula There are three 7" x 5" images with the corresponding word include: Canyon Cave Isthmus There is one 5.5" x 5" oval with an image and the correspond

Postcards from the Baja California Border
Postcards from the Baja California Border

Author: Daniel D. Arreola

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0816542554

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Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

An Impossible Living in a Transborder World
An Impossible Living in a Transborder World

Author: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0816501084

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They are known as cundinas or tandas in Mexico, and for many people these local savings-and-loan operations play an indispensable role in the struggle to succeed in today’s transborder economy. With this extensively researched book, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez updates and expands upon his major 1983 study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), incorporating new data that reflect the explosion of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. Much more than a study of one economic phenomenon though, the book examines the way in which these practices are part of greater transnational economies and how these populations engage in—and suffer through—the twenty-first century global economy. Central to the ROSCA is the cultural concept of mutual trust, or confianza. This is the cultural glue that holds the reciprocal relationship together. As Vélez-Ibáñez explains, confianza “shapes the expectations for relationships within broad networks of interpersonal links, in which intimacies, favors, goods, services, emotion, power, or information are exchanged.” In a border region where migration, class movement, economic changes, and institutional inaccessibility produce a great deal of uncertainty, Mexican-origin populations rely on confianza and ROSCAs to maintain a sense of security in daily life. How do transborder people adapt these common practices to meet the demands of a global economy? That is precisely what Vélez-Ibáñez investigates.

And Hell Followed With Her
And Hell Followed With Her

Author: David Neiwert

Publisher: Bold Type Books

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1568587252

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Discusses a criminal, racist, and violent underworld of right-wing extremism connected to the Minuteman movement and general American nativism.

The End of the Myth
The End of the Myth

Author: Greg Grandin

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1250179815

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation – democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion – fighting wars and opening markets – served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.

Why Walls Won't Work
Why Walls Won't Work

Author: Michael Dear

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0199323909

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Why Walls Won't Work is a sweeping account of life along the United States-Mexico border zone, tracing the border's history of cultural interaction since the earliest Mesoamerican times to the present day. As soon as Mexicans, American settlers, and indigenous peoples came into contact along the Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century, new forms of interaction and affiliation evolved. By the late-twentieth century, the border states were among the fastest-growing regions in both countries. But as Michael Dear warns, this vibrant zone of economic, cultural and social connectivity is today threatened by highly restrictive American immigration and security policies as well as violence along the border. The U.S. border-industrial complex and the emerging Mexican narco-state are undermining the very existence of the "third nation" occupying the space between Mexico and the U.S. Through a series of evocative portraits of contemporary border communities, Dear reveals how the promise and potential of this "in-between" nation still endures and is worth protecting. Now with a new chapter updating this story and suggesting what should be done about the challenges confronting the cross-border zone, Why Walls Won't Work represents a major intellectual intervention into one of the most hotly-contested political issues of our era.