Essays 601 - 630
was shaped by the vagaries of the international sugar market. Spains ultimate goal in the Spanish Conquest, of course, wa...
in guitar at the Indiana University School of Music where he has developed a course on the history of the guitar (DB&JN). Bolshoy ...
A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...
who were most oppressed by the British rule. One author notes that the history of this goes back, beginning: "[I[n 1215 at a place...
the French generally ventured "from their base around the Great Lakes...drawn south along the rivers which drain into the Mississi...
for practical matters, in order to trade and communicate. This take u was a slow progression and started the influences of modern ...
Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...
expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...
around the belief that landowners would defend their property and country more conscientiously than those who had no vested intere...
million people, 75 percent of whom speak Spanish (IMAC, 2005). Spanish is spoken by almost 400 million people in the world (IMAC, ...
As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...
In eleven pages this paper discusses the role the Catholic Church played in the Spanish Conquest of this period. Six sources are ...
his numerous plays we see that they are love stories, farces, depictions of society, adventures, "moralizing pieces, tragedies, an...
as an official language than in taking on English as an official language. Interestingly enough, "One of six official languages...
Marshal of Spain. Lorenzo and Horatio captured Balthazar, the son of the Viceroy of Portugal, during battle. The King of Spain has...
cultivated veneer that the monarchy and the church did not want the general public to see. These works, which also incorporated f...
right. There is in fact a heated debate between those who think that the United States is losing its culture by becoming bilingual...
discover hidden truth in the world, he can aim to create his own different world in whatever terms he wishes through the medium of...
this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...
soil (History of the Philippines, 2002). On the island of Cebu, Magellan erected a cross and claimed it as a territory of Charles...
fantastic and organic readily applied to this particular structure, one can clearly understand why Gaudis avant-garde style earned...
conception of the medieval period is that the Catholic Church was a lone beacon of light, preserving ancient knowledge until such ...
the Holy Roman Emperor from 1519-1558. He was born to King Philip I of Castile in February 1500 and although he was born in Ghent,...
In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...
that chief Montezuma welcomed them with open arms, welcomed them as gods. Cortes accepted the accolades, the gold, the fine clothe...
the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...
land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...
Perhaps the most eye-opening and interesting aspects of the history of the western states, California in particular, is the fact t...