SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Overview of the Spanish Civil War

Essays 751 - 780

Spain and Ivory

people desire the objects which are made from the raw material. Ivory carving is not new. It dates back to about 4,000 years to th...

Spanish and English Approaches to Colonial Slavery

Spain and Portugal were the first nations to reach the shores of the "New World". Their arrival preceded that of other major colo...

Growing Up Bilingual by Anna Celia Zentella

In six pages this paper reveals the author's detailed linguistic study of New York Spanish Harlem's Puerto Rican children. Eleven...

Nobel Laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez

In seven pages this Spanish Nobel Laureate is discussed in terms of his life and poetry. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Mexico's Revolution and the Impact of Race and Class Issues

In ten pages this paper discusses how Mexico's desire to achieve freedom from Spanish rule was ruled by race and class issues. Se...

Lazarillo de Tormes in New York City

yours. Stand still, shut your eyes, and wait." I did, and something began to happen. The air began to hum.. I tried to open my ey...

Broken Spears by Miguel Leon Portilla and the Mexican Conquest

In 6 pages this text is examined from an historical perspective and considers how its accounts differ between the Spanish colonist...

Challenges and Success of San Antonio de Bexar

During the days when Texas was part of New Spain, many arrived at San Antonio de Bexar to seek success. As a result, the area on ...

Early West and Settlers from Mexico and Spain

Perhaps the most eye-opening and interesting aspects of the history of the western states, California in particular, is the fact t...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Marquez's No One Writes the Colonel

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...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Julio Cortazar's Deshoras

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

Spain's Bourbon and Hapsburg Dynasties

mother, Joanna, until Joannas death" (Anonymous Spain: History, 2002; A0861231.html). We note that those who had come before Ch...

PE and the Effects of the Renaissance

the way people understood the workings of their bodies and the ways in which science was able to respond to issues such as illness...

The Artistry of Antonio Gaudi

fantastic and organic readily applied to this particular structure, one can clearly understand why Gaudis avant-garde style earned...

Philippines and Spanish Colonial Rule

soil (History of the Philippines, 2002). On the island of Cebu, Magellan erected a cross and claimed it as a territory of Charles...

Analyzing An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...

Impact of Islam on the Pre Crusades Christian Islam

conception of the medieval period is that the Catholic Church was a lone beacon of light, preserving ancient knowledge until such ...

Latin America and Marriage Ceremonial Changes Before and After the Catholic Church Introduction

the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

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,...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

August 2003 Daniel Bolshoy and Julie Nesrallah Concert Report

in guitar at the Indiana University School of Music where he has developed a course on the history of the guitar (DB&JN). Bolshoy ...

Spanish Conquest and Sugar Cane

was shaped by the vagaries of the international sugar market. Spains ultimate goal in the Spanish Conquest, of course, wa...

Assessment and Strategic Recommendations for Zara

review the firm and its position in order to identify strategies which may be adopted and propose a new strategy which will be ali...

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

FBI and Strategies to Address Domestic Violence

There are numerous cultural differences, such as the distance at which people from Latin Americans feel comfortable speaking, diff...

The Pandemic of 1918

30 and 50 millions deaths; the number is uncertain because of the scale of the catastrophe. This paper discusses the Spanish Flu w...

Spanish America

milestones in the history of Europe. The Portuguese, Spanish and French explorers who set out to see what lay beyond the horizon c...

Colonial Latin America and Manifest Destiny

In five pages this paper examines colonial Latin American and the impact of manifest destiny related to the Spanish conquest and t...