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Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

In seven pages this paper discusses the Monty Python type social satire that is featured in this classic Spanish novel. Eight sou...

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...

The History of Cuba's Fight for Independence

Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra attention in the 1...

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...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

Nude Paintings of Peter Paul Rubens

so intricately painted with many hues, becomes iridescent, as if vibrating at so high a frequency it is crossing the bounds into s...

Peter Paul Rubens' Nudes Paintings

(Hombros Que se inclinan, 2003). Otro autor indica de que los?Rubens hacen a su var?n y las figuras encarnaciones virtuales de ...

Freedom and Culture

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

Political Influences on Salvador Dali

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

Spanish and Franco American Speakers Compared

such a degree in states like California, Texas, and Florida that the people angered, frustrated, feeling threatened, and thus enga...

Comparison of Juan Cortes de Tolosa's El Lazarillo de Manzanares and Miguel de Cervantes' El Lazarillo de Tormes

cultivated veneer that the monarchy and the church did not want the general public to see. These works, which also incorporated f...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

U.S. and Having as its Official Language Spanish

as an official language than in taking on English as an official language. Interestingly enough, "One of six official languages...

Pedringano in The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

Marshal of Spain. Lorenzo and Horatio captured Balthazar, the son of the Viceroy of Portugal, during battle. The King of Spain has...

Augusto Pinochet III

the legislature and the judicial system as well as the government (Bindman, 1989). When general Pinochet entered England in Octob...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

US and the Significance of Being Able to Speak Spanish

right. There is in fact a heated debate between those who think that the United States is losing its culture by becoming bilingual...

Tiempo de Silencio by Luis Martin Santos and La Colmena by Camilo J. Cela

discover hidden truth in the world, he can aim to create his own different world in whatever terms he wishes through the medium of...

Southwestern Forest Land Management and Land Grants

In ten pages this paper discusses the Southwest U.S. in a consideration of Spanish land grants and the controversy involving manag...

Buero Vallejo: “Story of a Stairway”

active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...

Trans-Mississippi West And The Spanish-American War

as people were filling in where buffalo used to be. Right along side this forward motion was the Trans-Mississippi, which wasted ...

The U.S. Move From Isolationism

independent from outside intervention. This establishment was political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the...

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...

New World Communications

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...