In David J. Weber’s The Spanish Frontier in North America, the predominant structural force that occurred within the overview, was colonization. Within colonization, we get sub-structural forces such as economics, diseases, etc. Due to Christopher Columbus’s arrival in 1492, Hernan Cortez along with the Spanish, came to the Americas to colonize the land in 1519. The Spain had an impact on the lives, institutions, and environments of the native peoples of North America, as well as on the lives and institutions of those Spaniards who explored and settled on what has now become the United States. Disease came about as a structural force when European illnesses such as smallpox, measles, and typhus affected native workers.…
John Mc Cormick Hist 31 TTH 11-12:30 Research Paper The Battle of The Chavez Ravine A small farming community trying to survive in the rapidly expanding and changing City of Los Angeles California, only to be met with false promises from the city leading to their houses being turned into dust. The story of these families who lived in The Chavez Ravine is one filled with political mistrust and ethical dilemmas.…
The idea of home and its importance in The Arrival, Sonora and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue A person is influenced by several cultural, material or emotional aspects that help building a personality and are part of someone’s self-definition. One of these factors can be considered home, and it has a big role in The Arrival by Shaun Tan, Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz. A close analysis to the meaning of home and what it represents to each story can be seen as a space or place which characters depart and return, each one of them with a different association to what they call home.…
Patrick Johnson Engr 597 Tectonics Dr. Gifford 10/14/2016 Formation of the Rocky Mountains Abstract • How did they form? • Sevier orogeny • Laramide orogeny • prevailing theory (flat slab subduction) 1. Very low angle subducting slab 2. rubbing against underside of North American plate 3.…
The South Canyon Fire The South Canyon fire was a major fire that occurred on July 2, 1994, seven miles from a town in Colorado named Glenwood Springs. The fire was on Storm King Mountain and burned about 2,115 acres of land and took 14 lives with it. Some major causes of the fire were high temperatures, droughts throughout that year, and low humidity. This fire caused many families and friends to lose loved ones and changed the way firefighters today fight fires.…
During the mission period of Northern California, specifically around the missions of the Bay Area, there has been a great amount of research done into uncovering the archaeology of the resistance and level of assimilation undergone by the Natives who lived or were involved with the missions at the time. Over course of these investigations much evidence has been found that shows a level of integration for the individual was present in this time period at the missions in order for the native peoples to gain from what the missionaries and missions themselves could provide for them. I propose that through further analysis of the methods, material culture, and greater investigation in the cultural phenomena of paseo, we can attain a more accurate…
In the chapter, On the Illinois: The Making of Modern Music and Culture in the Oklahoma Ozark Foothills, The Oklahoma Ozark area is a physical and cultural transition zone between the Great Plains and the eastern woodlands. This area has been considered home to many of the Cherokee people since their removal by U.S. soldiers and settlers beginning in the 1820s (pg. 239). The Cherokees has lived in the Oklahoma Ozark area longer than any other ethnic group compared as of currently. The Cherokees not only brought unique cultural attributes, they also shared many cultural traditions with non-Indian residents of Oklahoma and with their Arkansas and Missouri neighbors (pg. 241). One reason for incorporating their culture was that in the beginning…
California is a state that consists of countless historical landmarks that have been preserved in order to better understand the heritage of that specific site. Preservation is a way for people to recycle land and buildings in order to teach people about the resources that were once used in the past. People observe and learn through the preservation of landmarks so that important details such as traditions, rituals, languages, and skills can be incorporated into our present and future time periods. Out of many captivating historical landmarks, I chose to visit Coyote Hills Regional Park because I wanted to learn more about its importance. Coyote Hills is a significant part of history because it teaches society that in spite of the invasion and the genocide that the Ohlone Indians underwent, decedents of the tribes are now connecting with their communities by sharing their land and history with society.…
Gloria Anzaldúa provides a great account of how it is to be a chicano(a) in the borderlands. In her book Borderland/ La Frontera she exposes the hardships that chicanas have to face such as the identity crisis the face, the machismos and the infringement of the Hispanic culture. In the chapter “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Anzaldúa describes the Chicano(a) in the United States are told not to express themselves in their native language as “linguistic terrorism” since it instills fear and shame in their native language. In order to understand the important language in culture, it must be defined first.…
Unlike the East coast, the natural disaster that is most common in the West coast is earthquakes. As common as earthquakes are, there are only so much we know about the elements involved; such as fault lines. The topics discussed are what and where earthquakes occur, its history, and earthquake preparation in California. Earthquakes are known worldwide as a shaking of the ground. However, this just how people see the phenomenon where destruction follows.…
In the novel The Devil’s Highway, author Luis Alberto Urrea describes the seemingly impassable struggles immigrants must overcome when travelling from Mexico to the United States. The story follows the deadly journey of a group of undocumented male immigrants who in 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a desolate area known as the Devil’s Highway. Urrea provides the reader with not only a compelling story but also a complex historical compilation of information on the Mexico-United States border conflict in terms of culture, geography, power dynamics, and immigration policy. The novel is organized into four major sections, with each divided further into separate chapters. Part one provides…
Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River is a book written by Samuel Western. Western is a correspondent for The Economist, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, along with being published in many other news sources. Samuel Western is well-suited to write about Wyoming, although he was not born or raised here, because he has done a respectable amount of research, as well as being a published writer. He spends a significant amount of time looking at Wyoming’s economy, which he is qualified to do. He has also taught many classes at the University of Wyoming.…
The train not as a whole, but the shapes that form the outside look of the train vary many geometric figures, it contains circles for the wheels and squares for the windows. The wagon is made from just geometric shapes, rectangles…
The San Andreas Fault is perhaps the most dangerous and destructive fault lines in North America. Passing through one of the most populous areas of the United States, the San Andreas Fault line stretches nearly the entire western seaboard of California (Lynch). The infamous earthquake of San Francisco of 1906 is likely the reason the fault has been so ill-reputed. Furthermore, the fault has been relatively inactive and the chance for a large rupture which could span hundreds of kilometers along the fault to be extremely deadly grow increasingly higher as the time passes.…
The Mexican codex map was made 50 years after the Spanish conquered the Aztecs in 1521. The map illustrates two Mexican towns of Tlaxcala, the traces of the Mexican native society and the influence of the Spanish conquests in these regions. The church of Saint Barbara Tamasolco and Saint Anna situated on the left and right of the map represents each of these towns. The writings on the map resulted from the combination of the local language of the natives and one taken from Spain. Also, many of the names of the landowners shown on the map indicate the fact that intermarriages between the Spanish settlers and the native aristocrats took place at the time.…