America the Beautiful

vast and beautiful landscape where many people from different parts of the world come to purse a prosperous life. A new world for some and the center of the universe for others. Stretching from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean it is dubbed "the most extraordinary land on Earth". Many people had come to the West from distant lands, the Spanish moving from Mexico, the French and the British moving from the South and the Russians as well as the Chinese from the East.…

A critique on post-revolutionary America, Rip Van Winkle wakes up twenty years in the future and discovers exactly what he once knew, his house, town, and faces aged. However, America has usurped the British troops and overthrown the government, which Rip discovers as he explores his town after his journey through time. Scholars claim that the intent in subtly criticize the new American power, and demonstrate through Rip that pre-revolution America was not what history suggests (Pearce 1).…

that Uruguay would be more susceptible to outside influence and even imperialism. Rodó, feeling that this might be a threat to the success of his nation, penned Ariel, an essay that invokes a lot from The Tempest, encouraging the youths of Latin America to devote more of their time to the arts and to diversify their skills and interests in an effort to promote a strong national identity and cultivate their unique culture. The symbol for this equality was The Tempest’s Ariel. Due in part to…

The most recognized is Semana Santa which in means holy week. In the United States is Spring break, Semana Santa is the “King” of all holidays celebrated all over Latin America. It symbolizes the crucification and resurrection of Jesus. People cover the streets with colorful rugs known as “alfombras” made of plants, straw, and flowers. Common treats for this holiday are buñuelos a fried donut covered with cinnamon, sugar…

In Ji-Yeon Yuh’s article “Imagined Community – Sisterhood and Resistance among Korean Military Brides in America, 1950-1996,” she points out the hardship that military brides had gone through since they migrated from Korean camptown to reside permanently in the United States with their husbands who once served in the military service. In the introduction, Yuk mentions that most of military brides did not sense happiness in their marriages, “some were in the middle of second or third marriages,…

” as well as Toshio Mori’s “Tomorrow is Coming, Children,” both tell tales of what it was like to live in the borderlands between cultures. Certainly their stories are different. Chew recounts the experience of leaving China to pursue wealth in America, while Mori tells a story of being a Japanese immigrant travelling to the west. Both arrived in the United States at different times, for different reasons. Both, while in the United States, struggled to learn the language assimilate into the…

three simple concepts which they believe will render a perfect life; freedom, independence, and success. The three ideas are the concepts that constitute what has been named as the American dream, a beautiful dream that gives hope to people. The American dream is, therefore, a belief that anyone in America can succeed regardless of their gender, race, class, or nationality, only if they work hard. It presents an American society that disregards problems like misogyny, xenophobia, tax avoidance…

and makes me very uncomfortable is what Columbus's close friend Michele de Cuneo who wrote the first disturbing account of a relation between himself and a Native female gift given to him by Columbus. “While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me, and with whom, having taken her into my cabin, she being naked according to their custom, I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want…

Magellan’s Voyage BOOK REPORT Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer and famous for his circumnavigation the world. He was a soldier for eight years serve the Portuguese fleet in Indian Ocean. The entire voyage created a couple of life changing reasons. It created trade troops and revealed the true scale of the earth. It took Ferdinand Magellan five years of planning whether to make his dream into reality. On September 21, 1519, the circumnavigation began from Spain to unknown place. The…

settlers, much to the disturbance of John Smith, are looking gold that doesn’t exist in Virginia. However, goods like animal fur, timber, and other goods showed a natural abundance that offered economic advancement.(Jamestown and the Founding of English America).This doesn’t mean the English settlers didn’t respect the Natives as Captain Newport ordered them not to disturb the Natives as trade will be important between the two groups. Respect quickly turned into fear with Natives being called…