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changed their priorities. In this essay, I aim to outline three ways exploration and discovery affected British expansion and how sometimes British expansion affected exploration and discovery. First, I will show how Spanish discoveries drove the English to expand their naval might far afield to raid Spanish shipping. Second, I will show how a desire to open up independent trade with…

Brianna Dunkes Mrs. Menard English 10 17th May 2016 American Dream Essay Everyone had the ability to achieve their American dream. Not everyone believes this statement, since they have not yet completed their American dream. In 1931, James Truslow Adams first defined the “American Dream” by writing that “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” regardless of social status or birth circumstance. If you work hard,…

While there were several British (and by extension, American) goals present during the French and Indian War, the primary ones included securing “commercial supremacy” among major European powers, gaining access to the interior of the continent, “cement[ing] its control of settled regions” in North America, and ruining France’s attempts to make use of the Americas. The last is especially important considering the other conflicts between the British and French over the previous eighty years. All…

The poem "Theme for English B", by Langston Hughes is written in 1951, before the civil rights movement. Throughout the poem, Hughes is very nonchalant as he discusses the theme of racism as well as what it means to be "free". As he discusses race many think he is very "soft" when there was much to be angry about during this time period. I believe the poem is still very effective and the fact that he does not display anger makes it even more significant. Even though he is not angry, he does…

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin, with a libretto written by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin from Heyward's novel Porgy and later play of the same title. Porgy and Bess was first performed in New York City on September 30, 1935, and featured an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. After suffering from an initially unpopular public reception due in part to its racially charged theme, the…

stumbles upon a skeleton of an African-American, whose nationality is not exposed straightforwardly by the writer. The explanation of this scene is the slaughter of an African-American man by his Anglo-American boss is very acquainted because his existence is deemed trivial. The resistant reading of this text is comparable to The Secret River. It is rooted in the cultural assumptions, values, attitudes and beliefs of the audience. For instance, African-Americans reading the text would be more…

From failure comes success, its was America has done to become this great nation. In the years 1700s Great Britain had 13 colonies in American people and the British seen this American being successful they started to treat them un fairly while. In the years 1770s the Americans got tired and rebel against Britain. The Americans declare independence in order to distinguish themselves from Britain. With the purpose to make this country better every year we have to share our opinions if something…

Tywoniak, F. E., & García, M. T. (2000). Migrant daughter: Coming of age as a Mexican American woman. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Francisca was born in Atoka Southeastern New Mexico, on April 2, 1931. The second child of the family first was her sister Antonia. Francisca focuses on her mother’s family side explaining her roots in New Mexico during the Great depression in 1930, her transition from New Mexico to California, and her education. Francisca’s mother was the fifth of…

Martha’s father was a dentist and financier who helped start African American businesses around the D.C area, while her mother was very active in the Catholic Church and she passed that onto Martha too. Once Martha graduated from Miner Normal School she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in math from Smith College. Soon after she married her childhood friend Harold Appo Haynes in 1917. He later became an important role in the African American school systems. Martha received a master’s degree in…

The Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution changed political expectations for self-government and individual liberty worldwide. Between 1215 and 1791 five documents, Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, US Bill of Rights and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens, where written. These documents built upon the democratic ideas of self-government and individual liberty by consent of the governed and promoting value of the…