Americas

Lynus So P. 4 How do we respond to the questions; “Is America the greatest country?”, “What is it like to live in America?”. Is it, “liberty and freedom” or “America gives me opportunities and chances for my life”? Is it the same response from the homeless and hungry? What do they say? What is liberty and freedom? Perhaps it simply means, living in America, we take responsibility for helping each other. They cower in the streets of cities like Seattle, watching many people pass by wearing fancy…

Entry 11 History on the beginnings of English America offers a holistic review of the colonies of New England and Chesapeake. Particularly, it focuses on the period between 1607 and 1660 and draws interest on the motives and reasons behind the colonization of the New World by the English. I find the exploration of how the lives of the Indians are transformed following the Great Migration to North America during this period very interesting. It effectively brings out the different happenings and…

Leif Erikson Leif Erikson was born in Iceland late in the 10th century, grew up in Greenland and he’s a famous explorer. He is the first European to land on the Americas. He led a crew of 35 men on a journey to America at around the year 1000. Historically important due to the fact that it was he who got to the Americas first, he discovered it. Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias, a portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488 opening the way for a sea route from…

England coming over to America was a new experience for them; however, there were other immigrant groups there before the English. There were the Native Americans and the Spaniards, and they were all fighting for land in order to make more plantations meaning more money. England ended up going to war with the Natives and the French called the French and Indian War that lasted seven years until the it ended with the English winning and the creation of the Treaty of Paris, forcing borders between…

Life in America was difficult for early settlers coming for a new life. These settlers were looking for freedoms in this new land. They faced many hardships with trying to make the new land work, but they finally established a new life. Daily life in colonial America was really rough on the colonists and early settlers. They were very frightened as they lived in this new country, without any friends or relatives to help them face it. A few of the Native Americans helped them agree with the…

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,…

emigration from Europe to North America. Spanning more than three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonists to a flood of millions of newcomers. Impelled by powerful and diverse motivations, they built a new civilization on the northern part of the continent. The first English immigrants to what is now the United States crossed the Atlantic long after thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies and South America. Like all early…

Jessie Sisavat Professor Duarte History 40 December 10 2015 The Impact of Friars in the Americas The natives in the Latin America were living their way of life until the Spanish arrival. Many native tribes started to encounter priest from different secular clergy groups such as Franciscans, Dominicans and Jesuits. These missionaries emphasize their success of converting the native tribes and creating a new world order. The religious groups indict the native’s rituals and wanted to start a…

The invasions of Europe into America“began as an offshoot of the quest for a sea route to India, China, and the islands of the East Indies,...” (Foner) Since the very beginning, America was not even found as an escape from the troubles or inconveniences of a country but as a method by as a result of looking for a sea route which traders could instead use in…

very valued in the United States is education. Right now only 14% of the population can’t read, which yes is a big number but it is much less than in 1870 when 20% of the population was illiterate. Something else that was passed into the culture of America is that we now have a government that takes care of all of the 50 states which is what the Albany Plan was proposing. We also have only one constituition in the United…