Andalusia

The bullfight, as it is rehearsed today, includes proficient toreros (of whom the most senior, who really kills the bull, is known as a bullfighter) who execute different formal moves which have an importance, or if nothing else a name, as indicated by the matador's style or school. It has been asserted that toreros look to evoke motivation and craftsmanship from their work and an enthusiastic association with the group transmitted through the bull. The nearby closeness puts the matador at some…

As we begin to commence on our quest towards college to achieve our Personal Legend, we will all experience a number of journeys along the way that we must battle in order to reach our final destination. College tours, The Common Application, and the well-known yet essential college essay are all mini journeys that are vital in order to reach the end of our quest. Although, this is not the same path that Santiago took in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, however, he must also overcome excursions…

Ibn Battuta’s travels and their impact on history In 1325, after the Crusades, a young Moroccan Muslim called Ibn Battuta, set out on the necessary pilgrimage to Makka. It was to become an odyssey from one unknown world to another. Shams Al-Din Abou Abdallah Muhammed Ibn Abdallah Ibn Muhammed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Yusuf Al-Alawati Al-Tanji Ibn Battuta Ibn Hamid Al-Ghazi (Ibn Battuta) was born in Tangier in the north of Morocco in 1304, during the ruling time of the…

incredible kind of donkey species there is. The American ass got his other name because it is the largest donkey species there is in the world. They were bred here in America if you can tell by their name. They started breeding Maltese, Poitou, Andalusia and Catalonian and eventually came to the American Jackstock. The term for a male donkey is called a Jack. A female donkey is called a…

Poor nutrition, plagues, sexism, and social classes: these are only four of the prices of civilization that we, along with our ancestors, have faced. War is another major source of destruction, but also cooperation or even the creation of a new identity. War has the power to “make or break” a civilization, completely changing the course of history. No historian can ignore wars due to their influence. Merely one example of these influential wars are the Crusades. So, what is a Crusade? Depending…

air. A sudden change in either could cause fatal illness. Travel to the new world as well as eating maize could by their idea of the humoral body be fatal. An example that is given by Earle is the story of Jeronimo de Aguilar. Aguilar was born in Andalusia and travelled to the Indies. In 1511 he sailed to Panama towards Santo Domingo when his ship was caught in a storm and he shipwrecked off of the Yucatan Peninsula. Local Maya Indians, with whom Aguilar lived until 1519, captured him after his…

The Desire to Create Spanish Unity Throughout the history of medieval Spain, a myriad of methods of control are employed by the political and religious regimes of the time in order to strengthen the unity of the state. In this paper, I will argue that religious persecution was rooted in the desire to create political and religious unity in Medieval Spain. The origins of religious persecution in the context of Christianity can be traced back to the time of the Visigoths, when the conversion…

Throughout much of history, various groups of Christians, Muslims, and Jews have fought with each other rather than cooperating with each other. For example, the current Israeli-Palestinian Conflict between Israel, a Jewish majority country, and the state of Palestine, a Muslim majority territory, started due to disputes over land, especially over the holy city of Jerusalem. Wars have also been ignited between different groups of the same religion, such as the Thirty Years War, which was fought…

Listen to Your Heart and Follow Your Dreams Have you ever wanted something so desperately but were too afraid to go after it? In life, we are often too afraid to take chances for fear of failure and rejection. Being unsure of the unknown makes us uncomfortable, and we do not like to put ourselves out there not knowing what the outcome will be. However, with that said, what if we never took the chance, and we miss something amazingly beautiful? While The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and The…

ability to become something more in life than what they start out as, much like the transition from lead to gold. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho contains an example of this, in how the protagonist, Santiago (a shepherd boy from a region of Spain called Andalusia) attempts to accomplish his personal legend. The leading symbol behind this book is alchemy, which is symbolic for the journey Santiago experiences on his path to his destiny (traveling to the Pyramids of Egypt and discovering a great…