El Puerto de Santa María

in nature. Antonio also learns the uses of special herbs and how to ask for the plant’s medicine before pulling the roots. Ultima teaches Antonio to respect nature and the magic that it provides to the people. Though Antonio thinks that he has all these dreams from his parents that he must fulfill, “Ultima says that a man’s destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sin and the earth and water making it blossom, and no one else meddling in it --” (Anaya 223). This quote states that as Antonio grows up, his destiny will come naturally to him and he will know what he is meant to be when the right time comes. When Antonio witnessed the death of Florence, he started having terrible nightmares to which Ultima suggested a stay at El Puerto where Antonio will be away from the terrible events that had occurred. Ultima assures Antonio that part of life is the sadness and pain that comes along with it and that Antonio must not give up even in the toughest of times, but rather he should “gather strength to sustain [him]” (Anaya 245). While Antonio gets encouragement from Ultima to do what he believes is right, Paikea learns from koro in a different way. Koro does not believe that Paikea has the potential to be leader because of her gender, however that does not mean that koro hates his granddaughter. Through koro’s teaching, Paikea learned about how the rope symbolizes the strength of the ancestors joined together by “[weaving] together the threads of…

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and the haphazard suppression of smuggling; inefficient and arbitrary administration of laws; and the weakness of the corruption of the army”(page 41). There were areas such as California, New Mexico, and Yucatan where there were little to non Anglo American where development of the idea separation from Mexican began to spread. During the mid-1830s violent rise ups against the national government of Mexico was sparked due to these areas letting American immigrants in even when Mexico City…

In response to the growing unrest, Mexican troops established military posts in several locations within the province, including San Antonio de Béxar. After hearing that the Mexican army commander in Nacogdoches, José de las Piedras, had demanded that all residents in his area surrender their arms, Bowie cut short a visit to Natchez in July 1832 to return to Texas. On August 2, 1832, he joined a group of other Texans and marched into Nacogdoches to "present their demands" to Piedras. Before the…

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1824, which allowed greater freedoms and rights. However, all agreed that revolution was necessary, by any and all means, and ultimately that the American population in Texas should declare independence. The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had…

is set off by Texas rebelling from Mexico and its dictator Santa Ana, who is leading the Mexican army himself. The Texan War Party wants to cross into Mexico and confront the Mexican army. The other party wants…

decision and with it came grave consequences if it were the wrong one made. Travis in his plea stated, “Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, & of everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch.” Houston would not risk everything going to war with Santa Anna when he did not even have enough trained soldiers. It was a decision made to abandon them in a sense because although Houston pleaded to the men at the Alamo to listen to his orders,…