Feeding America

their religion to secure the afterlife. During this period the colonisation of South America took place. Christopher Columbus’s voyages, Spain was the first European rule to settle and colonize the area, from North America and the Caribbean to the southern tip of South America. Spanish cities were established as early as 1496 with Santo Domingo in today’s Dominican Republic. Due to the colonisation of South America the Columbian exchange was in action. The Columbian exchange was an extensive…

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…

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).…

Poverty, hunger, lack of education, and crime are diseases that plague the world. Whose job is it to end all of this? Apparently it is left to America to do this. The American government gives billions of dollars to these countries to hopefully try to end this, but it does not. These issues with our society, have not just developed. Since the beginning of civilization’s these issues have been a part of society, it is inevitable. There is one thing that can be done, focus on the people that…

Samuleson believes that the American Dream is being used to cover up problems within America like struggling to get by and conflicts among groups. Samuelson uses a lot of statistics to get his point across, for example how at least 5 million homeowners have lost their homes through foreclosure since 2007, and how the student debt for college…

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…

Numerous times I have been put in a position where I collaborated and interacted with people whose experiences differed from mine. However, the first time I was exposed to such a setting was a trip to the Dominican Republic when I was 12 years old. My initial visit to the country opened my eyes to a culture I was not familiar with. Coming from the United States, one of the most developed countries in the world, I came with preset customs and beliefs some of which were drastically changed by the…

The Spanish Netherlands following the beginning of the reformation was a place of widespread literacy, trade and progress. Through the rise of Charles V and the grand tour of his heir apparent Prince Philip of Spain, the empire which ruled over The Netherlands finally had come to grasp with the innovativeness and unique culture that the region supported, “Spanish visitors were also impressed by the political and economic strength of the Low Countries.” However, it was the eventually abdication…

Anybody who tries to seek out for help is seen as weak,harmful,and inferior to others in America. Americans see poor people as just staying on government programs to get free money by not doing anything. They don’t see them as bringing any benefits into society and sucking the resources dry. The poor works lots of hours just enough to sustain…

mostly known for his work as Director of the Royal Botanical Expedition to the New Kingdom of Granada. Established in 1783, the Botanical Expedition had the purpose of carrying out a complete natural history of Spain’s «equinoctial» territories in America. Thereby, Mutis led the project of gathering a vast collection of flora and fauna specimens, and of illustrating them, for both theoretical and practical purposes. Likewise, the Botanical Expedition turned into the most prominent center of…