Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro was born in 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. He died in 1541. Pizarro represented the country of Spain. He explored from 1510-1541. Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador. His goal was to explore, conquer, and accumulate wealth in the New World for Spain. Pizarro came from a poor family. He didn’t receive a good education, and he never learned to read or write. He began working at a young age as a swineherd. This is someone who raises and takes care of pigs. As a teenager Pizarro…

On the 7th of December in 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The following year, in the middle of February, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that allowed for the relocation of all those living in coastal Washington, Oregon, and California with Japanese ancestry. Those living on the West coast were relocated to desolate places far away from the Pacific Ocean and placed in camps with other Japanese Americans. There were a few reasons for the relocation of Japanese…

Global art cinema has been a widely contested term among film critics and scholars alike. The term was created to help categorize and define a genre of film that directly opposes First Cinema, or commercial cinema produced and distributed by Hollywood in the United States. In the book, Global Art Cinema, Second Cinema, or art cinema, has been summarized by authors Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, as being feature films typically including “...foreign production, overt engagement of aesthetic..…

Francisco Franco played a very large part in Spain’s military and government history. From his early years, Franco was involved in the military and climbed the ladder to eventually be general and dictator of Spain. At the highest point in his career, Franco lead the Nationalists rebellion against the government which eventually resulted in his position as dictator of Spain. Eventually adopting the name of “El Caudillo”, Francisco Franco would lead Spain into what is now a democracy. Francisco…

determined that the time was not right, and they wouldn’t be able to mount a meaningful opposition to the current government in place. From here on is where the Spanish Civil War begins. It starts and is centered around a military General named Francisco Franco. After the new government took over in 1931 and stripped power from the military, Franco was demoted and placed on the military inactive list. He went along with it and accepted his new role for Spain. In 1933 conservative officials were…

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as General Francisco Franco is a Spanish military commander who was pro-monarch. He ruled his country through the Spanish Flanque or Phalange Party with an iron fist at the end of the Spanish civil war which took place in the 1930s, he was the first to form such kind of party, he established close relationships with fascism and Nazism during World War II. The man was subjected to international isolation after the war in which he…

Since Francisco came to the throne of Spain the number of Europe tyrants became 3, "Hitler, Mussolini, Francisco" And the strange was that despite the help of the communism and the participants for Francisco to reach power, they were the first that he got rid of them after he reached the judgement, and like Hitler and Mussolini he had made himself a leader and father of Spain and decided to choose a nickname for himself like, ( Hitler," the Führer "and Mussolini" Ducci ")Francisco took the title…

After the game against South San Francisco we had a record of 6 to 2 while South San Francisco had a record of 8 to 0. In the 8th grade year there are championships and our team was able to make it to the final round where we faced the one and only South San Francisco again, but this time it was for the championship. I remember that game at Parkside Middle School at 6:30. This game was the most important…

Introduction: California is a golden, magical state! The “Golden State” is its nickname because it comes from the California Gold Rush and the state flower, the golden poppy. When you think of California, you think giant redwood trees, the golden gate bridge, Hollywood, sandy beaches, businesses, and best of all, gold. Many famous people come from California, like our former president Richard Nixon and the first female astronaut Dr. Sally Ride. California is even the birthplace of one of the…

Jack London was an American writer, author and journalist who lived from 1876 to 1916. Some of his famous works include The Sea Wolf and Call of the Wild. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, he was raised in Oakland, California, by his mother and stepfather. Jack London is considered to be a great writer. In his teenage years, he worked many different jobs. In his spare time, he read travel books and novels at the library. Eventually, he told his mother a story of what happened one day…