Francisco Pizarro

Juan Antonio Bayona’s El Orfanato (2007) is a Spanish horror film that illustrates the Spanish ghost story while also representing the tragic loss of childhood. Laura returns to the orphanage where she was raised, hoping to re-open it. Instead, her son Simón goes missing seemingly at the hands of ghosts from her past. The disappearance and subsequent death of her son, as well as her reunion with her ghostly childhood friends symbolizes significant aspects of Spain’s traumatic history. This can…

During the 1930s, Spain was deeply divided into 2 groups. The left wing republicans and the right wing nationalists. The republicans consisted of the workers, the trade unions, the socialists and the peasants whilst the nationalists consisted of monarchists, landowners, employers, and the Roman catholic church. In 1929, the military dictatorship that governed Spain collapsed and in 1931 the king abdicated after the Second republic came to power. The creation of a coalition government of the left…

The California Gold Rush of 1849 marks an important date for the settlers coming from all over the world in search of gold first found in the Sacramento Valley. The five questions and responses addressed below will explain why the gold rush was so important. How was gold found in the specific area? Why was James Marshal credited for finding the gold? Why was gold valuable to so many people? Why did the Native American population shrink in California during the gold rush? Lastly what…

Requiem for a Spanish Peasant is Ramon J. Sender’s famous book. The setting of the book is an unknown village, during the Spanish Civil War. The book narrates the story of Paco El del Molino, a peasant who was killed for no reason, but his side in politics. Every Spaniard was expected to choose a side between the Republicans, and the Nationalist, and since the nationalist were the ruling party in that unnamed village, they chose to execute those who were not on their side. The ongoing violence…

sided with Germany and adopted a policy of non belligerency, where Spain allowed German submarines to travel through its ports and sent 50,000 volunteers to participate in the war with the Germans against the Soviet Union front (History.com Staff. “Francisco Franco.” History.com.). After the flow of WWII shifted towards the Allies, Franco again switched sides and declared neutrality in 1943. Suspicious and suspecting a presentiment, the Allies did not pay attention towards Spain’s neutrality and…

The mission systems for Mexican-American history involved a wide view, during its retrospect it was known as a sequence of missions that were established by Franciscan Monks in California and in the Spanish Southwest that obligated Indians into converting to Catholicism to employ themselves as agricultural laborers. An overall Mexican California that was an outbreak of dramatic strain that initiated the pros and cons of the mission system because of the changes in politics, religion, and…

The American Dream is in fact real, and to this day it still exists. There are many different things that state, and confirm the existence of this so called “Dream” that America believed in. Things such as the Gold Rush, Manifest Destiny, and even the people of the north pushing for equality. All of these are prime examples, in which exemplify and state the existence of the American Dream, and how it is still abided by today. The Gold Rush of 1849 was one of the few main parts of the American…

and brother in-law found gold in Yukon Territory. The location was suggested by Robert Henderson, a prospector grubstaked by a French-Canadian agent for Alaska Commercial Company, who previously found gold at this location. When news reached San Francisco and Seattle in July of 1897 tons of prospectors rushed to find gold in Alaska. The news reported that nearly $1,139,000 had been found in gold. Over 100,000 prospectors collected money to fund their journey north. Of the…

The focal point of this essay will be about the similarities and differences between The Spanish Civil War and the Chinese Civil War. There are multiple differences between the Spanish and Chinese Civil War. They both involve how both of these wars ended and started differently. Both wars were lead by different people and they were both under different advantages and disadvantages during the war. The Spanish War was a war that started between the United States and The Spanish. The war began in…

Figure 1: Francisco Goya (1814). The Executions of May 3, 1808 (Goya, 1814). The Executions of May 3, 1808 Introduction Artwork analysis involves a thorough scrutiny on how the Elements of Art and Principles of Composition have been applied in a given piece of art. The purpose of the analysis is to determine whether the artwork meets the threshold both in composition principles and in the use of elements of art. Francisco Goya’s The Executions of May 3, 1808 is an impressive artwork whose style…