Galleon

Scott O’Dell: Intentional Misinterpretation or Accidental Appropriation? She braves the wrath of nature, fighting both the world around her and the world inside of her; her brother is eaten alive by dogs, her father is killed before her eyes; she has to make the choice of abandoning her tribe’s traditions and living, or keeping them and dying. In Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins, Karana is the fictional representation of the Lone Woman, who spends roughly twenty years isolated on San…

While Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s ambitions were established to centralization, also wanting a military purification. These actions however do not constitute the definition of unification. Berry attempts to differentiate Hideyoshi from Nobunaga’s terrors “threaten all the lords of his day” (70) while offering Hideyoshi’s separation from radical policies (121, 126, and 144) for the commoners to that of conservative ones for the daimyo (159-161). Berry contemplates Hideyoshi’s actions as radical and…

Armageddon sailed the seas, and the fate of the world was decided within the English Channel, or so some believed. The Anglo-Spanish War was fought from 1585 to 1604, despite war never being officially declared, and is best remembered for the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The English and Spanish were quite different from each other in terms of their religion, politics, and military structure, which lead to the King Philip II’s plans to overthrow Queen Elizabeth. However, when the…

Part 1: Performance Description and Analysis The mariner, the navigator, the sailor, or the pirate? The performer identified himself as all of these depending on the situations during a particular time in the performance. One event that sticks with me the most, one that the entire performance was rooted in, was the killing of the albatross. The mariner made friends with the albatross before, one day, losing it and killing it with his bow and arrow. This shaped the rest of the…

Selfish ambition is the brother of pain. Spain’s presence in the Americas was the epitome of this. From 1469 and onwards, Spain voyaged to America in search of gold and converts (Freire). Although one of these reasons sounds noble, both caused many people years of pain and death. As shown by Bartolome de Las Casas’s testimony, the occupation of the Americas by the Spanish and their reasons for being there led to more harm than good for the natives. The reasons that Spain came to the Americas, in…

The Spaniards subjected the land of the Aztecs and the Mayans. It was then called the land of Mexico where the cacao trees were first seen. The Spaniards then shipped the cacao to the Philippines through the use of the galleon trading system. The Philippines was the first country outside Mesoamerica that plants and grows cacao. It became more popular to the country and also to the other parts of the world. As stated by the Cacao Manual published by the Inter-American Institute of American…

Coopers book, hope is “symbolized in the West by the anchor, or a woman with a globe, cornucopia, pear or beehive; sometimes she has a galleon in full sail surmounting her head” [7]. After the earthquake took place, there was hope that Haiti would become the same nation as it was before the events. Many non-profit organizations collected funding from several nations to aid in the assistance…

used his imagination. “Joining hands in a dance with Mary Cunningham and the count of Monte Cristo soaring and swooping and breaking for third, up, rising up, full of rain and fire and salt and oceans, all the way up, chanting the letters that named galleons and cowboys, pirates and Indians, borne by the letters swept through golden skies, about the crazy world above Brooklyn, above Ireland, above Prague, above the fields of Belgium” (331). Michael was a few hours away from being killed by…

The Spanish Armada Philip II of Spain was given the keys to success by his father Charles V. Philip was left with vast economic resources coming in by the boatload from Spanish colonies in the new world, the strongest state in Europe at the time and the state on the verge of achieving a Spanish hegemony. Yet Philip II still managed to fail even with all these major advantages over other states. One major defining factor in his failure to achieve a Spanish Hegemony was the defeat of the…

square sail for running before the wind. Caravels were usually built with a double tower at the stern (aftermost part of the boat) or and a single tower in the bow (the front of the boat). In overall, caravels were smaller and lighter than the Spanish galleons that were later developed 16th…