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Since the discovery of Latin America by Columbus in 1492, the continent was colonized, conquered and torn apart for its resources. The native people were killed by the thousands, treated like animals and used for labor. The turn of the nineteenth century saw a wave of enlightenment thinkers throughout Europe and reaching the Americas, that disagreed with these tactics and pushed for sovereign states, which led to much of Latin America rebelling and escaping colonial rule. This paper will argue…

Latin Literature is one which incorporated ‘magical realism’ in their works often, along with the ‘fantastic’ which in simple terms is the used of supernatural elements in their works is such a subtle manner that they might otherwise be deemed impossible to happen, yet are able to happen at the same time. An example can be taken from A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Garcia Marquez, where he incorporated the use of a fallen angel and a girl who turned into a spider, and while it seems almost…

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…

According to Christopher Columbus, “Following the light of the sun, we left the old world” . In the year 1492 a European explorer called Christopher Columbus lead a Spanish expedition, which located the western hemisphere including North America, South America and the Caribbean . Columbus's discovery led to an era of European exploration and colonization. As such a country colonizes land when it sets up settlements, colonies, or people and controls the economies and governments in them. There…

Even the Rain directed by Iciar Bollain is about two people, Costa and Sebastian, who make a movie regarding Christopher Columbus who sails to the Americas and how he seized the land and indigenous people who were already present. While all this filming occurs, there is the water wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia led by Daniel, an actor who was recruited by Sebastian. The water war was about how companies from overseas were controlling the wells in Bolivia and were denying access to the public, they…

Assess his voyages and decide if he is rightly to blame for the spread of disease, or if modern historians are being overly cruel in their assessments. Chrtistopher Columbus was an italian explorer and navigator. Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria he was hoping to find a new route to India. Christopher Columbus first went to sea as a teenager. His first voyage almost cost him his life when he was attacked by French privateers off the…

Reputation; what significance does this one word have that a Spanish proverb states, “He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living”? According to the townspeople in theocratic Salem, an individual was to become prestigious and sacrifice everything for a good name. There was no such thing as private moralities, instead, a person’s reputation was a public matter showcased for the town to judge and discern. Nothing is more unimaginable than having to lose an influential position.…

Gabriel Garcia-Marquez’ novel, Chronicle of Death Foretold, portrays women in roles that can be compared to the roles of women in past and present societies. In many Latin American families, past and present, men are led to protect their families and preserve the family honor. If a woman loses her virginity before marriage, she is a great dishonor to her family, therefore forcing her to marry the same man to restore the family honor. A fine example of this would be that of Angela Vicario, a…

“Money can be printed, our land cannot be created once it’s gone” -Penan Malaysia. This quote is saying that there are people and other living things who live in the rainforest. 12,000 years ago the Native Amazonians came into the rainforest and claimed it as their home. They have lived there ever since and are not about to stop living in the rainforest simply because the Loggers want to take down trees. The Loggers want to turn trees into lumber for things such as houses and…

The Introduction of Colonialism in North America and the Horrors It Brought The Spanish, specifically Queen Isabella, sent Christopher Columbus to discover a new route to Asia, in order to compete with the rising power of the Portuguese. This one decision however, began the race for world colonization and would eventually lead to the death of millions of Native Americans from war, famine, displacement, and disease. The first recorded contact between Native Americans and European powers occurred…