Latin Rite

Simi Valley has only relatively recently become the city it is known as today. Prior to the 1970’s, Simi Valley had been mainly a place of groves and farmland. Also prior to that, this was the land of the Chumash which is where the word Simi originated from. While most of the people of Simi are of European descent, there seems to be a strong community of hispanic people. There are also people from Asian backgrounds, African American backgrounds, and Native American backgrounds. On the surface…

Louis A. Pérez initiates the academic literature that studies the relationship between America and Cuba, which has shaped the progressing literature currently disseminating within academia and mainstream research regarding American and Cuban encounters. “On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture”, is another Louis A. Pérez production that emphasizes the evolutions and transitions between, above, and below the two countries. The 579-page text is a tedious read, but a thorough history…

Since the dawn of man kind humans have had the urge to learn, discover and explore. People have been exploring ever since the age of the dinosaur. In the earliest ages of man kind, it was a necessity for survival. Though as time passed and humans evolved it became less of a necessity and people started exploring more out of curiosity. In the past there were multiple believes on the shape of the Earth. One of the most oldest and most believed theories was that Earth was flat. It was such…

The Age of Exploration is a major turning point in history because... New technology was produced. Transportation of goods. New trade routes were discovered. New Technology was produced During the Age of Exploration technology, such as the astrolabe and the compass, were produced to help the people for navigation and to measure the night's sky. The compass was an instrument that helped to direct the navigation on sea, or on land. This helped during the Age of Exploration because people that…

The Mexican codex map was made 50 years after the Spanish conquered the Aztecs in 1521. The map illustrates two Mexican towns of Tlaxcala, the traces of the Mexican native society and the influence of the Spanish conquests in these regions. The church of Saint Barbara Tamasolco and Saint Anna situated on the left and right of the map represents each of these towns. The writings on the map resulted from the combination of the local language of the natives and one taken from Spain. Also, many of…

Both Indigenous and Spaniards showed great care for their beliefs. Spaniards did anything they could to benefit the church and their God. Spaniards not only cared for the church but imperialism as well. The Indigenous differed because they had many gods to please. According to the Indigenous human’s only role was to fight and die for gods. They satisfied gods through sacrifice. When Spain stumbled upon the Americas, they acted believing Spanish imperialism is their right. This effects the…

Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation as, “The theology of liberation attempts to reflect on the experience and meaning of the faith based on the commitment to abolish injustice and to build a new society” (174). He started a revolution in Latin America in order to give the poor, the ones who suffer, the one who experience injustice, and the needed a way of seen faith as God is always on their side in providing a better quality of life within their lifetime. Hence, Liberation theology…

The Third of May 1808 was painted in 1814 by Francisco Goya commissioned by Ferdinand VII, who had taken the throne after the French had been driven out of Spain. This work’s dimensions are 8' 9" x 12' 4" painted with oil on canvas. Guernica was painted later in 1937 by Pablo Picasso as a piece for the Spanish Pavilion at the World’s Fair. This painting was created with oil on canvas with dimensions reaching 11’6” x 25’8”. While Goya and Picasso took radically different approaches to depicting…

Introduction: The origin of anatomically modern humans and the method of their arrival to the Americas is a topic which has been studied as far back as 1590 when the Jesuit Friar Jose de Acosta suggested that the populations of America emigrated from Asia via land (Mangan, 2002). This theory was simply based on Acosta’s observations of Mexican populations and had no other evidence to back up his theory. Later, it was suggested that the first anatomically modern humans to arrive in the Americas…

A main moral conflict is that between Costa—the money-driven movie producer with no sympathy for the Native peoples—and Director Sebastian, who is younger and has a little more sympathy for the Cochabamba Natives. Though Sebastian is portrayed as a liberal idealist, he fails to accurately sympathize with the racialized labor system in Bolivia and the cyclical colonialism that he is perpetuating without realizing it. Sebastian and Costa become more aware of how they are treating the Cochabamba…