Loneliness in America

Ancient civilizations in Latin America created the building blocks for a vibrant, diverse region in the future with their athletics, architecture and language. To begin with, the Mayan people created a complex, competitive ball game that shaped the future of sports. They had rules about what body parts to use, where to aim the ball, how to score before the Europeans could create anything more advanced than jousting. Starting place for many modern day sports, the ball game inspired many athletic…

Fifteen hundred years before 1770, Native Americans were roaming around what is now known to be Sylmar and San Fernando California. The Native Americans built a popular mission, dedicated to Saint Ferdinand. Because the Native Americans saw this structure as a very significant model, it became the foundation of the city of San Fernando. Around the 1800’s, a priest from Spain took charge of the mission in San Fernando, and desired to bring something to remind him of his home. The priest brought…

Equatorial Guinea is a small country on the west coast of Africa and has five offshore islands (Bernault 346). They gained independence on the 12th of October in 1986 after they had been under Spanish control for 190 years. They are currently under the control of President Obiang, and he has been in power for 37 years (The World Factbook). The Prime Minister is Vicente Ehate Tomi (Infoplease). The capital is Malabo, and it is located on the island of Bioko (The World Factbook). Equatorial…

have found what “unites” Latin America, where as in other areas, such as politics, have failed to define what brings Latin America together, but more of a separation. What Llosa is portraying here is that the creators of Latin America have found what have brought us together, and despite the government’s actions, true integration of Latin America, is a reality from experience and time shown through cultural ways. 2. Name some true differences that exist in Latin America, according…

During the colonization of America tension was often present between the lower class and the upper class. This occurs in both South America and in the Sothern colony of Virginia, some examples would be the Pueblo Rebellion, and Bacon’s Rebellion. Taking place in South America the Pueblo Rebellion reflects the tensions between the lower class Indians and the higher class Spanish colonist. Taking place in the colony of Virginia, Bacon’s Rebellion reflects the tension between the lower class…

Cartier, and Henry Hudson are only a few examples of European white men who helped to shape the US as we know it today. These men not only helped found America, but they brought their country’s cultures along with them. Vespucci traveled from Spain, along with supplies to find new trade routes which would hopefully make waterways around North America. Cartier, on the other hand, was from France, he explored mostly to look for gold, silver, copper and spices. He wasn’t, however, trying to hurt…

During that time, “Chile was a devoted follower of the misguided import-substitution proposals of the Santiago-based United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America”. In the early 1970’s Chile experienced a chronic inflation under president Salvador Allende. He implemented a high protectionist barriers, which in returned decreased the foreign-exchange reserves which caused Chile’s GDP to decrease. By mid-1970’s…

Religion For the most part polytheistic, Indian religion was more shifted than their governmental issues. IV. African Societies A. West Africa (Guinea) The greater part of the oppressed Africans that came to America started in West Africa, or Guinea. Upper Guinea had a culture that reflected contact with the Islamic Mediterranean locale, while Lower Guinea stayed less cosmopolitan. B. Bondage in West Africa Bondage existed in West Africa essentially as a…

States was looking to move forward with even more expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which is where Latin America became an area of interest. Expansion was not necessarily to make the country larger but to make it wealthier in resources, which in return, over time, increases their power as well. Thesis: In order to move in on Latin America they were in need of excuses to convince those countries to let them enter and help them. Mexico had a large resource of oil…

One-fourth of the way [to Asia] he came upon an unknown uncharted land…–the Americas” (2). This is not to say that he did not accomplish a great feat, but rather to say that what he did accomplish was not an original objective of his. Nevertheless, whether it was accidental or intentional, Columbus did introduce Europe to the Americas, thus creating a permanent relationship between the two. On the contrary, Columbus is responsible, directly and indirectly…