Rio de Janeiro

As I said earlier, there are certainly many different styles of samba. These types include samba caranavalesca, samba-enredo, samba baiana, samba-lenco, samba rural, samba de morro, samba da cidade, samba de terreiro, samba de breque, samba de partido-alto, samba corrido, samba-cancao, and samba-choro, to name a few. A distinction was made between hill and city samba somewhere in the 1930s. People that were considered middle class within urban areas began to like this new rhythm that they were…

"Baby, Baby, Baby Ohhhhhhhh." We all know the catchy lyrics of Justin Biebers most reconanizeable single, but theres more then what reaches the eye to this pop star phenomeon. The singer girls fawn over religously has been arrested for possible drunk driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license and later vandalisim charges. Since the boy wonder is from up North, people have been talking if its time to send him back to good ole Canada and kick him out for good. Now despite if…

Aguirre, the Wrath of God created an accurate portrayal of Lope de Aguirre’s quest for El Dorado in 1561. Using a firsthand account from Aguirre himself, Herzog is able to accurately show what happened. Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a 1972 German film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The plot focuses on a group of conquistadors who are in search of the legendary city of El Dorado. The main protagonist is a Spanish soldier named Lope de Aguirre who, along with others, is tasked to build a…

who ran the mission, would convert the natives. Then presidios—a military post—would be built; the area would be deemed safe and then Spanish people would begin to move in. They began in 1682, when the first mission was built, called Corpus Christi de la Isleta, near modern-day El Paso. Afterwards, many missions were established, but many factors contributed to the near-failure of Spanish Texas, for what I believe are three main reasons: the location of the missions and settlements, the natives…

then the volatility in California, President Polk aggressiveness and claims for the Rio Grande would have a different outcome. An army was sent to the Texas border of the Nueces River near Corpus Christi left the commander for the soldiers to wonder if he was in the States or in Mexico. Texans felt there was no dispute because when they claimed their independence in 1836 they claimed the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Nugent also goes on to state the Nueces River was never part of Texas as…

James M. McCaffrey, the author of the historical novel “Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War 1846-1848”, writes about American soldiers during the Mexican-American War. The Mexican-American War was a huge contribution to the history of the United States and what it is today. He describes America’s first foreign war, the Mexican-American War, through the day-to-day experiences of the American soldiers in battle and camps. McCaffrey states “The purpose of the present…

They won over only the Rio grande making that the US border, and the US purchased California for $15 million dollars, this was over 2 million square kilometers. This is what mostly all US history books will teach but looking into the Mexican perspective it was a big loss of territory and the $15 million dollars were not for purchase of California but a pension for all the damages (Universidad Nacional de México). This was not a big sum of money for all their land…

Located in northeast Oregon is the Wallowa Mountains, which contain a rich and understudied glacial history. In order to quantify the number of glaciation stages that have occurred in this locality I will examine twelve lateral moraines that border Wallowa Lake. This beautiful lake stretches 3 and a half miles north to south with a large, bordering moraine on each side and a terminal moraine at the north end. On the west side of the lake there are four moraines and on the east there are eight.…

“What characterizes these different states,” states Ernest Renan in his essay titled What is a Nation (Renan 2). In his essay, Ernest attempts to answer this question through the use of historical references such as the Roman Empire, France, Britain, Germany, etc. (Renan 1). However, Ernest utilizes such references not to describe what characteristics define what a Nation is, rather to depict what characteristics do not define what a nation is. Ernest’s definition of this characterization,…

urgently broke ties with America right after Texas was granted statehood. However, this didn’t stop the conflicts. Argument over the Texas and Mexico border began to pose a threat on the new state. Texas believed their border was and has always been the Rio Grande river. Mexico argued the…