Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Vallarta - An Affordable Slice of Heaven Puerto Vallarta, also referred to by locals as just Vallarta, is a resort town on Mexico’s Pacific coast that has been a tropical haven for leisure travelers, celebrities and expatriates for decades. Vallarta offers an attractive year-long climate, with winter temps averaging in the mid 60’s. You see why many snowbirds flock here each year. Beyond a mild climate, Vallarta offers visitors and residents alike a unique blend of colonial charms, stunning landscape, a beachfront lifestyle, and Mexican authenticity and friendliness. But perhaps the biggest advantage Vallarta gives over other resort towns is its affordability. Though the area has been attracting individual and commercial investors for some…

color view the world. This class made me more analytical and critical about certain things. It has definitely made me view the United States in a whole new perspective. I truly felt that this has made me grow as an individual because it solved most of the missing puzzles that did not made sense while growing up. College has been an eye-opening experience for me. I met a lot of great people, sacrificed many weekends to study, gained a few pounds, shed a tear or two because of stress, forgot the…

sunny Saturday morning in JUne my family and I went on an amazing vacation, in Santa Cruz, California. It all started one day when my mom announced to the whole family that we were gonna go on a fun vacation for 2 days. That's when my brother and I decided that a trip to Santa Cruz was the best option. SO we begged and begged and begged until our mom and dad finally gave in and agreed to take us there. So after packing our bags, booking a house to stay in, grabbing all of our beach essentials,…

However, the next article I’m going to talk about gives us the exact locations where the quake hit California areas. This article named, “The California Quake: “I Don’t Want to Die in Here”: Disaster Areas…” This article was written and published in the New York Times in 1989, which is a while from the actual event. This article clearly describes 7 counties that affected by the quake, such as Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Benito, and Monterey. Beside the…

and the haphazard suppression of smuggling; inefficient and arbitrary administration of laws; and the weakness of the corruption of the army”(page 41). There were areas such as California, New Mexico, and Yucatan where there were little to non Anglo American where development of the idea separation from Mexican began to spread. During the mid-1830s violent rise ups against the national government of Mexico was sparked due to these areas letting American immigrants in even when Mexico City…

In response to the growing unrest, Mexican troops established military posts in several locations within the province, including San Antonio de Béxar. After hearing that the Mexican army commander in Nacogdoches, José de las Piedras, had demanded that all residents in his area surrender their arms, Bowie cut short a visit to Natchez in July 1832 to return to Texas. On August 2, 1832, he joined a group of other Texans and marched into Nacogdoches to "present their demands" to Piedras. Before the…

The Battle of the Alamo The battle of the Alamo occurred during a period when the Republic of Texas faced a bleak and uncertain future known as the Texas Revolution. American colonists were allowed to settle in Texas at the time under the New Mexican emperor Agustin de Iturbide. On 23, 1836, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began the 13 day siege of the Alamo. A moment in history that turned a ruined Spanish mission in downtown San Antonio, into a shrine. There were several events leading…

1824, which allowed greater freedoms and rights. However, all agreed that revolution was necessary, by any and all means, and ultimately that the American population in Texas should declare independence. The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had…

is set off by Texas rebelling from Mexico and its dictator Santa Ana, who is leading the Mexican army himself. The Texan War Party wants to cross into Mexico and confront the Mexican army. The other party wants…

struggles in his or her own way. Although Antonio did not suffer loss at his birth like Paikea did, both Antonio’s and Paikea’s destinies are questioned when they are born. Being apart of a family whose parents’ lifestyles are foils of each other, Antonio does not know if he will become a down to earth Luna like his mother, or a restless man that has a thirst for adventure like his father, Gabriel Marez. The Luna family and the Marez relatives engaged in a dispute over Antonio’s destiny at his…