Spanish–American War

and wondered how those failures could have been altered for better results. Just before Winston Smith is tortured, O’Brien explains why previous totalitarian governments have failed as opposed to the success of Party. O’Brien points out how the Spanish government preserved heresy instead of expelling it. He also explains how the Soviet Union, who attempted to learn from the mistakes of the Inquisition, failed to prevent martyrs. He states that the Party is successful compared to totalitarian…

In the book The Spanish Inquisition, Joseph Perez gives his view on why the Spanish Inquisition took place. The Spanish Inquisition began with the discrimination against any religion that opposed the Catholic Church in Spain. They mainly targeted the religious beliefs of Judaism making Jewish people and conversos the victims. Many Jews and Muslims were forced to leave the country or were persecuted because they could not openly practice their religion and did not want to convert. During this…

this point across Julia Alvarez structures her poem in a sestina pattern, however giving her own spin off to it by incorporating Spanish words. In order for the message to be understood, Julia Alvarez places the audience in her shoes in order to recognize the difficulty of having English as a second language. Although most of the poem is English, there are a couple of Spanish words. This leaves the audience to feel lost or as if she is not getting the full message. Ironically that is how many…

As far as I remembered, I always wanted to leave Vietnam. While I have deep love and respect for my country, I wanted to travel to somewhere, to see new things and meet new people to learn new culture and taste exotic foods. Seeing my interest for the foreign, my parents registered me to the bilingual program since primary school. The language I learned however wasn’t English, it was French. For ten years I learned French and for ten years I dreamed of living in France, studying at a Parisian…

development of Bilingualism begins at very young age, it become a form of identity among children and it creates this way of life that they consider normal. Being bilingual in America is knowing two different languages in most cases, Spanish and English. It is learning Spanish from their most likely uneducated parents and learning English from their surroundings along with perfecting the language through education. Moreover, being bilingual not only consist of advantages it also consists of…

taught myself how to read and write in Spanish. Although I live in a Hispanic family I was not aware of how to read and write in Spanish. My mom’s side of the family is from Puerto Rico, and my dad’s side of the family is from Ecuador. I was always spoken to in Spanish by my family except for my mom. We spoke in English, so I never learned how to read or write in Spanish. This is when I taught myself how to. It was the day I taught my self how to interpret Spanish writing. My mom was…

Did you know that 95% of the Incan population died after first contact with the Spanish? Or that while America successfully sent men to land on the moon, Papua New Guinea was still forced to use stone tools? The world is unequal and the seeds were planted in geographical resources. These uneven geographical resources doomed some cultures to failure, but some to stardom. For example, Papua New Guinea was too wet to grow efficient crops crops, had no domesticable animals and because of that were…

After the death of her half-sister in 1558 a 25-year-old Elizabeth was crowned Queen of England. She would rule for 44 years making her one of Britain’s longest reigning monarchs. And one of our most well-known. The image of Elizabeth is incredibly recognisable with her distinctive red hair and pale white skin. She has been portrayed by great actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt, Anne-Marie Duff and Miranda Richardson. But what of this is real compared to Elizabeth’s actual self. We will explore…

The program requires all students to intricately study a foreign language. At Bolton High, Spanish is the only available option. In middle school, I opted not to take Spanish, which is why I was inadequately prepared to reach my teacher’s level of expectation as freshman in IB Spanish. When my teacher instructed in Spanish, I would quickly glance around the room to see what the knowledgeable Spanish speakers were doing. Beyond the embarrassment of not understanding, I was not accustomed to…

the same opportunity years ago. I knew why he had favor towards me, why he granted me this same opportunity that would lead him to be the commander he is today. After all, we are both victim of circumstance. Like Coronado, I am the second son of a Spanish nobleman, who was left without any fortune of my own due to entitlement granted under the law of primogeniture. He empathized with me. So of course, of all his high ranking officers he choose me personally to carry forth a task for him. At this…