Virgin America

The United States has an incredibly vast and rich history, however, many of its citizens only remember one date, 1492. In the eyes of many, Christopher Columbus 's contact with the Americas marks a beginning which is comparable it to the birth of Christ. Although the date 1492 is well remembered because of its relation to the start of a new world and the mixing of cultures, its impact becomes less profound when one looks at the era as a whole. The pre-colombian technological advances and voyages…

that would allow them to reach Asia and its wealth, the New World was discovered. The New World boasted an abundance of possible riches, and in turn allowed countries to do whatever was necessary to secure them. This hunger for the wealth in the Americas did lead to some…

Zinn goes through history in order to break down everything that happens in America from the time Columbus arrives to the Clinton Presidency. He does this in such a way to present a more “real” telling of history. He raises important questions, but he fails to deliver in many regards. Howard Zinn has a lot to say about Christopher Columbus. He makes many claims about the torture and killings of the native people of the Americas. The problem is, he doesn’t provide sufficient citations. The…

debt while their once frail cousin country, the United States built a stable democracy, expanded in territory and fought off foreign rule while swelling in population. However, the answer is very simple; First, present-day inequality between Latin America and the United States is due in large to differences between political systems. Whereas the Anglo-Americans came from a system that allowed them to form a healthy and prosperous democracy…

Shawn Smith Mauldin UCCA 102 17 February 2016 Poverty in Latin America Throughout the myriad of problems that exist in South American and Central American countries, one problem seems to be common for all Latin American countries: poverty. For centuries, most countries in Latin America have been in the same economic state. They have enormous separations of class. Usually, the countries have no middle class, only the extremely rich and the extremely poor exist. Now, the debatable topics in this…

What makes a person an American? For many people America is a symbol of freedom. This freedom that Americans contain really is at the core of what makes them American. “And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.” As Romney said people are allowed to have their own religion, take risks, and they are really…

It is hard to describe and write letter to America, but things have changed a lot before and now. Before America was number one country in the world and most immigrant were willing to come and worked here. An immigrant from other countries believed that their life would be better and secure if they come to live US and work. But now everything is change and has different situations, so it will hard to scope their dream in America. When I came to US, economic was not that bad, I saw people happy…

(Cullen, 8). I find this meaning to be biased depending on the different social classes that exist in America, public figures like Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson came up with this meaning to represent their own personal issues regarding the social classes that they came from. Luther King was speaking on behalf of the black people who were discriminated in the society and thus were not able…

The world has been conditioned to believe that early European societies were the only advanced and highly populated nations for centuries. No one ever really tried or cared to look into what was happening in the New World, and when people did start to care, much of the Western Hemisphere’s culture had been erased. It has only happened within the past couple of centuries that real, fundamental research has gone into what the New World was like before Europeans set foot on it. Despite what society…

During the 16th and 17th centuries the Native Americans were seen as savages. The kind of picture that would be constructed would be them being seen as animals and ‘people’ who were not human enough for the foreigners who traveled to this new found land. In “Mundus Novus” Amerigo Vespucci describes the Native Americans as “gentle and amenable (503).” Vespucci thought it was strange that they did not wear clothing, “both of the sexes go about naked, covering no parts of their bodies; and just…