Youth Service America

Magellan’s Voyage BOOK REPORT Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer and famous for his circumnavigation the world. He was a soldier for eight years serve the Portuguese fleet in Indian Ocean. The entire voyage created a couple of life changing reasons. It created trade troops and revealed the true scale of the earth. It took Ferdinand Magellan five years of planning whether to make his dream into reality. On September 21, 1519, the circumnavigation began from Spain to unknown place. The…

Numerous times I have been put in a position where I collaborated and interacted with people whose experiences differed from mine. However, the first time I was exposed to such a setting was a trip to the Dominican Republic when I was 12 years old. My initial visit to the country opened my eyes to a culture I was not familiar with. Coming from the United States, one of the most developed countries in the world, I came with preset customs and beliefs some of which were drastically changed by the…

The Spanish Netherlands following the beginning of the reformation was a place of widespread literacy, trade and progress. Through the rise of Charles V and the grand tour of his heir apparent Prince Philip of Spain, the empire which ruled over The Netherlands finally had come to grasp with the innovativeness and unique culture that the region supported, “Spanish visitors were also impressed by the political and economic strength of the Low Countries.” However, it was the eventually abdication…

Anybody who tries to seek out for help is seen as weak,harmful,and inferior to others in America. Americans see poor people as just staying on government programs to get free money by not doing anything. They don’t see them as bringing any benefits into society and sucking the resources dry. The poor works lots of hours just enough to sustain…

mostly known for his work as Director of the Royal Botanical Expedition to the New Kingdom of Granada. Established in 1783, the Botanical Expedition had the purpose of carrying out a complete natural history of Spain’s «equinoctial» territories in America. Thereby, Mutis led the project of gathering a vast collection of flora and fauna specimens, and of illustrating them, for both theoretical and practical purposes. Likewise, the Botanical Expedition turned into the most prominent center of…

These letters written by Hernan Cortes who was a Spaniard conquistador who first conquest of Cuba and thereafter turn his head to the Mexico to conquest as well. In 1519 he sorted out attack of Mexico. Thereafter, he arrived in Mexico on April 22, 1519. By 1521, he had taken all the control of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan ( Mexico City ).After his conquest of Mexico , Spanish chroniclers offered him to write what he saw in Mexico, thereafter he had to write these letters to show what he…

The Colony of Virginia was the first settlement in America, founded in 1607; The American Dream also began to develop at this time. The governing system was in some ways a democracy; in reality it was more of a plutocracy. Governor Berkeley assigns a council consisting of the wealthy, having both wealthy and power they assigned themselves their own land and hired those who would plant the very profitable Tabaco plant. The America Dream was beginning to flourish for the prosperous settlers.…

girl she is japanese and she came over from her country to get away from where she was and wanted to explore and be free and she thought that America would be the place and everything would be handed to her like a house, a car, a job all of that and she thought all of those things would be handed to her but they weren’t. What happened was she came to America and saw that she was being treated very poorly because of her race and being called names by the bus driver and she said “Please don’t call…

conquests in the North Atlantic eventually took Leif Ericsson to Newfoundland. Over the next few years the Norsemen made at least three different attempts at colonization. The significance of Columbus’ voyage is that it resulted in the first contact with America to have meaningful worldwide values. Columbus set sail for Asia with only three small ships. Columbus envisioned personal wealth to come from his voyages but also dreamed of opening up chances to take the Christian gospel to the heathen.…

There are three topics that I would like to discussion and share with you all for the purpose of the Argumentative Essay. Including, parents should allow kid to draw on wall, video game should be use in class, or writers should be allow to state the facts about our historical event on textbook. The topics that I want to write for the Argumentative Essay would be the writers should be allow to state facts about our historical event on textbook. As a high school or college students, we all require…