...Andrés Reséndez's A Land So Strange is a historical tale of conquest that ends up disastrous and mission gone terribly wrong. Reséndez’s story works toward providing more information in which the Narrative published by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1542 leaves out. The story is about the journey of a castaway Spaniard who was in turn enslaved and befriended by the Native Americans. He gets enslaved for years by the indigenous Texas Tribe and eventually escapes with two other Spaniards and a native slave, Estebanico. Reséndez story engages powerful written/ spoken language in its ordinary form by including maps, footnotes, and a Further Reading section. This conquest portrays the inversion of power dynamics and dependence on survival upon firm...
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...So this would determine the influence that the spainsh had on them. He had wanted to first set the exploration in 1804 and he wanted to explore the upper part of the Missouri River and he had picked a person that was named Meriwether Lewis he was about 28 years old. He was Jefferson’s secretary he was going to be the head of the expedition he was going to investigate the tribes that were indian. By investigating them he would be able to collect the plant as well as the specimens from the animals as well he had wanted to know the geography of the west. So he would be able to know where the rivers were flowing that had been flowing in spains...
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...the nullification of the law on the grounds that it violates international trade law. The EU resented the Helms Burton Act because it felt that the US was dictating how other nations ought to conduct their trade and challenged it on that basis. The EU eventually dropped its challenge in favor of negotiating a solution. Many nations have enacted antidote legislation that bars their nationals from complying with Helms-Burton, under the threat of fines. They also argue that Helms-Burton violates international trade laws and norms by trespassing on the sovereignty of third countries. These countries regularly refer to the provisions of Helms-Burton that threaten their nationals as "extra-territorial." They also believe that their trade relationships with Cuba are a matter in which the United States has no right to interfere. Indeed, to many observers, the United...
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...The Texas Constitution 1 Why the Texas Constitution Matters • The Texas Constitution is the legal framework within which the government works • Rights guaranteed in the Texas Constitution go beyond those of the U.S. Constitution • The length and detail of the Texas Constitution make the amendment process central to the political process 2 The Role of a State Constitution • State constitutions perform a number of important functions – Establish political institutions and explain the source of their power and authority – Delegate powers to particular institutions and individuals and define how they are to be used – Protect against the concentration of political power in one institution or individual – Define the limits of political power 3 The Role of a State Constitution: Influence of U.S. Constitution • Texas’s constitution is heavily influenced by the U.S. Constitution – Political power is derived from the people – Both constitutions feature a separation of powers • Legislative, executive, and judicial branches – A system of checks and balances limits the powers of each branch, as a way to protect against tyranny – Certain individual rights must not be violated 4 The Role of a State Constitution: How U.S. Constitution Is Different • The idea of federalism is also embodied in the constitutions of the U.S. and Texas • Important differences distinguish the two – Supremacy clause: the U.S. Constitution and federal laws...
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...Later, states followed Main’s example. But, some of these status were considered unconstitutional. E: The treaty recognized the Rio Grande as the border of Texas. US got New Mexico and California. Also, US agreed to pay $15 million to Mexico for the land. A: The Republican Party was consisted of abolitionists and Northern Whigs. Also, it was consisted of the Know-Nothing Party, which disliked immigrants. The purchase of Cuba was favored by the South who wanted the land for slavery. D: The election of 1840 was between Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. The Whigs tried to emphasize Harrison’s humble nature bypassing hard ciders and putting log cabins on wheels. Campaigns and banners were used for the first time in the election to persuade voters to vote for them. D: The Republican Party was founded after the Kanas-Nebraska Act. The party was made up of northern Whigs, antislavery Democrats, Know Nothing, and Free Soilers. Lincoln was president of the party. D: Grant was the commander of the Union army. The Union wanted to strike the South by taking New Orleans. The...
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...Application file completed for: Adrene Austin Dear Adrene, Thanks so much for your interest in Texas Christian University. Please follow the easy steps below to complete the application process so we can review your application and give you an admission decision. Step 1: print thiS packet and keep it for your recordS. This packet contains this checklist, the Counselor and Teacher Evaluation forms and your application as submitted. Step 2: pay your application fee. You may submit your fee online or by mail. To submit your fee by mail, send your check or money order made payable to TCU to this address: Office of Admission Texas Christian University TCU Box 297013 Fort Worth, Texas 76129 Step 3: have your official tranScript and teSt ScoreS Submitted. Your guidance counselor can include your scores on your transcript. Or you can ask ACT to send us your scores at www.actstudent.org (our ACT code is 4206). If you’d prefer to submit your SAT scores, go to www.collegeboard.com (our SAT code is 6820). We look forward to reviewing your application! Raymond A. Brown Dean of Admission Texas Christian University P.S. If you haven’t already, please visit TCU soon. To schedule a visit or to ask any further questions, please call 800-828-3764. Texas Christian University • TCU Box 297013 • Fort Worth, Texas 76129 COUNSELOR EVALUATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION & SCHOLARSHIP CONSIDERATION Required for all freshmen – not required for transfers. The student's application file is...
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...James Monroe 01April 2013 Advanced Reading/Writing Outline – James Monroe I. Introduction a. Was the fifthpresident of the United States b. Purpose of the paper i. Early life and early political career ii. James Monroe’s presidencyachievements iii. Post-presidency iv. Time and place of death II. Early life and early political career a. Family b. Education and military service c. Early political career i. Virginia politics ii. Ambassador to France iii. Governor of Virginia iv. Secretary of State and Secretary of War III. James Monroe’spresidency achievements a. Presidential elections of 1816 and 1820 b. The Cumberland Road Bill c. Indigenous American policies d. Administration and Cabinet e. Foreign policy i. Monroe Doctrine ii. The acquisition of Florida IV. Post-presidency V. Thoughts on slavery VI. Time and place of death VII. Conclusion a. Early life and early political career b. James Monroe’s presidency achievements c. Post-presidency d. Time and place of death James Monroe is remembered for his victorious win to become the 5th president of America. His life both private and political was closely monitored and documented due to...
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...matter in my brain" kind of way.” According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), in 1998, in the United States, more than 90 percent of parents reported using corporal punishment in the home, mostly was spanking. However, in an update from the AAP on an October, 2013, there was a significant of research indicates a connection between spanking and aggressive behavior later. The American Psychological Association pointed that “corporal punishment provides only a temporary change in a child's behavior and tends to be counterproductive, and that no compelling evidence exists to support the notion that physical strikes can improve a child's behavior or mental health.” Therefore, from 2013 until now, some countries as Austria, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland and Spain have abolished the use of corporal punishment in homes and schools. Corporal punishment becomes illegal in these countries and many other countries. If a parent strikes a child in anger, he should apologize to the child and explain that hitting is an unacceptable way of expressing frustration. In the article, “Relationships between parents’ use of corporal punishment and their children's endorsement of...
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...of separation between things that should be together. There are many types of “walls” in society today which include, but are not limited to, prejudice and separation. “Walls” like that do more harm than good to our society. Some people may think otherwise, saying that many metaphorical walls need to separate us in order to keep peace between certain things. Whether it be countries or certain groups of people. The other half of people that think differently, think that there would be no need for these “walls” if we could get rid of them slowly and find a way for everyone to work together. These barriers tend to have overall negative effects on people if they don’t have any “wiggle” room. These enclosures limit the freedom of an individual. They are no longer able to move about freely when you have certain barricades in the way. Next, dividers limit the person’s mindset. “Walls” can cause people to feel less than important by restricting their freedom of thought. And last, obstructions can end up causing problems or altercations. This is caused when a barrier is broken and the individual has to overcome the impending hurdles being thrown at them. “Walls” are not necessary in society because they limit freedom to “roam,” freedom to think, and they force people to have conflicts. “Good fences make good neighbors.” This is what the neighbor said in a poem by Robert Frost called Mending Wall. What the neighbor means is that “good fences” create good relations between both sides of...
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...beautiful representation of the hardships faced by the early explorers of the New World. The eight-year voyage is narrated by one of the four survivors, Cabeza de Vaca, and includes the testimonies of the three others. Coming from high status in Spain, Cabeza de Vaca sets off on an expedition to the new world to help settle a colony in the Southeastern United States. It gets interesting when their voyage lands a thousand miles off course. From tales of cities full of gold, to braving the harsh winters without any clothes, being enslaved by the indigenous people, and eventually being thought of by the natives as a God: the story of Cabeza de Vaca is a story that everyone should be aware of. The whole reason for this expedition to the New World was for a settlement to be established in Florida by Pánfilo Narvaez, an early explorer of the New World. In the 1500’s, the explorers rendering of Florida reached all the way from where it is today, all across the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio de las Palmas river in Northern Mexico, just South of Texas. The colony was going to be established by the Rio de las Palmas. This massive area, which was largely unexplored and foreign to the explorers, was referred to by the King of Spain as the ‘territory between three seas.’ The seas that the king is referring to are the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean. During the 16th century, all expeditions to the New World began in Spain’s city of Seville. This was because Seville was...
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...Eddie Bjarko Apush Chapter 13 November 23rd, 2014 Expansion War and Sectional Crisis What ideas did the term Manifest Digest reflect? Did it cause historical events such as the new political supports for territorial expansion, or was it merely a description of events? * In 1845, John L. O’Sullivan coined the phrase Manifest Destiny; he felt that Americans had a right to develop the entire continent as they saw fit, which implied a sense of cultural and racial superiority. It was an idea that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. This led to “Oregon fever” The Oregon country stretched along the Pacific coast from the border with Mexican California to the border with Russian Alaska and was claimed by both Great Britain and the United States. “Oregon fever” raged in 1843 as thousands, lured by reports of fine harbors, mild climate, and fertile soil, journeyed for months across the continent to the Willamette Valley. 250,000 Americans had braved the Oregon Trail by 1860; many died en route from disease and exposure, although relatively few died from Indian attacks. Some of those pioneers veered off and went down to California, namely Sacramento River. To promote California’s development, the Mexican government took over the California missions and liberated the 20,000 Indians who worked on them, many of whom intermarried with mestizos and worked as laborers and cowboys on large cattle ranches. The rise of cattle ranching created a new society...
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...Borders Elizabeth Harrin (October 5, 2006) Managing international projects requires much more than calculating that when it’s 9 a.m. in Paris, Texas, it’s 4 p.m. in Paris, France. Crosscultural teams and customers won’t necessarily work the same way as you. Here are some strategies for discovering the differences and dealing with them. As the world gets smaller, projects seem to expand to fill the available space, and now many of us are tackling the challenge of managing cross-cultural project teams and cross-cultural project customers. When your project team spans different countries, getting everyone together for a conference call is a new kind of administrative nightmare. But it’s not just the practicalities of working out time zone disparities and correcting the occasional bit of awkward grammar that make crossborder projects so challenging. National culture plays a big part in how we act and work. Get a group of people together from around the world and they can’t even agree on what noise a rooster makes, so how are they going to come to a conclusion on how to communicate project progress to the stakeholders? Or, to put it another way, the people you are working with won’t necessarily work in the same way as you, and the people you are working for won’t necessarily want the same things. One financial project manager I know was sent to Spain for a year to set up a new process improvement initiative in one of his company’s call centers. The Madridbased office was already handling...
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...Development of racial thinking The intrusion of Europe into the orient was spearheaded by the intention to create trading routes to China during the 15th century (Hauner, 2013). This search for trading routes led to various historical accounts. During this search, Hauner (2013) indicates that the Age of Discovery and the introduction of early modern warfare were initiated by the Europeans in the Far East. These activities increased the presence of the activities of European nation in the Asian countries hence leading to colonization of several countries. The European existence in the Asian continent was so immense in that East Timor got its independence from Portugal in the year 2002 (Stevens, 2010). The western nations used the concepts of nation state and multinational state to ensure racial superiority. The nation state was a social construct by the colonizing European colonizing nations in brainwashing the citizens of their colonies (Perry, 2010). The concept does not have a definite definition. However Stevens (2010) indicates that it is the act whereby people are grouped together according to their customs, language, traditions, habits and ethnicity. On the other hand, a multinational state is the concept where people were grouped together in order to form a single geographical orientation however such populations differed in language or ethnicity. These two concepts led to the development of ethnicity among the Asian communities. This is because most people within the...
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...Table of Contents · Introduction · Homosexual Marriages Should Have the Same Rights as Heterosexual Marriages. · Comparisons to Other Countries · Europe · Africa · Background · First Argument with Gay Marriage · Changes in the Ability to Get Married · Hate Crimes · Identification of Policy Alternatives · Legalizing Gay Marriage Amongst All States · Legalizing Gay Marriage Amongst All States, but Naming it “Civil Unions” · Legalizing Gay Marriage/Civil Unions Against Some States, Recognizing it in All · Recommendation · References INTRODUCTION: Same Sex Marriages Having Same Rights as Heterosexual Marriages Gay marriage has been an active debate amongst politicians, religious figures, and the public. The debate has spanned over a decade with little change for either side. The issue of gay marriage is not just about the name of what the union is called, but the right to be able to legally join as homosexual couples with the same rights as heterosexual couples. Reasons for someone to be in favor of this topic are that there should be a separation of religion and politics, it deprives homosexuals of their natural rights, and this issue has escalated to violent hate crimes towards homosexuals. As it stands, currently 9 million adults are homosexuals, representing 4 percent of the 18 and over population in the United States with no signs of diminishing. Public administrators have done little...
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...Why did they come to the western hemisphere? Spain came to the western hemisphere in search of a direct trade route to China. Seeing how Spain prospered from their transoceanic empire, France wanted a piece in the wealth that America offered. Britain came to the western hemisphere in hopes to weaken the Spanish empire. In addition, the West Country men hoped to resolve England’s economic problems by exporting beggars to the colony of Virginia. These beggars would work in Virginia by exporting goods back to England in hopes to mend the economic woes back home. Where did they settle? The Spanish settled in present-day Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, Mexico, Peru, and the islands of the Caribbean. The specific settlements are the following: Hispaniola, Mexico City, St. Augustine, New Mexico, and Santa Fe. The French stationed themselves along the Mississippi and St....
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