Manifest Destiny Case Study

Manifest Destiny: “expansion of the United States through the American continents were inevitable and justified”
Avatar: They thought that importance to get into the Avatar world and destroy
Omaticaya, the Home Tree. The scientists and destructors feel that it is necessary to do this because Unobtanium is what is within the tree and it sells for very high in the US.
The contents were “inevitable” to not get because they are worth so much and there could be a huge economic boom in their company if they succeed in tearing down the land to find where that material is coming from, in order to sell it These are the reasons to show that it is “justified”.
 The Alamo: “Between Mexico and Texas. Mexico wanted to be a separate country from the US, and they succeeded
The scientists on the other hand wanted to learn from the land. So in that case you could say that the scientists didn’t want to part from the land because they wanted to learn from it, as for the destructors; they didn’t want to leave because they wanted to gain the material that was only on that land, and make a generous profit from it. I guess you could correlate Avatar with Mexico, and Texas with the Manifest Destiny.
 Sectionalism: The loyalty to one’s region opposed to one’s country as a whole” I see this as meaning that they like their state because of their standards but not their whole country because they might not agree with another states laws, or another states crime rate, etc.
Avatar: I see this being how when the deployed marine, Jake Sully goes into the Avatar world and he sees how much it offered, he doesn’t really focus on the advantages that it gives him (being able to use his legs again), but the fact that this other land actually has amazing structure and potential for our world, not in the sense of money, but science.
The trees and their roots have traces of life running through them, and the