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Objective Summary Fernando Garcia This story begins in Salem Massachusetts and a father (Reverend Parris) finds his daughter and some other random girls dancing in the woods as it is forbidden to dance in that place. Reverend Parris begins to ask his daughter what she doing as dancing is considered witchcraft. Some of the girls begin to get sick and Rebecca Nurse can help them. Reverend Hale is called to try and find witchcraft in these girls. The girls start accusing people of seeing them with the devil and so do the other girls causing it to spread around the town that there is witchcraft and talking to the devil are real.…
Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, was born on October 27,1806,in Bexar. As Seguin was growing up ,Bexar was a very poor place, shattered by decades of Indian raids and violent. Seguin father Erasmo, became a friend to Stephen F. Austin and the colonist in the area. Seguin and his father both noticed the weakness of Spain and Mexico to bring endurance and growth to the area, and believed that the best goal for Bexar lay with the founding of a strong Anglo-American colony. In 1829, at age 22,Seguin was named to his first political office as a San Antonio alderman. Seguin`s constitutional coming of age corresponded with the time of great difficulty in Mexican government, with the division boiling down for those who desired a strong central government…
After running away at the age of 14, Pedro Menedez de Aviles joined the Spanish Navy. In 1549, he was presented with his first big mission. His quest was to defend the Spanish coast and vanquish the pirates that were trying to pillage the coastline. Because of his incredible triumph along the coast, in 1556 Aviles was tasked with the responsibility of beginning a settlement in Florida in order to violently remove the French. On September 8th, 1565, Aviles established the first enduring colony, naming it St. Augustine. Quickly after finishing St. Augustine, Aviles assaulted and annihilated the French and conquered Fort Caroline and renamed it San Mateo.…
In 1549 a baby named Juan de Onate was born. He was born in Zacatecas, New Spain (Mexico). His father’s name was Cristobal De Onate; his father was a conquistador/silver baron. Juan’s mother was Dona Catalina Salazar. They were silver mine owners, and Spanish-Basque colonists. He grew up dreaming of conquering the region north of New Spain.…
Francisco de las Casas was born in Francisco de las Casas was born in Trujillo, Caceres in 1469.…
Aura Gomez is a 35-year-old married Mexican-American female with three daughters. She was referred by Child Welfare Services after she delivered a pre-mature baby girl with methamphetamine in her system. Aura’s three daughters, 15 year old, 12 year old, and one month old have been removed from her care by Child Welfare Services. Aura is the middle of three siblings; she has an older and a younger sister, and both of her parents are decease. Her father died when she was 5 years old, and her mother died when she was 21 years old. She was born in Tijuana, Mexico, but was raised in San Diego since the age of five. Aura was asked to move out of her home by Child Welfare Services and is currently staying with her younger sister.…
Pedro Vial is one of the earliest European explorers and trailblazers on the Southern Plains (Wishart 1). Domingo Cabello y Robles, who is the governor of Texas, sent Pedro Vial to visit the tribes along the Red River in 1784 (Tyson 2). It means something when the governor of a state sends you to do a task for him. This shows that Pedro is a well- known figure. This voyage requested from the governor was to find the best course to travel between the “Spanish provincial capitals of San Antonio, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico” (Wishart 1). By the end of the year1789, Pedro Vial traversed miles upon miles of land, he explored the present day states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana (Tyson 2). The time that Vial dedicated to his expeditions…
In Gary Soto story, he tells about a nine-year-old Mexican American boy comparing his family with the American TV show. He wants his family to be wealthy and more traditional like white families,he wish his family could be dressing properly like a man with suit and woman decked out in earrings and a pearl necklace that he seen on the show. However, his mother did not have money and times to participate his desire,and he was ignored. Therefore,he began to looking for work, he thought money is the only thing that can create a wealthy family, and if he gets a job he would turns his family into a better life. According to the story,he earned money by helping his neighborhood.…
A myth told by the early Spanish explorers of North America about the Seven Cities of Cibola was that it was “a legendary place of beautiful and precious metals and jewels” (Coronado 1541, 5). Over the years historians have proved many of myths to be either true or false statements undergone by evidence. That is exactly what Francisco Vazquez de Coronado had set out to do. Upon Coronado’s expedition to find this tale of a country ruled by a lord, filled with riches and large villages, he encountered a various sort of people and limited resources. To this being known Coronado began to question whether or not if Spain could conquer and establish a higher power settlement within the Zuni Cibola.…
Have you ever wondered who was the first man to explore and discover the Grand Canyon, or of all the European explorers who was the first one that discovered the southwest? All those questions will be answered in this 1500 explorer Francisco Vasquez DE Coronado. This biography will cover his: early life, the search for the seven cities of gold, and his late years.…
La Llorona or as most people know as “the weeping woman” was a lady in the 16th century that desperately wanted to marry a nobleman. La Llorona kept trying so hard to get the nobleman to marry her but still never would. One day La Llorona was thinking to herself and she thought that maybe he didn’t want to marry her because she had three kids, so she took her children to the river and drowned all three of them. La Llorona came to the nobleman after she drowned her kids and told him what she had done with her children and that he can finally marry her without worrying about having kids. The nobleman still didn’t want to marry her and instead he married someone else so La Llorona went to the river and drowned herself and people say that if you…
[Introduction starts here, but I haven’t quite figured one out yet, so I’ll start with the body for now.]…
Jose Clemente Orozco was a famous Mexican Social Realist who specialized in bold murals that established Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, and realist. Mostly influenced by symbolism, he was also a genre painter between 1922 and 1948.…
According to the National Veterans Foundation, “According to the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research, 20% of the vets who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from either major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder” (National Veterans Foundation, 2016). Esteban Santiago is no exception… On Friday, January 6th, veteran Esteban Santiago was coming home to Florida from his travels in Alaska. Santiago had legally boarded his firearm concealed in his firearm case empty. He later took that gun to a bathroom and loaded it and shot and killed five civilians.…
“Everything I have done in my life has been to provide for my children.” That’s what you’ll hear my dad say if you ask him about anything he’s accomplished in his life. He is a very proud and hardworking man. Even now, at 60 years old, he works harder than most 20-year-olds do. As a father he has always told us, “Nothing is handed to you; everything you have must be earned.”…