The author I admire most is Bartolome De las Casas‚ because he went against the consensus of the Spaniards and defended the Native Americans. In the final paragraph of the reading‚ De las Casas states “The Indians will embrace the teachings of the gospel‚ as I well know…” (De Las Casas 2010) . This leads me to believe he actually spent time getting to know them as people. He took the time to learn about their art‚ music‚ government and other aspects of their lives. I believe he honestly wanted to
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Bartolome de las Casas was born on November 11 1484 in Seville‚ Spain. He was a Spanish missionary who “participated in the conquest of Cuba.” (text pg 27) While in the Americas‚ he had owned enslaved Indian and shortly after “freed his own Indian slaves and began to preach against the injustices of Spanish Rule.” (text pg 27) Throughout his years he dedicated his life to being an advocate for Native American rights. In 1520 he tried‚ but failed‚ to establish a separate settlement where the Spanish
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The song “Me Myself and I” by the hip-hop group De La Soul strongly fits into the three-step process of the gospel from chapter one of Understanding Black American Aspects In Hip Hop Cinema. The three steps of the gospel are “(1) acknowledging the burden;(2) bearing witness; (3) finding redemption. The burden grounds the song in the history of suffering that links individual and community experience” (Sanchez 5). “Me Myself and I” relates strongly to the three steps of the gospel by tackling
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essay‚ I am going to talk about three people that we worked on this first part of the semester. The reason why we are working on them is because they are considered important for our history. The first person I am going to talk about is ``Bartolome de Las Casas’’‚ he is in the period called ``A Continent on the move’’ over the years 1400 until 1725. ``Eliza Lucas’’ is the second person that is going to be presented‚ she is presented during the year 1689 until 1763 in the period called ``The English
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Velázquez Rodriguez de Seville. He was baptized in the church of san pedro on june 6 In the Spanish golden age Diego was one of the most important painters and the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and He was kind of a lonely artist of the contemporary Baroque period.he painted different portraits for the Spanish royal families. ‚velazquez did a lot of paintings but he did a phenomenal paint which is Las Meninas (1656). And this is what am I going to talk about now Las Meninas was made
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El Cambio Social en Puerto Rico y el Modelo de Autogestión Comunitaria Introducción Este escrito tiene como objetivo central describir y analizar la autogestión comunitaria según propuesta por la Ley 1 del 1 de marzo de 2001. Esta ley permite la creación de la Oficina de Comunidades Especiales‚ cuyo fin primordial fue erradicar la pobreza en Puerto Rico‚ mediante la implantación de un modelo social que incorporara la capacidad y voluntad de trabajo de las comunidades en la solución
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In the introduction of “Conquistadores De La Calle”‚ Thomas A. Offit (author) mentions a fifteen year old boy named Rey‚ who shines shoes for a living since the age of six. Rey was an exceptional shoe shiner who repaired broken heals‚ restitched bad seams and even could change the color of your shoes being given the chance to. He spends six days a week‚ twelve hours a day working underneath an overpass in downtown Guatemala City‚ shining shoes from sun rise to sunset. The author describes Rey as
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Introduction To find out whether or not Mr. Gonzales should implement the new compensation plan‚ we will initiate with a valuation of the proposed bonus plan that he is considering. This evaluation will include an analysis of the key decisions and the persons responsible for making the decision as well as a discussion of the proposed plan. Upon this analysis we will conclude whether it is a good idea to implement it and state our suggestions for a modification of the plan. Valuation of the proposed
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In the textbook of Bartolome de las Casas From The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies‚ de la Casas said “This was the first land in the New World to be destroyed and depopulated by the Christians‚ and here they began their subjection of the women and children‚ taking them away from the Indians to use them and ill use them‚ eating the food they provided with their sweat and toil.” Base on this saying we can guest his thought about the New World and its inhabitants‚ he explains
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Cuba is filled with color‚ contrast‚ and ideology‚ not only in their art‚ but their way of life. Below are a couple of photos that speak to the processes of art from the photo itself and what the photo is illustrating. Mural de la Prehistoria Contrary to the name‚ this painting is not thousands of years old. In fact‚ it’s not even hundreds of years old. This mural‚ one of the largest in the world‚ sits outside of Vinales‚ Cuba and explains the biology of life from the island. This piece of
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