Motechuhzoma were unsure even frightened of their future. Motechuhzoma‚ his magicians and many others thought that the future had already been determined and that they should not fight. They were emotionally prepared for defeat. One other belief was that Hernando Cortes was their god Quetzalcoatl and they did not want to incur the wrath of any god. So they welcomed him as a god and produced gifts to please him instead of treating him as a stranger and with suspicion. Another factor that contributed to the
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they still killed him. Pizarro then Concord Cuzco‚ hey important Inca city‚ and founded the city of Lima. Pizarro was assassinated in 1541 after conflicts with Almagro over his one-time partner taking over Cuzco/Lima in 1537 causing a rebellion. Hernando de Soto arrived in the West Indies as a young boy and made a fortune in the Central American slave trade. He supplied ships for Francisco Pizarro’s Southward expiration landed up a company Pizarro in his conquest of Peru in 1532. Wanting more glory
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Twentieth-Century Writers Series Detroit: St. James Press‚ 1995. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Pasco Hernando Comm College‚ CCLA. 8 Dec. 2009 . MacDonald‚ Ruth K. "The Weirdness of Shel Silverstein." Studies in American Humor. 5.4 ( 1986): 267-279. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 49. Detroit: Gale‚ 2003. 267-279. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Pasco Hernando Comm College‚ CCLA. 8 Dec. 2009 . Silverstein‚ Shel. A Light in the Attic. New York: Harper and Row‚ 1981
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Leon was a Spanish explorer who explored Florida in 1513 and 1521 thinking it was an island. Leon was in search of gold and “the fountain of youth”. He never found the fountain‚ but he did manage to claim Florida as territory for Spain. 4. Hernando de Soto: Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer who explored land from western Florida to Mississippi in the 1540’s in hope of finding gold. He also discovered the Mississippi River. 5. Montezuma: Montezuma was an Aztec chieftain who believed that the Europeans
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factors such as prohibition of alcohol‚ the glamour of new york and also the way that Tom‚ Nick Gatsby and daisy all escape from the mid west‚ a small minded town‚ and become successful living the American dream. This is compared to the Valley of ashes‚ where the lower class lives in struggle. What makes the book interesting is that you can get a picture of these societies making it so fresh as Fitzgerald describes New York so well. Fitzgerald explores the social‚ financial‚ moral backgrounds and
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and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile‚ so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.1 This is a valley of ashes2 — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and‚ finally‚ with a transcendent effort‚ of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along
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regions and the people who reside in them seem segregated to their specific region depending on social status. West egg is symbolic of the new money or the money that is made by a person who does not descend from a family of wealth. The valley of ashes is the sullen‚ gray‚ and depressing region where the American dream of the classless society is completely non-existent. Finally‚ East Egg is symbolic of the old money and family name that has been passed down throughout the generations. In light of
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Introduction Companies willing to enter a new market with their products or services have many options and one of them is exporting. I divided exporting into two sub-groups by comparing financial involvement of a company and taking into account their strengths and weaknesses. Then I compared exporting with other market entry strategies‚ so I could gain further insight to advantages and disadvantages of exporting. In the conclusion I outline which types of exporting fit SME’s and which fit MNE’s
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How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 2? In chapter 2 Tom takes Nick to meet Myrtle‚ his lover‚ in the Valley of Ashes‚ where her home is. They all then go to New York‚ to the apartment bought by Tom for Myrtle‚ and Myrtle organises a ‘party’‚ during which she argues with Tom‚ which ends with him punching her. The purpose of this chapter is to show what Tom Buchanan is like‚ and how he acts towards other people and his money. Also‚ the reader is prepared to meet Gatsby as the party
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The Great Gatsby “What techniques does Fitzgerald use to convey the central ideas of The Great Gatsby?” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is primarily a social commentary on the state of American society during the post-war period of unprecedented affluence and prosperity. Fitzgerald depicts 1920’s America as an age of decline in traditional social and moral values; primarily evidenced by the cynicism‚ greed and the relentless yet empty pursuit of prosperity and pleasure that various characters
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