The Aztecs Origin The Aztecs were a small tribe that went to northwestern Mexico until 1116 BCE. According to a legend‚ one-day‚ Huitzilopochtli which is the god of sun and war‚ told the people to move south. He told them he would take them to a secure home. The new home would be marked with a sign. It took them 100 years until one day a priest saw the sign. It was in the middle of a lake called Texcoco. There were other tribes living in the place. They were reluctant and didn’t let them share the
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APUSH Assignment #2 Part One: The Encounters Chapter One: Natives: Old world explorers encountered in the new world complex and diverse peoples—who‚ where‚ etc? Old world explorers encountered Native Americans in North America. Pre-Columbian America is “fraught with controversy.” What conflicts were they? Native Americans had conflict with the Europeans over social and environmental problems; this led to violence and war. Also‚ Europeans and Native Americans were both violent and
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The combination of prolonged warfare‚ exploitation‚ disease and the spread of Catholicism gradually asserted Spanish dominion over the indigenous population in America‚ who nonetheless survived and endured both the conquest and 300 years of colonial rule. Due to Spanish pestilence and wholesale slaughter the Native American population was decimated. Committed by Royal decree‚ Spanish conquistadors converted their New World indigenous subjects to Catholicism. Once Native Americans were scattered Spanish
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light to be around Daisy and associates the light with her. Another symbol in the book is a billboard in the Valley of Ashes. The billboard portrays the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg. This symbolizes a god that is looking down at the characters. The Valley of Ashes is a place of terrible pollution and it symbolizes hopelessness. “This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens.” This is where the washed up American dreams go to die and
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instead a large amount of materialism. Nick wanted to return to the innocence of the Midwest after witnessing the horrors of the New York lifestyle‚ where crime ruled. The unsustainable lifestyles of the East were also pointed out by the valley of ashes. Here the excessive waste piled up and was burned into a grey‚ volcano like‚ cloud that blew though the city. By creating such an obviously insupportable system‚ the novel highlighted that a large scale systemic crash was
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and knows every body’s secrets. Symbolism is shown in many different ways in this book starting from The Valley of Ashes and Dr. T.J. Eckleburg‚ the green light in the Buchannan’s port and the car are a few of the ways it is used. The aim of this paper is to see which symbol between the three was most important or effective in telling the story of The Great Gatsby. The Valley of Ashes was an actual valley between West Egg and New York City where factories have dumped their waste and Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
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character. Where people live determines what they do‚ telling the reader the kind of person they are. Weather often matches the emotional tone of events. The setting of The Great Gatsby is divided into four major areas: West and East Egg‚ the valley of ashes‚ and New York City. West Egg is a representation of people who would not be accepted in East Egg because they are newly rich and are not yet socially adapted to the lifestyle. East Egg is where people who are not strangers to wealth live; therefore
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Ocean. Every year‚ thousands flock to this river and bathe to wash their sins‚ so they can get released from the circle of life and reincarnation. Water of this sacred river is used for religious rituals and many other purposes. Most Hindus have their ashes deposited in this river so they can be purified before reaching heaven. The king of Ayodhya‚ Sarga eagerly desired children‚ but his wife was barren. His elder wife was Keshini and the second wife was Sumati‚ sister of the immortal Garuda who
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that may represents all the wealthy that Nick loathe‚ he is also one of a few genuinely honest man who does not tries to hide. Chapter 2 Study Questions 1. What is the Valley of Ashes literally? The Valley of Ashes is 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‚”
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1) Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter2. Chapter 2 of ‘The Great Gatsby’ sees Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan travel to ‘the valley of ashes’ to visit Tom’s mistress Myrtle. As the chapter continues the characters find themselves at a party at Myrtle’s sister’s apartment in New York. Chapter 2 follows a chronological structure‚ the events of that day in the summer of 1922 are recalled in the order that they occurred‚ creating the effect of a very realistic story being
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