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    Spaniards brought Africans to the New World at the very beginning of the Spanish conquest. Spanish influence determined Africans’ social aptitude‚ acculturated them‚ and manipulated their role to serve Spanish needs for production. Despite Spanish dominance‚ Africans were able to retain some resemblance of their own cultural distinction‚ and acted independently against Spanish interests. Africans roles evolved as the Spanish faced problems of satisfying high labor demands and maintaining control

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    The Spanish Reconquista

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    culture. From the Celts and Visigoths that came from the north to the Africans and Arabs from the south to the Romans from the East‚ empires‚ kingdoms‚ and tribes all over the world have recognized and tried to take advantage of the benefits of Spain. War‚ conquest‚ and reconquest are frequent throughout the entire history of Spain‚ and the history of Moors in Spain is no exception. It began in the year 711 when the Moors first crossed over to the Iberian Peninsula‚ until their expulsion from Granada

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    Spanish Explorers

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    (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513)‚ after crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland. Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain‚ leaving in 1527. He traveled from Florida to Texas on a raft‚ then walked from Texas to Mexico City. He also explored the Paraguay River in South America. De Vaca and his fellow travelers were the first Europeans to see the bison or American buffalo

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    Learning Spanish

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    For a few years now‚ it has been a personal goal of mines to become bi-lingual in a foreign language. Learning Spanish is the language that I always wanted to learn. In the past when I took lessons in High School‚ after passing Spanish 101 class‚ I had no intentions of registering to take Spanish 102. Continuing to take lessons was not on the top of my list as a teenager. I did not put any value in learning a second language. But as I became of age and traveled to Spain while enlisted in the military

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    in the Vietnam War took place over a span of decades and is rife with controversy. The war began after the preexisting relationship with the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh was put aside for fear of communism spreading in South-East Asia‚ and continued in a seemingly futile effort to keep the communists from gaining power. The war continued mostly due to a tangled web of political schemes‚ but finally ended due to mass public outcry and lack of success for either side. Before the war in Vietnam‚ America

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    The Vietnam War is a war fought between the United States of America and the Soviet Union by proxy during the Cold War. The war officially opposed North Vietnam‚ backed by the Soviet Union and China‚ and South Vietnam‚ backed by the United States. American involvement in the Vietnam War started in the early 1960s when President Kennedy decided to send increasingly more troops (from less than 1‚000 in 1960 to more than 16‚000 in 1963) in order to contain communist progression throughout the world

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    Spanish Classroom

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    Starting off the year with 3 different Spanish teachers has been an extreme task for the Freshman as well as the upperclassman this year. Freshman students have struggled with understanding as well as speaking the language because of the adjustment through each teacher. Students in first year Spanish classes excitedly walked into their Spanish classes eager to learn the new language. With only a couple of weeks into school there was already an issue with the first teacher. Freshman were frustrated

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    Spanish Colonization

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    The Spanish government in fact created a settlement system known as the encomienda in which large grants of land were dispersed together with the right to enslave and work the Indians within the territory. This obviously created tension between the natives and the Spanish which later then caused the killings of millions of Indians. The French realized early after the failed Spanish colonization that peaceful relations with the Indians was more productive. Spanish priests made halfhearted

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    In what ways are the realist tendencies of Howards End undermined by the presence of the uncanny? Realism is both reliant on and thoroughly undermined by the uncanny. Realism was prominent during the 19th and 20th centuries. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms realism is a ‘general attitude’ of literature that ‘rejects idealization‚ escapism and other extravagant qualities of romance.’ It must be noted that realism is not simply a realistic “slice of life” but a ‘system of conventions

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    Howard Gardner Biography

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    Howard Gardner was born on July 11‚ 1943 in Scranton‚ Pennsylvania. His parents were refugees from the period of the Nazis‚ in Germany. As a child he loved music‚ he later became a great pianist. As a young man he enrolled at Harvard University. Gardner started to study other careers but ended getting inspired by the works of Jean Piaget to study developmental psychology. He is married to Ellen Winner‚ a developmental psychologist who teaches at Boston College‚ and they have four children together

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