Americas were not inhabited by Europeans until around the 1500s. Europeans were drawn to the Americas because of the promises of riches and religious zeal. Columbus discovered the Caribbean islands and explored them in 1492. Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519. However‚ before Cortes landed in Mexico‚ it was already inhabited by a Native American tribe‚ the Aztecs. The Aztecs were a Native American tribe that lived in Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec empire. The only weapons that
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Interpretation "Smile" Never could a smile have been more disgraceful for Matthew than the one he bared in the short story "Smile"‚ written by D.H. Lawrence. Matthew‚ the main character‚ receives a telegram informing him of his wife’s critical health. Then‚ he goes to see Ophelia‚ his wife‚ in the convent where she resides. The relationship between the couple is problematic; they have separate 12 times. Once at the convent‚ the setting of the story‚ the Mother Superior informs Matthew that his
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Who: Hernan Cortes and some conquistadors What: White Europeans had single handedly conquered the indigenous people of Latin America When: Cortes led the expedition in 1519‚ between 1530’s - 1560’s Why: Slowly within years‚ Hernan Cortes took part in conquests of Cuba and Hispaniola‚ and received more land an native slaves because of this result -“Thousands of native warriors swarm like bees upon the vastly outnumbered conquistadors‚ who against all odds fend them off and survive to fight another
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In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” it seems that Emily was plagued with loneliness most of her life. While she was happy as a child‚ she became lonely when her father passed. She began to isolate herself from everyone and her reclusiveness became worse when Homer Barron‚ her beau‚ left her. She did not go to the market but would instead send Tobe‚ her manservant to do the shopping. When people would come to visit‚ she would have Tobe turn them away. It seems sad and pitiful that
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The story shows a character full of loneliness. There is no literally exposed information that she has a psychological issue; however‚ it is evident that the main character of the story has a problem of severe diffidence. Furthermore‚ the fact that she is an alien‚ meaning that she does not belong to the place she lives in‚ gets things more knotty for her. However‚ Miss Brill is apparently happy. She enjoys her fictional happiness with a very predictable and regular routine. She spends a few hours
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Laura Mulvey made the term “Male Gaze” in 1975. Mulvey plans to use Freud and Lacan’s concepts as a "political weapon” she states. She used some of their concepts to argue that the cinematic apparatus of classical Hollywood cinema unavoidably placed the
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Multiples versus DCF analysis Multiples analysis is simple to understand and apply. The inputs for the multiple arepublicly available‚ though are vulnerable to accounting manipulation. Also‚ it isdifficult to obtain a truly comparable large sample of firms. Multiples analysis isbackward-looking‚ reliant on historical/current data to obtain multiples. It reflectsrelative value rather than the intrinsic value which DCF valuation produces.DCF analysis generates an intrinsic value as it relies on data
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Students are bullied for many reasons. In the text by Laura Modigliani‚ the author of ‘’Tales of Bullying’’‚ reported a boy who said one of his friends made fun of another kid for his weight. Another student was bullied because of the way he wore his hair and his close. A person might also be bullied because he/she might be annoying or different. To begin with a student or person may become a bully from home life. In Source 1‚ it states that “some kids have trouble at home‚ and when they
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Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition to the Aztecs. He landed on the coast of Mexico in 1519 with an army of around 600 men‚ 16 horses and a few cannons. Cortes and his men made their way inland to the capital of the Aztecs‚ capturing cities and gaining extra soldiers from the people who were left after his men took over. He spoke to the natives through his translator Malinche‚ a young Indian woman. They made their way to Tenochtitlan‚ where Aztecs were conquering and sacrificing
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Loneliness is something that the old man‚ Santiago experienced throughout his life‚ one of the most painful things he must have felt was losing his wife. Having the reminder of her in his shack came to a point where he had to take down the picture because it made him more lonely‚ but he still kept the pieces that reminded him of her. As it says “On the brown walls of the flattened‚ overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another
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