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    Spanish Culture Interview

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    Who Am I? While learning the Spanish culture‚ to get a more in depth understanding‚ I took the liberty of interviewing my Spanish speaking peers via Facebook group chat. While interviewing I found a common trend that within the Latin/Hispanic culture in regards to family gatherings‚ food‚ and tradition. “When we party my mom makes me greet EVERYONE! And I hate it.”- Danny Saldaña an 18-year-old Mexican who family comes from Mexico City. In the Mexican tradition its considered rude or disrespectful

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    FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE The Spanish American War was the most powerful colonial nation by the end of the 19th century. 1898 is when the United States went to war to help Cuba win its independence from Spain. The United States won and gained the territories of The Philippines‚ Guam and Puerto Rico. The U.S should not have annexed the Philippines because the Philippines were a country of their own. Additionally‚ they had their own language‚ their own currency and their own culture and tradition

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    15 Exhibit: II Benetton’s famous advertisements Picture 1 Globe Campaign (1986) Picture 3 A black hand and a white hand linked by handcuff Picture 2 Israeli and Arab (1987) Picture 4 Black and White Hand (1990) (1989) Picture 5 An angelic-looking white child embracing a black one whose hair shaped into devil’s horns created a lot of consternation among Black groups in the US (1991) Picture 6 War Cemetery (1991) 16 Picture 7 Tongues (1991). In the Middle East‚ this image was considered pornographic

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    The Spanish Conquest

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    The Spanish had no idea how lucky they were that the Aztecs misunderstood who they were and why they were there. The Spanish conquistadors were looking for lands to conquer‚ gold to capture‚ and people to convert to the Catholic religion. The Spanish were amazed at what they found in the capital city of Tenochtitlan. Everything was clean. There were “eating houses” and hairdressers. You could buy medicines and herbs and all kinds of food. You could buy meat and game. There were streets that

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    Mikaela Duguil  Period: 6          Chapter 1 Cornell notes  1. What was not an important goal of the early English explorers and colonists? It was  not an important goal to build a new nation.  2. Discuss the factors that transformed the colonist and caused them to envision and  creating an independent nation: common bonds‚ language‚ farmers‚ untouched by  tyranny of royal authority‚ official religion and social hierarchy‚ individual freedom‚ and  willingness to subjugate to others.  3. What factors divided the colonists

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    "Prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in 1565‚ there are no written records of the islands that make up the modern day Philippines."3 In the year 1565‚ Miguel López de Legazpi‚ the Conquistador travelled from Spain and founded the first Spanish settlement in the country‚ firstly on the island of Cebú. They occupied the kingdoms of Tondo and Manila‚ establishing it as the capital of the Spanish East Indies. "The Philippines were originally named after King Philip II of Spain- Las Islas

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    Silver and Spanish Exploitation The exploitation of the Incas under Spanish colonial institutions is a widely acknowledged abuse. Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela in his book Tales of Potosi brings to light another dimension of this mistreatment: the Spaniards enabling of the abuse of coca by the exploited Indians as a means to increase productivity‚ which is an aspect that has been overlooked by many theorists up to this point. Abuse of coca expanded the wealth of the Spanish Crown through

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    cartón M atmósfera F reciclaje M transporte M autobús M coche M Key knowledge 1 (gender) a) All Spanish nouns are masculine (M) or feminine (F) b) Masculine nouns usually end in –o c) Feminine nouns usually end in –a‚ -ción or -dad Key knowledge 2 (articles) Singular M F a(n) un

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    1 International Baccalaureate History of the Americas HL Required Summer Reading Study Guide Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America By John Charles Chasteen Foreign Affairs November/December 2000 states: Born in Blood and Fire is a briskly written yet sophisticated introduction to Latin America that will be greatly welcomed by non-specialists and experts alike. Chasteen paints on a very broad canvas‚ but he succeeds in capturing with enviable conciseness the major ingredients

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    1. Briefly discuss (but in detail) the similarities/differences between the initial Spanish colonization of the Caribbean and the Yucatan. In your discussion include the initial reaction of the Taino and Maya to the presence of the Spanish and the rational for the Spanish conquest. The Spanish colonization of the Caribbean and Yucatan was the campaign of the Spanish conquistadores against Postclassical Maya stares and polities specifically on the central Yucatan Peninsula. The Spanish conquest

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