Cortes, as well as many other explorers during this time, was inspired by the Three G’s: God, gold, and glory. He planned to conquer the new lands for Spain, to convert the natives to Catholicism, and to obtain the riches of the land, mostly gold. Conquistador is basically a record of the last days of the Aztec civilization, as the two groups, the Aztecs and the Spaniards, clash, and the Spaniards ultimately come out on top.
Siqueiros was also a member of the Mexican Communist Party but used his knowledge and first-hand experiences to advocate for the social justice of his time. He first started fighting for social justice and revolutionary ideologies “At 15 he participated in a student strike at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico demanding abandonment of outmoded methods of art instruction. He served as an officer in the Mexican revolution before going to study in Europe.” (Goldman,321) Before going into the revolution, Siqueiro had begun with an interest in indigenous culture, and “He began to realize that’s just such magnificent culture result as had been produced by the older civilizations… “Porfiristo” had prevented them from appreciating to its fullest extent of all the import and beauty of the Indian culture—”( Rogo, 6) This will be relevant when later he was commissioned to paint a “tropical America”, Siqueiros “instead of painting “ a continent of happy men, surrounded by Palms and parrots where the fruit voluntarily detached itself… I painted a man… crucified on a double cross, which had, proudly perched on top, the eagle of the North American coins.”
Also, at the time Francisco Pizarro took care of pigs as his job in his region. But Francisco Pizarro had bigger hopes for later, he wanted a life with more wealth, adventure, and filled with excitement. So in order to do that, he joined the Spanish army, and spent time as a soldier in Italy when he was a teen. Later on,
" There are many theories as to why he chose that name. Some say it was the name of a bandit leader he met; others say it was Villa's fraternal grandfather's last name. Pancho Villa's notoriety as a bandit and his prowess at escaping capture caught the attention of men who were planning a revolution. These men understood that Villa's skills could be used as a guerilla fighter during the revolution. Since Porfirio Diaz, the sitting president of Mexico, had created much of the current problems for the poor and Francisco Madero promised change for the lower classes, Pancho Villa joined Madero's cause and agreed to be a leader in the revolutionary
Although Pancho Villa was known as a bandit and a murderer to the rich and powerful, he played a big part in helping overthrow the corrupt Mexican Government and had a positive impact on the community in Mexico. His actions made a positive impact on the Mexican Community he took from rich and and greedy gave to the poor and needy. He stole cattle herds for the poor families who could not afford to buy meat. Pancho Villa once said, "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Hernan Cortes was an explorer and soldier from Spain. He always felt that he could make his future in the Americas. He wanted to explore the new world and take advantage of the new opportunities that he can earn, while he was exploring. Cortes wanted to be something else in life besides an explorer or soldier. He wanted to be a big conquer of the Americas.
However he was miserable at the school and to restive to follow the rules. While he was at the school, he did learn a some Latin, and became good at writing. After two years he returned home due to flunking his course. Although he wasn 't happy at his home either. As Cortés heard tales of the
He marched for days,nights,weeks, and months as finally he battled for the Capital, Mexico City. His efforts were not strong enough and some say not wise. His leadership along side with Allende was enough for thousands of men agreed to fight for their liberty. When he was finally captured and executed, his accomplishments were seen by “All the city's dignitaries and officials” as a representation of the wave of the future.(New World). This
Writer Sherman Alexie has a knack of intertwining his own problematic biographical experience with his unique stories and no more than “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” demonstrates that. Alexie laced a story about an Indian man living in Spokane who reflects back on his struggles in life from a previous relationship, alcoholism, racism and even the isolation he’s dealt with by living off the reservation. Alexie has the ability to use symbolism throughout his tale by associating the title’s infamy of two different ethnic characters and interlinking it with the narrator experience between trying to fit into a more society apart from his own cultural background. However, within the words themselves, Alexie has created themes that surround despair around his character however he illuminates on resilience and alcoholism throughout this tale.
Hatuey chose to die by burning at the stake, a presumed true story was told of an encounter Las Casas had with an Indian chief named Hatuey, Hatuey told Las Casas that he would rather go to hell than go to heaven where the Spaniards claim to be going. (Las Casas, 9) Similar to the accounts of Las Casas in his real life, the witnessing of the massacre would have been the turning point in the film; showing sympathy toward the indigenous natives. Costa like Las Casas began their experiences with little understanding or sympathy for the indigenous peoples and their plight, but in time and witnessing the tragic circumstances surrounding the natives they are reformed with sympathy toward the indigenous people and are committed to continuing to help in their
What if you were to see an elephant without ears? Would you automatically assume it was a freak of nature, and not give another lick of thought to it? What if you were to see a jaguar ripping apart another jaguar? Would you shoot it dead because it is apparently a, “violent” creature? You shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, and two characters from two different books can perfectly support this claim.
One could not view a group of boys marooned on an island warring with each other a conventional story. The main motif throughout the story is the loss of innocence and humanity. For the group of boys present throughout “Lord of the Flies”, the journey they took was not one of normal circumstances, nor was the behavior accompanying their predicament. At the beginning, they attempted to adapt with some normalcy. They searched for an authority figure, which became Ralph due to his possession of the "magical" conch.
Diego was said to be a well known jokester, “plump master of Cuba who was said to be first-in-line to conquer Mexico,” as said in the book along with being money hungry, he went on two consecutive expeditions in two years leaving no supplies or money to go to another to follow a lead on the famous dream of El Dorado. Desperately, Velazquez convinced a wealthy man by the name of, Hernan Cortes, to fund and lead the expedition with responsibilities of bringing a substantial amount of treasures to him to give to the King of Spain in return of fame and fortune. Hernan Cortes was a very “vivacious, likable, and literate; he could even pepper his speech with Latin.” However, Cortes ambitious behaviour got the best of him when he departed from Velazquez before he could arrive on the boat before departing onto their journey, for Cortes wanted to take all the credit and treasures for himself and took the boat and crew, leaving with no contact for over two months. Velazquez wants to give Cortes the benefit of the doubt decided to wait to hear word from him, however, gave up when there were rumours of Cortes and his men meeting some Native Americans whom gave them large amounts of wealthy possessions and gave them shelter and became allies; soon Cortes sent samples of the treasures to the King to receive more funds and crew members to help the mining of the silver and gold that was plentiful in those
By the time the Spaniards marched all the way to the Aztec metropolis, Tenochtitlan, they had created several allies. Portilla explains that the people that sided with the Spaniards were enemies that had been conquered by the Aztec. The Mexica’s began to resent their “gods” and mistrust King Motcuhzoma for letting the Spanish conquistadors wreak havoc among the natives and their customs. Before long the author begins to describe the many battles fought between the Aztec warriors and the strangers. These were awful and terrible battles that continued for three years.
As he had many options to choose from but he ended up choosing the wrong one many times. To sum up, could the Aztecs have won against the Spaniards? The Aztecs were peoples who
