Central & South American History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (380) essays
Central & Southamerican History essays:
An Analysis of "Christmas In The Mountains" by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
... Christmas in the Mountains", by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano captures the essence of Mexican turmoil in the nineteenth century. Altamirano provides a distinctive, expressive, and romanticized analysis of the isolated, rural community and the contributions it could make to the nation-state. After the ...
Theodore Roosevelt: The Great Environmentalist
... The United States had built its economic and political strength by exploiting the nation's natural resources; but Roosevelt, like other leading conservationists, no longer believed that these natural resources were infinite in their abundance. The end of the nineteenth century brought the ...
Cortes 2
... Mexico. Velazquez was skeptical but approved the trip anyway. So Cortes was of to Mexico with six-hundred men and twenty horses. Hernan sailed along the Yucatan and landed in Tabasco. Here he learned of Montezuma II and the Aztecs. During this time Cortes ...
Measure 95
... the quality of our public schools." Measure 95 failed to pass with 65% con and 35% pro. I think in the future a measure similar to this will be proposed. Also I think that that measure also will fail to pass as did measure 95. Jim Hill, Oregon Voters Pamphlet ...
The Gift Of The Nile
... the economy properly. To the Egyptians advantage, they lived in a impartially isolated area, which would aid them in their development of a government. The great river was almost unconditionally accountable for Egypt's economy. It fed the people and, except for the gold mined in the ...
The Black Loyalists
... in the British Proclamation of 1779. The black loyalists that waited in New York were issued ?Certificates of Freedom? and all that left the United States after the Treaty of Paris in 1783, were filed into the ?Book of Negroes?. ?General Washington demanded Britain?s Commander in ...
Marketing Strategy For Mr. Sub
... restaurants back in the 60's, and it continues to create new customers today. The research was conducted because we wanted to know the performance of Mr. Sub at the Lakeshore campus. The location was convenient for our group. Statement of Research Objectives: "X We will measure the degree ...
Latin American History from 1950 Onwards: Focusing on The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara, and The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman
... army officer. When he won power in 1946, the county rapidly unionized industrially due to the fact that he appealed to the working class. He even gained more trust within Argentina, when the United States, the imperialists, as many identified it in Argentina, tried to grasp control of the ...
Disappearance of the Mayan Civilisation
... the cause of the disappearance of the Mayan civilisation . A widespread epidemic disease could explain the rapid depopulation of the Mayan people while still leaving the city's buildings and wealth behind. A parasitic disease would be common in the ...
Hispanic American Diversity
... in the United States as a result of emigration from impoverished rural areas of Northern Mexico during the twentieth century. The remaining ten percent trace their ancestry back to the 17th and 18th century colonists that settled Mexican territories that are now known as part of the ...