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Juan Ponce de Leon was the first European known to have visited present-day United States in 1513. He also discovered Florida and the Bahama Channel, and colonized Puerto Rico according to the Mariners Museum website. In 1502, he left on a voyage with Frey Nicolás de Ovando and arrived at Santo Domingo. He lived there from 1502 to 1504 and was named the island’s captain by Ovando. De Leon then moved to Salvaleón and lived there from 1505 to 1508. In 1506, he made a request to travel to and conquer Borinquen. After receiving permission from Ovando, he started a settlement there and renamed it San Juan de Puerto Rico. On March 3rd 1513, he left Puerto Rico with 3 ships to explore north of Cuba. On March 27th 1513 he sighted mainland Florida.

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala was an ethnic Andean, deeply inspired by the injustice of the colonial regime, he wrote a massive manuscript in 1615 about the history of the Inca Empire to the King of Spain. His masterpiece includes 1,200 pages, of which 398 were images full of details, that are clearly considered by the artist to be the most direct and effective way of communicating his ideas to the audience. Felipe de Ayala focused on the conflicts between the settlers and the natives to reveal, in his powerful drawings, his wider purpose of a desire for a colonial reformation that will bring stability and justice to the Andean people. Two major reasons that motivated Ayala to write the manuscript are broadly seen in his drawings: the first

“Tomacaúna” formally known as Domingos Fernandes Nobre was a famous go-between slave trader in Brazil in the late 1500s. He was born a mameluco, meaning he is half of Portuguese and half of Indian descent. He lived a dual life because he traveled from the capital to the wilderness migrating the Indian slaves into the local Portuguese sugar plantations in the colonies. It was an effortless act due to his skin complexion and his relationship between the Indians. However, a problem soon erupted from Portugal’s Holy Office in 1591 when the bishop of Bahia and several members of the city council created a document denouncing anything or anyone that defies the holy Catholic faith within a thirty-day period. By the time of the inquisitor’s arrival

Throughout the course of the book Anthem, Equality 7-2521 was never afraid to disobey rules that were put in place for those in the city. In fact, just about every action he engaged in was a direct challenge to the leaders of the “irrational society”. Although he did not complete these deeds with malice in the beginning, eventually Equality 7-2521 had a revelation about what his society was doing to the human race. All members of the collective society were being “kept in the dark”, both

In the bilingual picture book, Francisca Alvarez: The Angel of Goliad, it talks about a woman who helped the captured soldiers from the Battle of Goliad. The book is suited for younger readers because it provides very basic background information on the Texas Revolution and the Goliad Massacre. This book is also ideal because it is bilingual so it provides both English and Spanish explanations for those young English language learners who are learning how to read in both languages. It briefly explains what happened at the massacre and which generals were involved. When reading, the book portrays Francisca as a kind woman who felt sorry for those captured Texan soldiers from Goliad. When Francisca arrived with her husband, Captain Alvarez, she saw that the troops were tied up with cords and had been standing for hours without food or water. The book goes on to explain

the secretary of state a formal reply saying that that it was useless to continue with any

The visual text, Gravitacia, composed by Jarrah Limon (2018) is used in an advertising campaign to sell holiday's to a newly discovered planet, Gravitacia. It uses the advertising technique, AIDA to keep the audiences attention and to provoke action. The text is aimed at 'adrenaline junkies' as they are the most likely to travel to another planet just for a holiday. Jarrah also created the 'Logo' for the advertising campaign. He used bold text in the name of the planet, Gravitacia, and used a black and white colour scheme to make the advertisement stand out amongst other bright colour schemes most advertising agencies use. The composer also uses more bold text throughout the commercial as well as; Juxtaposition, a Pun and a Rhetorical question. This is used to sell the fact that Gravitacia is where 'adrenaline junkies' should go for a holiday.

In the novels Anthem and Fahrenheit 451, society believed they were God in peoples’ eyes. Whether having control over their jobs, education, or love lives, society had a way of breaking all contact that lied in peoples’ personal thoughts and actions. If people were to act upon a thought they knew was forbidden, their actions could potentially ruin the heavenly system created by their society. However, there is no such thing as the perfect society. No matter how much society may want humanity to be fair and equal, it will never happen. And to try and take away the moments that prove how time makes people wiser and mature through their mistakes, only deprives people of the sense of being wrong and feeling remorse for their actions. In order for people to ever learn about the real challenges of life, change has to happen. But the people already in the headspace that society has created for them have to realize that change is imperative. Through both novels, two protagonists help join the cause of fighting their society so that change is inevitable for generations to come.

They didn’t know how this catastrophe still continued today. Although this didn’t help me deal with what I was feeling with, I now knew that I was not the only person who was misinformed.

Vision a lifestyle where one perceives it as a sin to comprehend data more efficiently than of one’s peers; a felony to long for things that others do not wish upon. Where floods of white tunics and austere minds obliterate the Earth. A colony built upon leaders who asphyxiate anyone from infatuation of any object or significant being; moreover, a world suffocating in collectivism. Through exasperated transcription, Anthem brings about such a community; nevertheless, a world of black and white. Ayn Rand does not overemphasize the effects of totalitarianism, but amplifies it so that it is more effortless for one to enlighten he or she’s notion on the particular proposal. First, by analyzation of “Equality 7-2521”, and

The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes was written in 1554. This novel was an inspiring and great representation of a segment in the 16th century Spanish society. Even though the Author is unknown, it was translated by W.S. Merwin and introduced by Juan Goytisolo. The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes is centered on a young boy who has to adept in the world daily struggles for existence and goes through many experiences along the way ,becoming a servant for many different masters. He also discovers the world’s injustices, and adapts to what he has to go through in his journey to survive. Throughout the novel The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes shows how the fictional literature plays a huge part in social criticism, the Spanish economy has a big effect, and how the squire and other characters reflect upon the novel.

According to Keim, some misconceptions are that they are culturally and evolutionally behind us. Also, that people living in Africa are living in the dark ages. This was even believed by African-Americans during this Dark Continent Era. They believed “in African backwardness… Because the general cultural climate in America promoted evolutionism… most were Christians and believed that most Africans, as non-Christians needed salvation. ” This is pretty alarming to me that everyone regardless of race for the most part bought into this way of thinking about an entire Continent, even if they disagreed on religions. There is this stereotype that Africa is in trouble or helpless and needs our help. People constantly come to Africa to help people that

Rodrigo's initial works show impacts of Impressionist harmonies, the musical structures of Stravinsky and de Falla and the polytonal systems of Le Groupe des Six which included Honneger and Milhaud. From the 1940s onwards, the writer progressively discovered his direction towards an individual style which owed generous impacts to the arranger's investigation of Spanish Renaissance and Baroque

Furthermore, their government is hiding a world of imagination, exploration of knowledge, and information about the corrupt society they are living