The Spaniard Prado: The Greediest Man Alive

The Spanish conquistador’s arrival in the New World is certainly one of history’s most widely known events. The conquest of the resource-filled lands of America and the Caribbean set forth a new era for humanity, one driven by newly devised political, economic and social structures introduced to assure the submission of the native inhabitants of the discovered lands. Although the process of colonization served as the foundation for the New World’s subsequent modernization into what it is today, the forceful shift into European culture brought upon the natives a reign of terror. Therefore, further research into the Spaniards establishment in the New World, in a way, attests to a new perspective of human nature. Bartolome de Las Casas, author of A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, a chronicle of the atrocities that took place at the hands of Spaniards during the colonization process, reveals conquistadors as individuals who were, primarily, greed driven beings. His detailed account of the Spanish conquest exposes the atrocious truth behind the grandeur of the Spanish Empire from the late 15th century onward, one that can be said is directly entwined with the abuse and carnage of native Indians all for the sake of increasing their power through the acquisition of riches at stake of the colonies well-being.

In the Superstition Mountains of Arizona the legend of a gold mine hangs in the air. Many lives have been lost while the Lost Dutchman's gold remains safe and protected by the Prelta Stones. The harsh climate, steep cliffs, deep canyons, wild animals, and lack of accessible re makes finding this mystery mine nearly impossible. While finding the mine's location may be the easier part of the job making it out alive is the challenge. Nine adventures' set out to find the hidden mine, but only one has ever found it, The Lost Dutchman himself. The mystery of Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine is one full of death, myths, and adventure.

‘The Legend of El Dorado’ has long been a topic of historical debate. Contrasting arguments in the form of both primary recount, as well as subsequent critique and analysis have resulted in inconclusive and inconsistent interpretations as to whether or not ‘El Dorado’ is mythical in nature, or rather a critically misunderstood part of South American and Spanish history. Whilst the legend itself is commonly associated with a ‘lost city of gold’, the truth of the matter is likely a much darker story of survival and preservation- with a lust for riches resulting in the plundering and mass murder of the Muisca people during expeditions led by the Spanish conquistadors during the 1500’s. Due to this, much of the primary evidence relating to El Dorado

The boy was a shepherd going throughout the lands selling wool, but twice now he had the same dream, where there was a little boy leading him throughout Egypt to where treasure would be, yet as soon was the boy would show him where, he woke up. Seeking help from a Gipsy to find this treasure, he agreed that in return 1/10 of the treasure would be hers. After talking to the Gipsy he meet an old man who sat down next to him, they held a conversation, after a while the boy found out that the old man was a king that knew of where the treasure of hidden, and he told him to follow his dream, and gave him two rocks named Urim and Thummim. Santiago then raised enough money to go to Egypt, while there he met a boy at a bar who then agreed to take them Santiago to the pyramids if he was in charge of his money, and Santiago agreed. While he was looking at a sword the boy ran off leaving Santiago with no money. Having no money, he had to find a job, but Arabic, being the main langue there, made it

The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes is a short novel, anonymously pusblished, to protect the author from the ‘villainous’ masters that would seek to destroy the unrefined truth of historical events that took place during the 16th century, the novel follows a Spanish servant maneuvering his way through the hierarchies of society.

Finally, they see a house about a mile away from the road and they make their way towards it to search for food. The boy is hesitant about going in but eventually they do go in and find a few old cans of food. In addition, after the man searches the house, he finds clothes and blankets in the bedroom. The man and the boy stay in the house for four days. When they are about to run out of food, they finally reach the sea. The water is gray instead of blue, which upsets the boy. The boy decides to go for a swim despite the cold weather. The next morning, they spot an abandoned ship in the sea. The man decides to go out and search inside the boat while the boy stays on shore with the pistol. The ships name is Pajaro de Esperanza. The man finds clothes, a toolbox, a bottle of gas, a sextant, some water, ropes, canned foods, first aid kit, and a flare gun. When the man gets back to shore, they head to where they left their belongings except halfway there, they have to go back to shore to find the pistol where the boy forgot it. After they find the pistol, it becomes dark and it begins to rain making it difficult for them to see which way is camp. Then, the man hears rain falling on their tarp, which helps them eventually hear their way back to camp. The next morning, the man’s cough worsens with even more blood and the boy gets sick. The boy does not want to drink water and acquires a fever. All the man can think about is that he cannot let the boy go up to heaven alone. Days later, the boy’s health is

At the turn of the 18th century, the confines of multipurpose commercial ships fostered divergent enactments of patriarchal control on the oceanic peripheries of Latin America and the Caribbean. In particular, the Spanish vessel San Dominick served as a symbolic battleground between white superiority and black subversion, the fiercely republican United States of America and the weakening Spanish Empire. Covering historical and thematic distances, Herman Melville narrates and Greg Grandin analyzes this ship’s tale to engage readers as the white seamen Amasa Delano and Benito Cereno fear for their safety against the ship’s black majority on the unpatrolled, stormy seas. On board the San Dominick, Melville and Grandin illustrate that socio-political

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Mathew Restall provides a new direction in the history of the Spanish Conquest. Restall proved how history is determined by those interpreting it, its consequences, and the possible reinvention of any event in history. Justification, if not glorification, once endorsed the Spanish’s mission to civilize natives, but today, many heroes of the conquest, such as Columbus and Cortes, are rewritten on the negative side of history. Rewriting history, or at least its outlook, includes the vast and evident knowledge of historians such as Restall and his ability to identify and reanalyze essential sources. Restall incorporated various types of sources into his research, some of the same past historians used, but

Since the land that the Spanish prince will be conquering will probably include natives who speak a different language, have different laws, and customs, Machiavelli would warn them that there will be many challenges and conquering will not be easy. There will need to be a lot of, “good fortune as well as great industry to retain them” (Machiavelli, 10).

“They were obliged to creep along, from rock to rock, for the space of a league, till at length a spacious plain presented itself to their sight. This place was bounded by a chain of inaccessible mountains” (125). This is Candide and Cacombo 's first glimpse of El Dorado. The near impossibility of access to it is intriguing, because while it may protect the inhabitants from the outside world and the pollution of their society, it also means that egress is also just as difficult. This is proven when they decide to leave, and the vast undertaking it requires to get them out. Not everyone wanted to stay there after arrival; the Incas left to conquer other lands and Candide himself ends up wishing to leave. He

Miguel picked up his son and ran towards the elevator. He clicked the button over and over again. After seeing the elevator was all the way at the top, he picked his son back up and ran up three flights of stairs. Once he got to the third floor, Miguel bust open the door and kept running down the hall until he saw room 311, and then he froze, put his son down and walked in slowly. Miguel saw his wife Maria holding his newborn daughter.

A dream was bothering Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd. He has the dream every time he slept under a sycamore tree that grows out of an abandoned church. In the dream, a small boy tells him to look for treasure at the bottom of the pyramids in Egypt. Santiago talked to a gypsy to interpret the dream, and told him to go to Egypt. An old man called Melchizedek claimed to be King of Salem, and repeated what the gypsy said; that it is his ‘Personal Legend’ to go to the pyramids. Melchizedek convinces Santiago to sell his sheep and go to Tangier. When Santiago arrived, he’s robbed, forcing him to work for a man that sells crystals. The merchant taught Santiago lessons, and Santiago encouraged him to take risks with his business. Santiago finally became wealthy.

This gold which represented a gateway to a better life lifted the shadow of greed and evil out of souls of Chantal and the townspeople into almost killing one of the oldest residence, Berta. If it were not for the sudden change of heart by Chantal, the origin of the shadow, the town of Viscos would have given up their innocence and sincerity for each other and become just like the world around them. A world described by Stranger when he spoke of his family, the weapons company he founded, and the results of the shadow of the men that used his weapons to devastate his entire family (Coelho

“Horse Money” is the new drama from the celebrated Portuguese filmmaker, Pedro Costa, author of the remarkable trilogy based in Fontainhas, an impoverished neighborhood in Lisbon, which includes “Ossos”, “In Vanda’s Room”, and “Colossal Youth”. This time the subject is a bit different, but Mr. Costa retrieves Ventura from his last film. This man, played by himself, is a confused Cape Verdean immigrant, a retired bricklayer, who was admitted in a Lisbon’s hospital where he keeps escaping through the gloomy back passageways, losing track of the space and the time, and being haunted by ghostly presences of his past. To complement the disquieting phantasmagoric images, we’re granted part of the disorder that goes on Ventura’s head. These particular

Later he meets Melchizedek the King of Salem who teaches him how to read omens and sets him on the path. When he reaches Africa he is robed and must make his money back while working at a crystal shop, while working there he makes some improvements. After eleven months he joins a caravan bound for Egypt. He meets an Englishman who wants to learn alchemy from an alchemist who is in an oasis along the way where they stop to wait out the tribe wars. While traveling he learns of the soul of the world and meets Fatima who he falls in love with. After foreseeing an impending attack he meets a black veiled armed man, this man is the alchemist who offers to take him to the pyramids. When going through an area of intense tribal warfare they are captured by a tribe and Santiago has difficulty turning himself into the wind in order to guarantee his freedom. The alchemist later leaves him right before they arrive at the pyramids. While digging into the ground he finds nothing and is beat and robbed by thieves. He tells them of his dream and one of the thieves tells him of his dream of treasure back at the tree beside at the church. This brings him back to where he started at the church beside the sycamore tree. He digs under the tree and he finds his