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    The work of Federico García Lorca, "La Casa de Bernarda Alba", is open to many interpretations due to its profound symbolic nature. It gives an interesting representation of a middle-class house consisting entirely of women. The plot takes place in a small city, a middle class house in a society dominated by men. It is believed that it was established somewhere in Spain in the 1930s. The work was written at a time when the suppression of women was still strong. Mother Bernarda, the head of the house

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    natural for him to use symbols of nature to deal with the problems concerning life and reproduction…” Black and white colors The white walls contrast with the women's mourning dresses. The contrasts are very frequent in the work of Lorca, and in La casa de Bernarda Alba can symbolize the dichotomy that exists between what the individual wants and what society demands, or in this case what the daughters want and what Bernarda demands of them. White also represents purity, and black, death. The contrast

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    Christian missionary named Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote about the little-known realities of the brutalities occurring in the New World between Spanish conquistadors and Native Americans. Even though the Spanish originally set out to bring Christianity to the New World and its inhabitants, those evangelizing efforts soon turned into torture, mass killings, rape, and brutal slavery of the innocent natives to fulfill their greed for gold and wealth, according to Las Casas. In his primary account A Short Account

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    exploring the Americas . This lack of thought for other definitions of normal allows modern readers to better understand the debate of the time: the moral obligations associated with subjugation and conversion. Two Spanish theologians, Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda, thought that their specific means for carrying out the tasks of evangelization and colonization were superior to the other. Though no clear winner of the dispute over a “just war” was declared, their argumentation continues

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    opinion of Christopher himself, and Bartolome de Las Casas. Comparing and contrasting the two documents one can truly see that the truth would always come to light. In Christopher Columbus voyage, he had mentioned that the Native Americans were nothing more than loving as they were willing to give as much as they could without any resentment. As they were always lavish with everything in their possession. In the second passage, Bartolome de Las Casas has also indicated that the Indians were rational

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    and Spain, the first conquistadors shared in some measure the sense that they had both a territorial and a religious mission to accomplish. Not every priest, however, treated Native Indians in a supercilious manner. For example, Bartolome de Las Casas, a friend of Columbus, was one of supporters who believed in human equalities within God. Arriving in the New World in 1502, he began as both a colonialist

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    opinions on the topic of Native Americans were Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, a theologian, and Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar. Sepúlveda advocated for the Spanish conquest of the Americas and their techniques. His adherence to the Aristotelian

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    Indians in North America, under the name General History. Previously, Bartolomé De Las Casas wrote an autobiography about his adventures in 1515 called Relation that discusses the mistreatment of the native Indians that he observed in the Americas, specifically Hispaniola. John Smith’s autobiography exhibits unacceptable traits such as degrading Indians, boasting about himself and lusting for fame which makes De Las Casas, the previous explorer of the Americas, a better role model who exhibited benevolent

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    Condemn It Or Accept It?

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    tolerated. My opinion is based on the point of view of many experts. The following text will debate on this question by summarizing the arguments of Bartolome de Las Casas, an Indian defender and the arguments of Juan Ginés de Sepulveda, a defender of the Spanish right of conquest and my opinion regarding Aztecs human sacrificing. Bartolome de Las Casas was originally a soldier. Later, he worked against the oppression of indigenous races by Europeans. He was a well-known Spanish historian and missionary

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    A. Bartolome de las Casa was an early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first man to show the wrong doings and oppression of the European people towards the native people in the Americas. Bartolome was also an accomplished writer and had published many works, one includes a book called Historia de las Indias, which reflects on the accounts of the treatment and oppression of the natives in the Americas (Bartolome de Las Casas). Why Bartolome is so important during the period of

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