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    provided in the textbook. After reading source three “Indians of the Rio Grande”, I gained a further understanding on how the Spaniards came to America for their desire to conquer the some of territories, for example Florida in 1527. In the document from Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, “Indians of the Rio Grande” it explains how Cabeza de Vaca made an improbable voyage “across from the American Southwest from 1528 to 1536”. Throughout Cabeza de Vaca’s journey with his ‘companions’ they explored and were able

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    America of ill-fated 1527 expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. After the big disembarking on Florida near Tampa, the Spanish forced the land and sea became disastrously separated. Knowing, they overstayed their welcome, with local Indians in pursuit. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, second command, set out on rafts back to Cuba. Only eighty survived and came through a hurricane to land near Galveston, Texas. About 4 years ago in 1536, they were rescued in Northern America by Spanish slave trade, but only

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    in New Spain (Mexico).Coronado searches for the 7 golden cities. Coronado decided to seek his fortune in the new world.De Coronado’s dad was a royal administrator in Granada. Francisco married a woman named Beatriz. The people who sponsored him was Alvar Nuneza Bezade Vaca, and Marcos de Niza. The motive for the exploration of Francisco was to seek his fortune by finding the 7 golden cities and he was expecting to find a lot of gold their so that he may reach his goal. The dates of the explorations

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    Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 1954 to 1956. In 1966 he wrote a book that was called Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, and shortly after it was published it became extremely influential. In his biography he wrote that Alvar Alto was his favorite architect. He also wrote that he looked up to him and that his work meant the most to him out of all the modern masters. He used Alto’s work to help him study the art and technique. Some examples of his work would be the Vanna

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    U.S. Latino literature is as important and historical as any other. We often refer and quote recent or current Hispanic authors but we forget that there is a whole timeline behind every word and idea. History itself was first of all recorded in people's minds and hearts and through oral tradition was it passed on, later marked through drawings and symbols and finally, and after thousands of years, reached formal written ground. This carriage of messages and form of expression evolved through time

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    up founding and naming Florida in 1513. 3. Hernan DeSoto was known for exploring the American Southeast. He was also known for becoming the first European to see the Mississippi River in 1541 only just a year before he passed away in 1542. 4. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World. De Vaca was one of four survivors when he went on the Narváez expedition in 1527. 5. Ferdinand Magellan was best known for his expedition

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    commercialized. In Part II of Horwitz’s book, he focuses on the European explorers as they travelled through the Gulf Coast, the Southwest, the South, and the Mississippi regions of the United States. I found Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s personal story quite interesting, “Between 1528 and 1536, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca took a cross-country trek that made Lewis and Clark’s expedition, three centuries later, look like a Cub Scout outing by comparison.” He, like many of the other early European explorers

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    Relationship is the important way to build on the trust with others. Disrespectful and conflicts would not help issues solving. Native Americans are the members of any of the indigenous people of the Americans. In the past time, some of the migrations of Europeans to the Americas has led to centuries of population, cultural, and agricultural transfer and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Since some explorers immigrated to that new island, the life of the Native Americans get some changes

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    Fig. 5 David escaping from Saul. Engraved by G. Doré. Fig. 6 Balcony of Verona Fig.7 Romeo and Juliet. Canvas by Francesco Hayez. 1823. However, the windows not only serve to escape, through them is also reached love: "but, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" . Shakespeare writes about the light that comes from inside, and reveals Juliet. The window is also the opening to an interior landscape, to life. It shows us our yearnings for protection, for home, for what we

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    Tribes were matrilineal • Iroquois o Great League of Peace • Different lifestyles by region o West coast ♣ Fished, hunted sea mammals o Great Plains ♣ Hunted buffalo • European discovery of North America o Spanish exploration ♣ Southwest explored by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca • Searched for gold ♣ Colonized

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