Francisco Moreno

After WWII ended in 1945, xenophobia amongst the white populace, coupled with an inflexible definition of who or what represented “American-ness”, prevented Asian Americans from claiming an American identity. Alongside this exclusion, the post-war period also witnessed the assertion of American identity formed by culture and family in the Issei and Nisei community. This essay will argue that through Ichiro Yamada’s struggle to integrate, Okada’s No-No Boy represents the fracturing belief of a monoracial

The reasons for immigration to the "land of opportunity" called America in the early years of our country are clear. America was seen as a place where an individual could start over with an equal chance of success or failure, offered jobs, no matter what country he or she came from. This proved to be true for Irish immigrants, German-American immigrants, English and black immigrants that came to America. However, this was not the same for many of the Japanese immigrants. One of the many challenges

Your Hippie Guide To San Francisco LEAD PARAGRAPH It 's the summer of 1967 in San Francisco and Haight Street is bustling with thousands of young dreamers craving social reform. The summer of ’67 is also known as the Summer of Love and was a time when artists like Janisce Joplin and Jimi Hendrix lived on these San Franciscan streets. Flash forward 50 years and the afterglow of this monumental peace movement can still be felt on Haight Street. Wandering around San Francisco, you 'll find that it is

The 1960s Hippie movement was a major point in the American history. In the 1960s a certain class of young people associated their lifestyles with the ideas of freedom, peace, and love. Hippies acted against white upper middle class lifestyle because they thought it was based on the wrong ideology. Hippies were against consumerism and American suburban life of the late 1950s and early 1960s was embodied in itself the idea of consumerism. Hippies, on the other hand, felt better about communal life

Zoe Benavides March 7, 2017 CULF 1319-14 Professor Thrasher Francisco Goya and Vincent Van Gogh A Giant Seated in a Landscape, sometimes called The Colossus by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes and Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace that was painted by Vincent Van Gogh are two very meaningful artworks. Regarding their nationalities, Goya’s artwork’s geographic location is Spain while Van Gogh’s is Dutch. Goya’s art is an etching that is part of the romanticism movement. Contrary to Goya’s, Van Gogh’s

In the year of seventeen-ninety-nine (1799), Conrad Reed found a seventeen-pound gold nugget when he was fishing. His family used it as a door stop for three years before they realized that it was a gold nugget! Once everyone found out that it was gold, they started looking for more gold in the Little Meadow Creek that Conrad found the gold in. The creek was located on the family farm in Cabarrus County. When the rest of the family looked for more of the gold, they found some more of it in the creek

California Gold Rush In January 24,1848 a carpenter named James W. Marshall found a piece of gold in the Sacramento Valley. News spread out to San Francisco's news paper. The gold rush began in the Sutter’s Mill , near Coloma in 1848. The gold rush continued though out 1850. California’s population went up to 250,000 in only four years. During the gold rush clothing for the miner was very important because, the clothing for the miner was based on his ethnicity. Thus used pans, sluice

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was conceived on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, a town in northern Spain. The child of a guilder, Goya spent the vast majority of his childhood in Saragossa. There he started considering painting around the age of fourteen. He was an understudy of José Luzán Martínez. At to begin with, Goya learned by impersonation. He duplicated the works of incredible experts, discovering motivation in progress of such craftsmen as Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez and Rembrandt

The Way Spain Was expresses impassioned love for Spain as well as anguish for its abjection at the hands of Fascist forces. The poem is part of the Third Residence, published in 1947, which expresses Neruda’s artistic camaraderie; his love for Spanish poetry which he believes unites the coloniser with its colony. It was written as an outraged reaction to the civil strife and political murders in Spain. It was inspired by Ruben Dario (1867 – 1916), a Latin American poet who wrote politically charged

Irwin August 21, 2011 California High Speed Rail Looking at the California high speed rail project truly has shocked the public and makes them wonder if this is a great plan for California’s environment. “The current plan will connect San Francisco with Los Angeles cutting a six hour car ride down to two hours and forty minutes”(Souza, 2011). The train running through Kings County will take out many dairies and cut even more in half. Making these cuts will be hard for dairymen to get to their