Grandes écoles

Orientalist imagery, particularly of the Ottoman empire, featured prominently in the French Neoclassicist artist Ingres ' works. Western gaze on the Orient permeates his creations of sultry women lounging around the harem, waiting for their sultan to arrive. The Orientalism of the female nudes in the paintings The Grand Odalisque (1814) and The Turkish Bath (1863) is evident. The Orient occupied the "Other" in the eyes of the west (Said 44) and became a subject of fascination for Ingres (Shelton

In the article written by Brian Doucet who is a senior lecturer at Erasmus University and Drew Philp who is an author and journalist. Both composers question “what do we learn from viewing an abandoned house dissociated from its context”. The authors are making a claim that rather than viewing “ruin porn” as an aesthetic and tourist attraction. We should be trying to help one another “as global citizens”. I agree this article should be published on Shorthorns (University of Texas at Arlington’s newspaper)

What is Manifest Destiny? How did Manifest Destiny impact the Mexican-American War of the 1840s? Manifest Destiny in the 19th century was a belief that American settlers were destined to expand and move across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean which occurred out of a want and need to conquer and explore new lands and establish new borders to spread their culture, traditions, ideologies and institutions. It is the belief that the United States had a God given right to civilize and

President James Polk was responsible for the start of the Mexican-American war to a great extent due to his expansionist ideologies and succeeding actions, aspiration to annex the regions of California and Texas, and contributions of troops along the Rio Grande River in 1846. To begin with, during the election of 1844, James Polk was considered to be a long shot and a definite underdog. However, Polk gained the support of many Americans through his clear desire to defend the territories of the United States

a major cause of the Mexican-American War, but there were other causes as well. The war started on April 25, 1846, and ended on February 2, 1848, with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In that treaty, Mexico ceded Texas with the Rio Grande boundary, New Mexico, and California to the United States. The desire to expand slavery in the south was perhaps the largest cause of the Mexican-American War, because southerners were in favor of Manifest Destiny and believed that the expansion of

There are side why America and Mexico should go to war with one another, but the real questions is was it worth going to war with Mexico? In 1821 Mexico won its independence from Spain and now Mexico’s land was the size of United States. The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because America is showing to Mexico that they are controlling their own land and Mexico does not have any control on their own land Mexico, Mexico was also being disturbed and not respected right from

I’ve heard that people wanted Hernan Cortes to be in a museum of historical explorers, but I'm here to tell you that he should not be in that museum of historical explorers for being another villain in history. So I hope that with this information, you don’t put him in your museum. He would be better known as an explorer with one goal, fame and fortune. Hernan Cortes was a young man who dreamed of having his own fortune in the new world. When he was 19, he joined an expedition to Cuba and he realized

When there is justice, there is no mercy. In 1812, Mexico was freed from its mother country, Spain. Only 12 years after, the Alamo was fought with the Anglos and the Mexicans. The Alamo was a settlement that turned into a fort when the Mexicans tried to attack the Texans, or also called, Anglos. The U.S. was a growing nation and it needed more land. So many Americans moved to Mexico. In 1846, Mexico welcomed the Americans and allowed the farmers to rent or buy the land in Texas. Mexico’s land stretched

“General Zachary Taylor arrived at the Rio Grande” (Velasco-Marquez 327). The General and his troops were at the Rio Grande, which was deep into Mexico. They were practically invading! “In the eyes of the Mexican government, the mobilization of the US army was an outright attack (Velasco-Marquez 327). Since the army was already deep

Safford Towne, the original founder of the refinery, built Asarco shortly after he received backing from the Kansas City Consolidated Smelting and Refining Company. After receiving backing, Towne purchased 1,156 acres of land located next to the Rio Grande to then start construction of the ancient smokestacks. When the Asarco Company started its business, copper production was in high rates as three hundred pounds were made every two hours and then transported to metal companies that sold for house