Spanish colonization has had huge impact on the Americas in ways such as shaping the American character, contributing to American ranching practices, and by obtaining vital territory for its survival. ... Literature also shaped the view Americans had about the Spanish that turned good into bad. ... They killed tens of thousands of Native Americans and enslaved even more in the first decades. Many more also died from European diseases to which the Native Americans had no immunity. ... Lastly, literature has had a significant role in shaping the views of America toward the Spanish, which also...

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• Grade Level: High School

Instead I employed a similar style of writing as that in Foundational Fictions: When History was romance in Latin America by Doris Sommer. ... Many writers, including myself, have referred to his work in ˜The Royal Commentaries' when scripting our own literature. ... He justifies the colonization and ˜civilization' of the Indians based on an extension of the Artistolean doctrine that some men were slaves by nature to include all the natives of the new world. ... It's no wonder that there was great rebellion and unrest in Peru at the time and a spillover of this is...

• Word Count: 1941
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Many immigrants came and still continue to come to America. ... Many genres of literature and films have immigration as their main topic. ... This shows that even though parents wanted their children to be adapted to American culture, they still spoke in their native language so their kids do not forget their nationality. Another example of a piece of literature that has immigrants, as the main topic is a poem by Robert Frost also called "Immigrants". ... Literature is not the only genre where immigrants are the main topic; there are also movies about immigration. ...

• Word Count: 563
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• Grade Level: High School

From the beginning of time it's always been known that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America. ... Soon after Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, the Spanish realized that Christopher Columbus never made it to Asia and instead that he instead stumbled across the Americas. ... Just miles away from the Pacific Ocean Christopher made it to Panama where he abandoned two of his four ships from the attack of the hostile natives. ... The Norton Anthology of American Literature. (8 ed., Vol. ...

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In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered by the end of the century. ... Language has been used to pass knowledge from generation to generation, to express the variety of the customs and literature of our different territories. ... The Naka'ela in Maluku, Indonesia, reportedly decreased in number after moving down from the mountains to a coastal town on Seram Island. 3 Colonization and the introduction of a new language into the territory of a existent cultural group can also put at risk the traditional language, as with the Hawaiian people, who now form only about 20% of the total popu...

• Word Count: 1941
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Religious Orders and Communities. Religious Orders and Communities, religious bodies, specifically of the Christian Church, whose members live under a distinctive rule, or discipline. The members of the greater number of Christian religious orders are ordained priests, although lay members are ...

• Word Count: 2701
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate