In The Trap of Gold, by Louis L’Amour, a man named Wetherton travels, and finds a mountain full of gold. However, if he is to mine the gold there is a possibility that the mountain may collapse on him. In “The Treasure of Sierra Madre”, a movie written by John Huston, Fred C. Dobbs and Curtin work with a man named Howard to mine gold for their own profits. On the way there and throughout the time that they are there they run into many troubles. When you compare the characters in “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” to the people from The Trap of Gold, they have a variety of similarities, like Dobbs and Wetherton’s greed, and even Howards and Wetherton’s wise words, but they also had differences, like the tone and aggressiveness towards ideas.
Grandpa Bobby tells his story: some people offered him a job smuggling emeralds from South America, but later double-crossed him, tried to kill him, and stole his beloved fishing boat. Ever since then, he's been trying to track them down and get back his boat. It hurt to think that everyone thought he was dead, but it was necessary. First, he didn't want the guys he was looking for to know he was still alive; second, he also knew that if his son found out, he would, true to form, drop everything and rush down to South America without another thought. Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV.
1. Fernando Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. In his First Letter to King Charles I of Spain dating to July 10, 1519, Fernando Cortes provided a detailed account of his activities in Mexico. He described the country as rich in resources and its native people as savage barbarians who sacrifice their own persons for their idols. Cortes wrote that in the short time they explored the lands, the expedition has discovered that everything that King Solomon brought for the Temple existed in this country.
Firstly, written accounts from Cornelius Tacitus state that the Tollund Man’s death may have been linked to a North German religious tribal custom. It is noted in Tacitus’ account that the people of North Germany acted as sacrifices to the Goddess of Spring and the tribe believed “each spring she rode through the tribes” then have cleansed herself in a “hidden lake “before “returning back to her holy wood”. He also writes how the process of cleansing the statue of the Spring goddess was most likely carried out by slaves whom were later to be sacrificed to the God as human prizes. This procession meant that the statue would be carried into a wooden cart, pulled by the slaves and then buried with the slaves later on. Given that the small statue of the God was found near the Tollund Man’s body, it is reasonable to conclude that Tacitus’ account provides a thorough understanding as to why the Tollund Man was killed.
The authorities set the barn they are sleeping in ablaze, but the trio quickly escapes with the help of Wash's son. When they pass a congregation on the banks of a river, Pete and Delmar are enticed by the idea of baptism, to the immense derision of the skeptical Everett. As the journey continues, they travel briefly with a young guitarist named Tommy Johnson (King). When asked why he was at a crossroad in the middle of nowhere, he reveals that he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the ability to play the guitar. Tommy describes the devil as being "White, as white as you folks ... with empty eyes and a big hollow voice.
El Dorado (from the Spanish, “the gilded one” or “the golden man”), was a legend that began as the story of a Muisca tribal chief from the Andes range of what is now Columbia, who had covered himself with gold dust. It was passed on as rumours through Spanish colonizers, that El Dorado was in actuality an entire city of gold, deep in the Amazon. This mythical city of wealth would have been the- almost Orientalist- dreams and even the justification of and solution for the west European situation of mercantilism. Not only were they in search of the spices and fabrics or jewels of “the east”, while cutting through the new world, they realized they could exploit its goods as well. El Dorado, as a metaphor, was an idea as well as a situation that
When a sun was created, a god had to be sacrificed. The first sun created was called the Jaguar sun. Tezcatlipoca only made half of a sun but he made giants that lived on his earth and lived on acorns. The sun’s brother got jealous and shot him out of the sky so Tezcatlipoca sent jaguar’s to destroy the giants. This was the first of five worlds.
Chapter 1 Chapter 1, entitled Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress depicts the Europeans’ initial encounter with the Arawak Indians of the West Indies . The Arawaks greeted Columbus and his crew with hospitality, but little did they know they would soon be taken advantage of and have their culture virtually destroyed. Columbus’s journal entries about this first meeting indicate his feelings of superiority to the Arawaks, which led to enslavement, murder, and rape. The Arawaks were forced to work in gold mines and were killed at the will of the Europeans. Millions of natives were killed in slavery, war, and, mining.
Selfishness is a common theme in Australian films. Jindabyne, made in 2006 and directed by Ray Lawrence, uses a dark river location as the way to present characters’ selfish behaviour. Romulus, my father, made in 2007 and directed by Richard Roxburgh, is also a film which focuses on the selfishness of a main character .In Jindabyne, Stewart, a former racing driver, and his friends find the body of a dead young -Abriginal woman floating on the river when they go fishing on their holiday. The men continue their journey without reporting the death to the police. A few days later, the men finally talk to the police.
O Brother, Where Art Thou is a movie that is loosely based on homer's epic, the Odyssey. The movie starts off and we have our main character Ulysses Everett McGill and his friends Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O'Donnell. They escape from a chain gang and go outward to retrieve the 1.2 Million dollars that Everett claims to have stolen from an armored car and buried before he was incarcerated. They have a few days to find it before where it was buried gets flooded to create a lake as part of a new hydroelectric project. While still chained together they hop into a box car where they run into a blind mind, who tells them their future.