Jane Tompkins wanted to know the answer to the question of, “All I wanted was a general ideal of what happened between the English settlers and natives in the seventeenth-century New England.” (Tompkins200) She had no ideal of confusing or false information she would come into while trying to find an answer. She researched several writers and scholars who only told half the truth and not the full facts. She saw in the writers writing their opinion instead of facts. Her first research began with Perry Miller who wrote about the movement of European culture. Miller showed in his writing how bias he was with seeing the truth about the Indians.
It can be agreed that the popularity of the rebellions and the slow reaction of the government made it possible for them to pose some challenge to the monarch and state. However, the lack of efficient leadership, causes and locations of the rebellions limited the amount of challenge posed. The protests in the sixteenth century could pose a dangerous challenge to the monarch and the state in the years 1536-69 because of their popularity. The rebellions, especially the Pilgrimage of Grace, involved a wide variety of people who shared similar grievances. Like Source W says: ‘the Pilgrimage of Grace mustered enough support to take
The ideologies of both cultures are mixed into one man, Cabeza De Vaca. The cultural and ethnical difference shown in ‘Cabeza De Vaca’, are between the Indians and Spanish conquistadors. The Spanish, at the time, were colonizing all of America, putting their culture and beliefs into the minds of the Indians. They, the Spanish, thought that Indians were savages, and needed to be reformed or die. The Indians took the same approach, showing the Spanish their customs and applying it too them as well.
“If a person has a low estimation of my native tongue, she also has a low estimation of me.” (Anzaldúa 136) Anzaldúa states that language is part of ethnic identity and should be a prideful part of one’s self. Since the language was viewed as a “bastard” form because it was neither standard Spanish nor standard anything, it became assumed that the language was of poorer quality to others. This caused Chicanas to be uncomfortable with their expression, thus uncomfortable with themselves. But through the music, books, and movies of the Chicano people they got an expression of themselves and thus an expression of their language. With these works, the Mexican people get an external reinforcement of their identity and
Another reason why the Spanish peoples are important is because, according to Livy, they are the reason Hannibal lost the war. He writes that Hannibal’s inability to keep a grasp on the Spanish people is what cost him the war. There were many alliances within the Spanish people, and some of them did change during the war, and even more than once. Livy thinks that this wavering of loyalty lost Hannibal the war. Scipio may be a great general, kind, noble etc., but the Carthaginian
Week 2 Assignment Alina Nazar St. Augustine trusted that "confidence must go before reason and purge the heart and make it fit to get and bear the immense light of reason." He may have trusted that the daily paper editorialist ought not to leave the first daily paper chain on the grounds that she marked an agreement with them. Breaking the agreement is not so much the correct thing to do. She must be reliable to the first organization in light of the fact that that started things out, and confidence precedes reason. Aquinas may have trusted uniquely in contrast to Augustine for this situation.
Josephe believed that they had been oppressed as human beings by getting exploited of land, life, and liberty instead of being treated as one of their own. He also drew upon the hypocrisy that lingered in Spanish Catholicism as they began to perform “other superstitious rites, giving the children to understand that they must all do this in the future” to question whether the true motive of the Spanish in converting them was to either changed them into civilized Catholics or simply into resources. Pontiac, the leader of Pontiac’s Rebellion, gave a different look by stating that the Native Americans were not slaves of the white people and had the same needs of white people in which they “could not live without bread and pork and beef!” He concluded that the Native Americans were just like them, only to be manipulated by economic pressures of “guns, knives, kettles, and blankets” that had made them less independent. Despite all of this, the Founding Fathers decided to not include the Native Americans. One reason was that they were portrayed more as unfit animals in which Bartolome de Las Casas noted how “the Spaniards” had “pitilessly called them lazy
Dill is trying to make himself look better to Scout and Jem so that he’ll be more respected and at the same time through his stories he hides his background form them, and Mayella tries to make herself look better to the people of Maycomb and to the general society, and through her stories she tries to hide the fact that she’s the one that did something wrong, and that she is actually the one breaking the social order. Again Dill is similar, but is an innocent version of Mayella. His lies and stories go no deeper than the surface, while Mayella’s lies and stories hide something much darker and deeper than
Another interesting point is that the encomienda grant did not give the Spaniard the right to exercise any political authority over the Indians. However, these distinctions were very difficult to enforce, because there was an ocean between the rulers making the laws and the colonists in charge of the natives. As time went on, the conquerors of New Spain came to expect the encomiendas as their reward, so the practice became an institution and eventually became tradition to divide new
Spanish Conquest DBQ In the late 1400’s Spanish explorers traveled to the New World in search of three things: God, glory, and gold. The attitudes towards Amerindians were all very different, some felt like they were superior towards them, some felt pity, and some didn’t even know what was going on. The Spaniards went into the New World believing their actions were okay, and that religion justified their poor treatment on the Amerindians. On the other hand, there were some Spaniards who viewed the treatment of the Indians on a first-hand account, and believed that it was inappropriate. Spain tried to cover up what they were doing by lying to the public, making it seem like they were helping the Indians.