GPT Task 1 Western Governors University GPT Task 1 In January 1822, a group of settlers on board the ship “The Lively” landed at the mouth of the Brazos River. These settlers, joined by a few others, then traveled inland and settled along the Brazos River in what would become Fort Bend County. William Little built on the west bank of the river a one room log cabin called a “fort” by the settlers. The cabin eventually became known as Fort Bend. Many of these early settlers and others who joined them made up the ‘Old 300’, the first families brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin, one of the first empresarios to receive land grants from the Mexican government to start a colony in Texas.
To whom it may concern, this paper has been submitted to turnitin The Salvation Army of Southern California The Salvation Army is an international, non-profit organization, focusing on providing a variety of human services to the needy. It is an arm of the evangelical universal Christian Church. It's mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination (The Salvation Army, 2012). Members believe that everyone has a right to food, clothing, shelter, productive work, education, and health care. The Salvation Army of Southern California seeks to change society by breaking cycles of poverty through social justice, prevention, and empowerment projects.
Cultural Past and History Point Reyes extends back to 5,000 years to the Miwok Indians who were the first human inhabitats of the Peninsula. To this day, there are over 120 known village sites existing in the park. In honor of the Miwok Indians, there is a recreated Miwok Village, called Kule Loklo, existing in the area. At Drake’s Beach one can also visit the Ken Patrick Visitor Center where they can learn about the famous explorers who set foot in the area. Sir Francis Drake debarked in the area in 1579 as the first European to do so.
Stephen Ambrose’s book Undaunted Courage tells of the journey of the Lewis and Clark expedition exploring the West. However the book focuses on the friendship between Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis. In the first few chapters Ambrose gives detailed information about Lewis’ life before the exploration. Lewis is born into a plantation family from West Virginia. This is one of the ways Jefferson knows his family.
Tribes such as the Lencas, the Tecan Uman, and the Nicarao soon started taking over the overall dying city of Copan. In 1502 Columbus sailed past the Islas de la Bahía and shortly thereafter reached the mainland of Central America. Columbus marked his first direct contact while trading with the civilizations of Honduran and northern Central America. Little exploration took place for the next two decades. That was until Spanish navigators Juan Díaz de Solís and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón touched on part of the Honduran coast in 1508 and devoted most of their efforts to exploring the area.
This was the sentiment of “The White Man’s Burden”, described in Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem of this title, which invoked the social responsibility of the American race to elevate the primitive peoples of the earth. In the past, this duty had been attempted by the Christian missionaries’ permeation of the Indian tribes of
He try to persuade the Aztecs to worship his god and he try to inform them that the advantages of converting to his people religion and way of living. |What is known about the author or creator of the source?The author is an outside sent to find new land for his people. He writes down everything he observes from the Aztecs. How might the author or creator’s job, gender, education, family, religion, location, political beliefs, ethnicity, or other characteristics have influenced the content in the source?Author clearly has strong viewpoints about the Aztecs religion and political
The Spanish brought an unimagined world and future to the very door of this Chumash home. Their dominant technology and ideas would change the land and its people forever. This also laid the foundation for the mission period. The Spanish established the Santa Barbara missions, in addition to the other 20 other missions up and down the “Camino Real”. They colonized the area, and the Rancho Period began.
Although only 77 years in length, it brought dramatic changes in the way water was perceived and used in California. They first settled in Alta California in 1769 with a mission system in San Diego. They brought new culture and new set of value systems in which nature was perceived as a divine gift from god to be exploited for the betterment of humankind and in the name of Spain. They saw water as a symbol of power because their homeland had few rivers, so their customs recognized the importance of this scarce resource. Through shared community rights, water systems were built throughout the mission system with the Native Americans providing much of the labor.
Not long after we moved, though, it would become clear that he was only there because he had come up with no better plan for himself. He arrived ahead of me and found an apartment. Once I knew the city even a little, I realized it was probably the first building he had come upon. Our year together had been a long. That August of 1996, Hurricane Fran was just blooming near an island called Cape Verde.