Throughout this essay, I’ll analyze historic documents pointing out how the conquistadors’ motives contributed to their feelings toward Native Americans. Document 1 is a Spanish proclamation read to Native Americans. If the Indians failed to follow the terms of the proclamation, the Spanish would wage war against them. The terms stated that the Indians must acknowledge the Christian Church as superior and be taught by the Spanish priests. However, the terms were read in Spanish, so of course the Indians failed to follow the conquistador’s terms.
The first is to provide examples for his audience in order to further his credibility. His first example alludes to the Spanish conquistadors in Central America. Unwanted guests arrive in a new land, a land native to civilizations of a primitive people. The Spaniards force upon the natives, not only their rules and their government, but their religion and culture as well. Using this example, Sanders is able to make the point that not every immigrant is wanted in the place that they have come to.
We protest against the extension of American sovereignty by Spanish methods….” The slaughter of Filipinos was not necessary according to anti-imperialists, along with trying to imperialize the country using “Spanish methods”. Abraham Lincoln once said “that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.” The Spanish were despotists, ruling the Filipinos through tyranny and mistreating them. According to Albert J. Beveridge, in his “The March of the Flag” campaign speech, people only need to be governed by another country when they are incapable of self-government. “The
Because the British government was not fulfilling Jefferson’s previously mentioned definition of a government’s duties; they were forced to take the very necessary step of removing themselves from the King’s rule and ruling themselves. In what has become one of the most identifiable phrases in political theory, Jefferson declares certain truths to be “self-evident”. These truths that all men are created equal and that men are endowed with certain unalienable rights became increasingly integral to the cause championed by Jefferson and the other creators of the
The Red Convertible In the criticism by Pratima Dutta “Erdrich's the Red Convertible” she presented valid arguments that Louise Erdrich, the author of the story “The Red Convertible”, is a nationalist of the Native American culture despite her frequent use of symbols of the western civilization in the text of the story. Pratima claimed that the tragedy of Henry was in his inability to resist the influence of the western civilization, though she failed to address contradictory evidence in the story “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich, that makes Pratima's claims less convincing and weak. In the story “The Red Convertible” the narrator's voice belongs to Lyman Lamartine who describes his relationships with his brother Henry and their ownership of the red convertible Oldsmobile that served as a reflector of their relationships in a certain period of time throughout the whole story. Louise Erdrich has built the plot of the story around the red convertible Oldsmobile, that was in the spotlight both in the very beginning of the story and in the end, and she had very good reasons for it. Pratima Dutta wrote in her criticism piece that, “The red convertible, although extremely western in its resonance, is the only native link between Lyman and Henry” (121).
154) After the rise of Julius Caesar the whole Mediterranean world became under roman legeslation. (pg.154) One of the most profound leaders under Julius Caesar, Marcus Cicero a philosopher who oppossed tyranny and political corruption. (pg.154) Cicero believed that monarchy, aristocracy and Democracy were the three principles of construction to a good government. (pg.155) Rome was more based on a legeslative attack, romans in the old days are more recollected for having great knowledge of the world we live in today. One of the most influential people in Rome was Marcus Cicero, a great philopsoper as we say and exam most of his work today we see a story of a honored and respected man as well as loyal, but his loyalty would prove to be his greatest downfall and which would lead to his exicution.
Machiavelli describes his book as a summary of his “understanding of the deeds of great men,” intended to help Lorenzo de Medici achieve reputation as a prince. The book can be divided into four sections: the discussion about different types of principalities or states, the different types of armies and the proper conduct of a prince as military leader, the character and behavior of the prince, and Italy's political situation and solutions for it. The final chapter is a suggestion for the Medici family to supply the prince who will lead Italy out of humiliation. In the first chapter, entitled “Different Kinds of States, and the Different Ways to Get Them,” Machiavelli proceeds to map out a classification of states. In short, we have princely states and republics.
In 1485 he furthered his studies at the most important centre of Scholastic philosophy and theology, the University of Paris, as he astonished fellow scholars with his precocious learning. He created strong bonds with Lorenzo de Medici and Marsilio Ficino and remained under Lorenzo’s protection as he managed to impress them both with his philosophical ideas. Pico was one of the first to resurrect the humanism of ancient Greek philosophy. During his time there were many changes, events, and many movements that occurred that profoundly affected European society. The defining change of the Renaissance was humanism, a literary movement that began in Italy during the fourteenth century.
As time passed by, the American frontier floated into history, and the myths of the west firmly held to the imagination of Americans. To explain how the West was won and make it pleasant to everybody, the American government used the term manifest destiny (God’s will to expand the land) and an assimilation process to make Native Americans civilized. American popular culture widely characterized Native Americans as discomfort and ambivalence to the general people of America. As the United States worked to destroy the Native Americans life, they created way to glorify and romanticize their traditional culture to explain Whites’ imperialist past. Today, it is possible for somebody who does not know about Native American history may have mixed feelings about them
Each of these elements is done in a way to serve the the underlying message behind the story, the fact that the West is the civilizer and the non West is the uncivilized. Starting from this point, the aim of this paper is to analyze the story and interpret it as an allegory of Western civilization and its colonial expansion, specifically in Americas. It will argue that Carpentier undermines the notion that colonial domination aims to help people to develop and progress to achieve civilization, and reveals the real intentions of the colonizer, namely exploitation and exoticism. It will also examines in details the elements of story mentioned above and how they are created to represent the West. Finally it will show how Carpentier’s story complements the postcolonial theory.