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Cortes and the Americas, 2003.
This paper discusses Fernando Cortes and the legacy he left behind .
660 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 23.95
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This paper examines Fernando Cortes' life, explorations and findings. It details his history dating back from his childhood to his voyages through the America?s. The author feels that Cortes?s legacy to the new world was a mixed one. This essay comments on why.
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?The first ship that Cortes sent back to Spain contained two large wheels, one fashioned of gold and the other of silver, gold jewelry, and a variety of other items embellished with gold, pearls, and precious jewels. While Cortes had stated that he was giving up his share of the gold to the Spanish government, there was a large parcel of it sent to his father.?
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Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico, 2005.
This paper review Hugh Thomas' "Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico", one of the greatest historical adventure stories.
945 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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This paper explains that Hugh Thomas, in his book "Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico", understood that the story of the Aztecs and their conquest by the remarkable strangers who came from beyond the sea has hypnotic powers; therefore, he provides a vivid recounting, never allowing the main elements of the story to be overwhelmed by his exhaustive research, cautiously balancing the rival interpretations and the viewpoint of modern moralists. The author points out that Thomas sees the Spanish from the Aztec's perspective as greedy, cruel and stinking in every respect. The paper describes that Aztecs as people who believed themselves to be the chosen people among the other tribes in Mexico and whose religion demanded mass human sacrifices. Long quotations.
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"Thomas does not lapse into amorality, but he does not allow a single doubt that both the Aztecs and their Spanish conquerors were morally vile beyond all human conception. He doesn't waste time trying to plead a case for relativity for any of them. He manages, somehow, to display whatever was brave, beautiful or curious about them. After the Emperor Montezuma was taken into custody by the Spanish, Thomas writes that the captive "continued to seem to rule.""
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The Perceptions of Two Noted Explorers on Mexico, 2002.
A comparative analysis of the perceptions of the two explorers Hernan Cortes and Bernal Diaz del Castillo on the exploration of Mexico.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper explores two perceptions of the early exploration of Mexico by the texts of two noted explorers, Hernan Cortes and Bernal Diaz del Castillo. In particular, two works are noted as being representative of the texts of that era, being Cortes' "Letters from Mexico" and del Castillo's "The True History of the Conquering of New Spain". This paper focuses primarily on these two sources, although other sources are used.
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"Success in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises", 2005.
A report on the book "Success in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises" by Cortes, Berry, and Ishaq.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 62.95
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This paper is an analysis of the book "Success in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises", a report written by Cortes, Berry, and Ishaq on a research project undertaken and published by the World Bank. The paper discusses the main findings of the study, which set out to explain the escalated growth of selected businesses, in comparison to large industries, during the 1970s in Colombia.
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"Cortes, Berry, and Ishaq in "Success in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises" set out to explain the escalated growth of these businesses, in comparison to large industries, during the 1970s in Colombia. This book is a report on a research project undertaken and published by the World Bank. The data used in the study are mainly based on surveys of the metal-working and food processing industries. Determinants of efficiency in these industries are examined, along with determinants of viability. Patterns and trends in firm size and distribution are explained by technological factors, demand factors, input supply factors, and constraints on the rate of exchange of output.
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Cabeza de Vaca?s Castaways, 2004.
Summary and analysis of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1528-1536 exploration of North America by Europeans.
1,434 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper presents a summary of the experiences of Alvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca when he came to North America to seek his fortune. It then discusses the transformation of character Cabeza de Vaca undergoes as he spends more and more time with the Native Americans and comes to see them as human beings with value, rather than just uncivilized natives. Cabeza de Vaca's enlightenment is contrasted with the behavior of Hernan Cortes, another Spanish explorer, whose only interest in the Mexican natives, if he was not killing them, was how they could help him further his own ends.
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"It is not only the story that we tell that matters but also the way in which we tell it, as we learn from Cabeza de Vaca?s Castaways, which was his telling of the 1528-1536 exploration of North America by Europeans. Alvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca had come to the new world to seek his fortune; what he found was far more valuable than the gold that inspired so many Spaniards to come to the New World: Enlightenment. As treasurer of Spanish expedition determined to claim for the throne of Spain a vast tract of land that today spreads across Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, he went with no intent of acknowledging the claims of the indigenous peoples to their land or their wealth. But when he and a few other men were shipwrecked and, seeking their own survival, underwent a long and arduous journey westward, where they would meet up with Hernan Cortes."
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Dona Marina, 1993.
Events in the life of mistress & interpreter of explorer/conqueror Cortes & her effect on Mexican culture.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 79.95
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"Dona Marina
Dona Marina, the famous mistress and interpreter of Cortes, was born to her father and mother, two rich and powerful chiefs and Caciques of a town called Paynala in the province of Coatzacualco on the southeastern border of the Mexican empire. Paynala had other towns subject to it and stood about eight leagues from the town of Coatzacoalcos in Mexico. It is the purpose of this paper to summarize the events in the life of Dona Marina and to interpret how the lives of Mexican women have been affected by her position in the history of Mexico.
Dona Marina's father died when she was still a small child, and her mother remarried another Cacique, a young man, and bore this man a son. The mother and stepfather had great affection for the little son, and it was agreed between them that he should.."
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Cultural Diversity and Television, 2006.
This paper reviews and examines Carlos Cortes' book "The Children are Watching: How the Media Teach About Diversity" which focuses on the impact of television on children.
880 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper analyzes the quality of the television programming content currently geared towards younger audiences while focusing on the lack of cultural diversity in both film and television. This paper discusses the stereotypical manner in which minorities are often portrayed in film and television and its negative impact on young viewers. This paper examines the author's contention that professional educators must be more involved in the type of content being shown on television. The writer contends and explains why it is imperative for teachers to discuss with their students what they are seeing on television as well as how they perceive what they are seeing.
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"Cortes is a consultant with the people who make the Dora cartoon on television. He says the producers are trying very hard to show Dora's life correctly. Even though she is a cartoon, it has looks and sounds like Latin America. The show has a panel of people from Latin America who look at the cartoons. They are from countries like Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica and Argentina. "The idea is to put across messages of understanding, of building cross-cultural, bilingual bridges," Cortes says.
He also likes NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street," because it shows that a multi-ethnic television show can be liked by a diverse audience. He also likes that the 1997 TV musical, "Cinderella," by Whitney Houston, had an African-American Cinderella with a Filipino-American Prince Charming. "I loved the way it included every combination of interracial couple in the ballroom scene," he says."
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"The Conquest Of New Spain" by Bernal Diaz, 1999.
Critical review of work on conquest of Mexico by Cortes, motivations of Spaniards, author's biases.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Bernal Diaz, in The Conquest of New Spain, tells the story of the conquering of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernan Cortes. The book is more than merely about Cortes, although he is certainly the center of the book. Diaz accompanied Cortes on his exploits and offers a thoroughly positive view of the Spanish conqueror and of the entire Spanish enterprise in the Mexico. As translator J.M. Cohen writes in his Introduction, Diaz's book is a report on the overthrow of a great empire by a company of adventurers, inspired partly by a sense of mission and partly by a crude greed for gold. Their success, even their survival, could in his belief be accounted for only by the miraculous intervention of God and the Saints, who wished New Spain to be added to the realm of Christ and the Emperor ..."
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Aztec Empire, 1985.
This paper discusses the destruction of the Aztec Empire the advanced Mexican civilization, by the 16th Century Spanish invaders: Cortes, Spaniards' needs and aims, depopulation of Indians and Montezuma.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 5 sources, $ 87.95
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"The period of exploration of the New World was also a period of exploitation as European adventurers and armies encountered the native population and took advantage of that population, robbing the civilizations found here and decimating the population. The Aztecs had a mighty civilization in the New World that was destroyed by the Conquistadors in the name of greed and Christianity. The Aztecs were regarded as uncivilized heathens, and their lands were taken from them, their goods were stolen, and their leaders murdered.
Aztec civilization--and it was indeed a civilization--created its most extraordinary achievements in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It received a sudden and painful defeat at the hands of the Spanish army in 1519-1521. Aztec civilization flourished in the Valley of Mexico, a tiny area in comparison with the total ... "
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La Malinche, 1996.
Life & career of 16th Cent. Mexican translator/cultural interpreter/mistress of Spanish conqueror Cortes, in context of nation's cultural history.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 111.95
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"La Malinche (circa 1502-153?) is one of the two central female figures in Mexico's historical iconography - the other woman is Our Lady of Guadalupe, a somewhat more-than-human competitor for the honor (Gonzales 229). La Malinche holds her own against the Blessed Virgin as a mythic figure in Mexican history, however. She was, factually, the translator/cultural interpreter who crucially aided Hern?n Cort?s in his conquest of the Aztec Empire. As his mistress during that time, bearing him a son, La Malinche was also one of the most visible progenitors of the Mestizo - the race of mixed-blood Spanish-Indians who represent the core of Mexican society. Since the wars for independence from Spain and, later, France, La Malinche has been vilified by the epithet "malinchist," a derogatory term used to signify one contaminated by foreign influences - for she is..."
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La Malinche, 2002.
A paper which discusses the Mexican women who became lovers to the Spaniards during Spain's conquest of Mexico, and how they are portrayed in Mexico's cultural history.
2,830 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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Using as a background Bernal Diaz del Castillo's book "Historia de Conquista de la Nueva Espa?a", written about the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the sixteenth century, the paper discusses the Indian women who were lovers to these Spaniards, the most famous being La Malinche, lover to Hernan Cortes himself. The paper uses the character of Maria - lover of one of Cortes' officers - to show the history of these women and what drove them to so-call betray their people by 'sleeping with the enemy'. The paper shows how La Malinche (and others) have been portrayed in Mexican cultural history as mothers of the mestizo - children of mixed Spanish and Indian race. The paper discusses too how public opinion of La Malinche has changed during recent years, mostly due to the influence of feminist movements, who see her as a symbol of the endurance of the Mexican people.
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"But there is another element to the original and long-enduring disregard and even hatred that has been cast upon La Malinche, and the other women who (like the Maria of our story) shared similar structural positions. Women who produced Mexican ? mestizo ? children have been hated by many Mexicans until the most recent generation not because of their betrayal of the Aztecs but because of their engendering of the entire race of Mexicans. It is because Mexicans have for so long hated themselves, hated their own mixed heritage, that they hate La Malinche and other women like her. It is only when Mexicans come to peace with their own mestizo heritage that they can possibly come to terms with La Malinche and revere her as the founder of the race. It seems fairly certain that she was indeed Cortes?s lover ? but also that she was faithful to him. This should hardly brand her as a whore."
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The Conquest of Mexico and Peru, 2002.
This paper analyzes both conquests in detail, finding what both generals had in common -- that they took the advantage of the internal conflicts between the natives of the respective lands and used it to make their allies.
1,605 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 52.95
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An analysis of the leadership of Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro in the 16th century. It describes in detail the conquests, focusing on various regions such as Dona Marina, countryman Geronimo de Aguilar and the Spanish governor of Cuba, Diego Velaquez.
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"The Spanish conquest of Mexico started from the year 1519, when the Spanish conqueror Corte?s started his battle to conquest the land and to take away the wealth for the Spanish empire. Hernan (also Hernando or Fernando) Cortes was from a family of minor nobility. He gained respect in later years by participating in the conquest of Cuba with Diego Velazquez, the future governor. The army of Hern?n Cortes consisted of around 500 Spanish soldiers and sailors, 16 horses and fourteen cannons to terrorize the Mexicans. They were given a war welcome by the native ?Totanic? Indians."
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