Essays Tagged: "San Salvador"
A trip to El Salvador
In the summer of 1998, my grandparents took my brother and me to San Salvador,El Salvador in Central America. The reason for this visit was to see my uncle, aunt, an ... abanas with hammocks all around them. You could swim on thebeach or make castles out of their black sand. The view was so wonderfully beautiful.You could see the bright blue sky with the waves hitting ... wonderfully beautiful.You could see the bright blue sky with the waves hitting the shore. When the sand dollarsrolled in with waves they would settle in the sand. From the cliff looking down you coul ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions
The Exploration and Empires to America from foreign countries.
mbus reached land on October 12, and assumed he had arrived in the Far East. Actually, he landed on San Salvador, one of the islands just east of the North American mainland.- Columbus died in 1506. H ... irst European settlement in the present-day United States. Historians believe that this settlement, San Miguel de Gualdape, stood somewhere along the coast of what is now Georgia and South Carolina. I ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Christopher Columbus
d scientists backed the idea. Spain was in need of new sources of wealth. With 98% of Spain poor peasant (Zinn, 2), the idea of finding a western sea trade route was not improbable. It would open up a ... ifted Southwest. On October 12, 1492, they landed on Guanahaní, which Spaniards latter named San Salvador(Our Savior), (see Appendix H). He later went to Cuba, Juana, and Hispañiola (see ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Early history of the Bahamas.
he 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia wrote, "Historically the islands are of interest, because one of them San Salvador was the first land of the New World discovered by Columbus, 12 October, 1492. The Spani ... nt in the Bahamas, but shortly after the discovery they carried off many aborigines to the mines of San Domingo, and ere long the whole population, never perhaps very large, seems to have disappeared. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Oscar Romero
y 1977, to the dismay of more progressive members of the Catholic Church, he was made Archbishop of San Salvador. In spite of his conservative views, he had already made clear the importance he attach ... screditing the government. His sermons and pastoral letters strongly supported the right of poor peasants to organise, although he consistently condemned the use of violence. He successfully mediated ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
This essay explores how different people cope with the world they live in.
ow he coped with and explained his world. Columbus compared the wildlife he discovered landing upon San Salvador with the wildlife back home in Spain when he wrote "Everything looked as green as in Ap ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Romero Character Assignment
and fullness of life for his people.In February 1977 at the age of 60, Romero became Archbishop of San Salvador. In that same month a crowd of protestors at an illegal gathering were attacked by sold ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
The Introduction of Christianity to Natives
When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, it was the first meeting between Europeans and Native Americans. It was also k ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Native Americans
r 30,000 years before the first European colonists arrived.When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492 he was welcomed by a brown-skinned people whose physical appearance confirmed h ... d crossed into a new continent. They would have been following game, as their ancestors had for thousands of years, along the Siberian coast and then across the land bridge.RACE TYPEThe most marked ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology