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Hernanado DeSoto BY:MARKAYLA HURD Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States. He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River. Wikipedia Born: 1500, Province of Badajoz, Spain Died: May 21, 1542, Mississippi River Nationality: Spanish Spouse: Inés de Bobadilla (m. 1537–1542) Siblings: Catalina de Soto, Maria de Soto, Juan Mendez de Soto De Soto's North American

EARLY AMERICA A. Early American Settlers • Came from the British Isles • Puritans who settled in Massachusetts • Wealthy Royalist cavaliers and their indentured servants migrated to Virginia • Quakers migrated to the Delaware Valley colonies of West Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware B. British folkways brought to the New World • People in the South prefer fried foods- same as southern and western England • People in the hollows of Appalachia who manufactured “moonshine” are doing the same

In this thought Japan assumed America would want to go to war with Japan over the conquest of the West Indies. The attack on Pearl Harbor was proposed to slow down America’s advanced naval bases. The attack began when planes of Japanese fighters attacked the American naval base near Honolulu Hawaii (History). After, more than 2,000 man dead and major battleships

Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, an early American war journalist and author in the 1930’s states that “Whenever you find hundreds of and thousands of sane people trying to get out of a place, and a little bunch of madmen trying to get in, you know the latter are reporters.” As a practicing journalists I would be considered as a member of ‘the little bunch of madmen’. With a passion for learning and discovery journalism is the career best suited for me. In order to learn you have to be willing to go

self-determination and liberty are seen constantly spread out through Exodus. The text is most definitely read and examined by many people across the world and one of them being Carol Meyers, an archaeologist, scholar and expert in religion at Duke University. She feels that the theme of restoration and ones will is an “archetype… in western culture in general” which is absolutely true. Since the early twentieth century, Americans have been addressing and seeking the American dream and migrating from

American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park (University of Maryland Bio). She was one of the founders of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Bowdoin College and at the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies. (University of Maryland Bio). A lot fo her work focused on women, organized labor, and gender relations in globalization in the context of African Diaspora concentrating in the Caribbean, Latin America and the US (university of Maryland Bio)

Mr. Boyd is a 55 year old individual, born in Jamaica, West Indies and raised in Queens, NY. He graduated from Springfield Gardens High School in 1978. He continued his education at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1983. He reported that he has had a stable work history. He is a reservation agent. He indicated that he is on the executive board of mechanics. Mr. Boyd stated that he has five siblings with whom he is close with. He indicated that his father is deceased and his

Cuban Higher Education on Africa and African Diaspora Students Nana Afua Y. Brantuo University of Maryland, College Park   Internationalization, the term and its associated processes and practices, is a phenomenon clouded with complexity, nested within globalization, increased global migration, and capitalism. Our understandings of internationalization within an educational context often focus on the story of the West. Whether opening the doors of the academy to students from around the world or creating

"Capitalism & Slavery," (published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1994) was written by Eric Eustace Williams and first published in 1944. Eric Williams ' book, was at the time of its publication, considered years ahead of its time. It should be noted, early on within this report that, literary works on the history of the Caribbean or slavery for a matter of fact, was done by Europeans. In the preface of his book, Williams clearly asserts that his work, "is not a study of the institution

slave voyages.[4] A contemporary visitor's account put it like this: "Liverpool being the port for shipping of the manufacturies of Manchester, Warrington and other manufacturing towns in the neighbourhood, being concerned largely in the West Indian trade, in the Greenland fisheries and more largely in the infamous African trade than any other place in England occasion a great forest of shipping to be continually in port"[5] At this time (by the 3rd quarter of the 18th Century)