When did Manifest Destiny begin? When did the Transcontinental Railroad meet? When was the American Colonization Society founded? When were the Indian Wars in New Mexico? When was Area 51 built? When did Western Philosophy begin? When was Lagash founded?
When did Manifest Destiny happen? When did the United States first claim New Mexico? When was the Oklahoma Land Rush? When did the Republic of Texas became a state? When did the Mexican-American War begin? When was the Missouri Territory created? When did Napoleon invade Russia? When did ...
Playton exclaims: "'Did—did you see what that was? They were driving them'" (Wyndham 2003, p. 63). In the face of humans reduced to their animalistic instinct, Playton ascribes human motivations to the plants. However, this utter- ance simply reverses the hierarchy between human and...
TN–my big break–the moment I fell in love with theater. Little did I know then that I would spend quality time in Spain 30 years later thinking/writing about Miguel de Cervantes and other Spanish writers–all things España, especially...
Did my feelings not matter? Why was he even flirting with me? I wanted to bring him closer to God, not further away!! What happened to me being “safe” with him? The conversation turned sour from thereon. We both felt it and it didn’t take long for him to have doubts about our...
This grove was on a hill differing in shape from other hills in its neighborhood; and, after a time, I made a point of finding and using it as a resting-place every day at noon. I did not ask myself why I made choice of that one spot, sometimes going out of my way to sit ...
(Benjamin Read, Illustrated History of New Mexico, 1912) As a major expression of Manifest Destiny, the American Army occupied Santa Fe in mid-August 1846. Steven Watts Kearny invited Padre Martinez and his brothers to swear allegiance to the United States and they did. Martinez took his ...
I must justify my existence I have to be very ill to deserve being taken care of I’ve been having that message for the past twelve years, and I’ve been ignoring it.” “That’s what I’m asking. Why did it take the cancer for you to do that?” “Because it was something ...
What they did was morally wrong but, they loved Charlotte and wanted her to survive. In contrast, I would want my child to live also and if death was foreseeable than I would not prolong the child’s demise. The situation must have been utterly difficult for her parents to manage. I ca...
I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security, trusting their eternal destiny in the hands of their leaders with a reckless confidence that in itself would thwart the purposes of God in their salvation, and weaken the influence they could give to their leaders, did they ...