...If you were stranded in a place you don’t know, what would you do to survive? Would you walk thousands of miles? If you’re a 15th century conquistador named Cabeza de Vaca, you’d say yes! Cabeza de Vaca was, as said before, a 15th century conquistador that washed up in Texas on a failed mission to Mexico City. When I heard this story and learned he lived to tell the tale, I wondered, how did Cabeza de Vaca survive that? Well, the three main reasons he survived were the Indians respect, his communication skills and being considered a shaman. One of the reasons Cabeza de Vaca survived was the respect of the Indians. Cabeza de Vaca performed a surgery on one of the Indians who was bleeding (Doc C). He had done this many times before but this...
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...Cabeza de Vaca saved a man from an arrow going over his heart. Cabeza de Vaca was an explorer and he went from Apalachee Bay to Mexico City. How did Cabeza de Vaca survive? The three main reasons why Cabeza de Vaca survived are he was a Shaman, respect and trust from the Indians, and his wilderness skills helped him survive. The first reasons Cabeza was able to survive was because he was a shaman. An example of this survival skill was he was a Shaman and he saved a lot of people and he save a man with a arrow that was over his heart. (Doc C)These examples help explain Cabeza’s ability to survive because if he goes somewhere people will know who he is for saving people. They will help him with where he needs to go. The second reason Cabeza...
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...The Expedition for life Traveling across Texas to Mexico City can be hard but, try that on bare feet. Cabeza de Vaca was on the expedition to the New World looking for gold, glory, and God, but failed to make it when the strong currents of the Gulf washed them ashore. How did Cabeza de Vaca survive the trip to Mexico City? Cabeza de Vaca survived because of his wilderness skills, his success as a healer and his respect for the indians. One reason Cabeza de Vaca survived is because of his outstanding wilderness skills. “ The landscape was tough to survive because of the desert, various mountains, the Rio Grande, and many unfriendly indians”(Document A). “ Four rafts shipwrecked on Isle de Malhado November,1528” ( Document A). “ as a slave Cabeza ate what was available, including berries, mollusks, rats, roots, lizards, snakes, and spiders” (Document B). This shows that he was able to live through a shipwreck, and had to live through some pretty tough landscape. He also had to eat what was available, even if that Kent he had to eat horrifyingly discussing things. Another reason Cabeza survived is because of his success as a healer. “...I gave him two stitches. And two days later I removed the two stitches from the Indian and he was healed. And this cure gave us a very great reputation among...
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...Donahue1 Bennett Donahue Mr. McElrath English III Honors 05 September 2014 A Trustworthy Puritan Although De Vaca, Equiano, and Smith were all brave and courageous men, William Bradford, the puritan for the historical narrative “Of Plymouth Plantation,” reveals himself to be most reliable and trustworthy. Bradford demonstrates that he is a strong believer in God, and a selfless leader among men by using emotional diction, biblical allusions, and his religiously based figurative language in order to show his tremendous leadership and his unbreakable loyalty to God and his men. Right off the bat, there is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Yes, long name, but with that long name comes a long, perilous voyage that gambled his life at numerous occasions. De Vaca’s ship would have been the last place on earth that you would have wanted to be. De Vaca portrays himself as the leader of the ship, which he very well was, but he talks in a selfish way as if he was the strongest member on the ship. He writes, “When night fell, only the navigator and I remained able to tend to the barge,” he seems to recall moments only when he was the strong one to survive, or how he was able to brave through the hardships that he met(De Vaca 74). Now, De Vaca was a religious man. He praised god and mentioned that the reason why his barge was still afloat was due to the grace of god. Although he does mention god, he doesn't write like William Bradford, for example he refrains from saying that ...
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...Creation stories have dated back anywhere from thousands of years to millions, yet it cannot be decided which version tells the true beginning. Religions and tales of the supreme beings who created Earth and life, come down in manuscripts and drawings that depict each individual purpose of life. With the advancement of technology, war, and government, the reason for man’s existence has changed and therefor his purpose needs to be redefined. خالق واحد صحيح in Arabic means “the one true creator” who holds and gives all power and life. The God, Allah, or Sky-Holder’s power is taken away in order for man to make what he has created right and so begins the beginning of a thousand religions. When man first thought about how to expand his power he did so while looking at his kingdom. From ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and even men like Christopher Columbus, power has stemmed from the ownership of land masses and the conquering of unexplored terrain. The world is in the state it is now because it shows who has gained the most power, yet man has neglected to protect the one thing that gave him that power, land. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, man has a “fragmented view of the world” (Emerson 237). When man can see that the plants, animals, water sources, and every natural element in his world are meant to sustain life then and only then will he be able to understand where he came from. To truly be able to figure out meaning and the justification for the universe and...
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