... Wielding their power, the conquistadors have destroyed the once beautiful harmony between man and nature. Dictators have employed the brute force of the "saber- (line 34) to multiply "prison bars- and to exploit the natural "treasure- of the Americas for economic gain; they have turned the people against each ... restored, contrary to the melancholic lamentation in the past sixty lines. Praising the natural beauty of America with the imagery of "felicitous seas-(line 77) and "archipelagos-(line 79), the speaker employs the metaphor of a star to explain the changing fate of Latin America....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the country. Even as this was occurring, workers were looking to find a way out of this crowded country. The Industrial Revolution caused some to get wealthy while others lived in poverty and hunger. Many looked to the vast and mostly empty of the New Worlds(U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand). In these new countries there were plenty of jobs ... farm land which was still cheap and therefore there was clean water and food to be eaten. Also many jobs were found in railroads, especially in the building of transcontinental line across America. Many causes that sparked t...

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• Grade Level: High School