eBooks „mexican“
129 eBooks were found for the search term „mexican“.
James Fenimore Cooper
Jack Tier Or The Florida Reef
- Drama
- English
- 85898 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
This Work Has Already Appeared In Graham'S Magazine, Under The Title
Of "Rose Budd." The Change Of Name Is Solely The Act Of The Author,
And Arises From A Conviction That The Appellation Given In This
Publication Is More Appropriate Than The One Laid Aside. The
Necessity Of Writing To A Name, Instead Of Getting It From The
Incidents Of The Book Itself, Has Been The Cause Of This Departure
From The Ordinary Rules.
When This Book Was Commenced, It Was Generally Supposed That The
Mexican War Would End, After A Few Months Of Hostilities. Such Was
Never The Opinion Of The Writer. He Has Ever Looked Forward To A
Protracted Struggle; And, Now That Congress Has Begun To Interfere,
Sees As Little Probability Of Its Termination, As On The Day It
Commenced. Whence Honourable Gentlemen Have Derived Their Notions Of
The Constitution, When They Advance The Doctrine That Congress Is An
American Aulic Council, Empowered To Encumber The Movements Of
Armies, And, As Old Blucher Expressed It In Reference To The
Diplomacy Of Europe, "To Spoil With The Pen The Work Achieved By The
Sword," It Is Difficult To Say More Than This, That They Do Not Get
Them From The Constitution Itself. It Has Generally Been Supposed
That The Present Executive Was Created In Order To Avoid The Very
Evils Of A Distracted And Divided Council, Which This New
Construction Has A Direct Tendency To Revive. But A Presidential
Election Has Ever Proved, And Probably Will Ever Prove, Stronger
Than Any Written Fundamental Law. [more]
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H. A. (HENRY AUGUSTUS) WISE
CAPTAIN BRAND OF THE "CENTIPEDE"
- Fiction
- English
- 110606 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Henry Augustus Wise (May 24, 1819 – April 3, 1869) author and United States Navy officer born in Brooklyn, New York, to George Stewart Wise and Catherine Standsberry. The Wise family moved to Virginia and his Naval career began in 1834 as a midshipman. Henry served in the U.S.-Mexican War as a Lieutenant on board the razee Independence seeing action in the Gulf of California. He dedicated his consequent naval service in becoming an expert in gunnery. When the American Civil War broke out he considered serving with his home state of Virginia when they left the Union but opted to stay in the U.S. Navy as a Captain. Promoted to Commander of the Niagara in 1862 he was soon ordered to destroy the Gosport Navy Yard, near his old home. In 1864 President Abraham Lincoln appointed Wise chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and was promoted to Captain in 1866 he held the Ordnance position until his resignation in 1868. He died in Naples, Italy, the following year. In 1850 he married Catherine Brooks Everett, daughter of Edward Everett and Charlotte Gray Brooks. [more]
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden and Civil Disobedience
- Philosophy
- English
- 115603 Words
- Ages 10 and up
- 307
- 2
Walden is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. It details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Thoreau. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War. Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi was impressed by Thoreau's arguments. American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was also influenced by this essay. [more]
Keywords: walden, civil disobediance, henry david thoreau, transcendentalism, philosophy, political resistance
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Eliza Ripley
Social life in old New Orleans
Being recollections of my girlhood
- Social Science
- English
- 66692 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 8
“Children should be seen and not heard.” Children were neither seen nor heard in the days of which I write, the days of 1840. They led the simple life, going and coming in their own unobtrusive way, making no stir in fashionable circles, with laces and flounces and feathered hats. There were no ready-made garments then for grown-ups, much less for children. It was before California gold mines, before the Mexican war, before money was so abundant that we children could turn up our little noses at a picayune. I recall the time when Alfred Munroe descended from Boston upon the mercantile world of New Orleans, and opened on Camp Street a “one price” clothing store for men. Nobody had ever heard of one price, and no deviation, for anything, from a chicken to a plantation. The fun of hectoring over price, and feeling, no matter how the trade ended, you had a bargain after all, was denied the customers of Mr. Alfred Munroe. The innovation was startling, but Munroe retired with a fortune in course of time. [more]
Keywords: Slavery, Social life, History, United States
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Rein brinman
livin' life in gangland
Hurting
- Fiction
- English
- 1 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 318
- 3
Well I really don’t know what to write this paragraph on so I am going to tell you about something that interest me on. So I am going to tell you about my gang life and how I got started being in a gang. Well when I was 9 years old my best friend Edith known as Cynthia came to my house crying and I had never saw her cry in my whole entire life. But when she came to my house she said “they did it they killed Elmo” Elmo was her brother he watched over her did everything to protect her. And I said “Cynthia que lo mató fue Jay-lo” meaning “Cynthia who killed him was it Jay-lo” she cried and cried and cried. I tried to stay strong for Cynthia but it didn’t work I cried for hours.
I saw what gangs could do to people but I decided to get into one that was part of the Mexican drug cartail. SouthSide X3.
Before the drug cartail was big there were wars started between sets between schools. But it seems like when I got jumped in the wars started more they blew my life down the drain. Many times I fought for my “family”. And it was my family. I didn’t have anything else to hold as my family but Southside x3 and I love them. I was hurting bad. I had protection and then the war started... Everyday was just another day in hell… Selling, smoking, fighting, jumping, killing. it was all to much for me to handle and I couldn’t do it anymore… so I got in 9 more fights and finally got kicked out to leave out of the gang life but the problem was I was there to win, conquer, be and protect. [more]
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Taiya Arnott
The B.I.T.C.H Group
- Juvenile Fiction
- English
- 3733 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 4382
- 213
Every high school has their cliques. There are the Partiers, the Preppy’s, The Cheerleaders, The Emo’s, and the Jocks. They all stay together in their little groups and it never seems like they break apart. But things are different at Dena High School, because that’s were 5 different girls are all best friends with one another. Bianca, Ivy, Tamara, Chloe and Harmony have been friends since they were born, because of their parent’s friendships. All 5 of them would belong to a certain clique if it weren’t for their parents.
Bianca De La Cruz is a 17 years old hot headed Mexican and the partier of the bunch. She loves spending her nights at different parties and the more alcohol there the better. She doesn’t seem to care much about school, but has the brains if only she tried.
Ivy Winters is a 16 year old ginger who’s a year younger than her friends. She skipped grade 6 because of her grades and only truly cares about school and furthering her education. When it comes to achieving her goals, she has no problem.
Tamara Duncan is a 17 girl from Inuit descent. She is also known as the schools slut and will do anything to get the guy of the week in her arms. She’s not that bright when it comes to school but when it comes to anything boy related she’s your girl.
Chloe Gibson is a French 17 year old who’s known for keeping to herself. She may seem like the cute, quiet sweetheart, but only her friends know that she’s just depressed and always heavily drugged. All this is because of her family.
Harmony Calloway is 17 years old and a bootylicious black. She loves to make people laugh and dreams of doing something sport related in the future. When it comes to competition, she’s the one to beat. But a good thing is she doesn’t let all of it go to her head.
Separated, they become part of the schools population but together they for the B.I.T.C.H group and stay at the top. But when problems start, boys come and go and secrets are kept and told, will this group of friends stay together or not? [more]
Keywords: love, romance, friends, bianca, ivy, tamara, chloe, harmony, relationship, abuse, pregnancy, hate, sex, trust, secrets, drugs, alcohol
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James Fenimore Cooper
Jack Tier Or The Florida Reef
- Drama
- English
- 100984 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Ay, Fare You Well, Fair Gentleman.
As You Like It.
While The Tyro Believes The Vessel Is About To Capsize At Every Puff
Of Wind, The Practised Seaman Alone Knows When Danger Truly Besets
Him In This Particular Form. Thus It Was With Harry Mulford, When
The Mexican Schooner Went Over, As Related In The Close Of The
Preceding Chapter. He Felt No Alarm Until The Danger Actually Came.
Then, Indeed, No One There Was So Quickly, Or So Thoroughly Apprized
Of What The Result Would Be, And He Directed All His Exertions To
Meet The Exigency. While There Was The Smallest Hope Of Success, He
Did Not Lessen, In The Least, His Endeavours To Save The Vessel;
Making Almost Superhuman Efforts To Cast Off The Fore-Sheet, So As
To Relieve The Schooner From The Pressure Of One Of Her Sails. But,
No Sooner Did He Hear The Barrels In The Hold Surging To Leeward,
And Feel By The Inclination Of The Deck Beneath His Feet, That
Nothing Could Save The Craft, Than He Abandoned The Sheet, And
Sprang To The Assistance Of Rose. It Was Time He Did; For, Having
Followed Him Into The Vessel'S Lee-Waist, She Was The First To Be
Submerged In The Sea, And Would Have Been Hopelessly Drowned, But
For Mulford'S Timely Succour. Women Might Swim More Readily Than
Men, And Do So Swim, In Those Portions Of The World Where The Laws
Of Nature Are Not Counteracted By Human Conventions. Rose Budd,
However, Had Received The Vicious Education Which Civilized Society
Inflicts On Her Sex, And, As A Matter Of Course, Was Totally
Helpless In An Element In Which It Was The Design Of Divine
Providence She Should Possess The Common Means Of Sustaining
Herself, Like Every Other Being Endued With Animal Life. Not So With
Mulford: He Swam With Ease And Force, And Had No Difficulty In
Sustaining Rose Until The Schooner Had Settled Into Her New Berth,
Or In Hauling Her On The Vessel'S Bottom Immediately After [more]
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Mattis Lundqvist
54 Tasty Raw Food Recipes
Delicious dishes for every occasion: Salads, Soups, Juices, Dips, Snacks and more... measurements in grams
- Cooking
- English
- 9630 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 1389
Recipes:
Avocado-Kefir Smoothie with Mint & Ginger
Coconut-Orange Juice
Mango Lassi
Creamy Raw Egg Nog
Raw Hot Chocolate
Whipped Strawberry-Coconut Smoothie
Coconut Mint-Chip Shake
Lemon Scones with Blackberry and Sage Jam
Stuffed Apricots with Cashew Chevre
Chia Seed Oatmeal with Cinnamon Mixed Berries
Coconut Yogurt with Walnuts & Grapes
Berry Breakfast Crêpes with Banana Cream Filling
Orange-Ginger Glazed Raw Donuts
Raw Seeds & Buckwheat Cereal
Breakfast Tropical Fruit Bowl
Spring Rolls with Chile Sauce
Parsnip Rice with Hemp Seed and Basil
Coconut Wild Rice
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
Zucchini Pasta with Spicy Lemon Pepper Salad
Burritos with Spicy Zucchini Sauce
Raw Ravioli with Red Pesto
Veggie-Almond Nori Rolls
Arugula & Creamed Pea Salad
Creamy Coconut and Cashew Soup
Mexican Salad
Avocado Gazpacho with Cucumber
Kale Tabbouleh with Fresh Herbs
Raw Corn, Avocado, and Black Bean Salad
Avocado-Apple Soup
Spinach and Strawberry Salad
Spinach Mushroom Salad with Marinade Dressing
Pistachio & Red Pepper Bisque
Rainbow Chopped Salad
Sunflower-Walnut Pâté
Salty Banana Dip
Walnut-Honey Spread
Coconut Dressing
Guacamole Dip
Spicy Cheese Dip
Orange-Ginger Dressing
Citrus Salad Dressing
Tangy Pineapple Salsa
Banana Maple Walnut Ice Cream
Key Lime Pie
Chocolate Chip Mint Ice Cream
Raw Peach Cobbler
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Pecan Sandies
Chocolate Ice Cream
Cantaloupe Dessert Soup with Coconut Milk
Falafels with Fava Beans
Pickled Squash Bites [more]
Keywords: raw food recipes, raw food recipe book, raw food diet, raw food books, raw food cookbook, raw food, raw vegan
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U. S. GRANT, W. T. SHERMAN
MEMOIRS OF THREE CIVIL WAR GENERALS
- History
- English
- 852146 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 3
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He then implemented Congressional Reconstruction, often at odds with President Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president, Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African-American citizenship, and defeat the Ku Klux Klan.
Grant graduated in 1843 from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the Mexican–American War. When the Civil War began in 1861, he rejoined the U.S. Army. In 1862, Grant took control of Kentucky and most of Tennessee, and led Union forces to victory in the Battle of Shiloh, earning a reputation as an aggressive commander. He incorporated displaced African American slaves into the Union war effort. In July 1863, after a series of coordinated battles, Grant defeated Confederate armies and seized Vicksburg, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River and dividing the Confederacy in two. After his victory in the Chattanooga Campaign, President Abraham Lincoln promoted him to lieutenant general and commander of all the Union Armies. Grant confronted Robert E. Lee in a series of bloody battles in 1864, trapping Lee's army at Petersburg, Virginia. During the siege, Grant coordinated a series of devastating campaigns in other theaters. The war ended shortly after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Historians have hailed Grant's military genius, and his strategies are featured in the military history textbooks, but a minority contend that he won by brute force rather than superior strategy.[1]
After the Civil War, Grant led the Army's supervision of Reconstruction in the former Confederate states. He was elected president in 1868 and reelected in 1872. Grant stabilized the nation during the turbulent Reconstruction period, enforced civil and voting rights laws, and destroyed the Ku Klux Klan. He used the army to build the Republican Party in the South, based on black voters, Northern newcomers ("Carpetbaggers"), and native Southern white supporters ("Scalawags"); combined with the disenfranchisement of some former Confederates, this led to Republican rule and the election of African-Americans to Congress and high state offices. In his second term, the Republican coalitions in the South fell apart as conservative white Democrats regained control of Southern states through terror and disenfranchisement of black Southerners. Grant's Indian peace policy initially reduced frontier violence, but after the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, the Great Sioux War culminated in George Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Throughout his presidency, Grant faced Congressional investigations into federal corruption, including bribery charges against two of his Cabinet members. Grant's econom [more]
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