Destino Manifiesto y la guerra mexicano-estadounidense (Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War)

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday and the class tries to bake a cake but winds up inside it, learning about mixtures and reactions that occur when ingredients are put together."

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

No puede ser que en lo referente a nuestra economía personal, la mayoría de nosotros vivamos a la deriva, a merced de los vaivenes de un sistema capitalista totalmente caduco, el cual se nutre de que el dinero pase de las manos de los que menos tienen a los que más tienen. De ti depende sobrevivir a un sistema que está acabando con las clases medias, y que se ha convertido en una auténtica fábrica de pobres gobernada por unos cuantos ricos. Tu educación financiera no es un derecho, es una obligación, ya que nadie va a cuidar mejor de tu dinero que tú mismo.

Mientras haya hombres y mujeres dispuestos a entregar la vida por amor al evangelio, ninguna nacion sera inaccesible. Adoniram Judson - primer misionero estadounidense en el extranjero - anhelaba llevar las Buenas Nuevas de salvacion a la sombria tierra de Birmania. Su anhelo se vio cumplido, pero a que precio. Adoniram sobrevivio a la inanicion, al encarcelamiento y a la tortura - tanto en tierra firme como en alta mar - para acabar siendo testigo de la muerte de sus seres queridos. A pesar de la afliccion y la depresion, Adoniram Judson completo la que hasta el dia de hoy continua siendo la ...