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- Aristocracy (aristos - excellent; kratos - rule).
- Democrat (from democracy, demo - people; kratos - rule).
- Diplomat (from diplomacy, diploma - two; kratos - rule).
- Monocrat (from monocracy, mono - one; kratos - rule).
Many words that we use in English have Greek roots. This is usually because many Greek concepts (especially those of science, philosophy and art) were adopted by the Romans, and then passed on to Romance languages. These words then passed to English due to French influence.
McKay personifies America as a woman who feeds him "bread and bitterness" and who sinks her "tiger's tooth" into his throat. By using the pronouns she and her to refer to America, McKay turns the concept of a country into a person who can cause the narrator harm even while he loves her. The effect of this personification turns the relationship between the narrator and his country into a more personal relationship, full of the conflicting emotions that come along with loving a person.
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By the end of the war, Mexico would lose almost half its territory to the U.S., including lands from Texas to California. The war was a key event in American History as it fulfilled its 'manifest destiny', encompassing land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Manifest Destiny was the dream that America should control North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Mexico had legal claim to Texas and owned California , Arizona, and New Mexico. ... The disagreements between the United States and Mexico over the border of Texas led to the Mexican American War. Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
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