The document compares and contrasts aspects of North American and Latin American culture. It provides examples of art, including Grant Wood's American Gothic painting and Diego Rivera's mural depicting the Spanish conquest. For literature, it shares Walt Whitman's poem "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" about westward expansion in the United States, and a poem by Mara Josefa Muja honoring Simn Bolvar and his role in liberating several South American countries from Spanish rule.