Jema Unger Clase Tres El cinco de octubre Juan Marichal Juan Marichal, former pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, was born on October 3, 1937. He also played for the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He only appeared in one World Series game, despite winning more games than any other pitcher during the 1960s. Marichal was born in a small village of Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. He has two brothers and a sister.…
The governor of Florida at the time was Manuel de Cendoya, he had a stone fort built in Saint Augustine, which was ordered by his predecessor Nicolas Ponce de Leon II. After having his men collect coquina, a shell stone that is soft and hardens with air over a period, they were ready to build the fort since there was enough lime waiting at the site. The construction began on October 2, 1672, to build the Castillo de San Marcos (Fort Marion). This fort was designed to be a square shape and was built on the opposite side of the inlet. During the construction of the fort, the governor passed away, along with the engineer. Big storms came in 1674 and knocked down the wooden fort along with ruining the town.…
On the topic of Hispanics that have been influential to the peninsula of Florida, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés should most definitely be recognized as a very influential Hispanic to the State of Florida and even European colonization of America as a whole. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lived from February 15th, 1519 to September 17, 1574 and during that time as a conquistador he did many things, one of the most noted being establishing the colony of St. Augustine (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). Some actions that have influenced Florida being reducing much of the French presence in Northeastern Florida and establishing colonies up and down the east coast of Florida, including St. Augustine. One of the influential actions of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés would be reducing French presence in Northeastern Florida.…
Carlos Gimenez is the mayor of Miami-Dade County. Carlos Gimenez was born in Havana, Cuba on January 17, 1954. In 1960, his family decided to immigrate to the United States of America in the start is the Cuban Revolution. Gimenez and his family settled in which is now Little Havana in Miami. Gimenez joined the City of Miami Fire Department as a firefighter in the 1970’s and was appointed Fire Chief by the City Manager Cesar Odio in 1991.…
Bullet resistant backpack inserts weigh less than a pound and can fit in a backpack. Colombian entrepreneur miguel caballreo the maker of high fashion bullet prooof clothing is starting to sell hes wares in florida. Hes also hoping his penchant for blasting employees and potential clients will get him into the guinness book of wolrd records. Gulla,55, started his job in the shadow of the 2012 shooting at sandy hook elementary school, where a gunman killed 20 first graders and six staff members before turning the gun on himself. Gull used his 27 year of law enforcement experience to come up with a new plan security measures to soothe anxious parents, including sound enabled surveillance cameras, uniformed security guards patrolling campus and…
Pedro Schmith 8100 Wolftrap Road Vienna, Virginia 22182 26 September 2017 Ms. Malala Yousafzai Dear Ms.Yousafzai, I my name is Pedro Schmith, and I am a 7th grade student who attends Kilmer Middle School. And I have recently read your book, and I think it was amazing and very inspiring how you stood up for womans rights even after getting so many threats…
Guillermo Gomez Pena’s work brings performance art and addresses issues of significance to Latino communities in the United States like immigration race, ethnicity, culture, politics and language. He deals with cross-cultural issues, border culture, and immigration and one of these projects is Tijuana Niagara 1988. Pena focuses on the idea of how ‘Latino art’ is being presented and re-presented and multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is not an art trend, not a grant language. It is the very core of the new society in which we live in now.…
Cesar Chavez is considered a member of a Mexican family César Chávez was very little to school and dropped out before graduating. During World War II, Cesar Chavez went to the navy American for two years and then returned to Arizona to continue working in the field. Chávez is considered one of the most important social fighters for the rights of the Peasants in the United States their protest was against the employment of immigrants. César Chávez became a hero of the US labor movement for supporting the rights of Workers to the detriment of undocumented workers. Chavez was also vegetarian And supported the Rights of Animals.…
In May 7 1945, Estanislada Goznazalez Gaspar was born in a little community named Mesa del Campanario in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In Mesa del Campanario there was not any hospitals or doctors, she was born by a “partera”, midwives. Her father, Ciriaco Gonzalez Garcia, worked on the field and her mom, Primitiva Gaspar Torres, was a housewife. Estanislada also referred, as Li, was the fourth oldest out of thirteen children. Li and her siblings were baptized on the Sunday within the week they were born.…
David’s Civil Rights Invasion Here I start recollecting the story of a fifty- three year old men, a brother of six siblings, and a father of four children; a young men who had the urge to survive and escape the brutal and genocide Guerilla (peasants vs. salvadorean army) of 1979. This extraordinary person is my father, his name is Davidio (David) Garcia. The Civil War took place in El Salvador in 1979-1992. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation (FMNL) drafted young boys and girls between the ages of twelve- eighteen with (for those who were promised land or power) or without consent.…
Who is Andrei Garcia? Born on January 21, 2000, Andrei Garcia is a bright, kindhearted, and hardworking individual. Andrei was born in the Philippines, but moved 7,000 miles away in 2012 to live with his 36 year old sister in San Leandro, California. Andrei’s earliest memory from his childhood was going to his friends house and running around, playing games all day long. His happiest memory was visiting his grandma, who lived a one hour plane ride away from his old home.…
The actor and comedian George Lopez was born April 23, 1961 in Mission Hills, California. “Mr. Lopez never celebrated one birthday while growing up in the San Fernando Valley.” (nytimes.com). Lopez never celebrated a birthday because he was raised by a grandmother whose own life of hardship. Biography.com says, “Abandoned by his mother, he used his painful experiences as material for his stand up comedy.”…
This the story of Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria born December 1, 1949 was a Colombian drug lord and drug trafficker. His cartel, at the height of his career, supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, turning over US $21.9 billion a year in personal income. Often called "The King of Cocaine", he was the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated known net worth of US $30 billion by the early 1990s. His criminal activities began on the streets of Medellin in his teens when he used to steal gravestones and sell them to smugglers after sanding them. Pablo lives was not always perfect yes he had money but he always had to run from the law with his family looking for a new safe house every time his home was invaded by the government.…
Junior year I was taking AP spanish my friend was debating whether or not to take AP spanish or just regular spanish. She was not sure of taking AP because her older sister took it and she had failed the class and complained that it was very difficult.i promised her that I would helper her out whenever she needed the help, but she was still not sure. At that moment I was struggling in my ap spanish literature, for the whole week I spent my lunch time studying for that test I was going to have.…
The Story of Pedro Serrano, as told by el Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega, had a deep impact on me. More specifically, the part that was most was the first interaction between Serrano, the main character, and the other unnamed survivor that was introduced halfway through the short story. Serrano had been stranded on the island for three years and had acquired hair all over—so much so, that it was compared by de la Vega to “an animal’s pelt.” The new survivor on the island was still dressed as a normal Spanish sailor, whereas Serrano had seemed to morph into a different person all together—one who was as mentally unstable as he was physically. When these two very different characters met for the first time, they were both shocked.…