Things to Do in San Juan Capistrano Great Stone Church The ruins, more commonly known as the Great Stone Church, is one of the most interesting sections of SJC Mission. The church was laid out as a cross shape with a bell tower that can be seen as far away as 10 miles and whose bells could be heard even further. This historical church lasted only six year as it was destroyed by a 7.0-magnitude in 1812. The earthquake also took the lives of fifty plus people who were buried in the old church cemetery.…
Dant Clayton Corp. Positively Impacts Local Economy Through Expansion Dant Clayton Corp. got its start in 1979 with building Little League Baseball Bleachers. Now the company supplies bleachers needed for up to 60,000-seat stadiums and continues to evolve and expand. Growth is difficult when 70 percent of market share is split between Dant Clayton and one other company.…
Mesa Verdean communities flourished through the mid-Pueblo III Era, when designers built large, multi-story structures, and craftsmen embellished ceramic with progressively complex designs. Elements built while in this period have been defined as "among the world's greatest archaeological treasures". Pueblo III masonry structures were generally populated for roughly fifty years, Structural innovative developments such as towers and multi-walled buildings also show up during the Pueblo III Era. Mesa Verde's inhabitants continued to be quite constant during the 12th century drought. At begin of the 13th century, roughly 22,000 people lived there.…
“I'm starving! Are you guys hungry?” My mom asked as we were on our way to Corpus. “Sure.” Me and my brothers answered simultaneously.…
In the beginning of the book I Juan DE Pareja a boy who lost his mother at a young age is working of the mistrust of the house and is kept and fed well until one day a disease came and killed off most of the slaves and as Juan is laying there dying a man comes and say that you are blessed because god decided to save him and that he is lucky to be alive. This same man also helps get back his strength until a named Don Carmelo come to take him to his new master and a city called Madrid which would be a very long journey especially when you have to beg and find your own supply of food and the Juan does this Don Carmelo has him to bring him a loaf of bread each morning which makes it harder for Juan to find food but then one jun decides to run…
The film I watched this week is El Norte. It is a film that surrounds the brother and sister, Rosa and Enrique Xuncax, who fled from Guatemala to Mexico and finally, Los Angeles because their father, Arturo Xuncax, tried to form a labor union in Guatemala and ended up getting executed and the two are being hunted by the soldiers. In the film, it clearly states that there are a lot of differences between Guatemalan and Mexicans that lives close to the border between Mexico and US. It shows how tightly bonded the two siblings are, while witnessing the Mexicans taking advantage of each other (List). This juxtaposition shows how the Mexican culture is twisted because of the immigration issue, of the “American Dream” attracting them to go across…
Carved into the sides of cliffs in Mesa Verde National Park are what has come to be known as Cliff Dwellings. However, a more appropriate name would be cliff houses in a cliff village. The rooms range from small storage areas to entire communities of intertwined living spaces sometimes carved into the sides of cliffs. The Cliff Dwellings are believed to have been built by the Ancestral Puebloans (“Cliff Dwellings”), aka Anasazi and Pueblo Indians. This shift in the name of these people represents a changing discourse, one that used to view Native Americans as savages, but now recognizes these Native Americans as a collection of hundreds of separate communities with distinct languages and cultures.…
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 can be classified as a failure to compromise due to the Pueblo peoples who did not conform to Spanish acts, which then led to a incline in peaceful encounters between the Spanish and Pueblo during the 1700’s. •Juan de Oñate brought about 500 Spanish settlers and 7,000 livestock animals into modern day New Mexico. •Spanish founded their first settlement on July 11, 1598. •Early Spanish settlers had entered New Mexico with the help on the El Camino Real, a 1,500 mile trail that connected modern day…
Cultural Competence History and Background Mark and Louise Zwick founded Casa Juan Diego in 1980. Casa Juan Diego, located in Houston, Texas, provides a safe home for undocumented families that come from all over the world, seeking asylum. Many of these families are escaping from gang, political, and domestic violence and come to Casa Juan Diego in hopes of starting a new life here in the United States. This community filled with undocumented families who are attempting to start over, searching for jobs and a better life here.…
The pueblo Indians Pueblo Indians are a group of Native American. The word "pueblo" come from Latin language meaning "tribe". Also,the pueblo tribe are descended from the Anasazi people. They settled in Northern Arizona, and in New Mexico through 1540-1542 a.d. Today, twenty-one groups still exist, with all but two (the Hopi in Arizona and the Tigua in Texas) in northern New Mexico.…
Comanche Indians The Comanches, great horsemen who dominated the southern plains, played a major role in the history of central America. Comanches were originally a part of the northern shoshone. The Shoshone and Comanche even have identical languages. Comanches have moved multiple times like the move away from shoshone tribe or moving due to indian conflict. Comanches culture changed once they obtained horses from trading goods which helped them gain territory.…
During the cold, gray morning of January 5th, 1968 the USS Pueblo sent sail from U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan to Korean ports to monitor and collect data on North Korean and Soviet electronic communications including but not limited to radar, sonar, radio signals and possible naval activity. A short eighteen days later the 176-foot-long ship Navy intelligence vessel would come under attack by North Korean forces, leaving one for dead and several others wounded. This event would later be called the Pueblo Incident if one could remember such a ship that set sail to complete its first and only mission. The crew of eighty-three men along with Commander Lloyd M. “Pete” Bucher would be tortured by Korean forces for eleven months before being…
How can I save my community when it needs me more than ever before? That is the precise question I ask myself every day when I get ready to perform my responsibilities as a volunteer for Lincoln Hospital Recovery Center at Segundo Ruiz Belvis. Lincoln Recovery Center is a substance abuse center, which main objective is to help those individuals with drugs and alcohol related issues. Segundo Ruiz Belvis is a Diagnostic and Treatment Center, also located in the South Bronx.…
As the fifth largest river in North America, the Rio Grande starts in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and reaches the Gulf of Mexico; between El Paso, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico the river becomes the longest river border in the world. On both sides of the river, water abuses are commonplace due to over development from agriculture and quickly growing populations. These problems threaten the surrounding riparian habitat and its unique biodiversity, but there have been efforts from both sides of the border to improve the situation. For the lower Rio Grande, water in the Rio Grande comes from the Rio Conchos in Mexico and the Pecos River from New Mexico and Texas.…
The term Soldadera is derived from the word, soldada, which was utilized to define the payment that was given to those who looked after the soldiers. During the Mexican Revolutionary war, there were two types of women present in the frontlines, one were Las Adelitas, who a romanticized image of those involved in the revolution. The image was altered to highlight women’s sexuality and hid the assertive traits that sought to destroy gendered stereotypes that were placed upon women by omitting her place in the Revolutionary war by placing emphasize in their appearance. In the image (Figure 1), La Adelita is oozing sex appeal by having her breast being the focal part of the picture and by kneeling, she appears to be accepting her submissive and docile role in society.…