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    My American Culture

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    I have told the story of my origin many times, specifically when people ask the simple, “Where are you from?” or the ever famous “What are you?” Whilst a simple a question, I always over complicate the answer. I have never been just one thing. My parents have strong Peruvian roots, born and raised with several generations tracing back to the Incas. However, they moved to Argentina during their young adulthood, where they eventually met through mutual friends and had me. I was raised in Argentina…

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    education, culture, freedom, and equality.” This is true in many aspects of life, including in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1519. What does the way the Spanish brutally took over the Aztec empire and left their remaining culture at little to nothing show about progress? It shows that progress comes at a price. That price, in my opinion, is too great to risk the loss of an entire culture. Spanish conquerors did what they set out to do. They conquered the entire Aztec empire and…

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    Toward Independence, Fuentes notes that in 1810, eighteen million people lived under Spanish rule between California and Cape Horn (Fuentes). In total, there were eight million indian’s, one million blacks that were brought through by slave trade and four million caucasians (Fuentes). Late-Colonial Latin America was filled with many types of social classes, with the main similarity being that they were all under Spanish rule. As Fuentes mentions in Toward Independence, there were Creoles,…

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    Music In Latin America

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    to a report by the Instituto Cervantes, the United States is the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. With over 42 million Spanish speakers, this population in the United States continues to grow yearly. While a common language unites them, this is a highly diverse population with many internal differences based on country of origin, upbringing, and a number of other factors. In working with Spanish speakers, music choice needs to reflect and respect the diversity this…

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    Manuel Munoz's Analysis

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    integrated words in Spanish into his essay when he explained if someone wanted to know whether or not he was born in Mexico, they'd ask him. Afterwards, Munoz stated: "Then you're From Over There - de allá (Munoz par 1)." He also described spanish names have been altered for non spanish speakers. With that being said, Munoz stated: "Concepción was Connie. Ramón was Raymond. My cousin Esperanza was Hope - but her name was pronounced "Hopie" because any Spanish…

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    Mexico Research Paper

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    Mexico is 761,000 square miles, all of Mexico fits in the United States. Mexico has a current population of about 129 million people. The president of Mexico is Enrique Peña Nieto he is 50 years old and is the 57th president. Enrique was born in Atlacomulco mexico on July 20th 1966. He attended school in Alfred Maine his junior year in 1979. Mexico The capital of Mexico is Mexico City and Mexico City is home to about 9 million people. The other 120 million people live across the 188,000 square…

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    Proyecto Argument Essay

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    Micha Tejeda, a student whose family managed to escape from El Salvador during the civil war in the 1980s. Her parents were peasants that were tortured by local government soldiers. The fact that they’re alive today is a miracle. Stories like Micha’s have moved people to begin volunteering at Proyecto Adelante, a nonprofit agency that provides counseling services to people seeking asylum in the United States, as well as legal assistance. Patricia Warden is one of these very people. Warden,…

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    “Can You Lose A Language You Never Knew?” is the importance of speaking Spanish. In the article, the author explains that as she was going up, she was taught that learning the language of your home country was the “utmost importance.” According to research, “ 71 percent of self-identified Hispanic adults said that you don't need to speak Spanish to be considered Latinx,” but when she explains to people that she cannot speak Spanish, in the view of many Hispanic peers, she wasn’t…

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    Being American and Mexican, simultaneously, is harder than it seems. I had been living in the U.S,for ten years and for the first time, I was going to visit San Luis Potosi, Mexico, which is where my family lives. My mother always said that Mexico is known for being a poor country, even so I still didn’t imagine it would be any different from the U.S. At this point, I was arriving, taxis everywhere, people shouting to find their arriving families, it smelled like Mexican food, it was a…

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    because sometimes well most of the time people is being discriminate because they can not say words or they just do not understand what are the other people saying. The way that I would change it is like teaching English to the people who needs it and Spanish who the people that needs to learn it, this benefit is not only for the people who does speak English is also for the other people who does not speak that language because if they know more languages there is going to be more opportunities…

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