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The United Mexican States, the official name of Mexico, is a beautiful country with its own unique geography, people, institutions, and opportunities. Mexico is one of the countries that make up the North American continent and has a land area of 758,450 sq. ft. This makes Mexico the 13th largest country in the world based on area. In comparison, it is only one-fifth the size of the United States and 10 times larger than the state of Oklahoma. Mexico has lots of rugged mountain…

Yanessa Morillo-Delerme was the second performer of the night. Her first performance was “Alma Del Core” by Antonio Caldara. Born in Venice, Caldara made his career in Mantua, Rome and Vienna, serving in the last of these from 1716 as vice-Kapellmeister at the imperial court. As a composer he was versatile and prolific, with some 90 stage works to his credit. Caldara wrote a steady series of over 40 oratorios, liturgical music, motets, and cantatas sacred and secular. His 1712 Christmas cantata…

“Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power” is part of the poem La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla Zúñiga, and considered as the first work piece of literature in Chile. A Spanish soldier, he wrote his epic poem while he spent two years in Chile in the 16th century. As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European…

A study that tested the relationship between self-esteem and self-efficacy showed a positive correlation with a significance level of r(111) = .63 (Espana 2013). This means that there is a strong relationship between self-esteem and self-efficacy. In essence, having low self-esteem contributes to lowered self-efficacy levels. An example would be a person who doesn’t think they can land a date with…

An individual’s life has been judged and predicted even before they were born. The fact that individuals are judged even before they are out of the womb shows how society expects each individual to be like. Society may have negative, positive, or even neutral thoughts about each individual. Those thoughts or ideas can leave an impact on individuals, in which can influence them in their choices in life. Those ideas could urge them to do what they decided not to do because what they originally…

Poetry comes in many different ways. From the dark and scary ones to uplifting poems and ones about love. Although it can be expressed differently, it is only many poets finding ways to show what means the most to them. This is just one example of a poet who put most of his life experiences and messages he wanted to get across to others; his name was Pablo Neruda. Born on July 12 1904, in Parral, Chile was the famous poet Neruda. Although, at that time he was not yet a poet and still went by…

The Spanish Reconquista The history of Spain is a tale of both the blending and the clashing of cultures. When Muslims, Jews, and Christians could maintain peace, Spanish culture would exceed that of all the rest of Europe. When persecution and strife broke out, wars that amounted to crusades were the result. Ultimately Spain was united as a nation under triumphant Christian monarchs whose exploits went beyond anything medieval Europeans could even imagine. The result was the foundation of…

Madrid Spain is the capitol city of Spain. The country of Spain has an interesting past, but a great economic future. In that Madrid sat in the middle of all the excitement, with all of its history. It had a rip for several hundreds of years that damage Spain’s culture, but also made the history unique. It has a wide variety of religion. With all the beautiful churches or cathedrals, evangelism is something new to Madrid Spain. The history of Madrid Spain is rich in diversity. According to…

The Soccer Player, Messi. Name Institution Course Date The Soccer Player, Messi. Soccer is one of the mainly well-liked sports in Europe as well as the Americas. It has a stunning furthermore motivating history in the humanity of sports. Early indication of soccer played as a game gets happening in China all through the 2nd along with 3rd centuries BC. It is said that early growth of the present soccer began in England and it is for the period of medieval period, the previous type of…

Maintaining Spanish as a Heritage Language in Australia Stephanie Natolo, Griffith University, Australia Abstract: Heritage language maintenance in Australia faces great challenges. In Australia, English is the dominant official language de facto, whilst Spanish is a community language. Spanish is primarily learnt and used in the home with parents and other family members, however, English holds power via hegemonic means, and is used in a multiplicity of domains. This paper presents an…