Gran Colombia

had to undergo intense struggle in order to achieve fame and success. To me, it seemed like the typical story line of any other telenovela that we’ve watched. The only major difference was that Helenita Vargas was Colombian and that she grew up in Colombia around the same time that my mother did. I think…

In life, we find some people who want to leave their country for a better life, but sometimes their dreams are not easy to achieve because they face many obstacles. People are moving from their own countries because they really don’t have a comfortable life and can’t make money easily to supply their necessities like education and a high standard of living. These things drive them to leave their countries to find a better life in a different country. Illegal immigration is a problem that is…

Knowing that staying in an environment that did not allow for any growth was not a good option, they decided to leave. As many individuals of Asian descent, my parents immigrated to the west. The country they saw an opportunity in was Colombia. Now, Colombia is not a developed…

imaginative layouts with a keen sense of typography, color and photography while partnering with external and internal teams to develop impactful creative ideas and executions that deliver to the brand vision. Sancho BBDO: Creative Director. Bogotá, Colombia. 03/1983 - 04/1999 Translated business requirements into effective advertising campaigns and marketing collateral 's while managing diverse creative professionals through the process of writing award winning campaigns that become a brand’s…

American Culture encompasses religion, food, and what we wear, and how we wear it.It also encompasses language, marriage,music. The United States is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. By the the cultures of Native Americans, Latin Americans, Africans and Asians. The United States sometimes described as a “Melting Pot “ in which different cultures have contributed their own distinct “ flavor” to American cultures and from around the world. Children of immigrants are…

Immigration should be allowed in the U.S, but do we have enough resources to support our own citizens and immigrants? In the article, “The National Death Wish” by David Brooks, he presents how immigrants can be beneficial in the workforce by simply stating, “the way to help working families is not to cut immigration. It’s to help everybody flow to the job he or she wants to take”. Basically, immigrants take jobs that people don’t usually take, which gives other people better opportunities. The…

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" This is a quote on the tablet from the statue of liberty. This quote is meant to be pointed to immigrants but lately people are wondering if that is towards illegal immigrants too. Thousand of illegal immigrants are flooding into the United States every day this is what it means to be a…

named one of the ten richest people on earth by Fortune and Forbes magazines. Escobar wealth estimate is $30 million. Although he was a dangerous criminal, he spent a lot of his money on helping poor people. Escobar wanted to be the president of Colombia. He did his best in fixing his public…

The effects of deportation Can everyone get that dream life they always wanted? Some people will spend their lifetime trying to reach that dream but something from their past is haunting them. Rather they have the proper documentation or migrate here for a better life once they violate the immigration laws they face the consequences; for example, a person with legal document (green card) can have it taken away over a domestic violence charge or a simple DUI charge. Imagine two friends driving…

In this book review, it will consist in analyzing the book called “The disappearing Mestizo” by the author Joanne Rappaport. The structure of the book, each chapter follow to narrate the stories of sixteenth and seventeenth century mestizos and mulattos. Actually, Joanne Rappaport is a professor of Spanish and Race and Mestizaje at Georgetown University. She tries to examine with this book what it meant to be mestizo in the early colonial era. In general, the central question is not “Who is a…