Guadalajara

Hello everyone, My name is Liliia Riabenko and I am really into American culture. Personally I am fond of American movies, serials and cartoons. Today I want to share my thoughts about the question of multiculturality and the American dream in American animated sitcom “The Cleveland Show”. Everybody who is familiar with the USA and American culture in general should know that many ethnic groups live within the country. The Cleveland show is a sitcom that depicts the life of African-American…

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Maria Avina relocated with her family to Amarillo, Texas from our neighboring country. Maria, my 20 year old roommate, sat across from me dutifully working on her Calculus 3 homework, jokingly second guessing her choice of being a Mechanical Engineering major. Although she is a permanent resident of the United States, Maria hold strong ties with her mother country, keeping up with news regarding the country and its people. More recently, immigration and healthcare…

My family and I consider ourselves to be primarily of Hispanic race and, more specifically, our ethnicity to be Mexican American. My mother’s side of the family is from the city of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico while my father’s side is from the states of Sinaloa and Sonora in Mexico. So, it’s safe to say my family is very Mexican. Both of my parent where actually born in Mexico but were brought over to the United states as infants. However, if we go back even further three generations before…

Reem Alarian October 18, 2015 Marketing - Extra Credit VCU’s 21st Annual Business Forum On October 13, 2015, at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Student Commons Ballroom, a program from Universal Corporation was generously granted to the University, as VCU’s 21st Annual Business Forum. We had the great honor of meeting Arturo Sarukhán, a Mexican diplomat and international strategic consultant. Brandon J. Price, president and co-founder of Biogenin. Gilles Gauthier, minister for…

Born and raised in a middle class Nigerian family, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of many novels and short stories; she is also the author of the TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story”. Adichie details her experience with single stories and how they fail to represent groups accurately. Adichie shows her audience, fellow authors and journalists, that associating individuals with a singular story, or a singular stereotype, isn’t enough to describe an individual and all their experiences.…

Introduction The Underdogs has long being debated about whether it have reflected the Mexican Revolution accurately. This essay try to prove that The Underdogs wrote about part of the Revolution through analyzing its limitations in terms of time, space, protagonists and so on. And truly The Underdogs is a great epic work about Mexican Revolution. Summary about the novel The Underdogs was a novel had its background set in the Mexican Revolution. It mainly described a group of Indians who want…

The origins of Mariachi music dates back hundreds of years, but in the form modern society knows it the Mariachi began in the nineteenth century in the Mexican state of Jalisco. The culture of Mexico is identified by their food, language, traditions, and most importantly music. Music is a huge part of the Mexican culture, today mariachi music and bands are associated with Mexico by default. The first existing roots of Mariachis are uncertain, but Mexico takes great pride in its enchanting…

In 2008, Douglas watched Shawn Johnson perform her beam routine and was stunned by her performance. When the scoreboard showed Shawn’s name as the number one spot on beam, her and her coach, Liang Chow, hugged each other with so much warmth and joy. At that exact moment Douglas fell in love with Liang Chow and wanted him to be her coach. Douglas then states, “But I could feel it in my bones. Chow was the one” (95). Two years later in July 2010 Douglas was informed that Chow would be coming all…

the police station. Is it fair that police can use brute force in Mexico to protect the people of their country? In Mexico the policemen are known for using excessive force. For example, Karen Vasquez, a 20-year old university student from Guadalajara, told Human Rights watch that policemen made women perform sexual activities to humiliate themselves. “They sent us into the room in groups of two. We had to take off all of our clothes for inspections and then made us do sit-ups…

“Don’t take yourself so seriously, Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably Present themselves” - Halle Berry. This quote to me means that you have to know when to laugh at yourself sometimes. If you mess up don’t be too harsh on yourself instead just laugh it up and overcome those obstacles. I did not know i was going to make this quote a part of my life. It was two summers ago and for my family's vacation we all decided that we should go to Mexico to…