Latin American Boom

Latin American colonies during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a hotbed of resentment and discontent among the lower castes of society. Indigenous and slave populations were brutalized and exploited in order to fill the coffers of aristocratic elites and foreign monarchies. Somewhere in the middle, a growing population of mixed-race ethnic groups found themselves ostracized and struggling to find their niche in life. News of foreign events and new philosophies and ideologies…

Throughout my years of education, my success in learning has changed drastically. I take great pride in where I am now considering where I started. Learning is different for everyone, and it’s our own job to figure out how to make it work for ourselves. My educational career has been a journey of learning how to learn. Just like any other baby, my parents taught me everything. Also, being their first child, all of my parent’s attention was on me. I went into kindergarten well prepared because…

are people out there who would call themselves American. The real question is what makes someone American and how would you know. To me there are a couple ways that I would consider myself American and the first and simple one is that you were born on American soil (in the United States). Another reason is that if you look like you are from America and the last one is that if you have the freedom that Americans have. The definition of being American differs from each person that you talk to…

was changing in two ways, expansion and imperialism. Many Americas thought that using just imperialism was a negative representation of the policies in the 1800’s. While, others thought that using just the word expansion did the same thing. How one American described the trademarks that happened during this time depended on their own point of view. Expansion was simply the expanding of the country. It wasn’t just America where this was happening, many countries around the world were also…

the term created by the Nixon government in 1960 to categories the large group of immigrants as “Hispanics.” Latinos are those who were born from Latin America countries; In other words, those that comes from Center America, The Caribbean Island and South America (Echeverria-Keck 2011). Latinos are people from Latin American and/or with Latin American origin. Someone could be Latino and not come from Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, they could be from Brazil. We can also think…

exploration with ample detail. This distinction between the works of literature is seen at large with Zinn’s inclusion of a firsthand account by Las Casas of the work required of them “to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy” (Zinn 7) the Native Americans. In difference to the attempts of…

In the passage “India”, Richard Rodriguez argues that rather than being an act of conquest, the Indian/European interaction as not always uniformly violent or exploitative; instead [he argues], it was a complex series of profit and transformative exchanges. Both the Indian and European cultures made visible advancements by coming to the new world. The Europeans had begun global trading network, and therefore, trading with other cultures became easier. Rodriquez argues that the Indian people…

Futbol in the Americas Description: In Latin America soccer is a game of passion. In the United States it goes by the name of soccer, but in Latin America it is known as futbol. Futbol is taken to heart and is far from just being a game. It is also a sport in which Latin Americans excels in. Massive numbers of Latin Americans people participate in soccer teams, tournaments, leagues, and clubs. Futbol is also singular feature of the Latina/o, Chicana/o popular culture. Latina/o 's across…

landing of U.S. and allied Caribbean troops on the small island nation of Grenada. The document’s stated purpose for the invasion was threefold: Assure safety of American nationals, eliminate and prevent further Cuban influence, and restore democratic government. Reagan, in public speeches and as a justification for the conflict, cited 800 American citizens held at St. George’s Medical school as the main impetus for invasion. The President claimed apprehension at the possibility of these…

Film Analysis: Dólares de Arena The film by filmmakers Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzaman Dólares de Arena was released in 2014 and features Noeli (Yanet Mojica) as the main character. The fairly attractive young Dominican woman, Noeli is improvised. She lives in a hut with her boyfriend Yeremi (Ricardo Ariel Torbio). Her life seems very relaxed as she hangs out with and hustles white tourist on the beaches of the Dominican Republic. Her main conflict is her class and by consequence her…