Latin American culture

The independence movement in Venezuela, like in other countries in Latin America, was a tumultuous one. Even after the achieval of independence, Venezuela still struggled to maintain a successful government. Before the independence movements, loyalty to the Spanish rule was the common sentiment; a loyalty that would continue even during the Peninsular War. This caused many revolutionaries like Simon Bolivar to resort to wear the mask of Fernando VII in the juntas due to the lack of support…

Disruption of English Learner & Context I decided to report my linguistic case study on a coworker who is learning English. Since I teach at an immersion school with a bilingual elementary program, many of my coworkers are learning English as a second language. I work closely with the second and third grade Spanish teacher and it is my second year working with her. Janet is a female, adult, Columbian native Spanish speaker. She has lived in Georgia near the metro Atlanta area for almost two…

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination” a quote by Christopher Columbus explains how he felt after his technology failed him by leading him in the Americas and not Asia according to his plan. Christopher Columbus took part in the "Age of Discovery", which was a time during the 15th and 16th century when European leaders, starting with Portugal, sponsored the expeditions to undiscovered land in hopes of expanding their…

areas and lands far away. The Age of Exploration was a controversial age with both negative and positive effects, however it was more harmful since Africans and natives were exploited, plagued by death, and stripped of their customs and traditional cultures. Exploration by the Europeans opened many new doors. They found new areas to set up ports where they could receive and transport the best new materials and foods back to Europe, like in the Spice Trade. They also discovered the New World,…

played a part in spreading diseases and bringing slavery to the New World. First off, Christopher Columbus was not the first person to discover America as believed by numerous people, and neither did Columbus ever step foot on American soil. Most Americans believe that Columbus was the man who discovered the continent we live on today,…

in the writing world. Bolina details his life growing up as a “brown” but privileged boy in America. He was raised “like a white guy,” although his skin contradicts that. The “Other” races in America are expected to be assimilated into the white culture. Most people become accustomed to this and other white people say that race does not phase them, however, Bolina does not agree. Race is too much of a consideration when it comes to class that it cannot possibly be nonexistent. As a result, this…

Countries in Central America are plagued with poverty, overruned by gang violence and ruled by government systems that don’t do enough for their people. The author of Enrique 's journey, Sonia Nazario paints a vivid picture of the circumstances that lead loving mothers to leave their children behind while venturing across America, in order to get to the promise land. A land charged with hopes and promises. Promises that are not always kind to immigrants. Immigrant mothers risk everything in…

Jose Rizal A national hero in the Philippines is a man named Jose Rizal that would reveal the corruption of the Spaniards and the Roman Catholic Church towards the Filipinos due to his writings that would change the history of the Philippines. The Spaniards were very powerful during the 1500s. They began to take over cities/countries. The wanted to take over the Philippine island because of three main reasons and those are: they wanted to spread the Roman Catholic religion, during that time the…

16th-17th centuries permanently connected Europe and the Americas, a connection that eventually formed the modern “West.” This new global connection not only created positive effects, but it also created a few negative ones as well. The European and American perspectives vastly changed because of this new connection that was created. Before the connection came to be, Europeans believed there were multiple continents, unaware of how big the world truly was. The Europeans believed that new trade…

Religion influences the laws by the code discriminated against Jews and non Christian it made Orthodox Christianity the official religion. But on the other hand it allowed women to inherit property and protected some individuals rights. Byzantine culture was spread in another way by Orthodox missionaries. Byzantine missionaries converted many Slavs to…