Mexican–American War

Fox News published an opinion piece titled Make America Mexico Again: Why Americans are fed up with illegals.” This news story discusses the issue of illegal immigration from Mexico. According to Britannica.co, Fox News was created by Robert Murdoch who “enlisted television producer and former Republican political consultant Roger Ailes to oversee the new network, and Ailes’s business acumen and political leanings became closely associated with its eventual success.” Fox News trademark slogan…

He proceeded to work day and night for the next five years until he was able to bring our family together again. I had never heard of Mexicans being labeled as lazy, and it 's sometimes hard to believe what others might say about you simply because of your ethnicity. The video "i’m latino, but i’m not…" raised my awareness about several stereotypes about Mexicans. Throughout my experiences I have learned, stereotypes can come from the deepest, darkest most ignorant parts of people, so I simply…

Chicana is defined as a woman either born in Mexico or of Mexican descent. Most people would just leave it at that but a Chicana is so much more than that. Elizabeth Martinez is a feminist author who wants to change how “La Chicana” and women everywhere are treated. One of her famous works La Chicana shows the struggle Mexican-American women have endured and are currently going through. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how Mexican-American women have been oppressed and how their community…

Alberto Urrea describes the seemingly impassable struggles immigrants must overcome when travelling from Mexico to the United States. The story follows the deadly journey of a group of undocumented male immigrants who in 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a desolate area known as the Devil’s Highway. Urrea provides the reader with not only a compelling story but also a complex historical compilation of information on the Mexico-United States…

the US has had a greater number of Latinos in metropolitan cities, it has also tried to limit it growth through deportation and stifling its influence over US society. Mike Davis in Magical Urbanism tries to present the contemporary experiences of Mexican and other Latino groups in the US, whether it is the higher demography, the racism faced by many, or the chances for the Latino group to succeed in the US. The experience of Latinos in the US has followed the same experience as those of Latin…

of a person, or the feelings of the person who wrote the song. Some people criticize people by their songs, or people criticize the artist for their lyrics either way. Donald Trump had a similar thoughts about criticize other people he stated “On Mexican immigrant – They are rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.” The lyrics of these three distinctive songs, “Por el Mexicano”, “justicia”, and “illegales”, easy illustrate the life of many people who leave their country. When I was a child…

Discovering the English language may be the most crucial experience one can endure as an American citizen. For Helen Keller, Malcolm X and Christine Marín, it was, and there are extraordinary similarities despite their extremely different situations. Helen Keller was an upper class deaf and blind girl living in America during a time where handicapped people were dehumanized and negatively looked upon. She was taught to read and write three months shy of her seventh birthday by…

her childhood friends. Her difference is inevitable: “Even though my umbilical cord was buried in Iguala, I was no longer considered Mexican enough. To the people there, who had seen me grow up, I was no longer one of them” (Grande 2013:28). She negotiates this experience by accepting the difference by creating a dual identity “Mexican American”. As Mexican American (a liminal/in-between identity) and a legal resident Grande is allowed to move between both countries. She is personally in harmony…

with how the boy grew up, not his race. However, Racial Bias Among Jurors at Heart of Supreme Court Case talks about an assumption that Mr. Pena Rodriguez was guilty of sexual assault just because of his race. “I think he did it because he’s Mexican, and Mexican men take whatever they want.” One of the Jurors is making an immediate opinion that the defendant is guilty based on a stereotype about his race, It is different than Twelve Angry men because it has much less character that, and talks…

and death cycle, so it is not unusual for people who are dying in pain. Religion plays an important part in the Mexican culture, so prayers is often used to give hope to the sick. Mexicans believe that someone giving the infant or child the” evil eye” causes them sickness and the spell is broken only when that person touches the infant or child (Giger & Davidhizar, 2013). Mexicans do not believe they have control over their health. They believe that death is an unpreventable phenomenon and…