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In The House of the Scorpion, the main antagonist is El Patron. He owns a piece of land between the United States and what used to be called Mexico. El Patron created Matt for the purpose of using him later in life when El Patron was going to die. However, he allowed Matt to live a life as close to him as possible to brainwash Matt into thinking that his motives were good. He prevented Matt from being pricked into being an eejit, which is an almost like robot being. El Patron grew up in a poor…

In my family Christmas time is the best time of the year. We always gather together and celebrate with a big beautiful tree and great food. The one food that is always a must have is tamales. My great grandmother started this tradition in her house, located in Durango, Mexico, because it was the one and only food she could always get the youngest child to eat. The children always enjoy cheese stuffed tamales while the adults enjoy red pork tamales. While some food might have been cooked days…

With the family surnames of Rasmussen and Anderson it is clear that the beginnings of my Family of Origin are mainly Danish, so describing my family as a taco might be shocking. Both, my family and a taco are structurally cohesive. (Olson, 2000) We have boundaries, yet we aren’t enmeshed. Often the ingredients try to slip out of the tortilla and some ingredients can be eaten without anything added or taken away from them, such as cheese. When each ingredient is included and stays in the taco…

about a historical event is through good collection of primary sources. Mark Wasserman’s The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History with Documents is just that. It is a good academic representation as well as a good teaching tool; while it has it shortcomings overall, it is a good collection of documents for the time period it covers. To start, this book gives a good academic representation of the Mexican revolution because it uses a variety of sources. Wasserman uses several firsthand accounts…

Abyssinian Don’t call me African-American. Don’t call me colored. Don’t call me Ethiopian. Don’t call me Ethiopian American. I want to be called Abyssinian. I am Cushitic - the descendants of the original inhabitants of modern day Ethiopia. My upbringings are of the Nile valley. I am born of the original beings who served to be the cradle of humanity. I stand for my Abyssinian brother and sisters still in bondage of a governmental regime, and who flee their ancestral lands for a better future in…

Mexico and USA have a lot in common, but we also have a lot of our own costumes. Here is 4 differences and 4 similarities us and Mexico have. Let’s start off with a difference their families, unlike us, often all live in their grandparents house and stay their. Only a small portion of them move to live in their own houses. Here in the USA the big portion of us go off to live our lives in our own houses. Here we are the ones with the advantage because we have enough money and wealth to do this…

so hard. Having been put into boxes and compartmentalized by white America, the Chicanos wanted to, in essence, name themselves. However, Calderon then notes, “[w]hereas Spanish-American has been acceptable to the larger society, Chicano (or even Mexican-American) was viewed as militant” and that “[w]hen the term Spanish-American fell into disuse, the US Census Bureau and other government agencies, with the blessing of various Latino politicians, replaced it with the term Hispanic” (Calderon,…

to come back. This is what millions of undocumented workers face every day. I can not relate to the theme personally because I have never experienced what it is like to live in fear and be treated as if I am not human. This is what undocumented, Mexican and Central American immigrants have to go through every day. I will probably never understand what it is like, but that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t care. I chose this theme because when Enrique’s father says “For the rich, the poor are just…

“The Hatred Within” is the story of José as he goes through his adolescent years. José is Latino, but does not identify with the Latino community or even his family for that matter. He, in fact, hates it and all that it stands for, associating more with the white community. Although José never denied his heritage, he always checked off the box for Latino, he never knew what it meant to be Latino or cared to know either. In the beginning of José’s story, there was some obvious problems in his…

La Peor de Todas, The Worst of All, was put on by the National Museum of Mexican Art as part of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival. The entire play was performed in Spanish with English supertitles. I know some Spanish and was able to more or less keep up with the play without the supertitles, which was also a satisfying experience. However, if I did look to the supertitles, I could tell that they were often too far ahead or behind the dialogue which was a little annoying.…