Quinceañera

weren’t Catholic, and they didn’t have fiestas or quinceañeras. So when I asked my grandma what Las Chiapanecas mean her, it didn’t surprise me that she said the dance didn’t hold any real significance to her. However, she teasingly followed up by saying, “I’m sorry I don’t have a cool story to tell like, ‘My family would wake up every morning and practice Las Chiapanecas’” ("Jane Ortega: Heritage, Music, and Dance."). At least if she didn’t have a quinceañera, she had a good sense of…

My Rite of Passage A multitude of cultures have ceremonies designated to propel an individual from adolescence to adulthood. Whether it be the Hispanic Quinceanera or the Jewish Bat Mitzvah, there are ways to formally give insight to individuals about the many intricacies of adulthood. Although these formal celebrations are joyous occasions, we then wonder about the informal occasions that bring us into maturity. Throughout my life, I, as well as my family, experienced an emotional pain we…

Deisy Molina Salgado https://www.hbu.edu/the-honors-college/honors-college/application-part-b/ The Honors College at HBU Application: Part B How do you think the study of history could improve your friendships? We have all in one form or another, heard that history repeats itself. Philosopher George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Knowing history does not mean that I will have the answers to everything, but observing the…

In our current times many prejudices against any abnormalities to the “two” genders are very controversial. As we have seen many people have been arguing about the Transgenders’ rights to their own self identification. I am impartial about the subject, but I do understand where both sides are coming from. This weeks reading has shown us the side of American culture where doctors at birth fix any genital abnormalities to the child to match what gender they may be. This is controversial because it…

Boston Red Sox. Harrison Ford lives in an 800-acre ranch in Jackson, WY, is an actor in the Indiana Jones series, Star Wars Trilogy and The Force Awakens. Jesse Garcia is from Rawlins, WY, born in 1982 and grew up in Hanna, WY, an actor in the movie Quinceanera and won Best Actor at the 2007 ALMA (American Latino Media Arts)…

As a child my heritage and parents background never really interested me nor was I informed of it, my family on the other hand would somewhat taunt me for not embracing my Hispanic heritage in full arms or how I was a "Gringa"- translation a white girl. However, as a child I believed I had valid reasoning behind ignoring my heritage and neglecting my family's prominent traditions and sacrifices. When I peeked at the age of 10, I was in elementary school, when the idea of social classes and…

daily basis. A weakness that he was first faced with was acceptance, he seemed timid when he first arrived in McFarland while trying to be polite. He also seemed to lack trust in his new community, which was evident during his oldest daughters Quinceanera where the car she was in was attacked. Nonetheless, the strengths that Coach White was able to focus on was his students. He was able to notice that his students, while not football players, could run. He built upon this strength to help create…

this was something that I valued due to the fact my parents had been fighting a couple days ago. I always think that my dad could leave at any time he really wanted to. I remember overhearing a conversation between my uncle and dad at my cousin's quinceanera which he said that “quiero dejar Maria para ir a méxico con la…

friends going and singing at different homes for a good time. Which brings me to realize how hospitable Puerto Ricans are. When we talk about values, we have to highlight: family and faith. We love to have family reunions. I remember for my quinceañera (sweet fifteen), family from Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, and of course, Puerto Rico came to my party. This was the ultimate family reunion. We danced salsa and merengue, dances from Puerto Rico. We sang with congas, pleneras,…

Having courage is probably one of the most important things to me. We can refer to it as two different ways. One is it courage to face danger and the second way is having courage to do something you are afraid of. In this case, it’s having the courage to sing publicly. Ever since I was little, singing and dancing has been a talent i’ve had since I was about 5 years old. I grew up wanting to be like other celebrities seen on television and my parents would see how much dance performance and…