Second Spanish Republic

After failed attempts by Francisco Miranda and Admiral Home Popham to cut off the Spanish Crown’s control of Coro and Buenos Aires, Napoleon began his invasions. (42) Chasteen importantly notes that the revolution attempts by Francisco De Miranda and Home Popham were unsuccessful because they lacked popular support, which is ironic considering…

context, Republicanism is the ideology of governing a society or state as a republic (la. res publica), where the head of state is a representative of the people who hold popular sovereignty rather than the people being subjects of the head of state. Simón Bolívar is the founding father of Republicanism in South America, and it is his political ideology that shaped its political mentality. His attempted to united all the Spanish speaking ultimately failed, and I will go into his legacy and…

At least, 52 million people out of the 320 million living in the United States speak fluent Spanish and millions more have some knowledge of the Spanish language. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao the author, Junto Diaz, frequently integrates spanish words and phrases into his writing and demonstrates that Spanish is not a minority language in the United States. Diaz utilizes a technique commonly referred to as Code-switching in order to represent the blurred boundaries of language around…

over The Latin American territory. For example, in the early 1800’s Anglo settlers moved into Florida at such high numbers that Spanish soldiers could no longer control the territory (Gonzalez, 35). In an attempt to regain control of the land Spain would legalize the Anglo settlers as long as they pledged loyalty to the crown. This agreement ended up hurting the Spanish settlers in the long run because it allowed Anglo settlers to move into Florida more rapidly before making it harder for Spain…

A. Country Information: Panama is located in Central America between Costa Rica and Colombia. It is also known as The Republic of Panama. Panama is situated on isthmus connecting north and South America and bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to east, Caribbean Sea to the north and Pacific Ocean in the south. Panama has 772 kilometers from east to west in length and width that varies from 60 to 177 kilometers. Panama has an area of 77,381kilometers which makes it slightly smaller…

Julie Broderick began her teaching career after graduating from The College of William and Mary with an undergraduate concentration in Government and Spanish Language. Coming from a family of educators, her mom is a retired high school Spanish teacher and her dad is a retired university professor, Julie did not initially want to become a teacher when she went off to college. However, upon graduation Julie knew that she wanted to use her language skills in her future career and thus applied to…

United States-born Hispanics/Latinos affect their education level; Why US-born Hispanic have a higher graduation rate than Hispanic immigrants? First, it’s important to understand who are Hispanics and/or Latinos. Hispanics are people of Spanish speaking and/or with Spanish origin. Hispanics was 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…

Census data indicates that Hispanics will be the largest minority group by the year 2050” (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992). Hispanics in the United States includes any person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. Latinos are people of “Latin-American” descent (Webster’s 3rd International Dictionary, 2002). Widespread usage of the term “Hispanic” dates…

I observed at Lincoln Elementary School, in Madison. They have a Spanish English Dual Language Immersion (DLI) and an English Language Immersion (ELI) program in the same school. The classroom I observed was part of the DLI program and used a co-teaching model where both teachers are teaching at the same time. One teacher teaches in English and the other teaches in Spanish, and the students spend 50 percent of their time with each teacher. This method makes it very clear when the students are…

Nicaragua has a democratic republic and makes of four different branches of government: Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, Electoral Branch, and Judicial Branch. Power in the Executive Branch is exercised by the president. The National Assembly holds power in the Legislative Branch…