Spanish American

There have been a few educational challenges that I had to overcome. Considering the fact that I was not born in this country puts me at a disadvantage from someone who was born here. English was not my 1st language, Spanish was, growing up in the Dominican Republic most of my life until the age of seven. Learning English was a challenge that I overcame with hard work and repetitive studying of words that are now primitive to me. Another educational challenge was not having a parental…

The topic of revenge is portrayed over and over in countless works of literature. Revenge is portrayed in the Shakespearean play, Macbeth, as well as in the novel, “Of Mice and Men” which was written by John Steinbeck. In the play Macbeth, revenge is seen throughout the whole text. Revenge is one of the major themes in this play seeing as there are various parts with this topic laced throughout it. The reason why there are countless killings in this play is because when someone sees blood, they…

Costa Rica is located in Central America. It shares borders with Panama and Nicaragua. Its touches both the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. Costa Rica is in the middle of a massive and rugged rainforest. On February 7, 2016 La Casa Amarilla opens its historic doors to the public for the first time La Casa Amarilla was built in 1920 by Henry D. Whitfield, an architect from the US from the United States. The “Yellow House” will be open for tours two times every month. La Casa Amarilla is home to…

models of chivalry because they feared that chivalric standards were endangered in the U.S. because of women agitating for political rights. Chivalric men and anti-feminist women turned to Cuban women as models of femininity. In contrast to activist American women, Cuban women were depicted as romantic heroines and displayed feminine…

cocaine being shipped to the United States. Pablo Escobar was the modern day robin hood for the locals of his city. Pablo Escobar was also a ruthless person when it came to getting what he wanted. The EPL is an acronym for Popular Liberation Army. In Spanish it stands for Ejercito Popular de Liberacion. The EPL was founded in 1967. The EPL used to be main group but in the 1991 they negotiated peace and mainly demobilized. Demobilized meaning they gave up most of their weapons. The EPL is still…

According to Garrod (2012), Jose is a Latino boy whose parents are immigrants from Honduras. Even though he has a unique culture, he grew up believing that he was identified as white. He applied white-like behaviors and actions throughout his school experience. Jose is an intelligent boy who acquired Advanced Placement courses, which consisted of classrooms predominately white students. Since his school was populated with generally white students he grew up believing in himself being like them.…

Period 3 1/20/18 Judeo-Spanish Language Preservation Judeo-Spanish, also known as Ladino, is a language belonging to the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. According to an article written by the University of Bamberg, it was originally spoken by Jews in Spain, but proceeded to flourish in regions of the Ottoman Empire after these Jews were thrown out and forced to migrate. This language is derived from medieval Castilian Spanish. Today, it is mainly spoken by Sephardic Jew…

United States some years ago. When I moved here, I started to know people from other countries like Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador. In Puerto Rico we speak Spanish and I knew that in Mexico and Central America the speak Spanish as well, but I did not know that their Spanish was different from ours. I assumed that everybody that speaks Spanish use the exact same words, but moving to the United States helped me learn that is not true. When I started to make new friends, they could not understand…

The educational background, environmental and financial status is the three socioeconomic factors that influence the health of the Gaborra family. Pablo and Olga has limited educational background. Pablo can read and write English just enough to get through his daily work. Meanwhile, Olga has little knowledge of the English and did not find learning English useful even there is a free community classes available. Most of the Mexican immigrant’s inability to learn English is due to the intent to…

Toro De La Marisma A deployment from spain is how this sixty three year old painting began its existence. My great grandma Jean and grandpa Bill began their journey in Seville Spain where a famous United States mantador was rising. This specific mantador was John Fulton , an artist from Pennsylvania and also the first U.S mantador in spain. Bullfighting was a very popular at the time and my great grandparents went to a lot of them. However at one bullfight they noticed John and realized…