Spanish Armada

leadership in the free world. And yet, the American people generally are deficient in foreign languages” (Shaffer). Spanish is the official language of more countries than any other language excluding English. With the rapid increase of Spanish speaking minorities, more employers are going to ask that potential employees be able to speak and understand Spanish so as to appeal to Spanish speaking clientele. Many schools across the United States incorporate foreign language into their…

What makes you say you can read a book in English when your Spanish is terrible? Please do not ask again until your Spanish improves. I’m not even letting your other classmates checkout books in English and they are doing so much better in English” Those were the exact words that came from my teacher and they never let me my mind ever since…

Richard Rodriguez in his is personal narrative “Aria” gives the reader his perspective of learning English while being a native Spanish speaker. As a child he attended a monolingual school. He was told that by not speaking Spanish at home he would be able to quickly develop his English. Rodriguez attributes much of his success in life to this event of learning English, which is why he is against bilingual education. “The Pros of Bilingual Education” by Stephen Krashen challenges Rodriguez’s…

In 1493, Christopher Columbus landed in Puerto Rico, during the second voyage he called it San Juan Bautista. Later in 1508, the Spanish permitted settlement rights to Juan Ponce de Leon, who established a settlement at Caparra and became the first governor. In 1519, “Caparra relocated to a nearby coastal islet with a healthier environment, it was renamed Puerto Rico” (“Every Culture”). Puerto Rico is the easternmost and smallest of the Greater Antilles and is connected by the Atlantic Ocean.…

Autobiographical Literacy Reading serves the purpose of letting you get into the world or the event that is describing the authors in its writing. For many people reading is fascinating and for many other is just awful, for me, reading is just like another activity I could do in my free time when it relates to my likes. Writing is a complicated as it is to have the correct grammar usage and punctuation, which are essential to an excellent essay. Personally, reading is not a big deal for me…

help through any welfare program, but if she does she might not be able to continue receiving it. If anything horrible happened to her then the family system theory will be interrupted. ¿Hola, cómo estás? I just asked hello, are you doing in Spanish. The Spanish language has increased…

Like any other continent, Latin America is a melting pot of many cultures and people: some of them are indigenous, others primarily descended from Spanish Europeans who sought a new way of life and independence in what were once Spanish colonies, some who were born in this new and exciting land, and sadly, those who were forced to migrate to Latin America as slaves. But the fight to separate Latin American colonies from the Spaniards who resisted giving up their control did not occur all at…

a denigration but in that it has been consciously and deliberately chosen over all other words to identify Mexican Americans who regard themselves as Moctezuma’s children. They have thus cast off the sometimes meretricious identification with the Spanish templar tradition foisted on them by Anglo American society because of its preference for things European” Philip D. Ortego. He is saying that without their Indian past, many people probably…

My Language Learning Experience I have been a student of Spanish since I was in the 7th grade. It was my twin sister who ignited the spark for me. She had just attended Spanish class before me, and turned to me while we were standing at our lockers, asking triumphantly, “Como se llama Usted”? I was immediately captivated, and insisted that she tell me what she had said, but she wouldn’t, and turned to walk away with a smug smile on her face. Ever since that day I have had an endless curiosity…

During all of my academic experience, I have always exceled in both the English and Spanish Language Arts. As a young child I felt a need to immerse my head into books. While my peers discussed the new cartoon episodes all I could seem to talk about were the plots of the thick chapter books that I placed back on my bookshelf once I had finished reading them. In fact, I was not the type of kid that spent hours in front of a television set I have always preferred to discover a whole new world in…