Spanish Armada

Blood trickled down people’s faces as they were running out of the intoxicating building. However, did anybody cared to think about the immigrant workers who did not even have a chance of surviving? “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” by Martín Espada, is a poem in praise of immigrants who worked in the Window on the World restaurant. Throughout Espada’s piece, the author committed himself in representing, and celebrating the lives and stories of those who have dealt with a tragic loss in that…

The Global North abused poor little Latin American countries. The global north used the poor Latin American countries to benefit them and only them. In order to keep up with the Global North, Latin American has allowed itself to be misled and has misused states funds for capital gain instead of investing in their own country’s transportation, education, and health care leading to a lower-income in most of its population. Latin America has allowed other countries to come in and use/run it’s…

Congress was to declare independence from the Spanish Crown as a colony, and become its own state of institution. The question: Why did Venezuela seek independence from Spain? Or more specifically what made the loyal colonists favor this decision along with the rest of society or the lower class. The answer: Spain became too busy with internal conflicts to ensure and maintain its duties to its colonies as promised. Primary Source The invasion of the Spanish throne by the French at that…

The Spanish exploration of America brought many new foods, types of plants, and forms of wealth to the European world. The wealth brought to Spain from the Americas came at a cost that was paid for by the enslavement and the sufferings of Native Americans and eventually the Africans. The Spanish colonization from 1492 to 1700 was motivated by religious conversion of all peoples in America and the desire for wealth and profit that had a significant impact on the lives of Native Americans and…

From this definition of culture, we see that it lists behaviors and beliefs. Speaking Spanish or any other language is not a behavior or a belief, it rather communicates a cultures ideas. Language to cultures is just the way the people express these ideas vocally it is how they communicate their thoughts to one another. Language is not a part…

As a future educator, I have an obligation to cultivate interdependent relationships between my students and me. The students’ values, cultures and stories should be an emphasized component in this relationship. I am excited about the opportunity to participate in the English Teaching Assistant Program Spain, as it will allow me to develop ways to foster a greater capacity to connect with the students of my classroom with a Hispanic background. Rockefeller was a supporter of this principle…

Hispanic: an individual of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish-speaking country culture or origin. This conception of the word Hispanic is extensive because it includes all people with ties to a Latin American country or country with Spanish culture, while remaining specific by maintaining that that these connections are either through origin or culture. Every ten years the U.S. government issues the decennial census which collects data about the actual…

different languages (English, Hindi, Telugu), but I am still interested in taking courses that will help me become a fluent speaker in another language, like Spanish. I have taken Spanish classes in high school, and I am very excited to continue my study of Spanish at the College of Charleston. I would like to receive a minor degree in Spanish at the College of Charleston to enhance my competitiveness in the job-seeking world, connect with people from different cultural backgrounds and to…

Spanish Loss,” Van Tran successfully rebuked the claim made by English-only advocates that bilingualism hurts English adoption, and as a result leads to a lack of national unity. Tran found that second-generation Latinos, universally reported gains in both English and Spanish proficiency over time. Through his cross-sectional studies on language assimilation, Mexicans, the Latino group…

I remember back when I was a child more than 30 something years ago, my mother talking about John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how good of a President he was and how people around the world loved him. You would think that my mother was an American but no! Back then when she was stating these words she lived in her native country; Panama Republic of Panama. I learned in an early age to see the US as something heavenly and magical. John F. Kennedy helped Panama a lot with humanitarian relief back in the…