Spanish in the United States

America. It is a country with different habitats from barren plains to high mountains and tropical Amazon rainforest with Amazon River flowing in the east. The Peruvian population projected in 2015 was 31.2 million. The main spoken language of Peru is Spanish. There is a combination of cultural traditions in Peru due to which there is great variety in cuisine, art, music and literature. Peru is a representative democratic republic; it is divided into a total of 25 regions. Boesten, J. (2010).…

“The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with only few barriers.”(Anonymous) The idea of an ‘American Dream’ has changed throughout history and never really has had a solid definition as to what exactly the Dream was. Overall, this…

musical group that are originally from Mexico, consisting at least two violinist, two trumpets, a Spanish guitar, a vihuela, and a guitarrón. The word mariachi was considered to be derived from marriage, which is the French word for marriage, since mariachi often performed at weddings. Mariachi music as we know today is originated Jalisco, Mexico. Mariachi is sound, also known as son, is a mixture of Spanish, native and African traditions, which differs form region to region. The music, from the…

Conquistadors were explorers of the Spanish Empire. From the 15th century to the 18th century conquistadors traveled across Europe to the Americas, Asia and much of Africa. They colonized much of the world for Europe in the 16th - 18th centuries. After Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492 and the first circumnavigation of the world by Juan Sebastian Elcano and Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, expeditions led by conquistadors in the 16th century established trading routes linking…

more greatly affected freedom and democracy at home and abroad. Even though there were more negatives, both negatives and positives helped the country and world later in time. One of the events that affected freedom at home and abroad was the Spanish-American War. The event that sparked the war was the explosion of the ship U.S.S Maine on February 15, 1898. No one knew what had happened later found to be an accidental explosion. At the time though, the press blamed Spain for the explosion of…

director Denis Villeneuve executes a pragmatic and newfangled drug thriller that evokes the masterpiece, Traffic. Villeneuve’s 2015 film, Sicario, portrays how the United States contends with the escalating war on drugs against Mexican, and in particular, Sonoran, cartels. The film endorses positive and negative archetypes of Spanish-speaking individuals. Additionally, Villeneuve utilizes cinematic tools such as color and light along with the language of sexual assault to portray a world in…

afford insurance. However, a solution has emerged for those of this particular socioeconomic status, the Affordable Care Act. (ABOUT) It has proven to decrease rate of uninsured Latinos by implementing expansion of eligibility for Medicaid across states. The percent of adults ages 19-64 who were uninsured within the Latino population decreased from 40% to 34%…

British and Spanish presence nearby. Thomas Jefferson communicated the desire to purchase New Orleans and the French leader at the time, Napoleon Bonaparte, decided to offer the president the whole Louisiana territory. In this essay, we will examine the dilemmas and what came about from the Louisiana Purchase which affected the people, the government, and the industrialization of the United States.…

Today we look at America as a salad bowl, full of different races and cultures all abiding by a set of ridged laws established by our Founding Fathers. While our country is divided into states--with separate governments and laws specific to each state--Americans still believe in the unification of the country as a whole. Hundreds of years ago; however, this country would not have been recognizable to the modern day American. It was still a salad bowl full of a heterogeneous mix of people all…

people often times do not how to react towards other people that are not like them. Today, there are many cultural clashes for a variety of different reasons. At Howard University, the languages were German and French, whereas today most schools often Spanish. In other countries, people are expected to know English at such a young age, but yet America is lacking with children that…