Spanish Inquisition

Miami, I was raised in Colombia, obviously then Spanish is my firstlanguage. Well, how did you learn English? Well, in Colombia, one took English classes inschool. So that is why I have a preparation before entering an American classroom andunderstand some things exposed in class. And you were how old when you first came toAmerica? I was 18 and I have been living here for 11 months. Well, given that you can speak,read and write in both English and Spanish…Well, even though I speak both languages…

Race and religion have always been historically tied together, especially in California with our history of the mission system as a form of colonization. In Cherrie Moraga’s play Heroes and Saints, she confronts this directly through her characters using various racial projects. In their piece, Racial Formation in the United States, Omi and Winant define a racial project as a “historically situated action that represents and organizes human bodies in a hegemonic structure of power” (Omi and…

cultural and gendered impacts of the language itself. From an early age girls are taught not to talk too much, not to talk back and not to ask questions. In Northern parts of Mexico and Southernmost parts of the United States, the female plural in Spanish is excluded from the language, leaving women fall under the masculine…

would wash over me whenever I had to speak Spanish with my family. My flushed cheeks were testament to my lack of proficiency. My family constantly picked out the words I mispronounced or misplaced in my sentences. Oftentimes, my grandparents would give me an ultimatum: to speak Spanish or not to speak at all. One day, volunteering at my local hospital, a registered nurse had inquired if any of the individuals collected at the nurses' station could speak Spanish. They gave each other quizzical…

Chicanos also feared disapproval from the Latinos because their Spanish was imperfect. In addition, Anzaldua highlights the issue for women in the Chicano society. In her culture, many words were considered derogatory if applied to women. She mentions Chicanas bare robbed of their female being by the masculine plural…

this point across Julia Alvarez structures her poem in a sestina pattern, however giving her own spin off to it by incorporating Spanish words. In order for the message to be understood, Julia Alvarez places the audience in her shoes in order to recognize the difficulty of having English as a second language. Although most of the poem is English, there are a couple of Spanish words. This leaves the audience to feel lost or as if she is not getting the full message. Ironically that is how many…

As far as I remembered, I always wanted to leave Vietnam. While I have deep love and respect for my country, I wanted to travel to somewhere, to see new things and meet new people to learn new culture and taste exotic foods. Seeing my interest for the foreign, my parents registered me to the bilingual program since primary school. The language I learned however wasn’t English, it was French. For ten years I learned French and for ten years I dreamed of living in France, studying at a Parisian…

development of Bilingualism begins at very young age, it become a form of identity among children and it creates this way of life that they consider normal. Being bilingual in America is knowing two different languages in most cases, Spanish and English. It is learning Spanish from their most likely uneducated parents and learning English from their surroundings along with perfecting the language through education. Moreover, being bilingual not only consist of advantages it also consists of…

The Spanish-American war is a conflict between two countries Spain and the United States which has the end of the Spanish colonial empire and led the US to seize territory in Latin America and Western Pacific. The Spanish-American war based on different political paradigms has numerous reasons why the conflict between them cropped up and each of these paradigms explains in their own way. The Realist paradigm considers that the conflict between the United States and Spain happened because of a…

taught myself how to read and write in Spanish. Although I live in a Hispanic family I was not aware of how to read and write in Spanish. My mom’s side of the family is from Puerto Rico, and my dad’s side of the family is from Ecuador. I was always spoken to in Spanish by my family except for my mom. We spoke in English, so I never learned how to read or write in Spanish. This is when I taught myself how to. It was the day I taught my self how to interpret Spanish writing. My mom was…