Spanish Inquisition

of ancient Mesoamerican and medieval Iberian Peninsula. In El Salvador, the official language is Central America Spanish. Less than one percent of the population speaks the Pipil language, in places such as Izalco and several other towns. English is taught as a second language, and is commonly spoken by business people, as the country is developing through globalization. Many Spanish who settled the country intermarried with the native Indian population and…

Whether people should revenge to their enemy always been a controversial topic for our human being. Some people may think revenge can help them feel better and the others may think revenge will make the case even worse. However, as we finished reading the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare trying to persuade us that to have a revenge idea is normal but it will not bring us any good result. Just like what Gandhi once said: “ An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.…

Roxanna Rosa is a hard working mother who came to the United States at the age of 17 to work for her family in El Salvador. Since she was the oldest, she was the head of her family when it was about the money issues. Throughout her years of working in America, I have never seen discrimination until she started working at a specific barkery. She faced a lot of discrimination and harsh comments when she started working at this bakery. Panorama bakery is an environment in which it was 90 percent…

dramatic conversations. They use a variety of tones of speech with variation. The communication style of Chileans is usually relaxed and fairly informal. They use special words that really only Chileans use and they speak in their own version of Spanish. Franco explained that the type of gestures that they use is very important and you have to be careful with what you do with your hands. Snapping is very offensive to the people of Chile, So snapping is not very common to…

Revenge tragedies were a popular genre of literature in the 16th and 17th centuries, the principal plot was a quest for vengeance, in which the seeker killed or harmed an individual or individuals. Generally, these tragedies, such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet, displayed themes such as ghosts, hysteria, lag of victory, numerous murders, and much more. Hamlet followed many norms used in revenge tragedies such as the ghost, murders, and hysteria. However, even though Shakespeare’s Hamlet was similar to…

In Latin America, there is a melting pot of art and rich, vibrant cultures, whether it be indigenous or Spanish. The people who inhabit Latin America is cultural diversity at its best. There is a number of original as well as mixed races. This unique variety of races combines Amerindians, mestizos, whites, blacks, mulattos, Spanish etc. into one continent. The culture of the continent is the rich combination of several of the leading cultures of this world. Music, art, food, and dance play a…

that time because when the Mendoza family was starting to start getting money the Depression hit and that caused them to move to San Antonio. In San Antonio was where it all started for Mendoza as she got her big break on the radio, “It was the only Spanish-language program that existed at the time, you see. His program was called El Programa de la Voz Latina. I don’t remember the name of the radio station, but this program was the only one if its kind” . Mendoza, once exposed, to many listeners…

The Venezuelan war of Independence, like the American Revolutions, was largely caused by what the people deemed an unfair government policy. In 1728 the Spanish Crown granted exclusive trading rights to “The Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas. The Spanish Crown issued the exclusive trading rights because Spain was hoping to stop illegal intercolonial trade in Venezuela. The American Revolution and Venezuelan Independence both were heavily affected by people who were considered part of the…

Being a Latina is more than just a label it is my everyday experience. It is what has empowered me to become the first in my family to graduate both high school and college in the United States. I have experienced what it’s like to be afraid of going outside to an unsafe neighborhood, living with the fear of losing my parents because of their immigration status, growing up without any health insurance and debating at a young age whether I was sick enough to be seen by a doctor. My life…

Marlén Mendoza Quinceañera I can still remember the limo, the photo shoots, the cake and that magnificent ice sculpture at the center of my dessert table. That day the venue was filled with over three hundred attendees from family to friends to even strangers but none of it mattered because on June 6, 2008, I became a Quinceañera. To many of my non-Latino friends this description of my party might sound like a wedding but it is not, on the contrary it is a rite of passage. Although now…