Spanish language

The origin of empanadillas is known throughout the Caribbean, and Latin America. Empanada comes from the Spanish verb Empanar, which means to wrap in bread. Anywhere you go in Latin America empanadillas are very well know no matter what shape or size they come in. Empanadillas in English is called a beef turnovers. What I will be sharing is a recipe I have been making for years. My grandmother taught me when I was around ten. She would give me and my sister’s task. One would ground the beef,…

Growing up as a first-generation American and the son of immigrants to the United States from Latin America, the American dream is a part of my family’s story. As a kid I had a set idea of what the American dream should be. This was due to my mother’s influence. She came to the United States in the 1980s from El Salvador, a small Central American country, which was in the middle of a gruesome civil war. Her father sent her to Los Angeles because he feared for her safety. America represented a…

The author is talking about how much of an impact it is to have women in the work force and how in the current time working is essential for survival, given the rising costs in the economy for women and for Latin American government. There is a report that "concludes that gender inequality within a society has increasingly negative consequences given that globalization is creating an increasingly integrated world. Moreover, gender equality is smart economic policy". (Boudet, 2011). This is…

back to a different community. On top of going to a completely immersive school, I spent afternoons and some weekends teaching English to Ecuadorian children. In turn, I was able to get a pretty good grasp on Spanish, allowing me to better teach the kids and learn about the area I lived in. Spanish did not only help me in Ecuador but also more recently in the past summer when I traveled to Costa Rica for a month, this time on my own. Costa Rica was not a cute beach vacation, contrarily it was…

Haiti was French colony and Latin America was spanish but independence was paramount in both and changed these areas forever. The outcomes of independence movements in Haiti and the Spanish Americas were similar because they both ended successfully and with independence from the colonizing nation, a difference however was that in Haiti the revolution ended with a complete…

the Latin American nations towards the aggressive U.S expansionist policy and the failures of maintaining political stability within their countries. While the Ostend Manifesto had unanimously proclaimed that the U.S would take Cuba by force if the Spanish refused to sell, Sarmiento’s letter expresses support to replicate on some aspects of U.S society. These documents reveal the growing fears of U.S domination in Latin America as the U.S realist foreign policy of expansionism has led to the…

The group I chose to research was the Hispanic culture. I do not know much about the Hispanic culture nor have had much experience working with this culture. Sometimes it can be hard to work with or surround yourself with people when your cultures are not the same, therefore getting to better know the values and customs of a Hispanic will help me to make sure my clients get the most from me Knowing more about the people that I am dealing with is the best way to ensure a good client to counselor…

primarily on place of birth. With the Spanish-born peninsulares at the top, resentment among the Latin America natives was common. Peninsulares formed only a small portion of the population, but they were the only people who could hold the highest offices in the Spanish colonial government. Beneath them were the creoles, Spanish people born in Latin America. Though they could not hold the highest offices in government, they could rise significantly in the Spanish colonial armies. The…

sovereignty rather than the people being subjects of the head of state. Simón Bolívar is the founding father of Republicanism in South America, and it is his political ideology that shaped its political mentality. His attempted to united all the Spanish speaking ultimately failed, and I will go into his legacy and influence on South American…

1. Why does Mario Vargas Llosa say that “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”? Llosa says, “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”; he is trying to portray that cultural aspects, like writing and art, have found what “unites” Latin America, where as in other areas, such as politics, have failed to define what brings Latin America together, but more of a separation. What Llosa is portraying here is that the creators of Latin America…