Spanish music

My mother, Maria, was born and raised in San Salvador. San Salvador is the capital city of El Salvador, is the smallest country in Central America, and for her childhood and teenage years, the country was in a civil war. This civil war started in 1980 and lasted 12 years. In the summer of 1990, Maria decided to visit her eldest sister, Fatima, for the winter holidays. Fatima and her first daughter, Karla, had first immigrated illegally to Houston, Texas in 1983 with the help of Mexican Coyotes –…

divide us. However, he forgot crucial facts to this whole predicament. He lumped together all the Spanish speaking Americans as Mexicans even though they might not be Mexican. Also, this is not a small group of people that he is talking about but a group of millions. In addition, most of the land that America has in the west coast once belonged to Mexico. Finally, he not only robbed the other Spanish speaking Americans of their identity by calling them all Mexicans but also is just expressing…

I was born in Lima, Peru, and when i was 3 years old I moved to the beautiful island of Hawaii. Leaving Peru was difficult, it was hard to leave family and friends, and start a new life in a environment so different from ours. We had to Learn a new Language, and just start over from nothing. I can’t even imagine how hard it was for my parents, But they knew what had to be done to give my brothers and I a better life, and have opportunities they never had. Growing up I was always taught to work…

began learning Spanish in middle school, it was by obligation. At the time, there was no need for me to know any other language beside English. Everyone around me was white, and no one spoke anything other than English. It wasn’t until high school that I realized the power of knowing another language. Speaking another language allows you to communicate with entirely new communities -- to hear their problems and experience their way of life. In recent years, I have found the Spanish language to…

Gabriel García Márquez satirizes the role that both religious and political leaders play in Latin society in his novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, which situates itself in a developing Colombian society. These authorities were seen as sources of inspiration, knowledge, and the light to guide in the darkest of times. However, in the wake of La Violencia and the structural & institutional conflicts that followed, Márquez identified these leaders as sources of corruption and failure.…

Countries thought to be rich in gold, such as Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Columbia, were subjected to the brutal nature of colonization - a tactic of establishing power and domination over anything or anyone that stood in the path to obtaining riches. The Spanish and Portuguese enacted harsh colonization practices incorporated slavery from throughout the African Diaspora and resulted in the loss of millions of indigenous people’s lives and land. Whereas, Argentina’s immigration history is primarily…

cultural image of the Chicano/mexicano” to the reader (Anzaldúa 52). This symbol unites the cultures of Mexico through the idealism of women’s customs. The mother figure addresses the Indian side of the lifestyle and the father identities address the Spanish sides. These disputes can be looked at further as the neighborhood Indians were essentially people migrating beginning with one land then onto the following. These people were being at peace and would attempt to achieve comfort and…

The United States was not justified in its decision to go to war with Spain for a few main reasons; politically with the sinking of the Maine incorrectly blamed on Spain; also economically because all of the yellow press going on in America at the time, and finally morally it was Spain's brutal treatment of the Cubans that could be stopped peacefully and without a war. After the Civil War, America as a country was in a way, separate from the rest of the world for a little while. Then, later in…

The average American may think that just because both regions Mexico and Puerto Rico speak the same language they are very similar. Well, they are but they also have a lot of differences as well. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans make up two of the largest speaking groups in the United States. Although the two cultures have lots in common, for many years there has been much animosity between the them. There are resentments due to illegal immigration, crimes, and collective judgement from non-Latinos…

I’m from Guatemala well it’s just not about that like I will be talking about my culture and food . Culture where I’m from it’s like really nice to be and have fun with friends or just family and the culture we have is like somewhat different to other countries . We have a lot of different words like all together we have twenty-one languages in Guatemala If you go up there you will like/love it . Because no matter what the people over there are really nice and will make you feel like you are…