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“Labor, Latinas, and Luisa” would be a lesson plan designed for a high school or college environment focused around the impact social activist Luisa Moreno had on the American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America. Luisa Moreno is an inspirational woman was the only Latina transcontinental union organizer and worked tirelessly for the causes she cared about. This particular exhibit would focus on…

from the United States to the world (160-162). Fast food restaurants, such as McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken are easy to find in any place of the universe. TVs programs from Friends to Dora the explorer are watch all around the globe. America’s music and dances are taking the world’s parties and to do not forget that Sponge Bob Square Pants’ song that everybody hums. These are only few examples of the influence that the United States…

I chose to write my essay on Mexican Independence Day. Mexican Independence Day is on September 16th. They celebrate by having parades, festivals, parties, dancing, fireworks, feasts and much more. They hang Mexican flags everywhere this day. They blow whistles and horns and throw confetti is thrown everywhere. Everything is decorated in green, red, and white. The background behind Mexican Independence Day is that the Mexicans wanted to break away from Spain. But Spain didn’t want that. When…

I have told the story of my origin many times, specifically when people ask the simple, “Where are you from?” or the ever famous “What are you?” Whilst a simple a question, I always over complicate the answer. I have never been just one thing. My parents have strong Peruvian roots, born and raised with several generations tracing back to the Incas. However, they moved to Argentina during their young adulthood, where they eventually met through mutual friends and had me. I was raised in Argentina…

education, culture, freedom, and equality.” This is true in many aspects of life, including in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1519. What does the way the Spanish brutally took over the Aztec empire and left their remaining culture at little to nothing show about progress? It shows that progress comes at a price. That price, in my opinion, is too great to risk the loss of an entire culture. Spanish conquerors did what they set out to do. They conquered the entire Aztec empire and…

Toward Independence, Fuentes notes that in 1810, eighteen million people lived under Spanish rule between California and Cape Horn (Fuentes). In total, there were eight million indian’s, one million blacks that were brought through by slave trade and four million caucasians (Fuentes). Late-Colonial Latin America was filled with many types of social classes, with the main similarity being that they were all under Spanish rule. As Fuentes mentions in Toward Independence, there were Creoles,…

integrated words in Spanish into his essay when he explained if someone wanted to know whether or not he was born in Mexico, they'd ask him. Afterwards, Munoz stated: "Then you're From Over There - de allá (Munoz par 1)." He also described spanish names have been altered for non spanish speakers. With that being said, Munoz stated: "Concepción was Connie. Ramón was Raymond. My cousin Esperanza was Hope - but her name was pronounced "Hopie" because any Spanish…

Mexico is 761,000 square miles, all of Mexico fits in the United States. Mexico has a current population of about 129 million people. The president of Mexico is Enrique Peña Nieto he is 50 years old and is the 57th president. Enrique was born in Atlacomulco mexico on July 20th 1966. He attended school in Alfred Maine his junior year in 1979. Mexico The capital of Mexico is Mexico City and Mexico City is home to about 9 million people. The other 120 million people live across the 188,000 square…

Micha Tejeda, a student whose family managed to escape from El Salvador during the civil war in the 1980s. Her parents were peasants that were tortured by local government soldiers. The fact that they’re alive today is a miracle. Stories like Micha’s have moved people to begin volunteering at Proyecto Adelante, a nonprofit agency that provides counseling services to people seeking asylum in the United States, as well as legal assistance. Patricia Warden is one of these very people. Warden,…

“Can You Lose A Language You Never Knew?” is the importance of speaking Spanish. In the article, the author explains that as she was going up, she was taught that learning the language of your home country was the “utmost importance.” According to research, “ 71 percent of self-identified Hispanic adults said that you don't need to speak Spanish to be considered Latinx,” but when she explains to people that she cannot speak Spanish, in the view of many Hispanic peers, she wasn’t…