Tamale

My two sides American and Honduran People thing is a very unique experience being in born in the USA and having a Hispania or Latino background. In a ways is very unique having two different background; I get to learn two different language English and Spanish. I get to know my American culture and my Honduran culture. It is not always easy being Hispanic American. A good reason being born in the United States is that I have more opportunities here. The downside is that I did not get to grow up…

Most Hispanics tend to cook from scratch. Latin American typical cuisine things are maize based dishes, for example: tortillas, tamales, tacos, and arepas (Wikipedia). Sofrito are always used for a base in all of the Latin America cooking which just usually consists of garlic, onion, peppers and tomatoes cooking in cube sized and sautéed in a small amount of oil. The sofrito is more…

We would bring him belonging to make him feel at home. Such as a tempur-pedic pillow, his favorite blanket, and a small Christmas tree. The only thing we couldn’t take him was food, he had asked for tamales that my grandma makes. I promised him that after he got better I would bring him some, but that never happened. After visiting him every day at the hospital on December 23, my great grandfather was taken off of life support and pasted away. I couldn…

smothered in the amount of cooking salt that we use on two batches of popcorn. I hadn’t even allowed it to touch my tongue before I had guzzled down a half a bottle of water. Chris has also tried multiple times to get me to drink a Suicide with Hot Tamales in it. I refuse immediately every…

My country is Mexico. Luckily, my family and I are from Mexico. Except I was born in the United States. Mexico took it’s freedom from Spain in the year 1821. That starts our trip. Spain took over Mexico in 1500. The people of Mexico called the new land “New Spain”. Spain took the people of the land, Mayas and Aztecs, into slavery. There was a man named Father Hidalgo,Father of the nation, who helped begin the revolution. Many people agreed with Father Hidalgo, he lead about 90,000 men from…

and beans are more of the easy everyday food. A big pot of rice and beans will be made to last the whole week so there’s less time and effort spent on cooking after a long day. At parties, there's usually more effort due to having more time. Like tamales are an all-day project and can serve dozens of people, and last for weeks. I don't like those…

Diabetes Capstone With the high percentage of Hispanics getting Type 2 Diabetes it raises concerns within the healthcare field. Are we doing everything we can to educate the Hispanic community on preventing Type to Diabetes? Bringing healthcare providers to educate the Hispanic community will help decrease the rates of Type 2 Diabetes among Hispanics. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the setting in which Type 2 Diabetes among the Hispanic community is observed, a detailed description of…

The Vygotsky Approach Vygotsky is considered one of the fathers of developmental psychology, and often compared to Piaget, who was a contemporary. His most popular theories include the “Sociocultural Theory” and the “Zone of Proximal Development.” These theories still have relevance in today’s world. Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born in Western Russia on November 17, 1896 to a prominent Jewish family. He was one of eight children and went to school at Moscow State University, gaining a law…

Her stories then shift to the nucleus of life in the west side Barrio to her grandmother’s house. Like the hub of a wheel, all family life came from it and especially in the kitchen where they gathered making tamales at Christmas and learning life lessons sitting around the table beneath the light fixture. “A light socket, a light bulb and a dangling string, so primitive yet heartwarming, it was a sure sign of home,” she wrote. The tales fluctuate from climbing backyard chicken coops and trees,…

Moreover, I was guilty of stereotyping Americans. I should not have believed the stereotype about Americans that most of them are overweight. Before I came to America, someone told me that Americans are obese, and if I wanted to keep a good figure, I’d better cook Chinese food and eat as little American food as I could. After I came here, I noticed that a large amount of girls I saw on the downtown streets and campus own a thin and healthy figure. I realized that this stereotype mislead me,…