Tamale

Did you know people have died from nostalgia? In 1688 people were dying of homesickness. Doctors treated nostalgia like they were treating rheumatism. Everything changed in 19 centuries when the government acted to the current rampant outbreak of nostalgia and started encouraging people to be emotionally stronger. Nowadays, people see homesickness as not a big deal. Personally, I see homesick as nothing more than the pain of leaving home. I left my country four years ago, and I must admit it…

The criticism of NAFTA has been prominent in the last eight years. It started with the campaigns run by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, when both criticized such an agreement and often referred to it as a failure. Most recently the president of the United States has also described it as such. However, there’s a very important narrative being erased from the conversation and that is how NAFTA impacted Mexico in a negative way. In a way that did not impact the other two nations. As Barack Obama…

It had been a little over 10 years since the last time I saw my family in Mexico. I was about two or three years old when I left Mexico and came to live in NC (say North Carolina the first time) . I was born at the Novant Health hospital, but a few months later my family moved back to Mexico. We later moved back to NC and after that I didn't see my family that lived over there, except through facetime, until two years ago when I went back. I was 13 when I went to Mexico in the summer of 2015. I…

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoners Prologue which I chose for the text analysis was one of the most ridiculous and outstanding tales I have ever read since I have been here in college. Written in the thirteenth-century, Chaucer’s does a good job at painting a picture looking into what life was during the medieval ages. The Pardoners Prologue is basically that of a Pardoner that would go around towns and sell documents signed by bishops granting pardon to sinners, usually the poor. In doing so, the…

Cultural reflective My culture is Hispanic/American and when i’m home i listen to Mexican music the most. When I’m at home i talk more Spanish then i talk at school. At my house i eat my more Hispanic food then American food. When there time for celebration me and my family don’t celebration everything. My mom is from mexican and my dad is from Salvador . We celebration different things. For an example for a dia de los muertos is very important for my family because to remember the people…

The difference between passive observation and active experiment is that, during passive observation information is given by others’ personal experience and it is our choice whether to accept or to ignore it. Observation is given to us by biased experiences (Although everyone can say that they are biased in one way or another). By using observation as a way of producing knowledge are interpretations are more molded around what others have witnessed. In active experiment we are put in real life…

Many people enjoy saying that a special somebody in their life, is their special hero. But for me, it will always be my mother. Yes, this lovely lady, of one of the three people who gave me life, is a special person in my life. But, that 's the case in this world, the whole 7.8 billion people in these cruel and selfish world. So what makes my own mother a special case, one that stands out by itself? Well, to start, I must go back couple of decades, all the way 'till she was not a mere child.…

During the sixteen years I have been alive, I have realized many things that I did not notice as a child. Throughout my high school career, miniscule hints of reality have appeared in my life. It has come to my understanding that life is not as easy as it seems when you are a child spending your time watching cartoons and playing with friends whenever you want. Life will keep hitting you in the face and it will bring along the most crucial, tough challenges you will go through. I do not know for…

to celebrate. My moms side of the family consists of a total of 19 people, which include my grandparents, her sister and brother, who are each married and have children. Every Christmas, it’s a family tradition to cook a ham and make some homemade tamales. The women help make the food and the men set up activates outside for the entire family. When our family gets together its always filled with a lot of…

Food is what keeps my family joyfull. Every time there is food, joy fills the air. Every gathering we have, delicious food is always found on the plates they prepare. My mother’s cooking is what makes up the main courses in most parties where food is found. She learned how to cook because her mother taught her. All my grandmother’s recipes and secrets were passed down to my mom. She loves to prepare food that has been in our family for years. She cooks food traditional to Mexico and some from…