Vida

Grown up in 1960s, Jacquelynne S. Eccles’ values, attitudes, and beliefs were heavily shaped by the particular environment. When she was in high school, nearly all of her female cohorts decided to marry as young as possible and began their own families instead of pursing higher education. Jacquelynne was struggling at that point not only because she did not find a right man to marry but also because she had no idea about what she was going to do with her life. Fortunately, she was admitted by…

Corazones y Manos trabajando juntos para mejorar la vida, which translates to “Hearts and Hands working together to improve lives”, is a saying that will stay with me for the rest of my life. In July of 2015, I was lucky enough to be selected to go on a missionary trip to Managua, Nicaragua. I went with the North County Mission of Hope, which is a spiritually-based humanitarian organization. The Mission of Hope works to help improve the lives of the needy in Nicaragua with programs involving…

Juan Luis Guerra was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic who is a producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. In his music, he implements jazz, salsa, merengue, bachata, blues, Afro-pop, soukous (French, African origins), gospel music, etc. Some of his influences were the Beatles and heard bachata elements in songs such as “Till There Was You” and “If I Fell” and on “Till There Was You,” where it used bongos. He heard African musician, Papa Wemba playing with Peter Gabriel in NY.…

The Keyboard I view society as a collection of musical compositions, each individual’s actions portray their story; tales of determination, education, and success. How I came upon this idea is somewhat unorthodox, and it all started my sophomore year when I took it upon myself to achieve a long-standing goal of mine and learn the piano. My first obstacle was a lack of piano to play, and after my parents made it clear that we were not purchasing a Steinway & Sons Grand piano, I turned…

me during the ride of my life, to realizing the strength and change one story can have. It all started at a young age, my parents had told me many stories from their past and their childhood, as they would call in their language, “los cuentos de mi Vida," the stories of my life. My parent’s stories included how every day in Mexico they would wake up as early as five, walk miles to feed their livestock to support my grandparents in any way the could. At that moment, I realized that I wanted to…

leader, especially when he deliberately thought to fill two chests up with sand and to decorate the outside to make it look lavish and full of riches. He did so with the help of Martin Antolinez and he told him, “You must go in secret to Rachel and Vidas. (Say) that I am forbidden to trade in Burgos and that the King has banished me; I cannot carry my wealth about with me as it is too heavy, so I intend to pawn it for a reasonable sum” (The Poem of the Cid, 27). In other words, he was cheating…

Plagiarism and Fallacies Many people discredit the music genre of “mash-ups” from being an actually genre on the grounds that a mixer is using other people’s work. Mixing is actually a widely practices art form of music that in certain circles is in fact recognized as an art form. If much of the public stays close-minded on those who use other people’s music to create a new sound and only consider them to be plagiarists, this genre of music won’t be able to go anywhere. If mixers they are…

The song, “Viva la Vida”, by the British band Coldplay represents the beginning of the story, Anthem, by Ayn Rand and protagonist Equality 7-2521’s hopes to become a Scholar and the misery he faces with being chosen as a Street Sweeper. In the song, Equality says that everyone is else is equal besides “we, Equality 7-2521, who were born with a curse” (20). By aspiring to become a Scholar when he is fifteen, this future rebel desires to break his sui generis curse and start a new life. He…

American Dream: The Solution In the book Always Running: La Vida Loca Gang Days in LA by Luis J. Rodriguez. The author explains the american dream that’s in Crisis by explaining from his personal experience. Rodriguez starts his story from when he was came into LA as an immigrant along with his family. While him and his family stayed in LA that was infested with with gangs in the 50-60’s. Rodriguez started getting involved with gangs at a young age so he can be protected and to belong somewhere…

Women’s role in Chilean Social Movements Although Latin America has a patriarch culture, woman has considerably gained importance political positions and have elected more woman than the U.S. according to Gioconda Belli. Woman through Latin America gained a place in politics as a result of harsh environment during the dictatorships and by working hard to guaranty their families daily bread. Woman movements such as Madres de Plaza de Maio in Argentina and the Woman for Life in Chile played…