Spanish for the Future Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my classmates to further their knowledge of the Spanish Language and Culture by enrolling in their first Spanish class or another one. Central Idea: To make my classmates realize all the benefits of enrolling in Spanish classes. INTRODUCTION 1. Gain the attention and interest of the listener/s: (“Attention” of Monroe’s Sequence) When I was in seventh grade, I enrolled in my first Spanish class. All I thought was, “Wow this class
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encounter daily. Growing up in a culturally diverse town I noted that the main language is Spanish. I always wanted to be a member of this ever-growing culture so I began taking Spanish classes and studying the language on my own. Possibly the greatest ability I developed was learning to speak and communicate with native Spanish speakers. I decided long ago that when I went to college I would minor in Spanish despite my future. I plan on going into the medical field and having a diverse tongue will
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Hispanics Must Know Spanish When I left North Carolina a few years ago and moved to Puerto Rico, I had no idea why understanding the Spanish language as a Hispanic was so important until I moved out there. While being around many Hispanics, I discovered most of them spoke Spanish towards each other and would only speak English to someone who looked non-Hispanic. If I was a non-Hispanic and self-identified as one, knowing the Spanish language would not be considered mandatory for me. However, that
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Nostalgia for the Light, a documentary released by Patricio Guzman in 2010, illustrates the lasting effects of Augusto Pinochet’s cruel regime on the people of Chile. It focuses on the astronomers who search the universe for a look at humanity, and the women of chile who desperately search for the remains of their loved ones in the vast expanse of the Atacama Desert. Patricio Guzman, the filmmaker behind Nostalgia for the Light, was born in 1941 in Santiago, Chile. On September 11, 1973 Patricio
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College students should not be able to write formal essays in their preferred dialect for the simple reason that there are hundreds of different dialects. If every student decided to write a formal essay this way I am sure that professors would have a difficult time analyzing papers that might not even be understood. In, Border Crossing: Leave your Name at The Border, Munoz explains how his father had to anglicize his name from Antonio to Tony. Doing so, he would be able to be more appealing for
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The Spanish American War was between the United States and Spain. The Spanish American War ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America (HISTORY). This war showed just how strong the U.S. was and showed how far america has come. The war started because the Cubans wanted independence from Spain. Jose Marti was the one who began the war for independence in 1895. The USS Maine was a battleship that was in Cuba's
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In her essay, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Gloria Anzaldua function, negations, and denotation in order to express her experience with language. Starting off, Anzaldua’s use of function within a fictitious anecdote about an experience in dentist’s office implies that her language causes a daily struggle by relating it to something that cannot be controlled easily: the human tongue. She qualifies this implication by later using actual anecdotes that demonstrate the oppression and shame that Anzaldua
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The idea of the Inquisition was to “extort from all heretics by torture a confession of their own guilt and a betrayal of all accomplices” (Schaff 1). “The Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court and process of the Roman Catholic Church set up for the purpose towards the discovery and punishment of heresy which wielded immense power and brutality in medieval and early modern times” (“The Horrors of the Church and its Holy Inquisition” 2). The Church hoped to convince heretics to give up their beliefs
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Federico Garcia Lorca Where he was born: Federico Garcia Lorca was born on June 5, 1898 in a small town called Fuente Vaqueros which is located in the province of Granada. Where he grew up: He grew up in a mansion in the heart of the city of Granada. His family life: He was the eldest of the four kids He had an amazing family life growing up as his dad owned a farm and his mother was a gifted piano player. He graduated from secondary schooling and started attending Sacred Heart University, where
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is a switch. At a young age, Rodriguez was forced by the school system to stop speaking Spanish at home and start speaking English the whole time. Although he became proficient in school, having no trouble with reading or writing in English, there was a price for this advantage Rodrigues gained. Slowly but surely, Rodriguez started to lose touch with his culture, letting it fade away like his memory of Spanish. Aria is just one example of many stories that chronicles a switch between American and
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