Growing up in a Puerto Rican American household, Spanish speaking was mainly done between my grandparents and parents. Both of my parents were born here in Chicago, but they were around the language and picked it up growing up having parents that had migrated from Puerto Rico. Having a common Hispanic last name, I feel like I have the expectancy to know Spanish and to be able to translate to other Hispanic, non-English speakers. This didn’t really bother me until I got to high school. I would get
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The success of Jennifer Lopez has opened doors for a new wave of Latinas in 21st century American popular culture through “racial mobility”. Priscilla Ovalle, author of Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom, discusses Jennifer Lopez’s rise to fame in the chapter, “Jennifer Lopez, Racial Mobility, and the New Urban/Latina Commodity”, which details how the success of Lopez stems from her ability to shed limitations in film, music, and entertainment because of an ‘in-betweenness’ which
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Chile by History: Chile was founded and gained independence from Spain on September 18, 1810. Spanish Conquistadors began colonizing in the region in 1540. Flag: The flag is red, white and blue with a star. Blue means the sky, white means the snow on the Andes, and red is the blood from fighting for freedom. The star is a representation of the powers of the government. Where Located: The bodies of water surrounding chile are mostly south Pacific ocean but the bottom tip is in
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NOT DOUBLE-SPACED -1 Selena Quintanilla Pérez was a famous musician who sung Mexican and American music. She was one of the first famous female singers, because before that rarely anyone listened to female singers because it was a change and male groups and singers were popular. Unfortunately, short after she made her first number one hit song she was murdered by her fan club president. Selena started her musical career by force, not a choice. She like singing, but her father Abraham
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big role in why it is Florida today. He was born February 15, 1519.He ran away from home to sea at 14 to sail for the Spanish Navy. He sailed to Florida to find his son that was shipwrecked in 1561 but never found him then he founder of St.Augustine, Florida. On August 28, 1565 and built a fort there. Pedro also was the first governor of Florida so he can keep in the Spanish control. In St. Augustine Pedro built a fort there call the Castillo de San Marcos to protect the spaniards from the
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1. Describe what the Latino Paradox means in your own words as described in the film shown in class. Provide one example of this. In the Latino film, a public health official said of immigrant health, “They’re doing something right.” The Latino Paradox means that Latino immigrants are healthier than the average American, even though they have lower income and education. The paradox is that people from low socioeconomic status tends to have worse health and higher death rates compared to every other
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coming up with answers. Which indicates to me that she likes her ethnicity, however she did come up with a few answers. An answer being that sometimes when she is talking she says English words with a Spanish fleur. According to my interviewer some English words sound extremely similar to their Spanish counterpart,
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Philip V of Spain was the Catalyst for the war of the Spanish succession Not only was he a French man running Spain but there were other more rightful heirs in their opinion. who was the fifth of Spain comes from the bar ball family of France he would have been 6th in line for the French throne but since his brothers and uncles were more likely to get the throne King Charles the second of Spain named Philip V his air. by the age of 14 Philip had been shipped off to Spain to become the rightful
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large flat stone to his back to protect him from the Spanish soldiers attack. In one hand he held a torch and in the other he carried tar. With this he made his way to what may have been this fortresses’ only weakness; the wooden door (Guanajuatomexicocity.com). He crawled his way to the door on all fours and set the door on fire. As the door burned down Hidalgo, Allende and their men made their way in. They managed to overpower and kill all the Spanish soldiers and their
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There was a study done by Jenna Styles on fourth graders who were Latino and who showed different levels of fluency in English and Spanish. The children were of low socioeconomic background and used Chicano English. Styles wanted to teach the children Standard English while still maintaining their dialect. She called the activity “Word Cemetery”, she thought the name was appropriate because most kids celebrated El Dia De Los Muertos, her goal was to make kids feel that they could still use CE, they
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