next to Honduras. Guatemala is north of Honduras, Nicaragua is south of Honduras, El Salvador is west of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea is located southeast of Honduras. The capital of Honduras is Tegucigalpa. The official language of Honduras is Spanish. The most popular sport is football, but we in America referred to it as soccer. People that originated from Honduras are known as Honduran. The 2007 census shows that there are approximately 7.5 million people inhabiting Honduras, but the CIA World
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Latinas face a multitude of cultural issues that include a disconnection between their culture to American culture, expectations from their families, and a lack of support and involvement from their parents. Culture and family is something very important to Latinas and and it can become difficult when their education clashes with the obligations to their family. It is something that can become an obstacle very early in a Latinas education but becomes more evident as they move into middle school and
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In February 2000, Luis Alberto Jimenez, an undocumented native of Guatemala who was living and working in Florida, continued brain damage and severe physical injuries as a result of a car crash. Jimenez was transported to Martin Memorial Medical Center and remained there until June 2000, when he was transferred to a skilled nursing facility. The injuries suffered by Jimenez rendered him unskilled and a circuit court judge appointed Montejo guardian of Jimenez's person and property. (Sontag,
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Beginning in the 1450,’s Latin America and the Caribbean regions were booming. With the arrival of Spanish conquistadors, such as Hernan Cortes, the European and Spanish religions have been forced upon the Latin America people. Many changes arose like, starting with the Roman Catholic and then gradually moving onto Christianity. With these new religions many of the indigenous people got rid of practices such as human sacrifice. Their focus of religion also changed from polytheistic to monotheistic
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For my second interview lab report, I interviewed my roommate Dani Lyra. He grew up in Brazil, so I was expecting the child rearing practices to be very different than that of my own. However, I was surprised to find out that his childhood was a lot like mine. Brazil is among the most culturally and racially diverse country in the world, with over 195 million people living there and a variety of child rearing practices. There is a huge margin for diversity in parenting styles among many other this
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I am so sorry that you are in the hospital and I wish I could be there for you. However, I researched on your behalf Puerto Rico’s customs, culture and their healthcare. In the United States, Hispanics, are considered a minority. Puerto Ricans are simply and subculture of the Hispanic community. In the novel, “ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”, Lia Lee, was considered a minority, as well. Her subculture group was the: Hmong. In this novel she is experiencing some of the same struggles you
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Running head: LATIN AMERICA AND AMERICAN INFLUENCE 2 Introduction What principal nations of Latin America entered in the twentieth century that was varying of stages? Thesis: Latin America entered the twentieth century of political and economic development that proved turbulent. Following the political and economic development, WWII and the Cold War made it not able to function throughout the Western Hemisphere. Latin Americas’ major nation started to become part of a wide and bigger complex of the
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My interviewee was Argentina Raudales, my mom. She was born on April 22, 1953, in Esquías, Comayagua, Honduras. She spoke of anecdotes about her childhood and why she moved to the United States, yet she was kept in a bubble by her parents about the wars and disagreements happening around her country and neighboring countries. I chose to interview my mom because she would always tell me stories about her childhood, yet she never told me anything bad happening in Honduras but because of history, I
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new language? 1. What is the ‘Spanglish’? Spanglish, according to Sanchez-Naranjo (2007), is a language formed from terms in Spanish and terms in English that are not translated or are poorly translated. The author of the text, "Spanglish entertains linguists and scares the purists," quotes a definition of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language, which defines it as the Spanish language, but with an abundance of Anglicism’s. Spanglish has been compared to the "Yiddish" phenomenon (a mixture between
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full control of. But my actions ended up hurting me and my family. The decision to ignore my culture caused my ability to speak and understand my native language to decrease to the point where I became embarrassed then to speak to anyone who spoke Spanish. It
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