Spanish American

that invaded our countries raped our people so she refuses to identify herself with them since Hispanic means that you are of a Spanish speaking country. It is fine if she refuses to identify as such, but factually that does not stop her from being Hispanic. Fact is, millions of Mexicans were killed when it was conquested by the Spanish and women were raped and many Spanish settled in Mexico. This…

Many people all around the world have something in common, and that thing is some sort of belief in a god. Religion is something that comforts people that are in a bad time and gives each of them hope. Today however, it has turned out to be primarily superstitious beliefs which retain its followers based on some sort of fear, usually like an appalling afterlife. The idea of gods derived from people needing answers to what was happening to certain things like the weather and disasters.…

The torturer's motives at first seem to be to cause death on the prisoner. Later, the torturer seems to enjoy torturing the prisoner in the cruelest possible way. The prisoner seems to be rounded because of his great resourcefulness in finding a way to survive. He thought of the rats when he was about to be taken over by the Pendulum by putting the rancid meat on the leather straps. The character was static because of the way he compiled himself he never seemed to panic. He knew what he had to…

a new language out of the blue. Language is a lifelong element that can be carried at anytime and anywhere. When trying to learn the language of portuguese I thought it would be effortless and it would just come to me since I am already fluent in spanish. Yet, I was terribly wrong. They are actually quite unalike especially when it comes to the grammar. As I continued to try to learn portuguese I was doing a lot better than I originally thought, I picked up on the basics such as “ como você…

with their first language being Spanish. In pre-k, the students were introduced to 6 colors: red, blue, yellow, orange, green and purple. Prior to entering the classroom, the students must be able to identify all 6 colors. For example, if I hold up a picture of a banana the students can identify the color of the fruit to be yellow. The central focus of this lesson is to have students be able to identify colors in not only English but in two other languages, Spanish and French. They will use…

What makes you say you can read a book in English when your Spanish is terrible? Please do not ask again until your Spanish improves. I’m not even letting your other classmates checkout books in English and they are doing so much better in English” Those were the exact words that came from my teacher and they never let me my mind ever since…

Autobiographical Literacy Reading serves the purpose of letting you get into the world or the event that is describing the authors in its writing. For many people reading is fascinating and for many other is just awful, for me, reading is just like another activity I could do in my free time when it relates to my likes. Writing is a complicated as it is to have the correct grammar usage and punctuation, which are essential to an excellent essay. Personally, reading is not a big deal for me…

My Language Learning Experience I have been a student of Spanish since I was in the 7th grade. It was my twin sister who ignited the spark for me. She had just attended Spanish class before me, and turned to me while we were standing at our lockers, asking triumphantly, “Como se llama Usted”? I was immediately captivated, and insisted that she tell me what she had said, but she wouldn’t, and turned to walk away with a smug smile on her face. Ever since that day I have had an endless curiosity…

During all of my academic experience, I have always exceled in both the English and Spanish Language Arts. As a young child I felt a need to immerse my head into books. While my peers discussed the new cartoon episodes all I could seem to talk about were the plots of the thick chapter books that I placed back on my bookshelf once I had finished reading them. In fact, I was not the type of kid that spent hours in front of a television set I have always preferred to discover a whole new world in…

Blood trickled down people’s faces as they were running out of the intoxicating building. However, did anybody cared to think about the immigrant workers who did not even have a chance of surviving? “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” by Martín Espada, is a poem in praise of immigrants who worked in the Window on the World restaurant. Throughout Espada’s piece, the author committed himself in representing, and celebrating the lives and stories of those who have dealt with a tragic loss in that…