Diamond Renderos’s Final Submission
What have I learned from this course? How do I relate to the short story La Guera by Cherrie Moraga? What is the connection between my Spotify playlist and the short story Kimberle? The short story Kimberle is about a friend who allows her suicidal friend Kimberle to stay at her house until she gets […]
Final Individual Work by Angie Figueroa
What have I learned from this course? Throughout this course I have learned many things. One of the topics we’ve learned about in class that I really enjoyed learning about are Latino music artists such as Bad Bunny, Princess Nokia, and Selena Quintanilla since I am a big music lover. These are all people who […]
LGBTQ+ and Gender Roles in the Latin American Community, by Adriana Zeinc
What Did I learn? To start this blog I will first show a diagram of what I have learned in this course: These are all the things I have learned from this course. For this blog I am going to focus on the LGBTQ and the gender roles in Latin America. “Mexican Heaven” I want […]
Final Individual Project
Julio Cuatianquiz An article that relates to Pandora’s Box by Arturo Arias is the article, “California Today: Transgender Surgery Comes to Major Southern California Hospital” by Jennifer Medina and it explains that many people in the west coast have people running into many obstacles to try to accomplish their wish of having the surgery they […]
Group #4
Blog #1 What Became of the Taino? By: Angie Figueroa, Howard Liu Mo, Meleny Vargas Writing by Angie Figueroa: The Taino were indigenous people of the Caribbean who Christopher Columbus came across during his “explorations”. They treated him with nothing but kindness, unfortunately the same can’t be said about the way he treated them. The Taino people were actually very skilled and […]
Group 3: Taino Project 1
Tai Thi, Christopher Gonzalez, Jocelyn Gomez The colonizers from Spain on Taino have brought nothing but pain and have left them behind education wise. From when Columbus had taken his first steps into the Taino territory, he took advantage of their abilities because of their bodies and appearances. Mostly taken advantage ofthe colonizers had brought […]
The Sign of The Cross On The Hilt of The Sword
Group 5 The Lust for Gold Exterminated the Native Race of Latin AmericaIn the book, Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galiano, part 1, The Sign of the Cross on the Hilt of The Sword, talks about how Columbus came to American, and what the consequences of him arriving there. Columbus “discovered” America during […]
Lower East Side Poem
Group 5 Our group focused on analyzing and looking into the “Lower East Side” poem, by Miguel Pinero. The Lower East side is located in manhattan and the words mean nothing to someone who had not lived there. However to Miguel Pinero it was a way of life and his home. The description in the poem does […]
A Lower Eastside Writing
The tone of this poem is very passionate and intense. He was raised in the Lower Eastside of New York and throughout the poem he talks about his accounts of what he went through and dealt with there. Miguel goes in depth about the environment he was raised in and is not bothered by it, […]
