Spanglish: low culture versus high culture? There are numerous critics of Spanglish among both Spanish-speakers and American-English-speakers. It is commonly assumed that Spanglish is a jargon: partly Spanish and partly English‚ "with neither gravitas nor a clear identity" . It is spoken by many of the approximately 35 million people of Hispanic descent in the United States‚ who‚ "no longer fluent in the language of Cervantes‚ have not yet mastered that of Shakespeare" 3. The defenders of pure
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Religious and Ethnic Groups mickie- Religious and Ethnic Groups According to the Roman Catholic Faith Jesus Christ himself created the Catholic Church in 33A.D. The Prejudice against Christ and his followers started during his life from many of his miracles‚ teachings about his father “God” and the testament on how we as Christians should live our lives. The Prejudices stemmed from not only the Jewish faith and non-believers but from rules who feared that Jesus was a King above all kings and
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Retrieved on August 19‚ 2007 from http://www.facsnet.org/issues/faith/espinosa.php Niska‚ K Perspective. Retrieved on August 19‚ 2007 from http://nsq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/322 NC Times.com (2008‚ January). For Latino Catholics‚ Quinceanera ritual provides lessons on faith‚ family ---- and sex. Retrieved on January 11‚ 2008 from http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/01/05/faith/17_56_271_3_08.txt Schaefer‚ R.T Spener D. (2000). Mexican labor at the center of North American economic
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While I was reading the passage Context‚ by Dorothy Allison‚ I realized that I the just like her I had been judged just because I was a Latin woman. In fact I had went though something so similar because of many traditions my family has had. Just like Allison‚ when her lover called her families’ accent a “dialect‚” my family was called crazy simply because we like to hold massive parties to celebrate or the way our family spoke to one another. (Paragraph 3‚Allison) The reason why I relate so
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Cited: Chopin‚ Kate. "Désirée ’s Baby." 1893. 8 Apr. 2003. http://www.katechopin.org/desiree ’s-baby.shtml. 18 March 2008. Alice Trupe: Reading Julia Alvarez. United States of America: ABC-CLIO‚ 2011. Print.
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and property. He explained that everyone is born with these certain rights‚ and nobody can take that away from anyone. The concept of natural rights being violated can be seen in the historical fiction novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. In the book‚ four Dominican sisters living under the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo decide to participate in the revolution because of the government taking away the basic human rights of its citizens. This is just one out of many
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Cited: Alvarez‚ Julia. In The Time of the Butterflies. New York: Algonquin Books‚ 1994. Print.
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It is undoubtedly common that there are many people that migrate from Mexico to the United States. Among those millions of people were my parents. My parents‚ and just like most of the people migrating‚ shared a similar dream. The dream of creating a better future for their family. My parents obviously knew that there were going to be many hardships and obstacles that they had to conquer in order to achieve the life they desired. They knew that they would have to learn a whole new language and get
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Rena Korb has a master’s degree in English literature and creative writing and has written for a wide variety of educational publishers. In the following essay‚ she discusses the imagery in "Children of the Sea." At the age of twenty-six‚ young for a writer‚ Edwidge Danticat has many honors credited to her name. Aside from publishing two books‚ the novel Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory and a collection of short stories‚ Krik? Krak!‚ she has also received much critical acknowledgment. Her novel earned her recognition
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Butterflies and Hibiscus Flowers: the Transformation to Womanhood during Times of Violence The transition from childhood to adulthood is never easy. For the characters in Julia Alvarez’s book In the Time of the Butterflies and Elizabeth Nunez’s Bruised Hibiscus‚ the struggles to grow into one’s self are even starker in worlds of brutality and strife. As both works of historical fiction and coming-of-age narratives‚ these stories stray from the typical coming-of-age tropes and discuss topics of violence
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