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    CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination® CAPE® SPANISH SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May–June 2014 CXC 17/U2/12 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher. Correspondence related to the syllabus

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    FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE The Spanish American War was the most powerful colonial nation by the end of the 19th century. 1898 is when the United States went to war to help Cuba win its independence from Spain. The United States won and gained the territories of The Philippines‚ Guam and Puerto Rico. The U.S should not have annexed the Philippines because the Philippines were a country of their own. Additionally‚ they had their own language‚ their own currency and their own culture and tradition

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    The Spanish Conquest

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    The Spanish had no idea how lucky they were that the Aztecs misunderstood who they were and why they were there. The Spanish conquistadors were looking for lands to conquer‚ gold to capture‚ and people to convert to the Catholic religion. The Spanish were amazed at what they found in the capital city of Tenochtitlan. Everything was clean. There were “eating houses” and hairdressers. You could buy medicines and herbs and all kinds of food. You could buy meat and game. There were streets that

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    "Prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in 1565‚ there are no written records of the islands that make up the modern day Philippines."3 In the year 1565‚ Miguel López de Legazpi‚ the Conquistador travelled from Spain and founded the first Spanish settlement in the country‚ firstly on the island of Cebú. They occupied the kingdoms of Tondo and Manila‚ establishing it as the capital of the Spanish East Indies. "The Philippines were originally named after King Philip II of Spain- Las Islas

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    The Mexican Spanish dialect is one that began to form in 1521 during Spain’s conquest of the Aztec Empire. The various dialects which are Latin America originate from either Castilian‚ the written and educational standard in Spain‚ or Andalusian‚ which is spoken in the southern regions of Seville and Andalucía‚ Spain. When Europe began colonizing the Americas‚ both dialects were carried over into the Latin American regions. Castilian was integrated in large cities and administrative areas such as

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    be focusing on the Spanish language because it is the language I grew up speaking.

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    Spanish in the United States The United States is home to a large and rapidly growing population of Spanish speakers. With over 35 million speakers‚ Spanish is the second most commonly-spoken language in the United States. According to data from the US Census Bureau‚ it is spoken in about 12 per cent of all U.S. households. Hispanic citizens constitute about 16% of the U.S. population now and this figure will rise to 30% by 2050. By 2050‚ the U.S. will become the largest Spanish-speaking country

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    Silver and Spanish Exploitation The exploitation of the Incas under Spanish colonial institutions is a widely acknowledged abuse. Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela in his book Tales of Potosi brings to light another dimension of this mistreatment: the Spaniards enabling of the abuse of coca by the exploited Indians as a means to increase productivity‚ which is an aspect that has been overlooked by many theorists up to this point. Abuse of coca expanded the wealth of the Spanish Crown through

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    speaking Spanish at home was the family language and it made him feel a intimate and close with his family and it seemed easier to bond. Rodriguez felt after the switch to English they lost the closeness and the bond within the family and started to fall apart from one another. The essay starts off with Rodriquez knowing only Spanish and English sounding like only noise to him‚ and later towards the end as he concludes the essay he ends with knowing English and losing his ability to speak Spanish‚ the

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    Spanish and American holidays can be very different. They can also be very similar in many ways. The cultural difference can sometimes make it difficult to talk to or understand a person from the opposing culture. The cultural difference can have a negative effect on communication. This is mainly due to the fact people don’t fully understand people of a different culture. There are many different holidays in the two different cultures. American culture can sometimes differ from those of Hispanics

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