On December 10, 1981 the people of a small Salvadoran town, El Mozote, were detained without resistance by the Atlacatl Battalion, which was a U.S trained army. On the following day, December 11, after spending the night locked in their homes, they were deliberately and systematically executed in gr...

When I Was Puerto Rican The biographical tale When I was Puerto Rican, written by Esmeralda Santiago, tells of a poor girl trying to succeed. The settings in this novel have an important influence on Esmeralda; they change her ideals and influence her behavior as an adult. In When I Was Puerto Ri...

In Search of Respect An Analysis of the Work of Bourgois In his book, In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois discussed his experiences living in El Barrio (East Harlem). An interesting new insight into the street culture found in New York was captured in this book. The amount of poverty...

In Search of Respect An Analysis of the Work of Bourgois In his book, In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois discussed his experiences living in El Barrio (East Harlem). An interesting new insight into the street culture found in New York was captured in this book. The amount of poverty...

In Search of Respect An Analysis of the Work of Bourgois In his book, In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois discussed his experiences living in El Barrio (East Harlem). An interesting new insight into the street culture found in New York was captured in this book. The amount of poverty...

Multiculturalism, is very back bone of the country that we live in. The united States from its very earliest existence has been a melting pot of different cultures. Immigrants have always gone to life threating extents to immigrate to this country to find a better life. In the film El Norte and,...

Until the late 1400's, Europeans did not know the existence of the two American continents ( North and South America ). To the European explorers, exploring the other side of the Atlantic was like exploring an entire different world, hence the name- the New World. In 1492, Christopher Colu...

Moving to the Suburbs It was May 18, the year 2001. I left school early since I was going to leave. My uncle said we will be driving 1876 miles till we reach our destination. He said it will take 2 days. We got on the interstate 10 east free way and, just after 30 minutes I was Already board. I st...

When the movie starts off, you are introduced to only a portion of the injustice that the El Salvadorians faced. The new president was supposed to be one that was elected into office. It was unimaginable to me that citizens who were on their way to vote were stopped. They were only allowed to pro...

Introduction When there is a cycle of violence going on, it is hard for a person leave because everyone becomes accustom to a certain way of living. This is because human beings are creatures of habit and are scared of change because it is a part of the unknown. However, there has to be a po...

Hispanic people have always played an important part in history of the United States. As early as the 1500's, Spanish explorers and colonists settled on the Caribbean islands that are today known as Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In 1898, ...

Mainly people recognized in the United States today as "Hispanic" or "Latino" are immigrants, or descendents of immigrants from countries that was under the rulings of the immense Spanish empire in the earlier days. Hispanics are one of the fastest growing groups in the United S...

The thing I remember most about reading this paper was how surreal the author makes it sound. You just want to keep telling yourself that this could not have happened because of how brutal, and sadistic it sounded. Once you realize that this could be true, you wonder how this could ever happen. It i...

Middle East The political systems of Middle Eastern countries display considerable variety. For much of the post-World War II period, the greatest distinction was between the conservative, capitalist, pro-Western monarchies and the reformist, socialist, and neutralist or pro-Eastern republics, m...

If NAFTA made this agreement, people would be able to move about Canada, the United States, and Mexico with ease. The unskilled workers in Mexico would migrate to "El Norte," looking for higher paying jobs. The supply of workers in Mexico will drastically decrease. Only the terminally ignorant, or...

"The Y2K problem is the electronic equivalent of the El Niño and there will be nasty surprises around the globe."--John Hamre, Dep. Secretary of Defense When I was in the first grade, my elementary school invested in several computers and started Introduction to Computers classes...

The right of journalists to withhold the identity of their sources has always been a vast source of controversy in the United States, with reporters from several of the country's most prestigious news organizations now under threat of jail and punitive fines from judges and the justice departme...

Simon Bolivar, known as 'El Liberator' was born in 1783 and in his adult years proceeded to try to revolutionize the political allegiance that South America had to Spain. While Bolivar's' pursuit of political sovereignty from Spain seemed well thought out, the reality of it was ...

Many people in the United States are sheltered from what goes on in the rest of the world. Although every country has its flaws, some countries are much worse than anyone else could even imagine. Human rights are constantly being violated. An example of a country where many people's rights h...

Illegal immigration is one of the most controversial political issues of today. The origin of the migratory problem that Mexico has with the most powerful country of the world is very old; nevertheless, if some date could be marked like the beginning of the conflicts derived from the illegal immigra...

Latinos Invisible Culture in the United States Many Latinos have similar lifestyles, but once the culture enters the United States of America, it becomes drowned with individualism, low income, gangs and struggling to survive in the Anglo ways. Latino cultures like Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans and ...

People who grow up in South Texas are well aware of the presence of the United States Border Patrol. In a new climate of heightened security, terrorism and illegal immigration have become the focus of this nations attention. This makes the Border Patrol the first line of defense in protecting our...

Latin Jazz Ensemble What do you know about Latin jazz? Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz harmonies from the United States. The two main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian, which included bossa nova and samb...

LIFE ON THE BORDER SOCIAL CHANGE How was life on the border during the nineteenth and early twentieth century? This was a period of rapid change for Mexicans in both lifestyle and the shaping of the living patterns of settlements. In this article we are presented with a vivid and detailed image...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." This was written July 4, 1776 but yet slavery was not abolished until 1865. ...