At my all-girls high school, I’ve always stood out for having a “thick accent”. Aside from not fully understanding English, being different has taught me how to be a creatively gifted, intelligent, and influential entity among my peers. Throughout the years, I grew frustrated with myself for being unable to speak clearly to my classmates. Additionally, my friends did not understand how I spoke, where I came from, or what I cared most about in my culture. This stood out to me to make a change and prompted me to take action towards it. In tenth grade, I became the founding Vice President of the Spanish Honor Society, an organization that executes community service and immerse students in the different Hispanic cultures. Our school was on the need for a display of diverse Hispanic cultures. For example, the school's student profile tends to show a racial disbursement of “51% African American, 40.4% Hispanic, and 4.5% White.” Additionally, that “40.4% Hispanic” for students is only “Mexicans.” Taking this issue, Spanish Honor Society (SHS) presents students with an exciting way to learn more about their diverse peers and their cultures such as music, food, and beliefs. Being the Vice-President of SHS, I’m responsible for planning events, developing and gathering ideas from SHS …show more content…
Being able to do this, brought me the feeling of joy of unity with my friends. It has become a tradition for my friends and I to bring authentic foods of our culture to share with the table. It is a joy to see their reactions of the pleasure to taste the new substances. I’ve had the opportunity to engage myself in intercultural pursuits as the Vice-President of SHS in order to influence underclassmen to continuing growing to be proud with where they came from; and for the seniors to carry on their culture to college, with the acknowledgment of being
Along with being a diligent student who has been enrolled in 11 Advanced Placement classes, I have also dedicated my time to other causes. For example, I have volunteered at public libraries, Special Olympics events, orphanages for intellectually disabled children, and food pantries. While maintaining a rigorous course load and volunteering, I also work at Kumon. I tutor children to boost their confidences and understanding of concepts vital to their future success. Moreover, I have received membership to The National Honor Society and have been awarded an AP Scholar with Merit Award. My dedication to becoming more culturally aware and five years of enrollment in Spanish classes has allowed me to be inducted into Spanish Honor Society. Within
Since the beginning of my senior year, I have become president of Spanish Club, and I want to grow into an outstanding president. Having been a part of that club for the past three years, I have seen it grow and expand over time. My plans include numerous fundraisers throughout the year, going on field trips, and uniting my peers in this club by meeting at least once a week and enjoying each others company. Not knowing the stress, nor the arguments that would arise when it came to having everyone on the same page, I quickly realized the trouble that came with being in a position of authority. I naively thought that everyone could get along and would be held responsible, yet that is not what happened during the first few weeks.
The Spanish Main, tales of conquest and ruthlessness throughout the area of the Gulf of Mexico. The Spanish Main is full of descriptive events that help tell the story of this area. Through events of struggle and torture people had to endure as well as the rulers of the time. The Spanish Main is an eventful book that doesn't pause very often and definitely does not disappoint.
I was a junior at Brentwood High School, who arrived to the United states from Peru a couple of months ago, and after complaining for three months, Christine Burrows, my guidance counselor, decided to change my Algebra class by a “higher” level math.
Emergence into a new culture requires courage, toppled with humiliation. Despite the energy or the will, unfamiliar territory/language and events present unrelenting and unavoidable tensions. Hispanic students encounter teachers who fail to support them in maintaining aspects of their cultural identity. For some ELL students honoring and respecting another’s culture may diminish some of the struggles these students face.
Throughout my life I always enjoyed the arts, especially graphic design. I could spend hours on my computer creating designs. My favorite type was creating layouts for a magazine. My dream is to move to New York City and become a graphic designer for a magazine company. From a young age my family and I would visit New York City and I adore it every time. There is so much culture; it is never the same experience twice.
Growing up as a Latino in a community where most of the population are Hispanic had made me blind, detached from the reality of the world and the reality of the college experience, especially in Santa Cruz. Looking at the world I have always known to an extent who had more privilege than others, special attention, and more rights. I have also vaguely known which groups have been treated with less respect seen as less, but all of this didn’t really seem to matter to me in my immediate world. Coming to Santa Cruz on trips such as ORALE and JUSTICE has made me see, made me realize that it does affect me, my family, and my community that privilege is something that isn’t gifted to us but which we fight for, which causes us to be looked at differently
Being in National Honors Society is something that I have always wanted to be apart of since I was in primary school. Being in it my 8th grade year was very inspiring on helping me build my citizenship goals, which later helped me get a job and be a good role model to others. 8th grade year being in NHS we had many important task to fulfill. Setting up majority of the school dances and rewarding students for their positive outlooks along with their uplifting attitudes. Leaving middle school, becoming a freshman, I knew I wanted to be a lifelong member with NHS. Knowing I had to work hard during my years in high school to get accepted back into NHS my junior year was a high school goal. When I received the letter stating I would be representing
Every day I wake up and drive through the beautiful town that I live in and I realize how much my community has helped me grow. I joined National Honor Society because I wanted to give back to my community and I wanted to prove how thankful I truly am. When I started my junior year of high school, there was a shooting at a local community college and my neighbor, friend, and teammate, was tragically killed in the shooting. The day after the shooting I promptly decided to donate blood to help the survivors, and ever since then I have been a part of every American Red Cross Blood Drive that South Umpqua has hosted. The shooting affected me so much, and it still does, and I realized that is when I wanted to help those in need; I wanted to donate
During the past week, there were several different events to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. I was particularly excited to attend the “Tastes Around the World” event. The event gave students and staff the opportunity to try several different foods from around the world. I believe that the main intent of the event was to show students and staff that it is always good to try new things. American is becoming a more diverse country everyday. There are new foods that are being presented in America from many different cultures.
Every classroom in America is made up of multiple cultures with many different believes; however, regardless of culture or beliefs all students should receive the best education possible without losing their identities while in the process. Culture is a way of life of a group. Culture and learning are connected in significant ways and for this reason having an understanding of different cultures and learning processes should provide an outline for instructional decisions (Guild, 2001). The first step a teacher must take is to gain an understanding of each child culture. This paper will examine the Hispanic culture, discuss how a teacher could build global awareness and understanding, and incorporate diverse social and cultural views to create innovative methods to solving problems in his or her classroom.
1. The point of taking Spanish or any other foreign language is crucial in education. Knowing a foreign language can come in handy when you're visiting a foreign country and it is becoming an increasingly needed skill in the diversifying Untied States. Learning a foreign language like Spanish can also help you with your English by making you think harder when reading and analyzing the context and sentence structure of things written in both languages. Employers and colleges also look for Spanish speakers because an understanding of the language not only shows your intellect and your ability to learn but it also makes you valuable in a country that has a rising Spanish population like the United States. Besides all the benefits from taking a Spanish class it is also a lot of fun to learn. For me I have always been fascinated
America is a melting pot with so many cultures, however I didn’t know my own culture to begin with. On my way to school I began to I wonder about my own culture, and what unknown knowledge lies under the tales of other minorities. With my hunger to satisfy my need to learn more about my culture, I took a Chicano Studies college course. This has to be one of my favorite academic subject because I was told many different facts and statistics of the Chicano population, from the pregnancy rates of young women to the social experiments done on Chicano students from grade school to high school. This passion to have the Chicano perspective be seen was what led me to try and get at least a Chicano based unit in English classes. However, it was denied
My name means nobility in Latin but, in Spanish means honest.I am most certainly not nobility, it makes me seem pretentious.My honesty flickers with on the mood and I’ll gladly tell a little white lie. It is like an unidentified flower waiting to bloom; it reminds me of lavender but, I could never tell you why.There are other meanings like sweet and truth but, I’d disagree on both.
In my time as a student I have rarely seen latinos in positions of power. Much less in student council, where I was the only latina up until last year. Imagine the surprise that came to me when I found out I had been chosen to be the head of homecoming. At first, panic set in. What if I didn’t do a good job? What if homecoming failed due to my failing as a leader? If homecoming failed, I would I give into the stereotype of an incompetent mexican? All these questions loomed in my head. Eventually, I realized this was my chance to prove myself, and prove that others of my race could do just as good a job as my caucasian counterparts.