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Mass executions and widespread violence has become a common sight across parts of Syria and Iraq with the recent rise of ISIS, causing the United States to take action and intervene once again in the Middle East. However, closer to home, these sightings are even more common. Just across the almost 2,000 miles-long border between the United States and Mexico, the drug cartels are nearly free to spread fear and chaos and remains almost immune to impunity. Who rules Mexico? Is it the government or

their own way. By the 1920s Los Angeles was booming in Latin music with recording and live performances by Latino artists from the Southwest, New York and the Caribbean. The styles of music that they had in LA we're Banda rap, Chicano Rock, Corrido, Latin jazz, Latin Rock. The vigorous R&B, rock and roll, punk and hip-hop scenes of L.A.’s Chicano Eastside have helped shape American popular music, even as the constant infusion of immigrant laborers from Mexico and Central America continue to

can see this happen in the following two paragraphs: In the above passage, Mr. Lema, Francisco’s sixth grade teacher asks him if he likes music and if he would like to go with him to the music room. Francisco replies by telling him that he likes corridos, Mr. Lema then plays the trumpet, hands it to Francisco, and asks him if he would like to learn how to play it. Before he can answer, Mr. Lema tells him that he will teach Francisco how to play it during lunch hours. Francisco is very excited by

Like for example there is Quebradita, bachata, corridos, and cumbias. These are just some of the dances that I know, but I am sure there are many more. Quebradita is a style that is very energetic. This type of dancing is typically danced in couples, but can be danced as a single as well and the movements

The Mexican Revolution was a period in Mexico’s history that sought to overthrow one of the most long standing tyrannical presidents, Porfirio Diaz, and to do so rebel alliances were formed to fight for economic and social reforms of the middle class. Among the celebrated men of the Revolution who fought for or against the cause are Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Venustiano Carranza and Alvaro Obregon. Unfortunately, However, The Mexican Revolution is a series

CALS 165A FINAL EXAM Fall 2014 Final Exam Huynh, K CALS 165A, Section Monday 2:00-3:50pm Fall 2014 #1. The Pachuco figure is viewed as both a hero and villain when compared to the border-corrido hero. There is a generational difference of Mexican Americans’ perceptions of the pachuco and zoot subculture. To begin with, the Mexican American generation belittled the pachuco and zoot subculture. Due to this, Chicano writers began to point to zoot subculture specifically to the Sleep Lagoon incident

In America there’s different types of labels that people consider themselves for example Hispanic, Latina Chicana, or Mexican American. The way I consider myself is being a Hispanic, immigrant and paisa and having a minority meaning that us has Hispanic people we have a less amount of Latinos and every state. A reason why identity is important is because some people may see you like a different type of person they may think you are Chicano, Chicana, or Latino when you are really considering yourself

past. As a teenager growing up in Mexico I wasn’t really interested in listening to music, as my interest were sports and television. The musical influences that I can recall in my early childhood, were those of my parents. Who would listen to Corridos and Rancheras, which were a type of folk Mexican revolutionary music, they would sing about the struggles in life during the Mexican civil war. As I grew up the type of music my friends listen to were Cumbias Colombianas and Rock En Espanol those

Writing Assignment #6 “The history of more than fifty million Latinos in the United States is your history too,” Suarez stated in his book. His argument was that no matter how you see it, the Latin culture is part of your life in the US no matter what ethnicity you are. He wrote this book to let his readers learn and know about the Latino history in the territories, where it is now considered as California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Suarez wants his readers to know that the Spanish culture

Do you ever wonder how people label you? I would always think myself as a Latina; I never knew there was a difference between Latino and Hispanic. Now I know I’m Hispanic, a Spanish speaker. I consider myself Mexican-America; i believe that being Mexican doesn't come from a place of belonging to some predetermined cultural / ethnic/ racial category. It comes from a huge family and feeling at home. It comes from my mother freshly fried pinto beans and homemade tortilla. From my father stories when