In effect, by glossing over Selena’s transition into the Latin American the film Selena ignores her accomplishments in the Latin American market which was not easy to enter. Although the film touches on the obstacles Selena had to overcome to become successful in Latin America it still makes it seem as if Selena was an automatic sensation, particularly in Mexico, where it is known she had difficulty winning people over. This is evident through the one scene in the movie where Selena visits Mexico and whilst there speaks Spanglish to reporters without any repercussions as later on a newspaper calls her the “genuine artist of the people.” Yet, it is no secret that at the beginning of her career the language barrier between Selena and her Mexican audience posed an issue as she was derided for using an interpreter to communicate with the Spanish-language media (Paredez 204).…
Sophia bush is an American actress best known for her role of Brooke Davis in One Tree Hill which was a television drama series. She is also well known director, activist and spokesperson. She has a net worth of$9 million.…
Queen Latifah was born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970, in Newark, New Jersey. Dana was only 8 years old, when her Muslim cousin gave her the nickname Latifah, which means delicate and sensitive in Arabic. Queen Latifah was raised in Baptist faith, she sung in her church choir, played basketball, and started rapping in high school. Queen Latifah lost her brother in a motorcycle accident, she hit a depression stage afterwards, got arrested and charged with possession of a gun and a small amount of marijuana. She released an album called ‘Black Reign’ after her brother’s death.…
First became as the most important fashion designer of the Dominican Republic. reached its fame in the 1960s.…
Angela Vicario is responsible for the murder of Santiago Nasar. Although it was her twin brothers that committed the actual crime, the reasons behind their murder come directly from their beautiful sister Angela. While it wasn’t Angela who directly murdered Santiago, she is just as guilty as the rest. Angela is complacent and also participated in the solicitation of the murder of Santiago Nasar.…
Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca was the second in command of Panfilo de Narvaez’s five-ship, 600-man expedition to Florida. In my opinion Cabeza de Vaca was an acceptable leader.…
Hill then goes on to provide a general ethnographic explanation. Jane Hill’s main focus is on the ‘elevation of whiteness’ from ‘Mock Spanish’ through direct indexicality of negative and racializing slurs. It consists of the orderliness of language and how these boundaries are necessary. Throughout the article, she cites multiple scholars to back up her claims focusing on the racial aspect of Mock Spanish. She makes six claims…
Blac Chyna is all about that life -- at least in the court of law, that is.…
Angelina Folino is a freshman at Sammamish high School who was born on December 1, 2001, in Seattle Washington. Folino always lived in the United States. When she was born to the age of three, she lived in Kent then when she was four, she moved to Bellevue. And then When she was the age of seven she lived in Rainier Beach then she lived there for about five years, and when she was twelve, she moved to Tukwila and till know she lives in Tukwila. Since Angelina is a freshman at Sammamish, there are many things that she looks forward to each day. Her favorite class is AP Hug, which she described as the “bomb. Com”, in an interview with Simran Kaur, who is also a student at Sammamish. However, that is not all; Angelina also loves playing sports like Basketball, soccer, indoor soccer,…
Annalicia grew up in Austin, Texas. A hot and dusty climate just like our own…
The most destructive of all emotions, jealousy, can cause a person to enact revenge on the…
Legend states that Elvira Vacker roams in the forest waiting for her next victim. It says that she endures in the forest of Sweden for eternity. She lived in a small cottage with her mother and brother. They moved from Germany to Sweden. Her father was a lawyer. They lived a pretty wealthy life. Then, their mother found out that her father had been cheating on her. That is when her mother filed a lawsuit. They were a very religious family. Their father said that Elvira would have to live forever. Of course the mother did not believe such nonsense. When they divorced, the father took all of the money, so they were poor after that. Elvira and her mother started building a house that the three of them could live in. Elviera went from having these huge banquets (prepared…
My full name is Aisha Nicole Rodriguez, I was born on February 22, 2005 in Allentown PA, my parents raised me in Allentown my whole life. I am 12 years old and 5'2. I have blond,brown,black hair, and brown eyes. I live with my two parents, my 3 older brothers, and my brothers girlfriend. I played basketball for one year, I stop playing for a year cause I end of hurting my ankle, but now I want to do softball and play the violin.…
Gloria Anzaldua is a Mexican woman who faced troubles growing up because she spoke Chicano and had trouble learning English bdue to her native tongue. She faced quandaries as a child because she had trouble grasping English and spoke with a Hispanic accent. She explains that “At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.…
In this essay Barrientos argues that the language she speaks defines her identity and who she is as a person. As Barrientos was growing up, she realized being Latin-American was not what she wanted to be, she decided to didn’t want to speak Spanish, as Barrientos says, “To me, speaking Spanish translated into being poor.” She also said “It meant waiting tables and cleaning hotel rooms. It meant being poor.” She thought if she stayed away from Spanish stereotypes they would…
