Alfredo Rios El Komander

crime. On January 9, 2014 a homicide investigation started when a body was discovered and an area off of road 1210 in Park County, Wyo. But this was not just a regular homicide. This homicide was different that any homicide that any of the law enforcement have ever dealt with in Park County Wyoming. (Cody/Powell)

Spirituality and ethical behavior are related because they both require a sense of connection to something bigger than us. Spirituality involves the search for meaning in our lives and ethical behavior is sticking with those behaviors, being fair,

Juan Nepomuceno Cortina was a man who was a rebel and a soldier who fought many battles that he believed was right for Mexicans in Texas and in Mexico. He took part of the Cortina Wars, where he fought Anglo or white Americans by stealing from them after how they treated Mexicans in Texas. He even took part of the War when Mexico went against the French invasion with Emperor Maximiliam, and he even helped out the Union in the American Civil war around that year. Cortina was on top of the in ranks and became Governor of Tamaulipas in Mexico. This man had many battles that he has faced in many years of violence he seen in wars and even during his own childhood. He would be known to many Mexicans as a folk hero and has Cheno Cortina, which was

Question 1 1 out of 1 points Since passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, all __________ of controlled substances have themselves become controlled substances. Selected Answer: Answers: b. analogs a. agonists b. analogs c. antagonists d. designer drugs

Mexican corridos and the subgenre, narcocorridos, are very popular in today’s Hispanic music culture. Like any other musical genre, there are people who are for corridos and people who are against them. The people against corridos frown upon this music, because they believe the lyrics and stories (in corridos) glorify and promote violence, drug trafficking, and criminals. In their eyes, corridos are so problematic, they believe the best thing to do is to erase and/or ban corridos from all music culture. They believe that banning corridos would somehow stop sending people the “wrong” message. On the other hand, the audiences that enjoy corridos feel a connection to the stories and lyrics. Typically, this audience is made up of Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Hispanics. Although some people believe that corridos glorify criminal acts, others feel like these songs tell the stories people are too scared to talk about, or that is not often seen or heard in the popular media. These songs mirror stories of people’s

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was born in Jalapa, Veracruz Mexico, on February 21, 1794. He belongs to a “criollo” middle class family. His parents were from Spain. He was a Mexican politician and military leader who was President of Mexico eleven times from 1833 to 1855. He was president officially six times, and unofficially five more. He was also a disastrous president of Mexico because he lost Texas and much more of the current American west in the United States. However, by far he was an important figure of his generation in the Mexican history. Many people love him during his first years of president, and he was remembered for two major conflicts, the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 during the Texas Revolution, and as a restored Mexican leader during the Mexican-American War in 1847 (tshaonline.org).

Before European explorers found their way to the Americas the countries were populated by indigenous people native to the landscapes. Each indigenous tribe had their own traditions, language and hierarchy. It is difficult to discern the exact population numbers of indigenous people before their exposure to Europeans in 1492; however, scholars estimate their numbers at roughly 37 million. By 1650, their population had dwindled to an estimated 9 million individuals, a decrease of 90%. In North America there are currently 562 federally recognized tribes. Joe “Indian Joe” Lightfoot Gonzales, also known as Narisco Allalha, is a descendent of one of the remaining Native American tribes, the Choctaw.

The memoir Aria by Richard Rodriguez expresses his personal experiences and feelings of his native-speaking family becoming Americanized by the English language and culture. Through elementary school and constant persistence from the nuns of the Church as well as his mother and father, Richard learned the public language and gained his public identity. As Richard continued to be silent and unwilling to speak English at school during class time, the Church's nuns visited Richard's home to discuss with his parents about the difficulties of their three children adapting to the English language. At the clash of the public and private world, the visitors asked if the Rodriguez family only spoke Spanish at home and suggested that the family should start practice speaking English at home to better the slow progress the children were showing at school. From that moment onwards, the Rodriguez family had lost its intimacy through their native language as they became Americanized. The memoir took place within

Gilbert Martinez was born in 1942, in crystal city Texas. Mr. Martinez was born Mexican American and his parents were both from Mexico City. During that time racism was still very much alive and most people in the city were Mexican American while the city council were white people. The city council was unfair to most people and never listened to their opinion on city affairs. So Gilbert decided when he was about 17 to start a campaign to run for city council. However he wasn’t even eighteen so he got some of his childhood friends to help him. Together they wanted to put local people in for city council to get their word in and have representation.

Today, narcocorridos are popular on both sides of the United States – Mexican border, especially among young people. They tend to tell what it is like to be a drug dealer. They tell from shootouts between traffickers to torturing police or rival cartel members. They have become the pop music for much of Mexico. This type of music first appeared in the 1970s, when the band Los Tigres del Norte released their song Contrabando Y Traicion. The song tells the story of a Mexican man and a woman who fill their tires with marijuana and head to Los Angeles. When they arrive, the man gives the woman, her part of the take and tells her he’s going to his mistress. Then seven shots are fired and the man dies. When police arrive they only find a pistol and nothing more was known about the woman or the money. This type of music gained more popularity in the 1990s when a corridista by the name of Chalino Sanchez began performing narcocorridos in Los Angeles. In 1992, during a show, a gunman fired at him and while he was on stage, he pulled out his revolver and fired back. On May 16, 1992, after a show, he was pulled over by a group of men who showed state police identification cards. He was then blindfolded, tied up and was shot twice in the head. No suspects were arrested but it is almost certain it was due to his choice of lyrics. Despite the threat, these artists face there continues to be a significant number of musicians who still

While the music in Mexico has evolved over the years, it has successfully remained true to its roots and traditions of typical Mexican music. Influenced by a diverse range of cultures, the music in Mexico has been molded by early Europeans, original natives of Mexico, and the modern-day industries of the United States, as well. Popular music in Mexico includes genres of Pop, Banda, Tejano, and Latin Alternative. The ability to appreciate music at its fullest extent comes with the responsibility to be knowledgeable of different cultures and their music. While examining Mexico’s music and industry as a whole, we are able to discover the diverse range of genres, along

Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.

Growing up, people realize that around the time of reaching a mature state, education has affected their personal family life in one way or the other. With that being said, in his essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up, the life he had as a child, and the life he has as an educated man. He continued believing in his aspiration of how benefits of education can remarkably outweigh the past struggles of both his family and himself. Like Rodriguez, I also, in the past, found some form of solitude

I grew up in a Mexican family listening to corridos, which are a type of song, due to the fact that at every party, every celebration, and every occasion, that’s what the family would play. As I became more aware and conscious, I began to realize what these songs were actually saying. Corridos are a narrative song that showcase topics such as poverty, hard times, success, immigration, social and political problems, and/or life in general. A prominent and recurring theme that I saw developing throughout several corridos is immigration. Numerous songs, were expressing strong feelings whom many many undocumented Mexicans (or now U.S. residents/citizens), including my parents and other family members shared regarding they’re citizenship status, how they were being discriminated against, and ultimately how they were feeling about this whole situation.

Bayardo San Ramon believes that women should be treated as property that can be thrown away, portraying cultural violence through his treatment of Angela Vicario. One example of Bayardo San Roman’s treatment of women as property is when he forces Angela Vicario to marry him without her consent. Bayardo feels as if he’s entitled to any woman in the town, and he won’t take no in an answer. This is demonstrating cultural violence because of the portrayal of women as people that are “reared to be married” (Marquez, 31). This also portrays the thought of Angela not being able to choose a husband for herself.