El Bloqueo

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,

During the last decades, Madrid has surfaced as the heartbeat of modern business, art, technology, and fashion. Traveling to Spain on a tourist travel will only show me a glimpse of what Spain’s history treasures are, but this program will unveil many aspects of the Spanish culture that are unique and exclusive to the country. In addition, it will be a great opportunity to learn about my own culture a little better. As we already know, Spain conquered a vast majority of what is now the American continent. While in Madrid, and since I will be only a few hours from Seville, Spain; I would love to be able to visit the General Archive of the Indies which holds the records and complete documentation of the historical administration and discoveries made by the Spaniards in the New World during its prominent years in exploration. As a native Guatemalan, it would be fascinating to learn about my own roots from the accounts of the Spaniards who set foot on my country and many of the other American countries that were conquered by Spain. Sometimes, we get a better appreciation of history when it is viewed from both perspectives. It’s not the same to learn history of a country based on the narratives of a textbook, than to be actually experience it from its culture and people. The study abroad program will consist of a total of ninety classroom hours of interaction with native Spanish students and professors. In addition, one of the courses will be taught fully in Spanish, which will benefit me greatly by strengthening my Spanish speaking, reading, and writing skills. While in Spain, I hope to be able to interact with Spaniards and exchange information in order to compare and contrast their culture from my own. I’d also like to explore the city of Madrid,

Traveling to Spanish speaking countries and understanding the culture will make any trip the ultimate experience!

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

The interviewee for my project, Andres Alejo, is currently a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. He was so excited to express his opinions for this interview, as he grew up traveling back and forth between two cultures. Due to his father’s job, he traveled between the United States and the Dominican Republic until he was in fifth grade, when his family returned to the Dominican Republic to stay. During his time in the United States, his time was divided between Mt. Vernon, New York and Miami. Andres eventually returned to the United States to study Piano Performance at Boston Conservatory. His experience with learning English was not as difficult for him, since he started learning during his formative years. He mentioned that his

As also stated by Mr. D’angelo, in a personal interview about the Cuban embargo, “Yes I think it will last until Cuban reforms, change in Cuban leadership…” This shows that many people, including professionals believe that the embargo will not end soon without the removal of the Castro’s. This idea of no Castro in the government makes sense since many speculate that even though Fidel is no longer is power he still has some influence over what his brother does. Vividly depicted, this is shown by a passage made by Catharine Moses from her book: “They might not like him, they might complain about him, might see his failing and might blame him for all the countries problems, but he is Fidel. He is in control of the island…”(pg. 7) In compliance, this just shows that many still believe he holds power and some hold truth to their hearts that it is Fidel’s Cuba. On an other aspect that goes hand and hand with the Cuban democracy Act is the declaration of John F. Kennedy that states that the goal of the embargo is to submit Cuba’s government into giving up its communist government. Evidently, this was the main goal of the embargo and Cuba has not, and for the foreseeable future, will not change its government from the communist one that it is known for. An idea and aspect that is clearly shown and supports the idea of containment, is that the embargo also

Among my international experiences, I especially value the two-month study abroad in Spain. I chose to go there because of my interest in Spanish language and culture that was originally developed through a four-week Spanish beginner workshop during the summer break prior to my study abroad trip. In Spain, I lived mainly in Salamanca, a small old city in northwestern Spain, which was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Thanks to my parents, who had the confidence and trust to let me go

La Llorona or the Crying woman is a legend that goes back century’s in the Mexican culture. Some of the earliest recorded sightings are legends of The Aztecs, who say that the goddess Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors.

I eventually let him know that I had a serious problem with learning Spanish from our teacher and if I didn’t get I was going to fail. My biggest problems were the eighteen different conjugations we had to use and how to structure a sentence. There are four present tense, four past tense, three futures, four conditionals, one simple, and three preterite tenses. He first taught me how to use all of the conjugations because without those I could never learn how to structure a sentence appropriately. Once he taught me how to structure a sentence I never felt so confident in my ability to speak Spanish.

Anyone who studies Spanish will tell you it is an interesting foreign language. Not only because of the sound of it, pronunciations and the articulation but also because it is new to them. Spanish people do not study Spanish if they already know it. However, Spanish like other foreign languages has advantages and effects that are desirable and essential to a learner that one dare not ignore. Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the entire world. It has millions of native speakers and more in different continents.

The Cuban Embargo, also known as “el bloqueo” to Cuban citizens, was declared by the United States in 1960 to eliminate imports of Cuban

In the short story "El Tonto del Barrio" by Jose Armas, the protagonist character Romero, who is a Mexican man with some disability problem, trough the story undergoes significant changes in his attitude and behaviour as a result of some circumstances that he faces. Furthermore, theses elements make Romero a dynamic character. One of Romero's changes is evident in his behavior. In the beginning of the story, Romero is likable, polite, and friendly, but late on, he became into an antisocial person. As an example, the story describes Romero as a man who never initiated a conversation while he is sober, but also the author says that Romero always smiled and responded cheerfully to every one.

Raised under the ruines of an ancient basque settlement called Biasteri, the village of Laguardia was founded by the navarran king Sancho Abarca and thus was the cradle of royalty and poets. The history of this place starts as early the Stone Age or Neolithic having found around the area remains of dolmens of great archeological value, for example, La Chabola de la Hechicera, El Sotillo, and a few others. Another prehistoric monument belonging to the Bronze Age is El Poblado de la Hoya, a settlement of Indoeropean people migrating to the area and merging with the megalithic culture, later to suffer a violent occupation by the

The embargo has constrained the crossing of the borders for Cuban citizens, the exiles of Cuba and the businesses, its subsidiary to not be able to do their business in Cuba without facing penalties. This embargo has forbid the Cuban citizens’ contact to consumer goods that the United States presented. Cuba’s expansion of its infrastructure has also been limited therefore the country continues to be a poor country.

Other teachers were using Skype in the classroom with native speaking classes to talk about culture in the target language. A class from Mexico learning English was able to practice with students from the U.S. learning Spanish. The benefit to this was providing a cultural context to the language they are learning. No longer is the language some foreign entity preserved in text books, but a living language connected to real people and real experience somewhere in the real world.