El Dia De La Seige

Preview of Main Points: First, I will discuss the story of La Virgen de Guadalupe and the importance in the Mexican culture. Then, I will discuss how I identify myself with this culture and one experience in which I explain why la Virgen de Guadalupe is important to me.

An account of a Puerto Rican national Jose Serrano of the traditions related to this day provide a full picture of the holiday. Serrano writes that rather than placing a glass of milk and a plate of cookies, or leave a red stocking for Santa Claus, as many children do in the United States, children in Puerto Rico collect some grass to fit it inside a shoe box. The grass put under the bed is meant for weary camels of horses of the Three Kings. The children want the horses get new energy continue their long journey around the world (Serrano par. 3-4). In the morning, the children get up looking for what the Three Kings have left for them in gratitude and in exchange for food the kids have given for their animals. The author mentions that this tradition is a beloved one for Puerto Ricans and is observed even these days in the United States, where the Hispanic culture is said to be losing its traditions. Importantly, Puerto Ricans remember the religious background of he holiday and their belief regarding it is essentially faith-based. The Three Kings, Serrano admits, are important, since they brought gifts to Baby Jesus and were blessed with understanding that Jesus is the Savior of the World. During this day, Puerto Ricans sing holiday songs and Christmas carols devoted to the Magi (Serrano par.

For my cultural plunge activity, I got to attend a Quinceanera with one of my friends. A Quinceanera is a Hispanic cultural celebration of womanhood. When a girl turns fifteen, they throw a party to celebrate their coming of age. There are many traditions for this day of celebration, such as, dancing, food, religious ceremony, family, and friends. During this cultural plunge, I got to speak to a Hispanic woman who explained some of her personal memories of being an immigrant in America and her journey here.

But, it mainly reflects a man helping his wife to cross the river following the flash light issued by the hands of Our Lady of Guadalupe, behind them is an immigration lawyer, which is the one that should be helping both of them. The rest of the mural shows the traditions of all the Mexican population, for example: the priest is organizing a party for the children with balloons, and a big red hearth, which is Jesus’s hearth. Next to him is a peculiar dancer denominated “Matachin” in Spanish, who dance for religious purposes to venerate God. At the center of this mural is attached a picture of God, it is in the middle because it is the inspiration and speak for the faith of all those people. Giving as a result the motivation for all the Hispanic people to maintain all of those traditions, no matter if they are already in this

The conquistadors came over wanting to evangelize the native people, and the Virgin of Guadalupe gave them an easy approach into doing it. It also discusses the resemblance between the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Mulier Amicta Sole description within the Book of Revelation. However, the article explains how the native people referred to the “Mother of God” as “Guadalupe” quite often. In fact, many of the native people still had not converted to Christianity, but instead formed cults with Guadalupe as their leader. The Mexican Guadalupe movement did not even grow large until the seventeenth century when the native blood became more mixed and more Creoles, Spaniards born in Mexico, made up most of the

For Dia de los muertos I am going to represent my dog Nani. She was very furry and her color was blonde. I could hold her in my arms because she was super tiny. I would describe Nani as a nice, kind, sweet, and awesome dog. The sad part though is that she died last year.

Despite the fact that “El dia de los muertos” is celebrated the day after Halloween (technically two days as it spans from November 1st through November 2nd), it is important to understand that they are different. Both holidays incorporate skeletons and ghosts, but it is in very contrasting ways. Halloween uses skeletons and ghosts as more of a scare tactic whereas Day of the Dead acknowledges skeletons and ghosts as a way to honor and remember the deceased. Both holidays include food as part of the celebrations. Halloween of course uses candy for trick or treating and Day of the Dead uses their food as another way to honor the deceased. I will say that I no longer like the idea of Day of the Dead costumes on Halloween. It is a sacred holiday

In his review of Veronica Zaráte Toscano’s book Los nobles ante la muerte en México. Actitudes, ceremonias y memoria (1750-1850) Elías Trabulse expressed appreciation for Zaráte Toscano’s intent and primary argument. The basis for her book was the exploration of funerary rites of the Mexican noble classes; she believed this field of study would unveil more about its practitioners than the deceased themselves and reveal underlying correlations between wealth and spirituality. The passing of my great aunt 150 years after the end of Zaráte Toscano’s research period surprisingly mirrored the funerary practices she touched upon. Despite the fact that I had not matured into womanhood

Every year on January 6, my family celebrates the cultural tradition of Dia de Reyes, which recognizes the coming of the three Wise Men. Children in Hispanic regions in the United States received presents from their parents just like how the three Wise Men presented gifts to baby Jesus. Another way to celebrate this holiday is to eat; the Rosca de Reyes is a accustomed Mexican bread in the shape of a ring, symbolizing the Wise Men’s quest for the Ruler of the Jews. It is said that Balthazar, Melchior, and Gaspar, the Three Wise Men journey through Jerusalem following a star. When the Wise Men met with King Herod, they questioned him where the newborn King had been born. Terrified by these words, King Herod, questioned the Wise men to look for the infant and to come at once when they find him, so that he too can also praise the new ruler. Since Herod was scared the newborn might endanger his sovereign power, he commanded the murdering of every child under the age of three years old. Soon, when the Wise Men located the newborn named Jesus it became a holiday known as Epiphany, which the bread, Rosca de Reyes, symbolizes. The dried and sweet fruit that decorate the bread represents the crowns of the Three Wise Men, while the accustomed figures are positioned in the inner part of the bread that symbolizes Joseph and Mary running away to Egypt to get away from Herod’s efforts to murder their child. In fact, the tradition Rosca de Reyes began in France during the fourteenth

In Mexican culture, the Day of the Dead is a lively celebration often observed from November 1st until November 2nd. What is often misunderstood as a gruesome exaggeration of death is, in reality, a wondrous celebration of lives, though passed. From the outside, onlookers view this celebration with horror and disbelief at how friendly

From the time I lived in America, every year I’ve heard about the Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo, but I did not know what it was about up until recently. I asked a few people and they told me it is the Mexican Independent Day, and I found out that to be wrong. Last week I had the opportunity to choose between two movies and I choose Cinco de Mayo La Batalla, because history has always fascinated for me. The language of this movie was quite hard. The movie was about two hours and fifteen minutes. This movie is about Cinco de Mayo or the fifth of May commemorates the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. In this movie it shows how Mexico’s military and its people try to defend their family,

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Many Mexican cultural families are familiar with the holiday Dia de los Muertos and celebrate it joyfully, but to others it may seem to be scary like Halloween. Dia de los Muertos is a holiday that Mexican families celebrate life and the memories of those no longer with us to help support their spiritual journey to the other side. “COCO” is a movie that takes the audience thru that holiday experience, reviews regarding the new film, “In ‘Coco’, Death Is the Point” written by Monica Castillo of the New York Times, December 8, 2017 and “Coco (2017)” written by Matt Zoller Seitz, November 21, 2017 www.rogerbert.com.

The movie “La Ley del Deseo” by Pedro Almodóvar, recreated the image of gender representation in the 21th century. His movie focus on the tension between subjective experience and the bigger social collectivity. There is a gender-based framework that occur if looking into depth in the movie. It is clear that Almodóvar wanted to challenge repressive stereotypes and practices in the film. He did a wonderful job defining male and female subjectivity in cinema and in a wider society. To me, he is what we should call the creation of the ‘new Spanish cinema’. The way Almodóvar represent the perception of gendered identities can be viewed as society moving forward with our ways of thinking, like a sense of sophistication. The fact that during the

Many people, including myself, think of Día De Los Muertos and they just associate it with another type of Halloween, but they couldn’t be any more opposite. By going to this event on campus I got to meet a lot of very interesting people and learned a lot about the Hispanic culture and how they see life and death very differently from my own culture. Día De Los Muertos (also known as day of the dead) has been around for centuries and the traditions and celebrations continue and are continuously passed down from generation to generation. With origins and traditions combining Aztec, Catholicism, and other indigenous beliefs, it is observed on November 1st and 2nd of each year. Although Day of the Dead has nothing to do with the American culture’s Halloween, it shares some similarity and ideas about other spiritual practices that American culture and my culture practices. Although all our cultures and backgrounds may be different, we all share the struggle with stereotypes and gender construction in some shape or form in our own cultures. Through this cultural event I could reflect on my own cultural practices, beliefs, and how they have affected the way that I have grown up in this world and can relate some of them to the Mexican culture, and the way they are seen in this society and the roles they socially constructed to play, either in their culture or even just in their own families and at home.