La Hacienda Musa Case Study

In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de Las Casas vividly describes the brutality wrought on the natives in the Americas by the Europeans primarily for the purpose of proclaiming and spreading the Christian faith. Las Casas originally intended this account to reach the royal administration of Spain; however, it soon found its way into the hands of many international readers, especially after translation. Bartolomé de Las Casas illustrates an extremely graphic and grim reality to his readers using literary methods such as characterization, imagery, amplification, authorial intrusion and the invocation of providence while trying to appeal to the sympathies of his audience about such atrocities.

The Vargas house is a house which contains countless children with only a single mother to care for them. The Vargas children are known for being savage, vulgar, and impolite. They do not care about anyone or anything including themselves. It is almost an everyday occurrence that these children get into great danger or trouble. Esperanza does not want to be mixed in with these type of people and deal with all this commotion. She makes a mature decision of not associating herself with them and finding other friends. When Esperanza is new to Mango Street she tells her younger sister, Nenny, not to make friends with the Vargas’. As Esperanza grows and matures, she is realizing who she wants her friends to be. Her Ideal friends were perhaps not

Imagine feeling like you don’t belong and never will, or that the odds of your success is a slim chance to none. The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, leads us into a world of poverty, broken dreams, and slithers of hope. The House on Mango Street follows the life of a young girl by the name of Esperanza Cordero, who occupies her childhood in an indigent Latino neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. The books expresses her dire need to have a place where she can call home, and escape the harsh reality of her expected life. Though, her life on Mango Street is bearable with help of her little sister Nenny, her two best friends Rachel and Lucy, and her other friend Sally. On her journey to adulthood, Sandra Cisneros will show how Esperanza assimilates into a mature young lady, who truly find her identity, and develops emotionally as well as physically.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cisneros grew up in a Latino family around the 1950s and 1960s. She had a Mexican father and Chicano mother. Cisneros was encouraged by her mother to read and was not insisted with spending all of her time performing classic “women’s work”. Cisneros welcomes her culture with open arms, but acknowledges the unjustness between the genders within. Having experience growing up in a poor neighborhood in a working class family while facing the difficulties created by racism, sexism, and her status, Esperanza longed to leave the barrio. Later, she finds her capability to succeed individually and find a “home with herself”; she worked to recreate some Chicano stereotypes for her community. Cisneros didn’t want to

On Friday I had the honor to visit the historical Rancho Los Cerritos House; also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, it was the largest and most impressive adobe residence raised in southern California during the Mexican period. The structure of the house was built in 1844 by merchant Jonathan Temple, a Yankee pioneer who became a Mexican citizen. Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970. I wasn’t lucky enough to visit this phenomenal and historical place until I took advantage of my history assignment and I decided to visit Rancho Los Cerritos with the company of some of my friends. On a Friday morning we took the chance and we

Mission San Buenaventura is named after a Saint named Saint Buenaventura. My mission also has a nickname it’s nickname is Mission by the ocean. It is named that because it’s near the ocean. It is located in the meadow of the Chumash Indians. The reason why it is located there because it was supposed to convert the Chumash Indians. It was built on the month of march31, 1784 on the memorable Easter morning. The family’s of the soldiers helped Fr. Serra build Mission San Buenaventura.

In the novel,The House on Mango Street, Cisneros uses a powerful collection of imagery however, one of the strongest examples would be in the chapter My Name, which displays Esperanza’s insecurities in a land who struggles to accept her. “In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting,” (Cisneros pg.10). Esperanza explains the meaning of hope for Hispanic people in a few simple words: sadness and waiting. For millions, it represents the wait of a new life, a better life for them. It’s sadness, knowing many reject them in a land they were promised opportunity. This motif of repudiation and racial discrimination appears frequently throughout the novel which greatly affects Esperanza’s life.

Today, I want to talk about bananas. This familiar yellow fruits is nutritious, delicious, and good for you. But, most importantly, there are a trillion fun facts about it on the internet. Banana Fact: “Americans eat an average of 27 pounds of bananas per person every year, making them the most popular fruit in the U.S.” Banana fact: “Research shows that eating bananas may lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes, as well as decrease the risk of getting some cancers.” Banana fact: “Banana farms use extremely harmful pesticides including diazinon and chlorpyrifos, which when consumed can cause: diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and comas.” Banana fact: “Tortoises and manatees off the coast of Costa Rica are facing extinction partly due to the fact that pesticide runoff from banana plantations kills the algae on which they feed.” Now you might be thinking, those things aren’t really my problem, I’ve never gotten sick from a banana and tortoises aren’t doing bad, I saw one at the zoo once. Why is any of this important? And to that, allow me to read you this sweet native american quote Ms. Barber probably found on facebook, a few clicks away from my banana facts. "Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your

Immigration involves moving from our home country to a whole new one in order to start over and have a better life and or future. In Esperanza Rising, Esperanza Just lost her dad and her dad’s step brothers/her uncles burn her house down they decided they have to leave Mexico and become an immigrant.They moved to California and she has to work because her mamma becomes sick, so she needs the money to pay her mammas hospital bills, so she goes to work in migrant worker and her job was to eyeing the potatoes. Although Esperanza faced many challenges as an immigrant, her hardest challenge were not being able to chores because someone else also did it for her, and when esperanza had to go to work in the fields to take care of mamma.

As Cabeza De Vaca was making a fire after he had hiked miles and miles to warm up is numb, raw hands. He has only eaten prickly cactus pear in ten days. He was using his precious flint to make a fire,all of a sudden, a band of six hunters suddenly appeared. They carried spears, but no game. Their ribs showed clearly through their skin just like his. They spoke in a different language that Cabeza De Vaca did not know. They motioned him to drop his flint and his precious fruit in a 40 degree night. He was shipwrecked in Tampa Bay and traveled in raft that he used melted fire arms to make it with, and landed on Galveston Island. He has to find a way to go to Mexico if he ever wants to see his family again. Cabeza De Vaca was able to survive by using his respect for Native Americans, being a healer, and using his wilderness skills.

~ Petrina and Horace will rate the bananas chosen for the sample. Of course, they will not be told which group the bananas come from. The ratings will be averaged for each year’s production and the average ratings will be compared. If the average rating for last year’s crop is more than 20% higher than the average rating for this year’s crop, this year’s crop will be judged to be worse than last year’s crop

Michael can throw as hard, maybe harder, then any other 12 year old alive. His fastballs being clocked at eighty miles-per-hour. You would think the worst was behind when his dad, brother, and he immigrated from Cuba, but I don't think anyone can predict what is in store for Michael Arroyo. They live in the Bronx and Michael is a huge Yankee fan; especially his idol, Cuban-born pitcher El Grande. Michael lost his mother to cancer back in Cuba at a young age, and his father died of a heart attack a few months after coming to America leaving his seventeen year-old brother Carlos and him living on there own.

The film Mirar Morir is based on the 43 students that disappeared on September 26, 2014 in Iguala, Mexico and the death of six people. Family members of the young students missing kept looking for answers. Family members were being threatened to say anything to interiors, but they still did reveal important information. These families were dispirited in finding their sons'. “La Noche de Iguala” is the night on September 26, 20161 when students decided to go to Iguala and how they were being attacked by the military of Mexico. There was a young man interviewed who witness the mascara and reveals how everyone on the bus was mistreated while trying to go to Iguala. Furthermore, the military captain mentions how he and his military feel disrespected

By 1993, the Banana Empire ceased to exist due to Panama Disease, ongoing labour issues, the rise of new competition and the increased assertiveness of host country governments all contributed to the growing intricacy of the industry. Nowadays, the modern banana farmer has been exposed to many pesticides, which have led to adverse health conditions for the majority of workers but working conditions and wages are on the rise currently. The introduction of fair trade bananas in 2004 was fundamental in bettering the working conditions for farmers and labourers.

The author of the book, “The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World” (2008), Dan Koeppel, who is a famous journalist describes in a fascinating way banana’s cultural importance, threats associated with the crops of banana in the future and banana’ history. Banana is a very delicious fruit and is eaten all over the world. Banana is one of the world’s fourth largest harvests in the world. Dole and Chiquita are eminent American based distributors and producers of banana. They are claiming to produce the banana on low price. In this book, Koeppel discusses the risks associated to the plantation of banana around the world. He also discusses the fact that due to blight, the plantation of banana is destroyed (Koeppel, 2008). He points out that the farmers and the producers have no insight at all regarding this matter (Koeppel, 2008).