Mi Chacra

The artist chooses an upbeat and happy tempo that repeats throughout the song. He chooses this repeating tempo to draw the listener’s attention to the lyrics of the song. The slow, yet happy tempo paired with the artists bright and cheery voice creates a sense of ease and happiness within the song itself, and the audience.

In the story “La Relacion” by Alvar Cabeza de Vaca. Cabeza de Vaca’s history of the 8 years living with the Native Americans in Texas and in the South West. He goes through slavery, served as a trader and eventually became recognized as a great healer and related to religion or soul leader by making a great disparity.”Cabeza de Vaca and his men were later forced to act as healers.”

For hundreds of years, some people have believed in creatures that they've seen but are not proven yet by scientists. In America, there are a couple of sightings seen by the people. Sightings of bigfoot are reported every year by the people who lives near the woods but no one really knows if they really exist or not. Sightings of the lochness monster are reported by the people who goes to the lake every time but it is really hard to believe it because dinosaurs were extinct thousands of years ago.

One of the most important lines from the song is, “I can’t change, even if I tired, even if I wanted to”. It is a meaningful

“Scorned by attitudes, suppressed by mortis putation, destroyed by modern society.’’ “muck explanation and in the fierce heat of racial hatred.” The quotes from the poem “ Yo Soy Joaquin” by Rodolfo Gonzalez represented discrimination. The meaning of his quotes are what he has been thru america. Destroyed by modern society symbolize the deaths of people’s culture, religions and how not all america is great as they say. Immigrants come to america for better life and hopes,dreams ,better education. As an child with immigrant parents i understand what Rodolfo might have been going thru the years he has been in america. Is America really a good america or just America. America is a world where it has discrimination,equality, patriotic

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.

The Tamandua Mexicana is a medium-sized anteater with a prehensile(capable of grasping) tail, small eyes and ears, and a long snout. The anteaters can weigh from 7.1lbs to 11.9lbs. Their typical size can range from 102 to 130 centimeters. The anteaters type of symmetry is Bilateral. (which is the same on both sides) Their fur is pale over most of the body except on the upper half of the body where there is a black shaped vest.

Mi Chacra is written in the Key of F major, it possesses twelve measures, is written in common time, and utilizes a nine-note musical range. Rhythmically, this song uses a variety of notes that include: half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, a quarter rest, and an eighth rest. There are also “ghost” notes that indicate spoken lyrics at quarter note values.

Vaca, he was born around 1490 to a decent family in Spain. His name means

Tambien la lluvia was very different from the usual movies that I have seen. Tambien la lluvia didn’t have any cheesy line to extort emotion from the viewers, but instead it used realistic imagery to paint a clear picture of fear and pain that the native endures during the time which was very heartfelt. Tambien la lluvia was very unique. The movie was a documentary inside of a movie. The documentary in the movie correlate with what the villager face. For instance, back in the 1600s the native faced hardship such as getting their limbs chop off for not finding enough good. In current days, the villager faced hardship due to that fact that the government prohibit them from

Sin Nombre, loosely translated as “without name”, is an independent film released in 2009 under the skillful direction of Cary Fukunaga. Fukunaga, a film graduate from New York University, also attended a French university and carries a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz. During his studies and New York University, he made a short film titled Victoria Para Chino, a film about a group of immigrants who died in a refrigerated trailer when immigrating to America; The inspiration behind Sin Nombre came from that short film. In his first major production, Fukunaga continued his interest in the topic of immigration, and came up with the creation of Sin Nombre. The film follows both a young gangster of

For the Honors Research Paper, I have selected two readings: To Sor Filotea De La Cruz by Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz and Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. These two powerful readings try to defend themselves against dictatorships and close minded people. I will contrast the readings and compare its similarities.

This song shows a lot of elegance and it is a song in which people are very interested in as it’s still very much heard today. There are moments in the fifth song in which the violins are played very hard, and that is something different that has happened in this song than the other ones so far. The Hallelujah chorus song which is the sixth example is a song that is still played and heard around churches and the world. This song instantly begins with singing Hallelujah which brings the listeners attention in the first few seconds of the song. The seventh example begins with opera type singing that is meant to be sad and gloomy but precious and elegant all at the same time. This song is shown to pay tribute to an occasion with beautiful singing. The eight example is played with a piano and it all begins with a loud and big entrance. This song shows and hits many different ques and notes as the song continues to go on. In a few instances you can see the musician play the instrument and you can see how many different notes he hits. The next example is shown to be played by many violins and accompanied by a

What is remarkable about Four Women is the skillful yet overt approach to dealing with a sensitive construct. The song is

This leaves the song open ended, with no set boundaries and allowed oneself to express and reveal individuality through interpretation.