Mojado By Ricardo Arjon Song Analysis

Immigration affects families in many different ways. In the book “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario, family is a core element. After Enrique’s mother leaves for the U.S., the whole concept of their family gets distorted. The walking out of Enrique’s father and the abandonment of his grandmother help to disband the family even more. Enrique also threatens to repeat the same mistakes his family made with his daughter when he considers leaving her behind in Honduras. Family is the central theme in Enrique’s Journey because of his relationship and resentment with his mother, the rejection of his father and grandmother, and Enrique’s decision to leave his daughter, Jasmin, behind.

“Sonrisas” is a poem which has a central theme, and a tone that changes as the poem progresses. The poem's main theme is shedding light on the things that mexican-american people experience, specifically how they feel like they are “living in a doorway between two rooms” (Mora, Pat Line 1-2). This theme is shown throughout the poem as the speaker looks between the two doorways and describes what

The understandings and diversities of each immigrant and their experiences underlies in a range of issues they encounter such as rights, freedoms, beliefs, power, entrapment etc… All of which are a common understanding when used in comparison towards the migrants lives using the poignant aspect of imagery and journey’s within the poem “Immigrants at Central Station, 1951”. The experiences and perceptive in this poem help perceive an understanding of the immigrants experiences towards the new world of which displays the integrity, emotion and suffering towards the new world and we as the readers are engaged into these aspects of life through trains, time, control and journeys.

Living in a different country that is limited with choices and freedom will make people want to leave. Immigrants want to have better lives, having more opportunities for the future. In the poem “Running to America”, Luis J. Rodriguez describes the imagery when immigrants are leaving and displays why immigrates have the courage to do it. Having hope and the strength to have no matter what the cost is, they will try to achieve to be in America. Having the image of “fingers curled through chain-link fences” (line 3) showing how imperfect the country is and how immigrates are trying to do something about it. Luis J. Rodriguez’s poem, “Running to America” repetition is the key factor to show the symbolism, irony, and imagery to immigrates struggles and

He illustrates the suffering people experience at the hands of the desert, the loss that shatters the families of those who lose their lives during the journey, and the desire for the American Dream that motivates the border crossers to risk their lives. The emotional tales in the book give a face to a group of people who are nothing more than a statistic to many Americans. The vast majority of people seem to have no comprehension of the impact that different policies will have, regardless of their support for or rejection of our current immigration policy. Big picture information about illegal immigration is intangible and incomprehensible to most. The emotional arguments provide readers with information that the average person can work with, such as the story of Memo and Lucho crossing the border and eking out a life in the US afterwards (De León 167-201). The stories provided by the book can also connect the effects of immigration policy on the individual to the impact it can have on large groups of people who had no intention of crossing the border. For example, the testimony about Maricela’s life and death provided in Chapter 10 connects the suffering Maricela experienced to the pain her family and friends feel after they learn of her death (De León 243-264). These stories aid in the creation of better arguments about illegal immigration.

In these songs, one can unearth the heart’s deepest desires—desires that are so basic, so undeniably human, that they cannot help but underscore the dehumanizing condition of slavery.

In “Antojos”, Alvarez shows a strong sense of characterization to portray real life experiences. For instance, “‘What exactly does it mean, antojo?’ Yolanda asked. Her aunts were proven right: After so many years away, their niece was losing her Spanish” (259). In this short story, the main character, Yolanda, doesn’t feel that she fits into the place she grew up in. Her aunts see that she is losing her native tongue. This shows that Yolanda is distanced from her heritage, and has a sense of lost identity. Her experience of feeling set apart from her native life incorporates the emotions of illegal immigrants that have had to adapt to a different life setting. Alvarez herself writes, “This was what she had been missing without really knowing that she was missing it all these years. She had never felt at home in the States, never…” (262). Yolanda misses her homeland where she was surrounded by her culture, and her native language. She feels like she has lost that part of her identity -where she originated from. This incorporates the emotions of how all illegal immigrants must feel. There is a sense of relation between the experiences of the strong character, Yolanda, and illegal immigrants who have felt a similar

Immigration is a very dangerous and risky journey. Everyday immigrants try so hard to make it to the United States. This journey involves parents trying to support kids back home, families trying to start over, or kids trying to get to their mom; but some do not make it through this hardship. Those individuals, who make it, try like never before to support themselves and the family they needed to leave behind. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a well written novel that uses many pathos, logos, and ethos examples. Each one of them is used effectively because of the way students are persuaded in believing there true. Elements from the quotes can reveal that Sonia is knowledgeable and

America is characterized as a country of endless opportunities and freedom. People risk their lives to escape their countries searching for a diversified and opportunistic nation in search of a better quality of life. However, foreigners face a possible likelihood of being unable to escape poverty due to their immigration status and the disadvantage of lacking educational accomplishments. Numerous Americans have become outraged over time due to the decreased employment opportunities and have placed their blame towards non-citizens. Due to the vast majority of these aliens belonging to Mexico, the racial assumption continues to be directed at Mexicans when referring to immigrants. Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem, “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans,” centralizes on the misconception of Mexicans commandeering positions in the workforce from native-born American citizens. Baca imposes his belief that non-citizen workers are not imposing themselves in the workforce and creates many visualizations for his audience through his experiences on the racial stereotype. This literary piece creates an emotional topic between the speaker and the audience which allows people who oppose to understand the struggles that immigrants go through. Baca emphasizes and verbally illustrates the irrational accusations directed at aliens using mockery to battle with the truth towards their ideology and to connect with his audience deeply.

For thousands of years, waves of immigrants continue joining the developed countries in the world, bringing with them the unique cultures, languages, and ideas. Over time, those unique values might be faded away with each generation because of the new culture exposition. The second-generation immigrants experience a cultural conflict between that of their parents and that of host society. Most of them are unable to preserve and empower their origin cultures. Many differences between the first-generation and the second-generation immigrants arise. Through the analysis of the mother in “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” and the Das family in “Interpreter of Maladies”, I would like to demonstrate the differences between the first-generation immigrants, who travel from other countries, and the second-generation immigrants, who were born and raised on the immigrated land. These differences include the purpose of being in the foreign land, the connections to their homelands, society’s view, and the culture differences.

When I first saw it, it surprised me because it was in Spanish. The name was straightforward and I knew it would talk about immigration from an immigrant’s point of view. As I started to read the poem it was somewhat different then what I expected. The poem indeed was from an immigrant’s point of view but also included a border patrol’s perspective. What I had never expected for the poem to be is to have an immigrant woman defying the authority of a border patrol. In most cases immigrants are scared especially at the sound of “la migra” which is a slag word for immigration in Spanish. In addition, when the speaker was the border patrol officer he made himself sound bad by stating the things he could do to the woman. In most cases the speaker does not talk bad about themselves especially if being of authority figure like in this

“Czerwone Make Na Monte Cassino” is a Polish World War II military song. It was written about the fight against a German stronghold in a Benedictine monastery on Monte Cassino. Though the Allies had been fighting at Cassino since mid-January, the Polish forces joined for the fourth and final round of assaults on May 11, 1944. This victory allowed Allied forces to advance to Rome.

The Spanish pop star, Enrique Iglesias, also known as “King of Latin Pop”, released “Bailando” on April 28th, 2014. Iglesias, Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona recorded the song at Universal Republic Records, which is located in New York City, in 2012 through 2013. Enrique Iglesias also has an English version of the song, which features Jamaican rapper Sean Paul. It is also the sixth single from the Sex and Love which was released on March 18th, 2014. The song was recorded first by Gente de Zona. Iglesias didn’t like the song and he didn’t want to recorded the song. Now it is one of his favorite songs from the album. The song was also released on a digital download format.

“Bailando” has three other versions. One which was stated earlier is with Jamaican rapper Sean Paul. The other two is with Brazilian singer Luan Santana and Portuguese singer Mickael Carreira. The song “Bailando” served as a theme song for a soap opera Reina de Corazones. The song was tenth best-selling song of 2014. It sold 8 million copies worldwide. The song won three Latin Grammys. It won in the titles of Song of the year, Best Urban Song and Best Urban Performance. In 2015, “Bailando” won Top Latin Song at the Billboard Music Awards and 4 more. At the end of the year, it was number 1 in Italy, US Latin Airplay, US Latin Songs, US Latin Pop and US Tropical. It also charted at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song “Bailando”

The main theme of this song is failed communication between two lovers. It explains how the couples values knowledge over passion. The music in this song is very simple and quiet. The lines, “And the superficial sighs/the borders of our lives” repeat through the song. As a listener,