Quinceanera Essay

My cultural ancestry comes from a Cuban and Mexican decent. I have chosen to write about my Cuban side because I can relate to them more than I could with my Mexican side. I was raised around my Cuban family and would occasionally see my Mexican side due to them living so far away. I have spent a lot more time associating with Cubans and have adapted to more of their habits.

. The day of my Quinceanera started early. I had just turned 15 and it was the birthday I had always dreamed of. I was always a dama in other Quinceanera’s, but now it was time for my own celebration. In Mexican culture, a dama is just like a bridesmaid. I had 14 of my closest friends as my dama’s to be a part of my “court of honor”. All 14 girls wore beautiful hot pink dresses and had polished hairstyles. The girls looked like beautiful dolls. When my mother was a little girl she had two Quinceanera’s. One celebration took place in Mexico and the other here in California. Looking back at my

Most people, especially girls shop for an outstanding birthday outfit to wear. No other wardrobe can relate to what you wear for your quinceañera. It is the only birthday where a Mexican girl could actually feel like a princess. She wears a beautiful crown covered in rhinestones that essentials her up do with a gorgeous scepter that contributes to the tiara. Her dress is what makes her the starlight of the night. It is big and puffy as a “Cinderella dress” embracing her figure. There is not another birthday that it is usual for a girl to wear what a quinceanera wears, and that is what makes the night distinctive from any another birthday.

Throughout history, most young girls have a Quinceanera which is a special occasion and traditional celebration of a young girl turning fifteen on her birthday and making a transition from child to adult. Reached maturity and eligibility for marriage, which has been custom in most countries. A Quinceanera is something that started many years ago when a Spanish conqueror brought the tradition to Mexico and other countries. Throughout most countries, parents don’t celebrate their daughter’s fifteenth birthday by having a Quinceanera; they celebrated daughter’s birthday differently from other countries. While in countries like Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central, and South America are the only ones who celebrate their daughter’s

The day has finally come to go on vacation. My family and I departed promptly from our house at 4:30 in the morning. Our flight was scheduled for 7 in the morning at Pittsburgh International Airport. We had to arrive their early because all people flying international had to be their two hours before the flight would leave. We boarded the flight out to Punta Cana, which is located in the Dominican Republic. I can remember that I was so excited to go, that I was the first on the flight. I am pretty sure that it took about three hours to get to the Dominican Republic from Pittsburgh. It was a really long flight to me because I could not wait to get there and I just wanted to land. Finally, the moment has come and we landed. When we departed

Ernesto Quinonez 's novel is very influential and gives insight into the harsh reality of being a minority in America. Quinonez also speaks on the history of the Latino culture and the life experiences. The fabricated stories based on true events, affected Latinos as well as other nationalities. This book has served its purpose and is speaking to families, friends, wives, husbands, and children on being aware and conscious of the reality that surrounds them. This novel amazed me with the political and historical content surrounding the Latino community, and it is extremely powerful as it shows independence in its own culture. The novel uses its content to bring awareness of Latino ethnic identity, their way of life, and defines social factors from within. (Barajas 2014)

As I walked through the gates and smell the amazing smell of fresh popcorn. look forward and see a perfect baseball field. Then you see the two teams and the superstars of the teams. I see the great Derek Jeter in his final season of his career. I see the uprising star Lorenzo Cain running through the outfield catching fly balls. I also see the 2 pitchers warming their arms up. The stars are warming up and I am smelling the great food and taking in the experiment.

We also thought the rally would end up being a lot better than the parade (which it was). We had to wait in the mud for about 5 hours but if you're a huge cubs fan like me and my family then it was worth the wait. While I waited for five hours I was able to look around and see everyone else just as excited as us to be there. Some had been waiting outside the gates since the day before and others got there the same time we did. I saw people who were excited, people who were anxious and a lot of people who were exhausted of standing for five hours. Suddenly a video on the big screen in front of us started to play which meant the rally was about to start. When it ended people starting walking out on stage like the man who built the team and the coach of the team. They gave some really good speeches about the team and how hard they have worked to get to where they are. Players started walking out on stage one by one as they waved or came up to give a speech. They ended the rally by having everyone sing Go Cubs Go.It was truly amazing to be able to say I saw the 2016 cub world series champions. This is a day I will never

Although the Quinceanera is a formal rites of passage that is supposed to signify maturity and purity, in this article it is portrayed as just a fancy coming of age party that does not shape one 's identity. “It is rare that a ritual alters the way a society is organized” (Alvarez 50). At the Quinceañera Expo, Alvarez noticed little girls walking around in lustrous dresses and tiaras in their hair (Alvarez, pg. 50). The ritual is similar to the American Sweet 16 than a coming

A quilombo is a settlement founded by runaway slaves of African descent, the most famous of these communities was Palmares. This free territory was established in the 1600s and lasted about eighty-nine years, which is longer than any other quilombo in Brazil. In 1984, the director Carlos Diegues brought this overlooked history back into mainstream consciousness with his film Quilombo. The main historical topic covered in this film is the spirit and resistance of African people once they were separated from their homeland and subjected into slavery. History often portrays these kidnapped Africans as helpless and submissive but they did not give up their freedom quickly or silently. Diegues created this film not just to highlight the

According to Going to the Source, in early America, Indian captivity narratives were one of the most powerful and preserved forms of literature (27). They emphasized the spiritual and physical trials of captivity. Indian captivity narratives were written by both men and women, but for American women they provided with an “acceptable avenue of literacy.” These narratives offer two major aspects. They offer a personal perspective of Indian cultures and the pressure and alteration of colonization. Furthermore, they provided a personal perspective into the captive’s cultures as well (28).

If there's anything I want to change this year is to have better grades! I know I can have a 4.0 I just need to try harder in my classes. I use to have better grades in middle school then high school but that needs to change. This year I want to become a better volleyball player, I may not be the best but I can be with practice just keep on practicing and never quit that shows a lot of character into someone. Just this year I want it to be better and wonderful, I'm turning 15 this year my quinceanera is less than 2 months away and I'm super excited! I also want to interact more with the world, being on my phone is a problem. I want to change that, get distracted by doing exercise, playing softball with my brother, anything to get me away from

finally decided on one. He walked into the bank and it was empty, not a single customer. Quintin's adrenaline was pumping harder than ever, he handed the teller a note that read this is a robbery put all the money in a bag and no one will get hurt. She did exactly as he asked and within 10 minutes he was riding off into the sunset with his possible future wife and bag with 87 thousand cash. There wasn't a single lull in conversation for the remaining 18 hour car ride to Selina's valley. Once they arrived they purchased a property and started a farm. The property was perfect Quintin had 250 acres all to himself. He had a 3 bedroom house that looked out over his farm. Quintin had never been so happy he had only lived in 2 places his whole life. One was a tiny apparent in Chicago and the other was a 4 by 6 cell. He had never owned

"A quest is a journey in the course of which one advances spiritually and mentally, as well as physically travelling miles. The quester leaves the familiar for the unknown. The nature of the goal may not be clear at first and may only become fully apparent at the end of the quest" (Irwin 2011). In Don Quixote, a middle-aged man, driven half-mad by reading tales of medieval knights, attempts to recreate the world of chivalry in contemporary Spain. Quixote sets out on a quest, determined to right wrongs, even if the 'wrongs' are evil beings disguised as windmills. Quixote is on a quest to find true honor in a world where such values are no longer relevant and save his society from moral turpitude. Similarly, the protagonist of T.S. Eliot's modernist epic "The Wasteland" is on a quest to find something that no longer exists: a sense of meaning in life. Both Cervantes' prose and Eliot's poem are fragmented and episodic, reflecting the difficulties of the heroic quest to find a cohesive end and 'answer' to the questions the protagonists are seeking.

We are nearing the end of the semester and looking back, Tierra Seca has been extremely busy!