San Diego City Analysis

Sub-Point 1: According to a magazine named Latino Voices published on December 12, 2013 La Virgen de Guadalupe is the patron saint of Mexico. La Virgen had two apparitions in the year 1531. She first appeared to a poor peasant named Juan Diego on the Tepeyac Hill in December 9, 1531. The second time she reappeared to Juan Diego was on Dec 12 of the same year. This is where she ordered him to collect roses on his Tilmátli. Then for him to take the roses to the priest and to tell him that she wanted a church to be built for her. This story was told in Spanish and the Nahualt language. After 300 years later it became a national holiday in Mexico in the year 1859. The way to celebrate this holiday is by playing “Las Mananitas (birthday song)” to her every year on Dec 12 in the basilica which is also known as the home of la Virgen. Later on January 22, 1999 Pope John Paul II named La Virgen “Our Lady of Guadalupe the Patroness of the

We will go on a chronological trip through the history of the city of San Diego. First covering the Native Americans. Then we will discuss the Spanish colonization. Followed by Mexican rule. We will finish with Current

Insight into Hispanic Culture In fifty-seven million people in the United States, one in six are of Hispanic in origin. This number is being predicted to be one in 4 by 2035 (2015). The minority

As a placebo for a changing guard, La Virgen de Guadalupe proved highly successful. The iconic image of La Virgen de Guadalupe remains static in both form and symbolism until the mid twentieth century, when a new movement among Mexican-Americans emerges in California, dubbed the Chicano movement. As visual propaganda becomes a large part of the movement, a significant body of art with common themes and styles, known as Chicano art, follows. This shift in subject matter among Mexican-American artists toward a specific social and political agenda began earlier, as evidenced by the work of Rivera, Orozco, and Posada, but, it isn’t until the mid 1960’s that national or religious iconographic images are recycled to support a larger political or social agenda.

Hispanics in the United States have a history rooted for centuries. Many different cultures make up this group dubbed ‘Hispanics’, each with their own identity, culture, and struggles. However, they do group together in a common fight to gain a more stable and positive foot hold in the U.S.

Latin American immigration to the United States and the growth of the latino and hispanic population is currently one of the most controversial topics being debated right now. What started as a small, regionally concentrated population of fewer 6 million in 1960, is now broadly scattered population of more than 50 million. Latino population keeps growing and exerting enormous impact on social, cultural, political, and economic aspects in the U.S. However, unlike what a lot of people think, Latino immigration to the United states is more than a population’s aspirations to the american dream, it has been influenced by multiple factors such as national, regional, and global developments, the history of the U.S. military and its foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, the controversial history of international border enforcement. When latino immigrants get to the United States, they make it their nation. However, their nation often fails to protect them and their interests, as well as embrace them. In this essay, I will explore in detail the various factors that drove the Latino community to immigrate to the U.S., and how the role of the U.S. as their nation shapes their experience.

For many Latino families, their image is misunderstood. The majority of Americans analyze Latino communities focusing on the individual. Asking individual questions such as what did that person do wrong to be poor? Why is that individual immigrating into the US? The real question we should be asking is what factors made them immigrate to a different country in the first place. After all, “nobody likes to leave their home” says Juan Gonzalez from the documentary Harvest of Empire. Researching Latinos in America requires using structural/social determinants to gain an accurate representation. In Latinos in

The most significant number of outdoor mural art in the United States is just minutes away from downtown San Diego, but if you’ve visited the city, you’ve probably driven over it without even knowing it. San Diego’s Chicano Park is hidden below the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. More than 70 vibrantly colored murals adorn the support pylons of the freeway overpass. The walls pay tribute to the history of the surrounding Mexican-American and immigrant community called Barrio Logan. In the 1960s, the community was further separated by the formation of the 5 Freeway and the high on-ramps of the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. City leaders didn’t include tenants in the preparation of these projects that destroyed more than 5,000 houses and local businesses.

The NFL landscape changed greatly Thursday as the San Diego Chargers officially relocated to Los Angeles joining the Rams. This move has been discussed for the last three years so it's not much of a surprise, but I feel terrible for the city of San Diego and their fans losing part of their identity has to be a hard pill to swallow. The Chargers owner Alex Spanos is partially to blame for this move because I don't think the invested enough in his organization to make them perennial contenders year after year.

If you have ever gone to Mexico and go back to the valley sometimes you will think that you never left Mexico and you just went in a circle. The Valley is about 95% Hispanic and about 50% of us speak Spanish and in the Valley, it’s not like other places where they have TEX-MEX. The valley is the complete opposite because we have more of a Hispanic culture than an American culture. There are places in the Valley, where it has a lot of American culture, but there are places in the same town or city where you think you just traveled to Mexico because stores where all they have is stuff from Mexico so that you don’t drive to Mexico. If you ever go to the valley the things you have to be careful about is if you go to a Mexican restaurant that you have to find out if any of the people who work there speak English because if you don’t know Spanish you are going to have a difficult time trying to order. The culture to me is one of a kind because there is no other place like it in the

Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most popular sacred icons in the hemisphere. Elizondo considers Our Lady of Guadalupe as an “American Gospel.” This reading tells about the first time Elizondo visited the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Tepeyac in Mexico City, the enforcement of Spanish rule of Mexico’s Aztec Empire, and the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego.

The State Legislature established San Diego County, on February 18, 1850; it was one of California's 27 original counties. Its estimated population of nearly 3,500 included about 800 settlers, and roughly 2,700 Native Americans. In terms of geographical size, the county included almost 40,000 square miles. Today, its size has shrunk to about 4,255 square miles.

Alma Delia Torres explored San Diego when she was 5 years old. She lived in Tijuana and was very excited to go to San Diego. Her parents brought her to many places, so she can learn about the many different cultures in the world. They all first went to San Diego, Ca and today she still remembers going there. Alma's parents showed her how to save money and how people from San Diego spoke and socialized differently than they did. Today Alma has traveled to Greece, Turkey, and many places.

Excitement and adrenaline ran through my body as I stood before the wide, white doors that lead into my grandparent’s house in a small farm town called Jose Maria Morelos in Durango, Mexico. It was a beautiful, sunny, December evening; warm enough to just wear a light sweatshirt, not like the December evenings in Minnesota where you need Eskimo attire to go outside. It has been a family tradition to go every winter break, leaving Minnesota behind in an avalanche of snow. Jose Maria Morelos, called La Bajada by the locals, including myself, is a small thriving farm town that has a young spirit when it comes to culture and friendliness. What once boomed with agriculture and farm animals, now stands as a visiting town on vacation days and a

Many people know that San Diego is a hot-spot for tourists and the like. But what most people don’t know is that there is a little town outside of it called Escondido. It isn’t well-recognized so it’s fitting that Escondido means “hidden” in Spanish. This town is a mix of a city and a rural countryside, as you can drive right through a large housing community and then immediately find yourself out in the middle of nowhere. I think that the magic of Escondido is that you can experience the tranquility of the countryside, or if you want to, you can drive to the big city of San Diego. The weather is almost always warm, and the beach is never far away. Also, the population is around one hundred fifty thousand as of twenty-thirteen!