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    Brown: The Last Discovery of America completes Richard Rodriguez's three-volume work in which he explains and explores the ethnic and racial future of America. In this particular book, the author defines the color brown not as the representation of the Hispanic race but as the color of the future. Black, white, yellow, the author explains, are incorrect racial categories for it is not how nature works. Nature yearns for combination of all different colors, and brown is the final result. In the

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    Becoming Bilingual Ever since I was a little girl, I have had big dreams for my future. When I was three, I wanted to become a firefighter. Then when I was six, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Then when I was eight, I wanted to be a doctor who was also a super-model. So when my mom asked me when I was four if I wanted to go to a Spanish immersion school, it was the perfect opportunity to accomplish my dream of becoming like Dora the Explorer. Going to Eagle Heights Spanish Immersion School

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    In Linda Chavez’s, “Hispanics and the American Dream” she starts by showing the growth of Hispanics in America and how they are depicted. She sees them as a valuable part of society that is steadily climbing to new heights on the socioeconomic ladder, yet the population perceives them to be the lower end and will likely remain that way. She goes on to prove this assumption by the way Hispanics are shown in the media, which states that poor and Hispanic goes hand in hand when thought of. What is failed

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    I officially began my career as a student teacher in Spanish on August 25, 2014 at Memorial High School in Smallville, Ohio. I work under the guidance of Mrs. Santer, my mentor teacher, who has been introducing WMHS students to the wonderful world of languages for over 30 years. This year Mrs. Santer is teaching various levels of Spanish (Advanced Placement, IV, III, and I) as well as French I. Mrs. Santer’s classroom is just what you would expect a world language classroom to look like: colorful

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    Brown: The Last Discovery of America completes Richard Rodriguez 's three-volume work in which he explains and explores the ethnic and racial future of America. In this particular book, the author defines the color brown not as the representation of the Hispanic race but as the color of the future. Black, white, yellow, the author explains, are incorrect racial categories for it is not how nature works. Nature yearns for combination of all different colors, and brown is the final result. In the

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    I am creative, short, determined, competitive, and a dyslexic Hispanic female. Society has shown us that a large part of who we are in the United States focuses on our ethnicity and race. For every important document, we have to fill out a form asking us about our race/ethnicity. We can say that we are one race but we actually all are multiple races. Growing up I knew that I was Hispanic but I really didn’t feel like I was treated differently. I feel like because I had the lighter skin I was not

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    Chicano-hablante and those who speak Castilian tend to be at odds due to pride, we understand the way Hispanophones' language is constantly being oppressed due to political and social stigma. Gloria Anzaldúa's book touches multiple interesting subjects, ones that open a new prespective to those on the other side of the spectrum. One of Anzaldúa's main point is the way in which native hispanophones see the way Anzaldúa and Chicanos speak as wrong, almost barbaric even. Chicanos are seen as disrespectful

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    and you will be able to communicate (and troll) with about 550 million people throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. In the United States alone, it is the second most spoken language with more than 52 million yodelers. Enough hispanophones to give Trump some nightmares. And

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    coarse to the touch"), replacing marihuana (a female personal name, María Juana), replacing cañamo (the original Spanish name for the plant, derived from the Latin genus name Cannabis). All four of these names are still used in various parts of the Hispanophone world, although cañamo ironically has the least underworld connotation, and is often used to describe industrial hemp, or legitimate medically-prescribed cannabis. [edit] The "Euphemism Treadmill" Euphemisms often evolve over time into taboo words

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