Especially for me growing up learning and understanding two different languages, English and Spanish. Although with Spanish I had to learn two different dialects with my mom being from Guatemala and my dad being from Mexico. ... Growing up learning Spanish was a bit difficult for my siblings and I. ... For example when we would say the word you in Spanish I would use "tu" because that's how my dad say you in Spanish. ... This was most interesting when talking to other Spanish-speaking people because it helped me deduce where they were from. ...

• Word Count: 1287
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In addition Michelle speaks three languages English, Cuban and Spanish. ... She wants to get help but doesn't want to take the steps in order to change her current situation. ... She feels as if the medication will help with her depression but the medication has been prescribed to help with her bipolar disorder and ADD. ... She has made no previous attempts to receive help. ... They also enjoy making Spanish dishes as well such as Paella, empanada, and Pescaito frito. ...

• Word Count: 2495
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

I like rock and they listen to their Spanish, I don't know what I would call it but just Spanish music. I don't like Spanish music at all, not one kind, not one song so I can't stand listening to it and I patronize it in front of them and they get mad. ... This migration and Mexico's high rate of population growth have helped cause overcrowding and a shortage of jobs in the cities. ... There were also financial problems in Mexico. " By 1981 decreased demand and lower prices for petroleum helped create an economic crisis in Mexico. ... He knew people here that would help ...

• Word Count: 1638
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Sarah speaks English and Spanish and she is often made fun of because of how she talks and dresses. ... She has to cook, clean, help with homework and basically be the mother in her absence. ... Because of Sarah being taught how to speak by the use of Spanish Sarah has a hard time reading and writing in the American English language. ... There are many things that can be done for Sarah to help her to get on the right path. ... I will provide a list of resources that can help to find suitable childcare for this family. ...

• Word Count: 2398
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The absence and presence of his father helped shaped him into the man he grew up to be. ... The book skips around telling parts of Yunior's life while he is in high school and working to help pay bills for his mother. ... He fails to do this with Aurora, but almost redeems himself because he tries his best to take care of his mother, helps the Puerto Rican woman get away from her boss and by being nice to the girl in the story "Boyfriend"." ... In this story, it is clear that Yunior is naive and not knowledgeable about how to date a woman by saying, "Tell her that you love her skin, her...

• Word Count: 1679
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I do however know that Mexico got his independence from Spain, but before that Mexico was founded of Tenochtitlan by Aztec civilization. All I know is that my mother's ancestors came from Spain. ... All seem to talk a different language than Spanish. ... As a young Mexican-American who is currently working towards obtaining an associate's degree, it is my duty to take advantage of the opportunities available here in the United States and to help empower other young Latinos to do the same. ...

• Word Count: 1963
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

They help shape the way I am in the present and what I will be in the future. ... By the time I was 4, they were mostly fighting every other day, my mom asking him why he was coming home so late and him responding, "no te preocupes" ( which is Spanish for don't worry). ... She had cried for days, and me being a little four year old, not knowing what to do and seeing my mom hurt, did not help at all. ... My mom was and still is both a mother and a father to me; she raised me all by herself (and of course with the help of my grandma here and there). ... They help shape the way I am in the p...

• Word Count: 1394
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication My first language was English, my second Arabic and my third was Spanish. ... My Spanish is much more practical for basic conversation than my Arabic, but it would not be classified as conversational. ... I have come to understand that my close knit family provided me with a system to distribute my stressful emotions from Sam and Donna to one of my older siblings, and I learned to reach out for help and not to be a burden to one person. ...

• Word Count: 2124
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His parents" primary language was Spanish. ... One could say that books helped to enlarge the gap between him and his family. ... My parents are Mexican immigrants and this is who I am: this man who has an Indian face and a Spanish surname and an Anglo first name, Richard." ...

• Word Count: 2210
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Most of the households in Mexico have at least one "muchacha" that comes everyday to clean the house and help cooking the meal. ... After one gets to know me they are able to pick up on my Spanish comments under my breath and through talking to me one realizes my different mind set. ...

• Word Count: 1705
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He had helped skin 965 head of cattle by staking their skulls and tying their hides to the bumper of an early model pickup truck. ... The dove could be heard throughout L"Amour's large Spanish style home as though in an echo chamber, and outlived most of its species as the writer's "good luck mascot" (Hall). ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Having the river close by the pueblo people adapted to having the semi easy access to help irrigate their fields for corn, verities of squash and pumpkins, and chili. ... The walls are made completely out of adobe, the adobe is laid thick ways to help insulate. ... If their was the same construction group of men from the pueblo who help build and maintain the HUD ( Housing and Urban Development) homes they could easily be trained on how to build the traditional sustainable home, much like Roxanne Swentzells home. ... It was a beautiful sight to see an entire meal coked from pre-contact (befor...

• Word Count: 2082
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

By that, meaning the whites needed the blacks in order to keep their lives organized and crazy-free and the blacks needed the whites to help keep their lives suitable by working. ... But with the help of a military psychiatrist, he was able to turn his life around and actually enjoy it. ... Her childhood days was growing up speaking Spanish with her dad who thought he was Puerto Rican. ...

• Word Count: 1924
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

At home we spoke nothing but Spanish. ... When my parents purchased a brand new home under government help, we then moved. ... This helped my parents open their eyes. ... Even though, my parents emphasized that we should help each other they never asked for one cent from us. ... My father would sometimes try to stop her but it never helped. ...

• Word Count: 2440
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School