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I will admit that reading Walden was not always easy for me. Half-way through “Economy” I found myself getting constantly distracted by my own thoughts about deadlines, social events, and meetings . I would have […]

I was sewing my pants last week using your words as my thread. As the needle moved in and out, I read each stroke as it plunged into the fabric. My haphazard tailoring hid the damage on my second hand corduroys. […]

I have always viewed going out into nature as a way to escape. As an only child, I am not quite sure what I have always been trying to escape from, but into the woods, I continued to go. My first solo “hike” I rem […]

When I write I often do so in large brushstrokes. I cover entire mountains in a moment and write like I am running out of time. I sometimes feel like I am running uphill when I write. Adding more and more just to […]

El medio ambiente es muy importante para todos. Los animales y plantas viven en el medio ambiente, y nosotros usamos los recursos que tiene el medio ambiente. Está mucha destrucción de las selvas tropicales. E […]

     In the United States, Latinos were stereotyped as “hypersexual party people”. They were seen as “hot tamales” for the way citizens of the United States perceived their music videos and themes in their song […]

Hola! Me llamo Rosy. Yo tengo pelo Rosado y rizado. Mi pelo es muy grande y largo. Hoy estoy de moda para el otoño. Yo llevando pantalones azules de algodón, un sueter de lunares, y zapatos negros. Mi abrigo de l […]

El Amazonas está sobre Brasil, Perú, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana y Guayana Francesa. Es media de la selva del mundo. Tiene 390 mil millones de árboles de 16,000 especies. Menos de 200,000 pe […]

El sol responde, “Yo recomiendo que tú viajes por cualquier medio que te sientas cómoda. Es importante recordar que tú puedas hace el viaje en muchos pasos, y por muchos medios de transporte. No es importante lleg […]

Rivera Rideau argues that once Reggeton hit the mainstream media in the US around the 2000s, the media chose to systematically racialize Latinos and African Americans. Rideau undergoes intense examination of the […]

In Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s article, Enter the Hurbans, the background of Reggaeton and its rise in US culture are discussed. In the article, Rivera-Rideau makes the clear distinction between the Reggaeton that i […]

este vacación, yo voy al Chicago por avión. Chicago es más divertido que Wooster porque hay muchas actividades para hacer en la ciudad. antes de este vacación, mi coche está en la tienda de reparación pero cuando […]

¡Buenos días! Hoy es Lunes. Es el veintitrés de octubre. Es otoño. ¡El otoño es mi estación favorita! Hace un poco de frío. Esta nublado. Yo llevo una falda, una camisa azul, un suéter rojo y botas. Hasta luego! 

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s article on reggaeton principally presents the musical genre, reggaeton, and its artists as a concept that has been racialized in the United States, similarly to how Puerto Ricans have been […]

Me encanta la comida. Mis comidas favoritas son pollo, manzanas y ensaladas. También me gusta beber agua mucho. Me gustan las manzanas rojas más que las manzanas verdes o amarillas. Las manzanas rojas son más du […]

In the Chapter “Enter the Hurbans” by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, she talks about how the rise of reggaetón came to be and how was perceived when it entered mainstream United States music. Rivera-Rideau’s centra […]

In this chapter, Rivera-Rideau argues that the racialization of reggaetón creates negative stereotypes that apply to all people of Latin American descent. The author seems to be incredibly frustrated with the way […]

The central argument in this chapter is that the racialization of the Reggaetón in the U.S. has created the social prejudice to the hispanic artists in the same way they did to the African American musicians. Th […]

Rivera-Rideau’s central argument in this chapter is that- reggaeton was a vehicle for the evolution of culture, behaviours, and the identity of Latin American artists and the portrayal of Latin American culture i […]