Voices | Maya | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/maya/activity/ Activity feed for Maya. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:28 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 e1d1eff1b0c5cb171f555cb5f9a3c06b Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4380 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 01:05:15 +0000 Link to article

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For the final noticias week, I chose the article titled “Search for Argentine submarine enters ‘critical phase'” that is written by Eliott C. McLaughlin and Stefano Pozzebon. The […]

]]> ba44fed8fe3e846d9f88ce8837d7952e Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4367 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:36:17 +0000 Cabanaconde, the location where the Virgin of Carmen fiesta is celebrated, is an important piece of identity for not only the Cabeneños who reside in the village, but also for the migrants who have sought another […]

]]> 81611883808844b08955c5112fbf7726 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4295 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:32 +0000 Abad, Susan and Nicholas Casey. “In Peru, a Beauty Pageant Shifts Spotlight to Killings of Women.” The New York Times. November 02, 2017. Accessed November 13, 2017. (Link)
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The Miss Perú Beauty P […]

]]> 059bb37bfcf52718bd25424f294fb2e8 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4225 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:30:00 +0000 Times, The New York. “Mexico’s Day of the Dead Parade Pays Tribute to Quake Victims.” The New York Times. October 29, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2017. (Link)
The Impact of the Earthquakes
The annual Day of th […]

]]> a35d419f4d355d177275961a01686ef9 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4202 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:47:36 +0000 The additions that I will make to my Wikipedia article are central around the success of the brand, Havaianas. As a result, both of my peer reviewers suggested that it may be difficult to remain neutral when […]

]]> bc77be8b0e4f458b1ccc87b35b0b342e Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4159 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 04:04:46 +0000 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 […]

]]> 1a01a52eac140f8a2c00a1e5c9c5d711 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4115 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:45:09 +0000 Staff and agencies. “Trump Says Cuba ‘Responsible’ for Alleged Sonic Attacks, but Offers No Evidence.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 16 Oct. 2017.

(Pictured above is the U.S Embassy in Havana, Cub […]

]]> 99d099668a85cc3e3e8085f0df0674ad Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4049 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:32:20 +0000  

Darlington, Shasta. “In São Paulo, Iconic Building Helps Revive a Blighted Downtown.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017. […]

]]> c5c4aa2ee78bad53764703e725c06461 Maya commented on the post, Possible Wikipedia Topic, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/23/possible-wikipedia-topic/#comment-34 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:30:01 +0000 This topic is so unique and I have never heard of such thing until your post! The fact that these are starting to be implemented in Latin American just shows how progressive Latin America truly is and I think your […]

]]> f83e627bffce4898d5e7c53ece3ce455 Maya commented on the post, Fashion Trends in Latin America, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/25/fashion-trends-in-latin-america/#comment-33 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:28:57 +0000 Fashion is such a unique form of cultural expression. I like how you not only want to talk about the fashion pieces themselves, but also about their social and cultural repercussions. The cross-cultural […]

]]> b911ad392623f4b97686532af1dfd95f Maya commented on the post, Fashion Trends in Latin America, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/25/fashion-trends-in-latin-america/#comment-32 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:26:03 +0000 Fashion is such a unique form of cultural expression. I like how you not only want to talk about the fashion pieces themselves, but also about their social and cultural repercussions. The cross-cultural […]

]]> e3f6cf60e4e9eaf92d3b54874f07f582 Maya commented on the post, Baseball in the Dominican Republic, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/25/baseball-in-the-dominican-republic/#comment-31 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:13:11 +0000 The fact that so many successful baseball players originate from the Dominican Republic is very fascinating and something integral to the country and the entirety of Latin America. I agree that the section of this […]

]]> e2bda03d90b38e7a80522eb5ab714a59 Maya commented on the post, Possible Wikipedia Topic, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/2017/09/23/possible-wikipedia-topic/#comment-29 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:44:42 +0000 This topic is so unique and I have never heard of such thing until your post! The fact that these are starting to be implemented in Latin American just shows how progressive Latin America truly is and I think your […]

]]> fd05ed26e81dfb18f858a107050fb553 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4013 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 03:33:01 +0000 The article that I am considering on expanding on and improving is called “Latin American cinema.” After viewing a number of articles on Wikipedia, this one appeared to be quite brief for such a broad topic. It […]

]]> 41f0d35a1d533d631350788fc709270d Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3958 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 01:51:26 +0000 Read the summaries of Joseph, Kyrsten, and Maggie and the corresponding articles. 

The articles that Kyrsten and Joseph chose both discuss violence in Mexico: femicide and murder. Mexico appears to be a […]

]]> 51bd300202114fd7dea83106ebdd6c11 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3876 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:38:55 +0000 The two research topics that I am interested in learning more about include women’s fashion in Latin America and the literary movement, known as the Latin American Boom that took place during the 1960s and […]

]]> 8aa1452c6a0f0ccf171feb812ebbebc6 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3832 Wed, 13 Sep 2017 02:27:06 +0000 Partlow, Joshua. “’We’re Left with Nothing’: Mexicans in Quake Zone Wonder How to Begin Rebuilding.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 10 Sept. 2017.

This past Thursday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2 str […]

]]> c67ecb8b998977ce126b9ab9afdb7ed4 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3774 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:25:25 +0000 Chapter 8 of A Land So Strange exemplifies the changing roles that are taken by the four remaining survivors of the Florida expedition. Primarily, they are renown within several Indian communities as healers and […]

]]> f73308ad1509a263f24735622f773bfd Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3748 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 03:35:56 +0000 A Land So Strange is a novel about the arduous journey that a band of Spanish colonists undergo in an effort to explore Florida and other parts of the New World. However, it cannot so simply be defined as a […]

]]> 79252dc56183d6f5ee6a782593d78727 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3700 Mon, 04 Sep 2017 02:27:03 +0000 I chose to read and critique the Wikipedia article titled “Narváez expedition.” At first glance, I noticed a warning at the top of the page that stated that more citations are needed to verify the article’s text. […]

]]> 25c7228001ffe841b611e42de9f46cb7 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3603 Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:25:45 +0000 In the introduction of “A Land So Strange,” the author Andrés Reséndez highlights the importance of the journey that Cabeza de Vaca, Estebanico, and two other Spaniards take in the American Southwest and n […]

]]> d7d7399fdb8e7767c50f1ba1beca58e3 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3540 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:09:46 +0000 In the article “Only Connect…”, William Cronon offers his stance in an argumentative fashion of the qualities that a true liberal arts educated person should possess. He is responding to the people and educators […]

]]> 85cbef695830757de6eda887e36c3e89 Maya wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America https://laencounters2017.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3507 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 03:10:54 +0000 Hello! My name is Maya and I first discovered The College of Wooster when I attended a summer tennis camp years ago and it never occurred to me that I would actually come here for college! But here I am and I am […]

]]> 7040c7d5fbefa527779f115931e0da47 Maya became a registered member https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/523/ Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:04:59 +0000 0