Spanish Language Essay Examples

Angel Ganivet was an innovative writer and thinker who had a significant impact on his contemporaries and the development of the essay in Spain. Sadly, his suicide at the age of 32 cut short his potential. Despite his limited number of publications, Ganivet challenges established generic borders and experiments with traditional definitions. He blends the […]

The Philippine islands were first encountered by Europeans in 1521 during Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish expedition. Upon arriving at Cebu Island, Magellan named it Islas de San Lazaro to assert Spanish ownership and established cordial relationships with local leaders. He managed to convert some of them to Roman Catholicism. Sadly, Magellan met a tragic end when […]

Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory, and the colonial legacy of the Philippines. Most of the notable literature of the Philippines was written during the Spanish period and the first half of the 20th century in Spanish language. Philippine literature is written in Spanish, English, Tagalog, […]

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, and a generation after the emergence of the Chicano movimiento of the 1960s, popular culture and especially popular music functions as a vital marker of the changing shape of Chicano/ a identity in the 1990s. The music of Ozomatli reveals much about an important moment in the changing […]

Have you ever gone the doctor’s office, to the grocery store, to school, or anywhere really, and run into someone that primarily spoke Spanish? Maybe, but rarely does that happen. Most Hispanics take the time to learn our language and to learn about our culture, because a majority of our population expects them to. But […]