Spanish Language Essay Examples

Angel Ganivet’s suicide at the age of 32 brought to an abrupt close the development of an innovative writer and thinker. Although necessarily limited in number, his publications had a significant impact on his contemporaries and on the development of the essay in Spain. His writings challenge the established generic borders in keeping with turn-of-the-century […]

The Philippine islands first came to the attention of Europeans with the Spanish expedition around the world led by Portuguese explorerFerdinand Magellan in 1521. Magellan landed on the island of Cebu, claiming the lands for Spain and naming them Islas de San Lazaro. He set up friendly relations with some of the local chieftains and […]

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 […]