Word: mexicans
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...insisting that all my friends and family read Poniewozik's article. My grandparents were from Mexico. My parents were born in the U.S. and grew up in a mainly Mexican community. They were raised to be bilingual and bicultural and graduated high school at a time when they were forbidden to speak Spanish there. My dad is a Korean War veteran. My brothers and I attended college. I married a Mexican farmworker with a green card. ¡Dios mio! I remember a time when we rarely saw a brown face in the media. Immigrants remain the hardworking, grateful backbone...
With the fur trapper and wilderness scout Kit Carson as his focus, Sides has constructed a heartbreaking history of three cultures in the Southwest--American Indians, Mexicans and Americans--during and after the Mexican-American war, an age of bloody confrontations in which the Navajo would be all but swept away...
...Engineering and Applied Sciences, which professors voted on Tuesday to rename the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “More professors and courses in that area resonated very well when we went out and talked to interested applicants,†Fitzsimmons said. The number of Mexican American early admits increased to 22 from 14 last year and the number of non-Mexican Hispanic early admits increased to 36 from 30 last year, according to Fitzsimmons. Finally, he said the upward trend in foreign nationals and students eligible for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative continued for this year...
...answer, of course, is that the cross's iconography was a lot simpler than Mexican history. I called Charles C. Mann, author of the highly respected history 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Mann first noted a couple of anachronisms in the film. The Mayan capital, including any great temple of the sort in the film, had mysteriously disappeared 700 years before the Spanish arrived. Moreover, although the Mayans probably engaged in some human sacrifice, there is no evidence that they practiced it on the industrial scale depicted in the movie For that, as the Guggenheim exhibit suggested...
...defeat may also have been the result of Republican complacency. While the party brought in George P. Bush, the President's nephew, whose mother is Mexican, to campaign for Bonilla, few other of the state's big Republican names helped out - largely because Bonilla was considered a sure winner. "Maybe it was hubris," said Masset. "We were caught at the starting gate, we fell asleep at the wheel...