Celia Cruz Essays

Abby Kruse Ms. Grose Spanish II December 10, 2014 Celia Cruz Celia Cruz is best known as one of the most popular salsa performers. She was born October 21st, 1925, in Havana, Cuba. She died on November 10th, 2003 with the devastation of Brain Cancer, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Celia is known as the “Queen of Salsa” as well as “The Queen of Latin music.” She was a Cuban-American singer and recorded 23 gold albums. A gold album is an award for a musician which they receive when 500,000 of their albums

Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso also known by her stage name Celia Cruz was born on October 21, 1925 in Havana, Cuba. She was daughter to Simon Cruz and Catalina Alfonso and was the second of four children. In the 1940s, Cruz won a "La hora del té" singing contest that allowed her to start her music career. While Celia’s mother entered her in contests around Cuba, her father wanted her to become a teacher. Being a teacher was a common occupation for Cuban women at that time. Cruz enrolled

Celia Cruz, a Cuban singer known as the “Queen of Salsa” and the Fania All Stars, salsa musicians, performed “Quimbara” in 1974 in the African nation known as Zaire at the time. Celia Cruz’s performance showcased her powerful voice and enchanted the audience with her charisma and energy. In “Celebrity, ‘Crossover,’ and Cubanidad: Celia Cruz as ‘La Reina de Salsa,’ 1971-2003” by Chistina Abreu, “Even Celia’s stage costumes and colorful wigs were more extravagant and flamboyant than they were arousing

The life journey I would like to follow is Celia Cruz. She was born October 21,1925,one of the most famous salsa singer. While growing up she has been through challengeable life experiences, career, and on the other hand she became a legacy. Her fans and her faith gave her the strength to keep on going. First, growing up she was the second oldest, there were 14 children. Celia had to maintain them and put them to bed every night. To start up she became a teacher, inspiring young children

“They All Just Went Away” by Joyce Carol Oates is an amazing work. The language used is excellent, the presented descriptive details and events are exact and accurate. However the descriptions of the abandoned houses is upsetting. Still her essay helps the readers to define a family, home and a house and people’s relationships to each other. She did a remarkable job in presenting the stories about particular people and events that happens in each house. This gives the readers the feeling that some

many rumors about gangs and how all of the students who attended Tangerine middle where bad news and he was advised not to get involved with them. He still ended up going to Tangerine middle and being escorted around school by a girl named Theresa Cruz. Theresa introduced Paul to all of her friends which in the beginning where not the greatest of people yet Paul saw their real personality deep down on the inside and eventually became quite good friends with all of them. Paul had ended up asking Ms

Diversity in college expands opportunities to have different interactions with people who are from different cultures or groups; therefore, people can have more social development in college because diversity in college brings different college experiences by having interactions with people. Also, it can help students in society inside the campus because people will have different conversations. Diversity is important in college which the article agrees that “Americans seem to favor increasing diversity

“She came back with her lipstick in her hand. She held it there, open, pointing upward, and stared at Lisandro. They spent several minutes looking at each other that way, in silence, separated by the crystal frontier” (188). This quote, in my opinion, provides one of the biggest and best examples of how Carlos Fuentes views love. This theme of love is present in ever chapter throughout his book. In each story Fuentes changes the characters and adds a slight twist to their love life, creating a broad

Throughout the Revolutionary Years The book “to live” follows a man named Fugui throughout his life story as an adult about personal and political disturbance of the late twentieth century. It shows how gender relationships change, the problems people faced like sicknesses, job loses, starvation, family issues, and political problems. Throughout the story, the narrator, Fugui, shows examples of all the problems people faced during the revolution and how hard it was on families, but in his own way

Myesha Morrison - ADJU 201/06765 – Case: Arizona v. Fulminante, 499 U.S. 279 (1991) Facts: Mr. Oreste Fulminante was arrested and imprisoned for a crime in Florida. While in prison, a confidential informant working for the FBI approached Fulminante and questioned him about the death of his 11 year old step-daughter. The informant, Anthony Sarivola offered Fulminante protection from the harassment and harsh treatment he was receiving in prison if he confessed to the murder of his step-daughter.

In Kathleen Karlyn’s third chapter of Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers, she states how Girl World is ambivalent. Not only is Girl World unruly because the films place female desire as a focal point in the film, thereby validating the existence of female desire, while also being manufactured by the ideologies of patriarchal and postfeminist cultures with female power stopping at basic normative femininity. The film The Devil Wears Prada (2006) finds itself in agreement with both of these ideas. On

Introduction Part 1: “Consciously or not, Alfred Hitchcock never followed tendencies of mainstream cinema. By depicting his heroines as strong and expressive, giving them freedom of will and using a subjective narrative mode, he broke with the classical image of woman as a spectacle.” (Malgorzata Bodecka) Films have always been influenced by the social-cultural background from the time the film was produced. Dating back to the beginning of film around the 1890s through the films produced today,

representing all of the Latin women in media is not even close to credible. From Gina Torres and Demi Lovato to Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and Camron Diaz, Latinas come in such a large range. Actually, Penelope Cruz, who has often been cast as Latina, is from Spain. Because of having the Latin look Penelope Cruz has been cast in many roles. Latinas are usually a mix of either usually Spanish, African and indigenous blood and they sometimes have all three. The Dominican actress Gina Torres, has never played a

a grand appreciation for the genre as a whole. I am so thankful to have been brought up in a Hispanic home and to have been introduced to this dance studio, it is what kept me in New Jersey for my college schooling. Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Celia Cruz, and El Gran Combo, these people are the inspiration for my dancing and thousands of other dancers like me. It is the consistent change and diversity that keeps the genre alive, and I believe is finally growing. As my aunt would always say " Usted

As beads of sweat poured down onto the dance floor, I glance up at my partner, wondering how I ended up in what used to be the most dangerous country in the world, swaying my hips to salsa music. As to how I ended up in Colombia, it goes back to Spanish class in middle school. Despite the fact, I barely knew grammar or vocabulary, my new Spanish teacher from Bogota made speaking only in the language a hard requirement. I struggled with basic assignments and fared even worse on tests. After our

Edy Martinez I had the pleasure of watching the extremely talented pianist Edy Martinez play live. Edy is a known pianist, composer, musical director, and arranger. He has accompanied Tito Puentes as a musical director and has played with Celia Cruz. Ordinarily, Edy plays with his jazz orchestra, but tonight it was just him and his keys. His only instrument was a piano keyboard. His performance took place at a hidden jazz club called Le Chat Noir located in downtown Miami. Le Chat Noir has

In the medicine area, Dr. Pedro Jose Greer Jr., the son of Cuban immigrants in Miami, has been nationally recognized for his contributions to medical care for the homeless. In music, the popular salsa musician Celia Cruz had a cameo role in the film ‘‘The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love’’. In film, television, and theater, Desi Arnaz was an actor and musician who is perhaps best remembered for his role in the popular 1950s TV series "I Love Lucy," which he helped

During the 1960s and 70s, a time of social and political revolution around the world, Latinos gave the world salsa. Salsa is so much more than a seductive song and dance, it was also a protest against prejudice and a passionate emancipation, a frontier in music and for the people. Why not start a frontier with a song? You can't start a song without community. You can't start salsa without Son. Although the origins of salsa are debated, the general understanding is that it came from the Cuban genre

unscathed while minor persons like Florentino Cruz were killed. Sean McLachlan describes it fittingly: “The Earps were reacting to events rather than following a coherent strategy. The Earp faction did not plan and fight a war of annihilation. Instead they hit targets of opportunity and then fled the Arizona Territory when the legal situation became too hot for them.” A topic that is also never discussed in movies is that Wyatt deserted his second wife, Celia Ann “Mattie” Blaylock. During the Vendetta

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, the title character is a 16th century Moorish general of the Venetian army who, because of the cultural and historical background of the play’s setting, the playwright, and the original intended audience, is portrayed as both well-respected for his military prowess and disparaged for his race. Similarly, because of non U.S. citizens coming to the U.S. illegally, hispanics in today’s American society are both known for their hard work that they have done for the American