The movie Selena gave me a second look on my life. When I watched the movie I could not stop watching it. I watched the movie for at least 4 – 5 times in a row the first time I bought it. The movie expresses a lot of different sides of how wonderful the movie really is.
Selena the movie opens up as a grown Selena (played as Jennifer Lopez) who seemed to me to be preparing for her ultimately last concert held in Houston Astrodome. Then the movie does a flashback to the year 1961 Abraham Quintanilla was a young boy and he was struggling to find success in his band, “The Dinos.” Then the movie jumps to 1981 where Abraham is older and is married and have 3 children. With him never being able to join the music industry, he finds a new opportunity to start a band when he hears his nine year old Selena’s voice. Selena gave her first performance at her fathers’ restaurant called “Papa Gayo’s,” where she performed “Over the Rainbow.” The family then goes bankrupt after some months and they lose the restaurant and have to move to Corpus Christi, Texas with Abraham’s brother. Then for the first several years of performing “Selena y Los Dinos,” stumble from one disappointment to another due to that the Tejano music was most dominated by men. Selena begins to catch the public attention at the age of 18 years old when she begins to add trendy dance moves and wear provocative wardrobe. The popularity of the band begins to rise and rise and they are performing like never before. The band then welcomes a new guitarist to their father, who name was Chris Perez and he had a harder edge and as soon as Selena sees him she has an immediate attraction to him but they try to keep it from her father Abraham. When Abraham is finally told about the affection that Selena has for Chris he objects it because he believes that Chris wild lifestyle will corrupt Selena’s reputation and break the family strong connection. Later Selena married Chris behind her father back forcing him to accept their married after it has been done. Then Selena opens a boutique business which in terms is going very well for her and her family.
When Selena Quintanilla was at a young age she had a love for singing and music. Selena started to sing at the early age of three,by the time she was six she singing in Spanish and English. Selena Quintanilla became the lead singer for the group Selena Y Los Dinos at the age of nine, which was a group formed by her father. The group consisted of her brother Abraham that did the bass guitar and her sister Suzette that did the drums. At first the group did not do so well,but it was only a matter of time until there group started to really shine. The group Selena Y Los Dinos in the 1980’s played at the family's restaurant Papagayo until it closed down due to bankrupt and from then on they booked the band at clubs and weddings.
The author Jane Yolen said, “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” This disease she referenced I never seemed to contract. My experiences with literature, both reading, and writing, have been dull, to say the least. There was never anything that stuck out to me or had a changing impact on my perception of literature. Literature was a job that I had to show up to and pay attention to when I was told This was true until I began reading a biography about one of my favorite artists. It was a book about Selena, who's full name is Selena Quintanilla Perez, and was written by her husband, Chris Perez. As I was reading this book, I experienced the first time that a piece of literature can have an impact on
Selena is a very well known name in the Latin-American community. She started her music career while she was still a child with her dad’s group Los Dinos. Selena married her lead guitarist and ended up being killed by her “biggest fan.” After her death Selena became even more popular.
While the eight year old girls were outside having fun, Selena was out singing at bars, weddings, fairs, and restaurants. She lived in an unstable household that eventually relied on the family band, “Selena y Los Dinos”, to eat and have a roof over their heads.
Selena was amazing on the stage and the crowds loved her. It really showed when she came out with "Buenos Amigos.” “Buenos Amigos” was a collaboration with Alvaro Torres, and it became a huge hit! The song skyrocketed to number one spot on the Billboard’s Latin charts, and this introduced her to audiences throughout the United States of America. With everything that was going on Selena took a break from her crazy schedule to mary Christopher Perez, who was the band’s lead guitarist on the April second of 1992. When Selena came back, she continued to grow even more in popularity with her hit song "Donde Quiero Que Estes,” and she even reached wide markets for her music career! Selena’s fame was growing and it enlarged record sales. In July of 1994, she released Amor Prohibido. The Amor Prohibido album would soon sell more than one million copies! Amor Prohibido was one the top selling Latin album of the year. It was also called Tejano Music Awards’, Album of the
Julia Alvarez originated from a Dominican American background, from which she used her experiences as an immigrant to write novels and short stories. In addition, Alvarez wrote about her experiences from the Dominican Republic and the United States, which provided her with over twenty works of literature. By writing over twenty literature works, Alvarez established herself as an inspiration and a contribution to American Literature. In short, Alvarez used her Dominican American background and experiences to write her books that all dedicated to the Latina voice in American Literature.
Selena Quintanilla became one of the most influential artists up to date and one to have brought Tex-Mex, also known as Tejano music, a part of mainstream media. Tejano music has grown over the years extending thousands of miles along the Rio Grande from Texas to Mexico. With Selena bringing this genre of music to a new level of popularity, she grew a large impact in mingling together Mexican and American culture to a popular form of music heard today.
The music in this film adds a good touch of hope, tension, and danger at the right points in time. It is really hard to see what is going to happen next because it’s not scripted, and a great concern arises when the children being follow go missing, as it really happens to a lot of people coming across the borders. Bodies of unidentified people turn up constantly like in the intro of the film, and those remains are saved just in case families search for them. “La Bestia” itself symbolizes different things to the different migrants like a dangerous journey with light a light at the end of the tunnel.This film would greatly interest the young because it shows the harder side of someone their age might go through. Just when you think your life is hard, you see what others have to go through to have a fraction of what most take for granted.
Selena, “Le Reina de Tejano”, was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson. She was the youngest of three children of Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcela, his wife. At a young age, Abraham had a strong passion for music that he still has. During the 1950s and 1960s, him and his friends made a group called “Los Dinos” and played at nightclubs and restaurants. Even though his passion for music, he gave it up when he got married and earned a job at Dow Chemical as a shipping clerk.
There are three identities that all people have but depending on the culture, they chose one dimension to emphasize and downplay the other two. In the Mexican-American culture, they tend to value the family identity the most. Martin and Nakayama (2013) define familial identity as, “The sense of self as always connected to family and others” (p. 172). This was shown in the film Selena many times. The family was the most important aspect of their lives and that is the way they wanted it. Every decision that was made revolved around the family and how it would affect it. A specific example that illustrates this from the movie is when Selena married her guitarist, Chris. Her father had told her s...
Through the voice of Palo Alto, a mesquite tree, Elena Zamora O’Shea relates the story of one Spanish-Mexican family’s history, spanning over two hundred years, in South Texas, the area encompassing between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. As the narration of the Garcia’s family history progresses through the different generations, becoming more Mexican-American, or Tejano, peoples and things indigenous gradually grow faint. In her account of South Texas history, Elena devalues the importance and impact of Indians, placing a greater precedence on the Spanish settlers.
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The lion king I believed can be forever remembered for the impact it had on the world and they way it took the world by storm. It was an epic and memorable movie that took my imagination by storm. Talking lions and singing blew my mind away. As I got older I could appreciate the amazing story telling and impact this movie had on my life and the way it made me look at the world. Watching the movie sometimes I forget that its an animated movie because the voice actors and the storytelling is so convincing that it could be a live movie. This movie grabbed my imagination as a child and still holds my attention to this day when I watch it.
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