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Ellen Ochoa was a female astronaut. On April 8, 1993, she became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space. She spent 8 days in space researching the earth’s ozone layer.

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was the first Latina in the Florida senate. She was also the first woman to ever be chair of the committee of the house, and the first in congress. She served 40 years of service.

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Eloy Torrez was hired to create a mural for Victor’s Clothing Co. He made a 70ft mural and included Anthony Quinn’s “Zorba the Greek” dance. This dance soon became a global dance and the mural became part of Los Angeles. Following this mural’s completion, Anthony got a prize for his work of art.

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Ana Mendieta experimented with her own body, creating "earth body works.” In this experiment, she incorporated her naked body, or its impression, into natural landscapes. Mendieta put femininity and land art together, crossing boundaries of performance, photography, and film.

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“Convenience stores and corner stores are staples of American life, but New York City’s bodegas take them to another level. These modern day general stores are woven into the fabric of city life, temples of necessity, as integral as the subway system and bagels.”

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Bodegas are small markets/convenience stores that are often owned by Latinx immigrant families. These humble places are hotspots for the community, having cultural significance through the stories behind how the bodegas came to be.

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Día de los Muertos is an important tradition that takes place on November 2nd each year. People decorate ofrendas with fruits, flowers, photos of the deceased, and more. The ofrenda also has the deceased’s favorite food on it as well. Cempasúchil flowers have been offered to the dead for centuries. The flower lights the path for the souls of the deceased as they return to rejoin their families on November second. Just like how the sun provides light during the day, the cempasúchil illuminates the night.

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She was gifted from the start playing at the family restaurant, quiceañeras, and fairs, but she eventually made it big. But that doesn’t mean her journey was all fun and games— they fought through hard times and adversity. Selena was discriminated against in the male-dominated music genre, and some venues refused to book the band for shows. Instead of being embarrassed by her culture, she embraced it even more, she pushed through the hard times and won multiple awards including a Grammy.

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Dolores Huerta created the United Farm Workers, an organization that helped improve working conditions for farm workers. By leading boycotts and protests, Huerta took up a very important role in protecting the underprivileged.

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On April 8th 1993, Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic in the world to go to space. She has gone on 3 further space flights and in total she was in space for 1000 hours!

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One think that i learned about these pictures is they have a lot to them. They have a lot of things from drawing to a dragon and even to a fish. There is lots going on in this a many things to seek and learn about.

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In Praise of the Disappeared — Google Arts & Culture

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Ellen Ocha was the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space and she went to space 3 times after her first trip and she has logged 1,000 hours in space in total.

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I learned that artist Ana Mendieta used her own body as a unique artistic tool for her pieces. She created what she called “earth body works” in which she used and experimented using her body or put her (nude) body into various natural landscapes. In doing this, it resulted in the fuse of land and feminist qualities to create one of a kind art works. By that, Mendieta crossed boundaries and opened the eyes of photography, performance, and film all together.

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His murder helped for a coalition of family, friends, gay rights activists and community members. The mobilization led to the arrest of the perpetrators and became the first case in the state of New York to be tried as a hate crime of a gay person.

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Dolores Huerta created the United Farm Workers, who fought hard for rights to farmers. They protested, lead boycotts, and more. Huerta helped to create legislation that protect the most vulnerable, even today.

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Karina Gonzalez is an extraordinary dancer who has performed many intricate dances throughout her life. She is highly skilled in her art and represents some of Latino’s beautiful art.

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Maggie Foskett saw the natural world as an "arena of survival in which mortality and the relationship of pattern echo one another. She traversed unbeaten paths, seeking remnants of reptile skin, insect wings, leaves, and other oddments we typically trample. Arranging these fragile finds on small squares of glass, she magnified them in her enlarger andprinted directly onto light-sensitive paper.

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Ellen Ochoa became the first ever Hispanic woman to go to space, flying on the Discovery Shuttle with the goal of reaserching the ozone layer present on Earth. This ocurred April 8 1833, and lasted a total logging of 1,000 hours

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Folk Art in Latino culture can represent a life within corn harvest, faith in the spiritual world, and celebrations and rituals that are performed throughout the country.

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Selena Quintanilla Was killed by the president of her fan club Over the dispute over the latter’s embezzlement of Selena’s company money

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One thing I learned is that Latino artists are heirs to vast artistic wealth. The master painters of Spain’s Golden Age, such as El Greco, Murillo, and Velasquez, transformed paintings in Europe and extended their influence into the Spanish and Portuguese colonies.

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She was the first ever Hispanic woman in the world, to go to space to conduct research about the earths ozone layer. Later on, she gone on three more space flights, totaling 1,000 hours in space. In 2013 she also became the first Hispanic director, and second female director of the Johnson Space Center.

-Sydney