Jema Unger Clase Tres El cinco de octubre Juan Marichal Juan Marichal, former pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, was born on October 3, 1937. He also played for the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He only appeared in one World Series game, despite winning more games than any other pitcher during the 1960s. Marichal was born in a small village of Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. He has two brothers and a sister.…
Do you know who Juan N. Seguin is?If you don’t, he was a tejano who helped established Texas’s independence. In this passage I will tell you everything you need to know about Juan N. Seguin. Juan Seguin was born October 27, 1806 in San Antonio. At the age of 12 Juan got his very first horse. While he was still a child, he was encouraged to read and write by his father.…
In 1966, Vicente released his debut album, "palabra de rey", which marked the beginning of his successful career. his unique style of ranchers, a traditional Mexican genre, resonated…
Dolores Ferdnández also known as Dolores Huerta was born April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her parents divorced when she was an infant and moved with her mother and siblings to Stockton, California. She did however still keep a relationship with her father Juan Fernández. Her father later proved to be a(n) inspiration to Dolores. Dolores was both an activist and labor leader.…
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was the greatest leader of Latin America's independence movement from Spain. An excellent general and an interesting and well-liked politician, he not only drove the Spanish from northern South America but also was of great help in the early childhood of the republics that sprang up once the Spanish had gone. His later years are marked by the collapse of his grand dream of a united South America. He is remembered as "The Liberator," the man who freed his home from Spanish rule. Bolivar was born in Caracas (present-day Venezuela) in 1783 to a very rich family.…
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is known to be the most wanted drug lord in the United States, as well in Mexico. He is the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, which is a criminal organization named after the Mexican coast state of Sinaloa where it was initiated. Guzman was previously taken to jail but escaped in the month of July. This was due to an underground tunnel that was located under his cell, where he was being imprisoned, at the Altiplano Federal Prison. Since his escape, he has been in the run from authorities.…
Among some of the greatest of Chicano activists very few could hold a light to one Cesar Chavez. A man who dedicated action and sacrifice to changing and improving labor conditions for immigrant farm workers in California. Mr. Chavez was born March 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona. Cesar grew up with his family working in fields as migrant workers which they ended up losing their land to a scrupulous lawyer. Very early on Cesar learned the difference between Mexicans and white people; which would follow him for many years, even throughout his school years.…
The Effect of Cesar Chavez’ farm work movement of labor, race, and immigration policies in the United States was that people found Cesar a role model and people also became fans. When the Grape and Delano March happened it was for the workers that were not getting support, so says Cesar Chavez. This was making immigrants struggle. I personally think this might have changed these citizens' lives and made them have a fair life as others that did not struggle and were not immigrants. These events took place in many areas and it drew people's attention, they soon did join to help and win these strikes.…
Most people believe “El Chupacabra” is a myth while others don't. Although many have claimed that they have seen it, they don’t have proof. It may just be some stray dog, or canine-type creature. One of the pieces of evidence goes something like this "It can change colors at will, has a hairy, reptilian body with spines all along its back and an obsession with blood. El Chupacabra translated into English means "the goat-sucker," because that's exactly what it does.…
“Cesar Chavez” Cesar Chavez was an influential figure in the American Civil Rights movement whose work impacted not only the southwest immigrant farm workers, but a variety of religious groups and minorities (“History Makers: César”). With his biggest accomplishment being the co-founding the United Farm Workers Association in 1962 along with Dolores Hueta, he was also credited with the work of passing the legislation enacting the first Bill of Rights for agricultural workers (“Friend to Farm”). He led a series of marches, boycott’s, and strikes to fight for his beliefs as well as his followers. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. He was raised in a Mexican family and at the age of 12, his family was forced to sell their family farm as a result of the Great Depression.…
During the 1960s, there was many civil rights activists fighting for social change. Cesar Chavez was one of many civil rights leaders that fought for better working conditions within the Latino community. He was able to accomplish many things that others thought would never be accomplished. Cesar Chavez has become one of the most important Mexican-American leaders in the history of the United States. Chavez was born in Arizona in 1927.…
Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma, California. He died on April 23, 1993. He was an activist who fought to improve the lives of migrant workers. Cesar Chavez grew up during the Great Depression, which affected his life greatly. His family struggled to pay the taxes for their house, and it was eventually taken away from them.…
With the grape strike and boycott wrapped up in the early 1970s, farm workers gained the ability to unionize and increase their wages. After the merger of NWFA and AWOC, which became the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in 1966, it later transformed into the UFW (United Farm Workers of America). Chavez continuously resolved to obtain his dream, so throughout the 1970s, he continued his typical methods of protest via non-violent means and boycotts. For example, according to History.com, “In 1972, he [Cesar Chavez] went on a second hunger strike to protest an Arizona law banning farm workers from organizing and protesting (Pao). UFW also continued its fight by making a significant accomplishment in the Golden State.…
Luis Garavito was born on the 25th of January, 1957 in Genova, Quindio,Colombia. He is the oldest of seven brothers, and apparently suffered physical and emotional abuse by his father. In his testimony he described being a victum of sexuall abuse when he was young. Garavitos victims were poor children, peasant childen, or street children,between the ages of 6 and 16.Garavito approach to them on the streets or countryside and offered them gifts or small amounts of money.after gaining their trust ,he took the children for a walk and when they got tired, he would take advantage of them. He then raped them,cut their throat, and usually dismembered their corpses.…
Don Juan is a name synonymous with seduction. Today, a young man popular with young women may be called a ‘regular Don Juan’ and many bachelors could only hope for that comparison. This modern colloquialism is rooted in the names’ history. For example, Moliere’s Don Juan is a libertine. He is willing to break hearts, wedge between couples, and lie in his pursuit of pleasure.…