Robert De La Salle By Alynna Medina My French explorer is Robert de la salle. Robert’s whole name is Rene Robert Cavelier Ssieur de la Ssalle. L,la salle was born in Rouen, France on November 22, 1643.…
Why Tom Fazio is a Big Deal at Amelia National If you’re on the hunt for an exemplary Florida golfing home, narrow your focus on the northeastern corner of the state. Lovely Nassau County is Florida’s Atlantic Coast gateway. It’s also the home of Amelia National Golf and Country Club, an exclusive, gated community only 10 minutes from salty, golden beaches. Even better?…
The Journey of Catalina de Erauso Erauso’s mysterious and twisted journey of gender identity crisis, deception, lies, addictions, and the death of a sibling, all began in the 1500s. Erauso was born to his/her father Captain Miguel de Erauso an officer in the Spanish army and mother Maria Perez Galarraga both happen to of been native residents of the Villa. Catalina was first sent to a convent upon age four as well as her two sisters. Due to the nature of Erauso’s temper her parents decided that she was not capable of an arranged marriage and ,instead, they decided that she would become a nun. Erauso lived up to his/her nature by deciding not to become a nun and escaping from the convent at age fifteen.…
By the time Frederick made six years old, his grandmother could no longer harboring the facts from him. His grandmother had told Frederick that they were going for a long walk, when she was actually walking him into slavery (8, 1). They walked many days and finally ended up at a very beautiful large house that was actually the Lloyd Plantation. There were other children playing outside and his grandmother told Frederick that three of the children were his brothers and sisters. She let Frederick go and play with them (8, 1).…
In the documentary by Jose Antonio Vargas titled “Documented”. Vargas illustrates his life story and constant struggle of lacking the necessary paperwork to live in the United States. Throughout the documentary, Vargas brings a new light to the issue of immigration in the United States. Vargas focuses on the idea of immigration reform and pushes for reform through the large population of undocumented immigrants. Jose Vargas being one of the eleven million undocumented immigrants, he uses his own personal experience as an example of how difficult it is for an undocumented immigrant to become documented.…
As a freshman in the EC program at Center Grove High School, I wanted to address the controversial topic of whether or not Sonia Nazario’s memoir Enrique’s Journey. I believe that the high school curriculum should include Sonia Nazario’s memoir Enrique’s Journey because it teaches students to appreciate the things they have, and in addition it informs students about the dangers and problems of immigration they never knew.…
In My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant, Jose Vargas utilizes the appeal to pathos and the appeal to ethos in order to communicate his life experiences as a writer and as an undocumented immigrant. The appeal to pathos is found in vargas’ use of personal experiences while the appeal to ethos is accounted for in his description of working from the bottom to the top in his field. In multiple parts throughout his essay, Vargas describes the sacrifices his family members had to make in order to give him the chance to live a happy and successful life. Through his personal anecdotes, Vargas illustrates how he was inspired to chase the American dream and the struggles he faced while trying to achieve it. During his early years Vargas announced his…
Nearly 60,000 unaccompanied migrant children were apprehended along the U.S. Mexico border between October 2013 and September 2014. Is there anything more frustrating than wanting a happy life, but knowing that it will never happen without help along the way? How does wanting to sacrifice everything you have to reach a dead end sound? These are a few minor, yet inconvenient effects Enrique experienced in wanting to attain a substantial lifestyle with his mother. While others ambitions are chasing a dream, Mexican and Central American children are opened up to so much terror along the way, trying to reach the American dream.…
Chavez is one of the heroic figures of our time,” expressed Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Levy, 2007). It is bad enough that many Hispanics lived in deplorable conditions, such as adobe huts, no running water, and health challenges as well. However, to live as a migrant worker, not knowing if you will receive an opportunity on a specific day to be a laborer in the agricultural field is very disquieting. Due to his triumph of accomplishments, against all odds, credits why Chavez is so passionate about being an advocate for the migrant farm…
It is so good to see that some people like Miguel are willing to risk everything, their money, family, and lives, in order to live out the American dream. This leads to the controversial topic of illegal immigration. Everyone’s got a different view on this topic and there are…
No one on this earth deserves to be treated differently due to their race. I find it astonishing that their are people who have so much money and throw it away or put it to waste while there are people who starving to death. In Tijuana, a state next to the border, he covers the level of poverty of the people that live here. He describes people eating trash and living in junkyards in order to survive. This allows us to understand why people who make the choice to bare these harsh conditions of crossing the border.…
How do you escape a racial stereotype? Soto has Mexican heritage and has lived in the U.S. as a legal immigrant as a factory worker. In the poem “Mexicans Begin Jogging”, The author shows Marxism through Soto’s stereotype as an illegal immigrant just because he is Hispanic and works in a factory. Soto is stuck in between two worlds and doesn’t know how to deal with his problems, so is forced to be stuck in this predicament where he is a Mexican at heart, but has an American culture. Soto describes a situation he was once in when he was working at a factory that employed illegal mexican immigrants.…
While there has always been substantial immigration from countries around the world, Mexican immigrants dominate the statistics. Between 1820 and 1930, Mexicans constituted over half of the documented immigrations. Like many immigrants before them and certainly after them, they experienced discrimination in the United States. Stereotyping and bouts of xenophobia sparked deadly riots against the most prominent minority group in the United States. Early experiences for foreign-born Mexican immigrants, and even first-generation Mexican Americans, was filled with discriminatory behavior aimed at them by police authorities and other citizens of the country.…
Illegal Aliens The article about Isaias tells us how a boy could make something out of nothing to becoming successful. Isaias and his family are illegal immigrants that crossed the border having nothing, just like every person they worked hard, Isaias attended school and now is in the top 7 percent in the U.S with high scores on his test. He has been getting support from all his teachers, school openings, so many offers he can take to become a successful illegal immigrant. It shows everyone how someone who wants a good future will fight for it and do what it takes,how just an illegal boy wants to seek his american dream like any american in the Unites States.…
In the narrative essay, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant,” journalist Jose Antonio Vargas recounts his childhood journey from the Philippines to the United States. He presents his accomplishments in his education and career as a journalist while living with his grandparents and having an illegal status in the United States. Throughout Vargas’ story, he explains the difficulties that he faced for not having the proper credentials to be in the United States. Building up his essay as a personal narrative, Vargas build the idea that just as any other immigrant he has to make tough decisions in order to survive. While on the process of constructing this idea he adopts a sympathetically tone to the readers.…