His exceptional acting skill, despite his young age, entices the audience to the complex storyline of the film. Although his mother, Rosario (Kate del Castillo), lives across the border in Los Angeles, they maintain a resilient heartrending bond. Shortly after the death of Carlitos’ grandmother and only caretaker, the young yet determined Carlitos decides to embark on the perilous journey to the United States of America. On his crossing to reach his mother, Carlitos encounters the many obstructions that deter thousands of Latin Americans attempting to step on American soil. Relentlessly dodging the child traffickers, drug smugglers, and the United States Border Patrol, Carlitos finally arrives in the United States of America.…
This play is relevant to today’s times as it was set recently and cartels are still a large problem in Mexico. El Nogalar has larger political and social implications that show that the cartels in Mexico do more than just physical damage; they invade on Mexican’s social lives and threaten to destroy a lot of cultural history. As an audience member, you take away an understanding of the larger implications that cartels and their drug wars have on Mexican…
Why do thousands of people every year immigrate into our country without proper documentation? In a myriad of these cases, the reason is to escape from hardship and suffering. One of the most common regions people emigrate from is Mexico, and the reasons for this are developed within The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande. This book tells the true story of a girl that journeyed to the United States of America with her brother and sister, all as undocumented immigrants, in order to live with their father. The author of this memoir not only explains the privation she dealt with in her home land of Mexico, but she also demonstrates the racial division and other forms of adversity that were present within the United States of America, or El Otro…
On an early Friday morning in 1997 at her Los Angeles home , Pulitzer prize winning national bestselling author Sonia Nazario, had an unexpected and personal conversation with her Guatemalan housekeeper Carmen. This conversation sparked a curiosity on why mothers from Central America, like Carmen, would leave their children & family for a life in the United States. This curiosity ultimately led to Nazario creating her book, “Enrique's Journey”, in which she uses several rhetorical devices, appeal to ethics and appeal to logic, to chronicle the experiences of a young Honduran boy’s journey to find his distant mother living in the United States and to highlight the issue of child immigration in the U.S. Nazario uses appeal to ethics when she…
The issue of migration of Mexicans to the US is a phenomenon that involves two distinct societies undergoing economic realities. The film begins in a border between two worlds: the rich world of the northern US and the poor world from southern Mexico. This is crucial for the industry to develop rapidly with strong differences of wealth on both sides of the border; It is needed, a rich consumer side and on the other hand cheap labour. (Fast Food Nation, 2006)…
In 1899, there was a story called the Message to Garcia. It's a book about a man named Rowan who was giving a mission to take a message to a man named Garcia back during the war between Spain and United States. Rowan didn't ask McKinley any questions about his mission that he was tasked with. He didn't ask who Garcia was or where Garcia was located at. Rowan just directly took the message to Garcia without any uncertainty in his orders.…
The United States is a unique country, Americans have many rights and freedoms, protection from the American government, but most of all America’s independence. While this may seem like paradise for many people living in poverty in third world countries. This idea has been blown out of proportions, leading to many false assumptions. Commercialization of the American Dream leads to many false ideas and assumptions, and to a heavy flow of illegal immigrants. These assumptions are shown throughout Sonia Nazario’s book…
On the sandy shores of Mexico in 1519, Hernan Cortes strode off of his ship and stepped into unfamiliar territory. Around the small group of conquistadors was a half-naked crowd of native Aztec people – people who thought that Cortes was a messenger from their gods. Little did these so-called savages know, within a few short years millions of their race would be massacred and their way of life would be destroyed. Up and down the coast of the New World, Europeans took advantage of the weaker and naïve natives. The European invasion of the Americas was not only a racial cleansing, but a complete cultural subjugation.…
Since the North American continent was discovered, there have been several enormous waves of immigration into the continent. Many people go there to pursue the freedom they have always craved. This is exactly what’s shown in the novel The Bean Trees by Barbra Kingsolver. In this novel there are two characters that portray the struggles of immigration, named Estevan and Esperanza, who have run from their country (Guatemala) to find freedom and a new life. But coming to new land wasn’t easy for them because they had to face many issues and challenges throughout their journey.…
Social advocates, someone who is strong, someone who has a spirit to bring justice among society, and someone who is courageous and wants to make change when something is wrong in the world that they live in. This biography “Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Worker Rights” by Judith Josephson is about Mother Jones bringing child labor to the attention of the public by marching 125 miles down to the white house in D.C. to talk to the president about the situation. Although she made a difference in the world’s problems, Cesar Chavez who was a migrant farmworker fought against the hardships and injustices of farm worker life. In “About Cesar” by the Cesar Chavez Foundation (CCF) they talk about how he stands up to the matter of these farm worker…
Tacho and Nayeli got a taste of the difficulties of both worlds were the social standards for one immigrant might not be the same as for another. The border continues to play its role in the journey of the girls throughout there challenge to get throw their…
3. The Best universities to attend if you are Hispanic 906 tikwiza All universities strive for diversity, but no one university fits every ethnic background. Hispanics, just like African Americans, are a minority group in the U.S. Some factors that Hispanics might consider when making a choice to go to a particular university are: Affordability Graduation rate of that particular ethnic group Hispanic friendly universities; and universities that strive to ensure protection of the rights of Hispanics and ensure they receive the same level of education as non-Hispanic students.…
Approximately one hundred miles from Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city lies Villa Americana the last place where you would ever expect to hear English, much less a distinct southern accent from the pre-civil war. Villa Americana, considered by some to be a lost American colony founded after the Civil War, by Col. William Hutchinson Norris. The war which had recently occurred between the northern and southern states was a war that put brother against brother in the hopes of keeping slavery, or getting rid of it forever. Both sides obviously wanted it their way, but only one side would be victorious. The winners, the north, led by Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States wished to move on, and heal the country with the Reconstruction of the south.…
In Mexico during the early 1980’s, a group of young siblings living in poverty tell an important story of the immigrant experience and the drives behind migration. Reyna Grande’s, The Distance Between Us, is a memoir written with the recurring appeal to the reader’s pathos. Grande uses the rhetorical strategy to keep the reader’s interest and to help them make personal connections to the story. Grande’s use of pathos helps to show not only the importance of understanding the immigrant experience, but also the importance of following your dreams. For example, the first chapters of the memoir are predominately about Grande and her siblings’ experience living with their Abuelita Evila in Mexico.…