INTERVIEW An individual who immigrated to the United States 1. Where are they from and how old were they when they got here? a. Sarahi is from Tijuana and arrived in National City, California when she 16 years old. 2.…
Taking the business world by storm, Maria Torres, a Hispanic Scholarship Alumni has been recently inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame. Not only has she surpassed adversities of life, but she has maintained her humble beginnings. Maria has distinguished herself for her excellent work, and she emulates all the characteristics of a leader in her community. Maria’s mother migrated to the United States in the late 1980s from the Dominican Republic.…
Maria Mitchell was one America’s first famous female astronomer. Maria was taught by her father taught her how to observe the sky. Maria broke several barriers for women during her life. She influenced the Women’s Rights Movements greatly. This remarkable woman was one of the best scientists of the 19th century.…
Julia de Burgos left her legacy through her poetic writings and her passion for civil rights activism in the Daughters of Freedom, a branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist party. She was born on February 17th, 1914. She was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico and grew up in a barrio, and was the first born of a family of thirteen children. Her father was Francisco Hans, he was a farmer and also worked for the National Guard and her mother was Paula Garcia de Burgos. Although she was one of thirteen children, six of her youngest siblings unfortunately did not survive and due to malnutrition.…
Meet Maria Wills: A Single Mother Paving her Own Way in Entrepreneurship and Entertainment Maria Wills was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Princes George’s County, Maryland. Wills Attended Drexel University and is a single mother to her four-year-old daughter, Juliana. Ambitious and forward thinking, Maria started her event planning company, Self-Explanatory Productions, at the young age of 18. In addition to raising her daughter and event planning, Wills wears many other hats including Entrepreneur, Host, Motivational Speaker, Media Correspondent for Girl Power Hour Radio, Radio Personality, and Blogger.…
Mayra Smith, formerly Luz Ortíz Moreno, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1966 to German Ortíz Crespo and Ada Moreno Torres. After her father became sick in 1975 and could no longer work, the family began to sell food out of their house in order to survive. Shortly after, her mother decided to go back to college at age 35 to become a registered nurse. Despite some financial trouble, Mayra’s childhood was wonderful, filled with beautifully warm and sunny days spent exploring with friends. School was easy for Mayra and is similar to the education system in the United States.…
Julia Alvarez is known as a famous Dominican-American writer. She was born on March 27, 1950 in New York City. Julia was the second sister out of four sisters. Soon after she was three months old, Julia and her family moved back to the Dominican Republic. Julia and her large family lived a very comfortable lifestyle.…
In the discombobulation of day to day life, all types of people are going to try to knock you down. This hardship was experienced personally by Brenda Roza as she realized that “there may not be that person next to you that's going to speak up for you”. There is no reason for strangers being malicious, to try to knock other people down when they’re not even known to you. Regardless, it is imperative that you are able to defend yourself- just as Brenda Roza did. Having been told throughout her entire life that she couldn’t do certain things, Brenda thought that that being a successful person might be beyond reach to her - impossible.…
The person I interviewed was Virginia Maravillas. She was born in 1937 in Mexico City, She has 10 siblings and with her is 11, she is the 4th one. She can be described as a person who likes to help people in need. She came here in 1969 with his husband and her three children. She meets her husband in Mexico City.…
Despite the odds against her, Tan became a successful writer and proved everyone else wrong. Tan knew her mother was not as confident in herself as she was, and she knew that others faced the same obstacles her mother did, so she wrote this selection to help apprise the audience of the difficulties immigrants face everyday because they can not speak “normal”…
Today I will be interviewing Lucy Gallo, a 67 Hispanic women, born in Puerto Rico. She has been living in the main land of the United State for the last 50 years. Lucy has 3 children and 4 grandchildren, ranging from 2 to 27 years of age. She describes herself as Hispanic and doesn’t see any difference from ethnic and race.…
Julia Alvarez is a New York born Afro-American. Shortly after her mother gave birth to her, her family packed their belongings and moved back to the Dominican Republic. At the age of 10, Alvarez immigrated back with her family (“Julia Alvarez” 1). It was this move that opened her up and forced her to experience a clash of cultures. This childhood shaped with a dual culture becomes evident in many of her most popular works.…
Although my mother and I have had countless conversations about her previous life experiences, I was surprised at how much I did not know prior to this interview. I had never thought to ask her about what networks and resources she used to adjust to her new lifestyle in the United States. Our conversation made me realize the importance of friends, family and professionals to shape her as an immigrant parent. Growing up, she was not only a mother but a mentor to me—she supported me endlessly and helped me overcome my challenges as an adolescent. Her story begins with her life in South Korea.…
Through her written work in The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, Judith Ortiz Cofer expresses her experiences thus far in America as a Puerto Rican immigrant. She shares how the differences between her traditions and culture and those of Americans caus her to not feel a sense of belonging among others in the United States. The differences provoke stereotypes that Cofer is not able to escape, no matter what she accomplishes in life. These stereotypes are a direct result of how Latin women are portrayed in the media, books, and movies.…
The person I choose to interview was my mother Consuelo Mendez. She is 42 years old, which puts her in the middle adulthood stage. She grew up in a Mexican household with a huge family. She has nine sisters and one brother. She was only able to attend school up until her sixth grade, since she had to go help my grandpa in the field.…