Breaking The Chains
Born and raised in Juarez, Mexico, Leticia Rosales was nothing but a young girl, from a small town, with a big dream. Her family were simple farmers who raised livestock to survive. Leticia grew tired of her hard work never getting her anywhere in life. As a result, she immigrated to the United States in hopes to find a place for herself. Being a natural born Mexican citizen, Leticia was oblivious to the in depth details of the American government, but she couldn’t help but pay close attention when history was being made before her very eyes. “I didn’t know much about American politics,” she said, “but hearing that the first black man was elected to be the president of the united states was something that resonated …show more content…
With a father from a very discriminated part of the world, and a mother from a very average household, Barack knew that the only way to the top is through hard work, education, and the strong will to keep fighting no matter what. With this mentality he furiously worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, getting a degree in political science (Whitehouse.gov). For two years, Obama worked at the New York Public Interest Research Group in New York, later moving to Chicago and became a community organizer for a church based group. For the next several years, he worked with low-income citizens helping rebuild communities by the closure of local steel plants. He later decided to continue his education, so he attended and graduated from Harvard Law School …show more content…
My husband came rushing in, shouting that Obama has won the presidency. I had no words. At first I was in huge disbelief. ‘He’s messing with me,’ I thought. There is no way that the very people who discriminate my race left and right would elect a black man to lead them. The world was too cruel. Too unopened for change. But when I realized that he wasn’t playing some cruel joke on me, I was ecstatic. I knew that this marks a new era. I knew that people were beginning to change. This was no longer the cruel discriminative world that I grew up in. This was the beginning of the fabled Utopian society. Now everything is possible. A woman could be president, maybe even a mexican American. It’s everything my people ever dreamed about; equality.” Leticia begins to tear up, “I’m, just glad that I was alive to see such a momentous moment, not just in American history, but in human
Born and raised in Juarez, Mexico, Leticia Rosales was nothing but a young girl, from a small town, with a big dream. Her family were simple farmers who raised livestock to survive. Leticia grew tired of her hard work never getting her anywhere in life. As a result, she immigrated to the United States in hopes to find a place for herself. Being a natural born Mexican citizen, Leticia was oblivious to the in depth details of the American government, but she couldn’t help but pay close attention when history was being made before her very eyes. “I didn’t know much about American politics,” she said, “but hearing that the first black man was elected to be the president of the united states was something that resonated …show more content…
With a father from a very discriminated part of the world, and a mother from a very average household, Barack knew that the only way to the top is through hard work, education, and the strong will to keep fighting no matter what. With this mentality he furiously worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, getting a degree in political science (Whitehouse.gov). For two years, Obama worked at the New York Public Interest Research Group in New York, later moving to Chicago and became a community organizer for a church based group. For the next several years, he worked with low-income citizens helping rebuild communities by the closure of local steel plants. He later decided to continue his education, so he attended and graduated from Harvard Law School …show more content…
My husband came rushing in, shouting that Obama has won the presidency. I had no words. At first I was in huge disbelief. ‘He’s messing with me,’ I thought. There is no way that the very people who discriminate my race left and right would elect a black man to lead them. The world was too cruel. Too unopened for change. But when I realized that he wasn’t playing some cruel joke on me, I was ecstatic. I knew that this marks a new era. I knew that people were beginning to change. This was no longer the cruel discriminative world that I grew up in. This was the beginning of the fabled Utopian society. Now everything is possible. A woman could be president, maybe even a mexican American. It’s everything my people ever dreamed about; equality.” Leticia begins to tear up, “I’m, just glad that I was alive to see such a momentous moment, not just in American history, but in human