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the new culture lifestyles. In reality, in any Mexican American families, their devotion to their religious figures, the family union, observance of their religious and ethnic traditions, and their cultural identity is functioning as a protective factor to motivate strength when it is necessary in times of individual or family adversity. Defined as coming from a patriarchal society, oppressing and dominating their women, Mexican Americans ´men in the US were forced to change once their…

Last week we watched the film The Other Side of Immigration, which explored the U.S./Mexico immigration problem through the perspective of those living in Mexican towns. The film details the reasons for why half of the population in Mexican towns have left to the United States. Furthermore, the film presents how the immigration of family members affects Mexican families and communities left behind. Within Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldua describes the interior problems within…

Scott Walker is the current Governor of the state of Wisconsin. He was first elected governor in 2010. In 2012 he became the first United States governor to win a recall election. He was then reelected governor of Wisconsin in 2014. His career began through his service in the Wisconsin State Assembly and as the Milwaukee County Executive. Walker was born in Colorado and grew up in Iowa and Wisconsin. He attended Marquette University. Walker was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1992…

Findings Throughout my research process, I found various sources that enhanced how Mexican immigrants have contributed to the Los Angeles economy. To begin, Martin V. Torres in Indispensable Migrants expresses how Mexican immigrants had a huge role in the making of modern Los Angeles. He argues that during the beginning of the last century, Mexican labor was crucial in the city’s railways, agricultural fields, and nascent light industry. Today, although Mexicans do not occupy the most…

The Great Smoky Mountains is where Thomas Wolfe’s play The Mountains takes place. Although Wolfe doesn’t delve deep into the environment of the mountains themselves one can feel the mountains surrounding the play itself. The Great Smoky Mountains is a place full of plant life and animals. Surrounding all this plant life and animals are the mountains themselves and the history they tell. The Great Smoky Mountains at its highest areas is roughly about 6000 feet above sea level (Hadley 1). These…

The San Francisco Bay area is, and has been experiencing an epidemic. The epidemic is the suicides the county experiences every year. According to the San Francisco Suicide prevention website, there are 100 deaths per year in the City of San Francisco. Of that number, only three percent are directly resulting from jumping of the bridge. Using money to make the Golden Gate Bridge would not only cause a decrease in tourism due to the drop in aesthetic value, but it would also use money that could…

Ashfall In Ceder Falls, Iowa Alex Halprin thought staying alone in on the weekend would be awesome, until Yellowstones’ Supervolcano explodes and his house comes crashing down on him, with him narrowly escaping death. He stays with his neighbors, hiding in their Jacuzzi while their lives apart. He goes on a trek across Iowa to his uncles farm in Illinois, where the rest of his family is staying. Along the way, he meets a man named Target, with a big bullseye tattoo on the back of his head…

El Contrato is the Spanish clarification for 'The Contract'. The film combines a to an awesome degree poor man named Teodoro Bello Martinez who has a family living in Central Mexico. He had four children and they lived in sheer destruction. The film shows the poor father and his companions moving to Southern Ontario on yearly motivation to lift tomatoes and getting their bread and spread. Leamington, Ontario, has been extraordinary concerning the difference in Heinz tomatoes and the commitment…

In “Under the Same Moon”, the writer Ligiah Villalobos uses friendship and love throughout the movie to show the importance of them. This movie is based on illegal immigration and the love between a mother, Rosario and son, Carlitos. Rosario leaves Mexico to go to the United States but this was done illegally, she leaves her son behind with his grandmother, aunt and uncle. Most people would say she was wrong to leave her son behind but she never forgot about him. She would call Carlitos every…

Matt Bear Mr. O’Hara International Relations 4 December 2014 America and Mexico: Where Are They Now? The United States and Mexico have been official neighbors since Mexico gained its independence on September 27th, 1821 after the Mexican War of Independence. Since then, their vast borders have been shared and disputed between the two nations and its people, with different problems arising such as illegal immigration and, more importantly, the mass trafficking of drugs and narcotics. In fact,…