César Chávez

I. Precis • In the excerpt, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua conveys the message that language is an individual’s identity as she delves into the experiences of Chicano Mexicans including herself. She implements a number of personal experiences to provide a credible, rational, and emotional appeal. Background information is also included for credibility as well as quotes from other people to contribute to the passage. This along with the tropes and schemes anaphora, polysyndeton,…

One controversial issue that has been around for centuries is racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is the unfair treatment or bias against someone or a group of people on the basis of their race. Around the 1870s, Jim Crow laws came into effect. These laws emphasized the racial segregation in state and local laws after the Reconstruction period in the United States. Jim Crow laws affected the United States in the biggest way possible by encouraging one race to hate the other and bringing…

The issue of immigration has become a major debate for a lot of people. One of the causes of immigration is for a better standard living for children financially and academically. The bright hope of achieving the American dream by undocumented immigrants has transformed to fear and anxiety because the elected president, Donald Trump, vowed for massive deportation. Thousands of people all over the country took the streets the day after the inauguration because of the anger and fear they formed…

“We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.” Cesar Chavez America is often described as a melting pot. For example, you can find Americans enjoying Mexican or Italian food. What is considered a family today is radically different than it was fifty years ago. Families are becoming more diverse with interracial marriages becoming commonplace. One of the benefits of immigration is the…

In 1965, 5,000 members of the National Farm Workers Association, including leaders Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta, formed a strike against grape growers. The boycott against grapes started in Delano, California and eventually spread throughout the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean into the United Kingdom. This was the event that…

The Constitution constituted several decades ago composed what is the United States today. After the Revolutionary War with Britain, the new country, America, was left to the hands of the people who fought with their lives for their freedoms and rights, and now it was up to them to devise them a new government. The pursue for an adequate government structure in this new born country thus begun. The process took about ten years but it was well worth it. During this process, two documents were…

downfall. Gatsby`s love for Daisy made him be her protector; he would do anything for her, even die for her, regardless that she would not abandon her social status for him. Gatsby learned the value of sacrifice from his passion for Daisy. Like Cesar Chavez once said, “When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what…

point of racism in government, law, and centralized self-prejudice. We as a people have been sustained in a loop of depravity and social strife chained by bottomless contradictions. For years such iconic figures as Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Cesar Chavez and Tupac Shakur have been out spoken about breaking the chains of social injustice among minorities. Yet, ever since the iconic words “I have a dream” rang down from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. like a megaton bomb of awareness,…

Angelica Estrada Political Science 001 Mon. & Wed. 3:35-5pm Professor V.P. Chaney December 18, 2016 Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) By Henry David Thoreau If we were told that we did not have to follow the government, but that we can protest against their laws to make the government to how we believe it should be run, who would protest? Many people before the 1840’s just followed the government without knowing that they could create a change, until Henry David Thoreau…

The Power of Words “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. motivated and pushed people to stop segregation, and took action to do so himself. He had a certain way of pushing people to support this wonderous cause- through words. He wrote many letters, speeches, and articles that had caused people to open their eyes to the horrible…