Chicano

. In How to tame a wild tongue, Gloria Anzaldua talks about her Chicana life growing up and the way this affects speaking comfortably around other Latino’s and some Chicano speakers. People around her constantly make her believe that the way she speaks is wrong. She finds herself mentally isolated from the English and Spanish speakers and later this complicates the person she thinks she is. Anzaldua is a Latina who lives in a society where if she speaks Spanish, she isn’t Chicana enough or if…

In Chicana Power by Maylei Blackwell the chapter “Spinning the Record: Historical Writing and Righting” talks about feminism and how different people have defined it and how it's been seen throughout history. I think it is the significant take away from this chapter because it's something that it's not really taught or discussed but should be. It is broken into different wave models although the author does bring up a good point about it being divided in this way. She says many challenge the…

Identifying Information The client is a 64-year old Chicano English speaking male with a hospice diagnosis of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis b. The client lives alone, but has a caregiver who visits frequently. Even though he has cirrhosis of the liver, he still continues to drink. He has been drinking since he was 18 years old. He started doing drugs when he was 20 years old. He experimented with marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. At 25 years old, heroin became his addiction. Currently, he…

into detail for Mexican children. I found it interesting that when Gonzalo asked for help from a Hispanic organization they refused but helped later on. All Gonzalo wanted was to Change the education for children of the future. This relates to the Chicano movement in how they wanted to change the way of education for everyone majority of Mexican Americans.…

The name, El Segundo Barrio, is Spanish for the Second Day, To a century after the first wave of Mexican families fled the Mexican Revolution and sought refuge in El Segundo Barrio and Chihuahuita, the neighborhoods’ urban fabric and Latino and Chicano culture remain essential elements of El Paso’s unique character.…

What music do you like listening to? Does it affect the way you act? Does it affect the way your friends act? If it does then something needs to be done. All songs have a message to convey. The influence of music on our children is becoming higher and higher each day.The influence of music can be positive and negative. The influence of music does not only affect children but also adults. There is an influence of music lyrics on children because 1/3 of songs have references to negative…

about the discrimination and/or sexism that chicana women face because of the fact that they are Latina and female, but it was eventually narrowed into a more compact and easier-to-search topic. Before, when I searched things like discrimination in chicano culture, I would get a few results, and not many would help me in any paper that I would be writing. Upon review, I saw that part of my problem was that I wasn’t using the advanced search and I was only searching with keywords. After I made…

Throughout my years, a barrier that was ever present in my life was the lack of an American citizenship. Society has engraved the idea that immigrants would not be able to graduate high school, let alone attend a prestigious university. Being a critical thinker and an analyst, I decided to take that as a personal goal and prove many wrong. What I began doing was seeking help from the sources available to me: counselors, teachers, and immigration lawyers. With the support from them, I was able to…

This love for baking started when I came to live in college dorms with a kitchen because at home I was not able to bake any time for myself or family. I was not able to all the time because my mom did not allow us to bake. She thought we would burn ourselves. In college, stress is a factor so for me I found baking. Baking relaxes me the process of doing the batter then seeing the batter sponge up with a delicious smell. It is a small break from everything that is happening. It helps release some…

stories such as drama, fantasy,and nonfiction. This novel contains the Ananya's actual childhood with a bit of fantasy here and there. Some examples of this can be seen in the myth of the Golden Carp and Ultima’s magic. Bless Me, Ultima is an important Chicano literature work because it shows a representation…