El Paso

Pain. The feeling is more than I could bare. A quick intake of breath and my lungs fill with steam. A squeal escapes; it is not much of a noise. My arm covers my face, and I run. I run from our small kitchen to our living room. Dad is on the couch and looks up when I run into the room. The pain is too much to even to make the smallest of noises. I run in my mouth open and top half of me soaking. He rises quickly and pulls me to the stairs and calls for mom. “Ronae, get down here now.” He says…

The southern border separating the United States from Mexico is nothing more than a river to people that live and work in the area; imaginary lines that decide the fate of so many people. After the border came into existence, for many years life was as it had always been a constant ebb and flow of migratory workers. Before the morning of September 11, 2001, Americans understood the borders by the typical political sound bites on immigration. After that fateful day, The United States…

article published on April 18, 2015 in El Paso Times newspaper mentions that two men on a motorcycle suffered injuries after being struck by a car. The driver of the car was an older woman (65 years old), she was driving a sport car on the east in Trowbridge. The person on the motorcycle who was driving suffered injuries in his hip and wrist and the passenger get really serious head injuries. Both persons were taken to the University Medical Center for treatment. El Paso Police Department 's…

While reading the novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders, recurring issues appeared including family conflicts and most of all hate crime against women also known as femicide. The family issues were the most interesting aspects of the book. Ivon’s mother blames her for so many occurrences. Latino homophobia still exists, but new generations are coming to be accepting. Latino’s strong religious background is one of the main reasons for homophobia. The LGBT community have always been discriminated…

Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas March 26, 1930. She lived a pioneer like life on a ranch with her parents. This helped her grow her independent spirit of a hard working woman. Her family also encouraged her to strive to be educated. O’Connor attended Stanford University where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics. After that she then attended Stanford Law school and received a law degree and graduated third in her class along with a future colleague William Rehnquist…

Improvement makes roads straight but crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. William Blake As indicated in my sporadic publishing record, I have been dabbling in poetry a little over twenty years. I spent my first ten years writing and attending readings and workshops. A couple of poems were published which thrilled me, but I had no idea why they were published while other work was rejected. As a frustrated writer I started a reading series with my wife’s ballet…

a better life for herself and her children. She remarried, her son is a law student, and her daughter is graduating college next May. Laura received her Master’s degree in social work and is now working for a non-profit human service agency in El Paso, TX. Kid has also had some major changes in his life as well. He is ending another marriage and has an 18-year-old daughter who is in college. He reaches out to Laura after having dreams about their past together for the past few weeks. Laura…

Spanish Crown abolishes slavery of the Native Americans, but not the Africans, although, the Africans were among the founders and early settlers of numerous towns, such as, in Texas, New Mexico, and California. The various towns, include, Laredo, El Paso, and San Antonio in Texas; Albuquerque in New Mexico, Tucson, Arizona, and in California, San Diego, Monterey, and San…

Family in latin america is very high priority, but why would a mother leave their children all the sudden. Well in the children's eyes they think their mother doesn’t love them anymore. Well there are many reasons why they leave. For example in guatemala, a low income household earns about 2 pesos a week, on that income how can one person live, but a whole family they would barely survive, another reason would be to move all of them to america and live a better life. Supporting a family takes…

One More Step To Grow Have you ever had a dream or goal? Today I was graduating from college to become one of the primary goals of most people. And there are people from children and to know that they will study large so make your primary goal in life is to graduate to have many benefits such as better opportunities, better lifestyle, better pay, better employment, among other benefits. However for some people as well as the graduate school means to them all; for others it is just another step…