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As important as standardized testing is for education, it is still fundamentally flawed. Programs once promoting education reform have now created all-or-nothing gambles for schools. Teachers, schools, and school funding are all at risk because of flawed and sometimes inaccurate tests. This has also brought larger issues to the public’s attention. I am opposed to schools using standardized tests because of government interference and the tests being rigid and inflexible. The most obvious issues…

I validate being on my mobile device too much because I try to convince myself that it keeps me sane from being overstressed. In addition, I came to Irvine not knowing. All my friends and family are in San Francisco or El Paso. So my mobile phone is a big comfort because it connects me to those away from me and current events. Sometimes I’m on my mobile phone and get lost mentally with all the possibilities I can do with it but I lose plenty of time. After reading…

is. This album was recently released on March the 3rd, so basically a few weeks ago. In this song Khalid sings about the joys of being a teenager having fun with friends, partying and graduating high school. Khalid is an eighteen years old, from El Paso, Texas. He decided to get into music after watching his mother, she’s been singing since before he was born. He used to record videos of him singing to post them on social media, but then the right moment came into place, which led him to…

The sound of a weapon that snatches the life of an innocent person. The worry of a mother to knows that his son will not return home. The tears of the children when they saw how the soldiers kill innocent people. It would be better if we decide to change the racial hatred for the compression, the luxuries for humility, the missiles for helping the people who live in poverty. All these terrible things we can prevent by means of a passive dialogue. Consecutively, one of the worst conflicts in the…

“Mr. Sanchez was involved in an accident,” explained Dr. Calvo, I finally read his badge, “he has a broken hip and femur.” My mother, with a cracking voice, responded “Podra el caminar denuevo, que tratamiento hay para este tipo de fractura?” The words that my mother said just kept repeating in my head, “Will he ever walk again.” My father was still in a coma, he didn’t have to tell me anything, I knew what I had to do, and…

water for other cities. With corporations taking some of the water supply it causes some cities to receive less quantities of water. Cities that also receive less amounts of rain fall face difficult challenges with the lack of water. The city of El Paso has in land plants that take underground water and turn it into usable water (www.100resilientcities.org). While there is a shortage of fresh water many scientist believe that it should last the earth for many more decades, but people should try…

Tracing the Roots of Nontraditional Rhetoric In the first semester doctoral program in rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas at El Paso, I had an opportunity to study a course entitled “Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing Studies” in a multicultural setting in which there were students from Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Like the composition of the class, the syllabus was constituted by diverse thematic titles such as civil discourse, contemporary rhetoric, composition…

than myself and made them a priority first. I remember rushing down Interstate 10 on the way to the hospital with my son's father. We were very lucky, traffic was not that heavy so late in the night. We were going to the Del Sol Hospital in West El Paso at midnight on August 12, 2006. We rushed into the Emergency Room, it was crowded but we managed to…

Food trucks have always been a part of the American economy and urban life providing delicious, unique, and quick food to communities. Recently street vending has been growing in popularity across all of the United States mainly due to the low start-up cost. The trade offers numerous opportunities for entrepreneurs, immigrants, and others with little income. The recent popularity has raised the need to reevaluate current food truck laws. The big issue with owning and running food trucks now is…

Outlawry was the one of the first expression of Mexican resistance to Anglo domination. Individuals who were seen as Mexican outlaws were defined by “Eric Hobsbawn’s model of the social bandit: “ideally a young, unmarried peasant who commits an act which the state regards as criminal, but which most of his peers regard as justifiable or heroic” (Glenn 174). However, it was the Anglo injustices that forced these individuals into outlawry. Laws were imposed onto Mexicans because of the racial…