El Paso

Christmas, this is almost always one the most important times for you and your family members to bond. Personally, I haven’t had a lot of those moments mostly due to the fact that almost all of my family lives in Chicago. I haven’t had many of those picture perfect family Christmas but I have had a few memorable ones with a crazy group of Chicagoans I call my family. It was three years ago, that I had my first Christmas with my family. I still didn’t know most of the people they…

No one can predict the future relationship between multiculturalism and the criminal justice system. However, the futures looks much better than it did 10 years ago. We are seeing more minorities working at all levels in the field, the gradual end of ridiculous racial profiling, better police and community relationships, and reductions of some long sentences that mainly affected minorities. This will not be an easy marriage, but one that will take the cooperation and patience of everyone…

family’s diet. Most of the material remains in my section are associated with food brands associated with high sugar and processed products. The empty bottles Pepsi, a plastic bag from a product called Twizzlers, and 4 plastic wrappers named Old El Paso Green Burritos indicate that the family diet might tell that the family’s socioeconomic status might possibly be a working or low middle class status based on the material remains I discovered in my section. The reason for this assumption is a…

folklore. The narcocorridos music and narco telenovelas are celebrating and chronicles the drug trade and high lives of traffickers. “However, most workers in the drug trade are not the wealthy superheroes or villains portrayed in narcocorridos.” El Paso/Ciudad Juarez are the most affecting cities in both countries. The rich folklore about drug trafficking shows how drug dealers become as “normal”and part of the cultural and everyday…

Policy Maker Interview Summary: Alison Mitchell Alison Mitchell is an Advanced Practiced Registered Nurse (APRN) who specializes in critical care. She originally started advocating for APRNs as a graduate student and eventually became the president of the Texas Nurse Practitioners (TNP) association from 2008-2010 (A. Mitchell, personal communication, October 10, 2016). Currently, Alison Mitchell is the APRN representative for TNP and continues to pursue her passion for health policy by being an…

Slums In my own words I would define a slum as a place where someone lives who does not have immediate access to running water or sanitation. A point I seen trending in all the slum presented in the videos were that the people represented were minorities. Minorities seem to have the underhand globally in the world, and I also seen that diseases were high. In the Kibera documentary, it stated that that 20 percent of kids pass away before age 5; HIV was a major issue here as well. Running water…

What will he do next is the big question everyone has been asking themselves since the 2016 presidential election? We all can agree that the past election has been a rough and bumpy ride failed with dishonesty and betrayal to the American people. The two candidates, Hillary Clinton and our president elect Donald Trump were not the most favorable candidates to run for office. However, Trump has been elected by the American people and many are concerned about his plans for specific groups of…

In the movie No Country For Old Men, many different aspects of cinema are used to create meaning such as mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing. The movie is very violent and all because of two million dollars that the main character, Llewelyn Moss, found in the desert. The mise-en-scene helps convey this dark meaning through the locations and colors used throughout the movie. The movie takes place in Texas along the Mexican border. We first scene is made up of various shots showing a…

work and the possessions he has acquired through his hard work. Romero is confined by his hard work and the need to provide for his family. While washing his car, Romero is approached by a man of distinct character, such as Romero before he came to El Paso. Thrown by the man’s personality, Romero lets his guard down and gives the man a small odd job. When the job is done Romero takes a nap and quickly realizes he left his favorite shirt outside. Unable to find his shirt, Romero automatically…

“Happiness is a choice. You are the only person who can make you happy. You 're as happy as you choose to be.” - Rick Warren. Your happiness is bassed on yourself and the effort you decide to put into your happiness. A couple years ago I attended a presentation at my middle school, the speaker was a young lady who was raised with everything handed to her she never had to work for anything in her life. She started off by talking to us about her childhood and how her parents were…