Guerrero

In this text, a young football player named Clay Hollis loves the game of football, but has an increasing fear of concussions. Clay lives in San Antonio and is in middle school he plays pee wee football with his best friend David Guerrero. Clay Hollis is a wide receiver and after taking a bad hit in his football game he starts to miss catches out of the fear that he might get hurt. This is unusual because he has never felt this way before. Clay is feeling embarrassed and he also doesn’t want to…

“Prayers for the Stolen” is a story of a young Mexican girl who grows up in a rural mountain community of Guerrero, Mexico where being a girl is a dangerous thing and where drug lords are kings and girls are stolen in broad daylight. Ladydi and her mother Rita go through a lot of challenge. And Ladydi mother Rita did anything she could to protect her child and change their life situation. Ladydi is called a boy by her mother Rita. Turning girls in to boys or at least making them ugly…

Page of 3 ZOOM Guerrero-Vega 1 Brianna Guerrero-Vega Janaya George Ms. Newton English 3 March 5, 2024 The American Dream Essay Ever since the 1900’s every American’s goal has been to achieve the American Dream. The perfect American life with no problems, yet full of love and wealth. My question is, do you think the American Dream exists? Also, do you think any and everyone has a chance of achieving it? Perspectives on the American dream vary based on one’s experience and who they are. My…

An eraser of a groups significance in historical context allows for such group to be marginalized because it belittles their importance and make them appear inferior. Veracruz, Mexico is a center in which slave trade occurred on a daily basis at the height of the slave trade in Mexico. Due to the fact that many indigenous individuals passed away due to diseases brought over to the Americas by Europeans. This made the demand for slaves go up in order to replace the workforce lost due to death by…

Diane Guerrero and her family are Colombian; in other words, they are not European, and more blatantly, not white. As displayed by immigration policy, the image of America that citizens are satiated with is a nation whose citizens are predominantly white (Ngai 7-8). This is a problem for the Guerrero family as well as for other non-European immigrants attempting to assimilate in a nation where their appearance causes their presence to be obvious. This is an especially impossible task to achieve…

this on a daily basis and do not even know it. It is a useful skill that can benefit many people from doctors, attorneys, janitors, even authors. In the book, “In the Country We Love: My Family Divided” by Diane Guerrero she details her life before and after her family was deported. Guerrero used this throughout the novel multiple times to help add emphasize or detail to her personal story. A major one was her family’s history and how it affected her in the present day. Her mother and father…

Food insecurity and poverty most often occur simultaneously. As devastating as these issues of can be on the individual, when it is looked at through the lens of the conflict perspective it is clear that they are a product of societal classes (Leon-Guerrero 43). Food insecurity benefits companies that sell processed foods. Poverty specifically upholds one’s place in society ensuring that those who are in power remain in power. Food insecure individuals tend to live in food deserts or low income…

According to a study done by the United Nations, Latin America is considered the most violent region in the world. It accounts for every 1 in 3 deaths worldwide. As a whole, Latin America's homicide rate is 23 deaths for every 100,000 people, nearly double the rate in Africa, which is sometimes mistakenly believed to be the most violent continent. Most of the time the crime, violence, and murder take place in Northern South America and Central America. I have a friend who emigrated here from El…

each other; we find solutions, understand each other, and are not afraid to say what is on our minds. The social penetration theory reflects on our layers of disclosure. It “describes how self-disclosure changes as people develop relationships” (Guerrero 133) and it is also known as the onion theory. In our beginning stages, we were on the superficial layer and didn’t know how to approach each other. It started off with simple questions and awkward silences. Slowly, we progressed through the…

of a staircase. Both models depict negative aspects of relationships and discuss the context in them falling apart through different steps. Duck uses a model that focuses on five steps that people may encounter including more than one at a time (Guerrero, Anderson, and Afifi, 2012, p. 391). In contrast to Knapp who uses a ten step model as discussed previously in chapter five as well. Though both researchers make great points in how relationships can result in an ending through various…