Luna

Holehole bushi are songs composed and sang by Japanese immigrants who worked in the cane field for the sugar plantations in the late 19th century. These songs show a sense of the early plantation life. The plantation workers sang about their joys, sorrows, hardship, and challenges. Many of these songs are created by women workers during their labor, it provides a direct connection to history from women’s perspective. In the holehole bushi above, it sounds like the plantation life was very tough.…

Regan and Liam’s parents are struggling with their gender roles and what society expects from them. Society expects a father to show love, compassion, patience for their family. Not only they need to be dedicated and take responsibility for the family. Regan’s dad, Mr. O’Neill, wants to be the traditional “normal” family where the wife doesn’t work (stay at home mom), the son is bonding with the dad and doing “manly” things, and the daughter doing house work such as cooking and cleaning. Her dad…

A lot of forced labor under brutal plantation overseers, or lunas. Usually managements and the skilled jobs were usually held by whites. While the lunas and camp policemen were mostly Hawaiians and Portuguese. The worst jobs were given to all the Asians. They get paid twice a month and work 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. shifts. Everyday they had the same schedule.…

“Sisters”. This book takes place in present-day Bahía de la Luna in California; a cold and gloomy place where the sun only shines for about sixty-two days in a year. Cat, or Catrina, is a snappy sixth-grader who is terrified of ghosts and other spooky things. She has to leave her friends behind and move to northern California since her sister Maya, has cystic fibrosis that affects her breathing and digesting. While living in Bahía de la Luna, Cat meets Carlos, a boy of her age who gives ghost…

I recently attended the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (also known as DREAMers) event that took place at Collin College where activist Ramiro Luna Hinojosa and Dallas Morning News columnist Mercedes Olivera were interviewed. Olivera kicks off the event by explaining to the crowd what exactly a DREAMer is. DREAMers all began with President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). DREAMers are children who are brought over to the United States of America…

He looked down at me, his forest green eyes meeting my pale blue gaze. “How can Andy bend metal like this?” I asked, “it’s like . . . it’s like he’s controlling the molecules within the clay itself.” “I don’t know, Luna,” Sam replied, his gaze returning to Andy inside, “he says it’s hard to explain.” I nodded, not breaking my eyes away from the metal scrap which was looking more and more like a rose. My focus was broken, and I jumped away from the garage door like…

Sandra Cisneros shows that women can be innocent but they can also be the “Malinche” which means a person that doesn't actually care about someone else. In the story “Never marry a mexican” from the book Women Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Cisneros challenges stereotypes of latina women. In the different story it talks about how latina women can sometimes act or how their attitude is between a situation. In the story “Eleven” it’s a girl´s birthday and she’s been treated bad because of a…

Amusing the Million Question Amusing the Million by John F. Kasson gives the vibrant history of one of America’s most prized and famous amusement parks, Coney Island; Kasson also describes the society and culture during this time of great change. Society in the 1890s and early 1900s experienced many changes, from the use modern technology being incorporated in daily life, to the modernization of cities, and to the merging of different economic classes through social gathering places. After…

I visited the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU. There were several artists on exhibit there from different parts of the Caribbean, Central and South American and the United States. The most beautiful piece that I saw was a tapestry that showed what looked like two women facing in opposite directions. One was red, one was black. While I was looking at it I was wondering how long it took the artist to make the piece because it is very detailed and complicated but kind of…

The origin of the roller coaster comes from Russia, in a particular area of what would later become St. Petersburg , where they sent sledders down 70-foot high slopes that were wood-framed ice slides. They have been doing this as early as the 16th century. The roller coasters were built out of wood with ice more than two but not a lot of inches thick covering the surface. There were stairs attached to the back of the slide that the riders climbed and then they sped down the fifty degree drop…