Rio Grande Valley

necessary in order to create positive change, but it is also necessary to gain an educational experience both in and out of the classroom. UTSA has given me more than I could have ever anticipated. Coming from a small close-minded town in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, it was this university that opened the world around me exposing layers I didn’t even know existed. It gave me eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to listen. My purpose in seeking a higher education degree is so that I can have a…

I. Precis • In the excerpt, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua conveys the message that language is an individual’s identity as she delves into the experiences of Chicano Mexicans including herself. She implements a number of personal experiences to provide a credible, rational, and emotional appeal. Background information is also included for credibility as well as quotes from other people to contribute to the passage. This along with the tropes and schemes anaphora, polysyndeton,…

settlers in the mountains by the time Jefferson was president. The English were defeated in the American Revolution, this lead the colonists to move into the Indian Territory. By 1840 in the Unites States 4,500,000 had crossed into the Mississippi Valley. 120,000 Indians now lived in the east of Mississippi cause of the removal. Even though there were about 120,000 Indians in the east of Mississippi, there were only 30,000 left because most of them were killed or pushed towards the west by force…

Summary Parenting is a difficult job, one that comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility. Parents must provide love, while being patient and understanding. One obligation parents must provide is teaching and guiding their children as they mature into adulthood (Gonzalez, 2002). The article clearly defined how a child’s education begins in the home, not the classroom. Parents and educators want the same things, for students to be successful at home and school. Parental involvement is a…

In the book, Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez, we are made aware that the book is indeed split up into different sections. The current section is section II which is entitled as Branches (Las Ramas) goes more in-depth about Gonzalez’s background and what made him the individual he is currently. In the chapter, Puerto Ricans: Citizens Yet Foreigners, the readers get a first-hand look on Gonzalez’s Puerto Rican background and about his family life. How his family migrated to the United States…

recently utilized as I begin this process and collect information on this particularly salient topic. Gomez, M. M. (2015). Intersections at the border: immigration enforcement, reproductive oppression, and the policing of Latina bodies in the Rio Grande Valley. Columbia Journal Of Gender And Law, (1), 84. The author of this article is Madeline Gomez, who at the time of publishing this piece was a Federal Policy Fellow at National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. She had received…

The Stanford Experiment was conducted on August 16 of 1971 through August 20 of 1971. The experiment was led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University. The experiment was then funded due to a grant from the United States Office of Naval Research; which was of interest for the United States Navy conductors and members, as well as the United States Marine Corps. The military funded the experiment to help determine the cause of conflict occurring between military guards and prisoners.…

began to teach a development of Chicano and Black Literature. That is what steered him towards Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he began his research. In 1977, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines allowed him to launch the, “Revista Rio Bravo.” He found the financial means and time in 1989 to explore in Mexico, writing anecdotes on his expedition. Presenting his short story,…

There was a dispute over the land of Texas. Texas claimed its own territory extended to the Rio Grande, which included some parts of New Mexico. The bill “established the old boundary of New Mexico and compensate Texas for her loss of territory by a money payment” (Hodder 526). The Texas boundary was later passed in the Senate by a vote of 32 to…

Growing up a Caucasian, upper middle-class child in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I remember experiencing a sense of perplexity every time I visited my neighborhood grocery store. While one side of the store served a demographic population similar to my own, the other side catered to the low-income, predominately African American population located in the adjacent neighborhood. My grocery store represented the diversity of my city, causing me to question why such diversity did not exist in my…