Yuma

Timeline of Chavez’s Life 1927 - Chavez was born on March 31st, 1927, in Arizona in the city of Yuma. 1938 - Chavez’s family owned a farm, but they were evicted so they became migrant farm workers. This caused Cesar to leave school right after completing 8th grade and join his family on the farm. 1946 - Chaves enlists in the Navy and serves two years. 1948 - Cesar gets married to Helen Favela, together they have 8 children. 1952 - He becomes a part of the Community Service Organization(CSO),…

syndrome of the options given, which are the chosen cave (Lava River Cave), Antelope Cave, Bat Cave Mine, and Grand Canyon Caverns. Lava River Cave is very diverse compared to the other caverns. It has 2 confirmed species, the big brown bat, and the yuma myotis, but it also has a very large list of possible bats of 10. Grand Canyon Caverns has 2 confirmed and 6 possible, Bat Cave Mine has 2 and 7, and Antelope Cave has 2 and 14. This means that Antelope Cave and Lava River Cave have the most…

The book, The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, is based on the true story of the Yuma-14, or Wellstone 26, who were Mexicans that crossed into America through the desert. This novel goes through not only their story but what happened before and after their journey, as well as the mentalities of the Border Patrol agents. It gives you the complete picture of what had happened. The Devil’s Highway starts off with a brief background about what happened. It’s learned here that 14 men had died…

I chose to read “The Devil’s Highway” by Luis Alberto Urrea. It is a nonfiction account of the journey of the “Yuma 14”, a group of twenty-six men who were led by a Mexican coyotes across the border into the United States through a mountainous and deadly Arizona desert. I chose this specific title because illegal immigration is a hot political topic, especially in my home state of Texas, and I wanted to learn more about it. This is a story about a group of Mexican men desperate and willing to…

spend 2 days a week with Jose in Yuma and the rest of the week at the Lake Havasu office. There came a point in time that Jose’s work performance was not satisfactory. Clay had many verbal conversations with Jose in regards to not completing his daily work schedule, leaving work early, and setting personal appointments on company time. Verbal conversations didn’t resolve the situation so it became necessary in the fall of 2016 to send another installer to Yuma from the Lake Havasu location.…

The formation of social constructions through the dismal synthesis of race and color is defined by the ever-changing social hierarchy and the fixed behavior performed by distinct races. Because the notion of race acts upon a color continuum, there are set categories that are built from the complete subjection of blacks upwards to the dominance of whites. Within this continuum lie definite subcategories of ‘black’ and ‘white’. The paradox of the permanent yet ephemeral idea of race and color is…

Have you ever felt like the conditions of working weren’t being fair? Ever felt like after doing all the work, it wasn’t as good to someone else? Cesar Estrada Chavez wanted to change that for all farm workers everywhere. Born in Yuma, Arizona, second child to parents Libardo and Juan Estrada Chavez. Both his parent worked in the fields that were over a 100 acres long. However, the chavez family lost its land, when the Great Depression came around. Like other people, they became of the migrant…

His hair was dirty and untidy, but he covered it with a broad brimmed black hat. His face was dirty from weeks in the desert. He was knarly and scarred, and his nose was crooked from being broken many times. He was a bounty hunter who worked with the Yuma county sheriff, Though it…

Mexico and came to America with her family when she was eight years old. They didn’t have special classes for ELL students thirty-five years ago, so she had to learn with help from her teachers and her friends. Sabina entered the third grade class in Yuma, Colorado. She didn’t have any friends yet and she was worried that she wouldn’t be able to communicate. There were no ELL classes for her to take at the time and her teacher didn’t know much Spanish. That didn’t stop her teacher from…

Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. He was originally a farmer but he later became known as the best civil rights activist for Latin American people. Chavez dropped out of school after the 8th grade to support his family in the fields, this was where he got firsthand experience to the problems that he would be spending his life changing. He was an American labor leader who founded the National Farm Workers Association along with Dolores Huerta. This organization later…