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him. Being open, respecting each other, and listening to one another is how this conflict will come to a resolution and prevent future conflicts. 15. After living in a community where over half of the population is apart of the Hispanic Culture in Yuma, Arizona. While there was many parts of the culture like their family values and cultural heritage I was familiar with because it is a major part of the community in that town and also all my friends are Hispanic. I never learned how to transition…

Did you know that Cesar Chavez was the only picker to create an effective union movement? Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona in 1927. He had to move from Arizona to California after the drought and Great Depression. Chaves grew up working in fruit and vegetable fields in the great valleys of California with migrants and refugees from the Dustbowl. He and his family had to move based on the season to maintain their occupation. Chaves later tried, as many had, to organize farm workers. He did…

enough money to pay off the mortgage of his mom’s old house. Ben Foster plays Pine’s psychotic older brother, fresh out of jail who will do anything his brother asks him to do even if that is robbing banks. Foster has his first big role since ‘3:10 to Yuma’ in a role that was truly meant to be…

they cut off the Fort Mojave-Prescott Toll Road to the Colorado River and assaulted anyone trying to get through. A man by the name of Captain W.H. Hardy soon brought about a peace agreement and the fighting stopped. Another tribal leader, Chief Wauba Yuma, was murdered over a treaty dispute and the assaults began anew. Due to the renewed raids by the Hualapai the Fort Mojave Cavalry was sent out which resulted in the cavalry fighting in a number of battles. The war lasted until December, 1868…

willingness to sacrifice, and working together. Cesar Chavez is famous for his nonviolent, but also successful strikes. For that, he was a hero of the Civil Rights Movement. Born on March 31, 1927, Cesar Chaves was named after his grandfather, Cesario, near Yuma, Arizona. At the young age of ten, he started working in the fields, but soon had to move off the farm to California because of the depression in 1937. He worked for ten years with his immigrant parents, experiencing, “Wretched migrant…

laborers in bad working condition. He was the voice for many farmworkers and engaged nonviolent means. He had led many boycotts and a few hunger strikes to improve work conditions. Childhood Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona. He grew up on a farm that his grandfather started, with his family. During the Great Depression, the economic conditions forced Cesar’s parents to give up the farm. Cesar and his family became migrant workers and Cesar had to drop out of…

Once entering college, it is like a completely new world. You receive much more freedom than what was given at home. A substantial change, however, is you have to choose your major, arrange your own schedule, and make an appearance to class on your own. Although, there are some people that attend college to commence their life, there are others that get sidetracked by the parties and drugs. College students that fail to remember what they are going to school for and tend to walk in the wrong…

forget about progress and prosperity for our community” (Chavez). This quote shows how people should worry about others and include other people's aspirations in their ambitions for their sake and their own, just like Cesar Chavez did. Cesar was born in Yuma, Texas in 1927 and died in 1993 in San Luis, Arizona. He is married to Helen Fabela and has eight children. Cesar Chaves did many things to fight for farmers and immigrants. He helped them with their way of working and living. Chavez gave…

On Friday, July 10th, the local instrumental jazz group Yuma Jazz Company played at Lutes Casino for a couple of hours. The instrumentation was fairly standard for a jazz group, with trumpet, saxophone, guitar, double bass, and drums (I believe those were electric). The guitar and bass, along with the drums, served as a sort of basso continuo, generally backing the horns, but occasionally taking up the melody for themselves, resulting in a texture that was thinly polyphonic. Also noticeable was…

Chavez is an important figure in American History because he used non-violence to bring attention to farm workers. Without Cesar Chavez, America would not have fair pay and working conditions in the fields. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, to immigrant parents. At age 10, he started his work in the fields of California. For 10, long, hard years, he had to work with his kin. During these years in California, Cesar Chavez saw “...wretched migrant camps, corrupt labor…