How Rosy Acuna Changed My Life

At two years old, her family moved to the United States. A few years later, Gloria’s father became seriously ill. Gloria took care of him and her sister while her husband worked.

It was a wonderful eye-opening experience to interview Carmen Anton, a Spanish immigrant for this project. I learned so many things about how she arrived in American as a small child with only her sister by her side and her strive to become American. The emotional struggles of Carmen and her sister, Elena, were real and I didn’t realize it was that emotionally draining to come to a new country. Her experience showed me how hard it is to fit into a new society knowing absolutely nothing about the world she was dropped into. The fact that she flew here with her younger sister and then live for three months without her parents to guide her in this unfamiliar setting, shows me how strong and brave Carmen was at the young age of eight. When she first came, she assumed it would be like

The area that she was living it was to expensive for them to afford the house. She could not afford with only one jobs. That is why she was looking for a second job. It was difficult to find a stable job. The jobs she got didn’t pay enough money.

She had to work hard and went through many hardships to

I am Latina. Although simple statement, it is one consisting of great capability and protentional beneath the surface. My grandmother, Dr. Maria Teresa Chavez-Hernandez, was an emblem of strength and one of the most influential women in my life. Against all odds, she remained true to her family obligations in Managua, Nicaragua as the oldest of eleven children while she earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology, a Master of Library Science, and her Ph.D. in Library Science and Information Studies. Following her passing, the Florida Library Association created the "Maria Chavez-Hernandez Libraries Change Peoples’ Lives Award" in her honor to celebrate the "dynamic spirit of her work in expanding the opportunities of information access to under-served

Her papi was cruel to them, but one good thing he did was push their education to have straight A’s. When she moved to the US, she felt discouraged and like an outsider, but she found the resilience within herself to push and pursue her education. When moving to the United States, there was a lot that was upon her. She had to adapt to the lifestyle and learn the ways people lived in

Life was different in the the 1930’s. She walked down the long dusty road in rural Texarkana, the sky darkened with despondency and the rain started as she hurried to the outhouse before going inside to begin her quotidien chores. The Great Depression had a significant impact on MaryLou’s life and is still evident to this day. Standing in long lines with her Mom to only obtain simple staples is a memory that will never leave her. Despite the fact her family didn’t have much money, she never went hungry and her family never let her down.

I was very happy to hear that she hasn’t experienced too much discrimination in her time in the United States. She said that she has felt it in the workplace, but not so much in the general population. I wonder if that’s due to the population in the Seattle area: growing up in small town California, it seemed like there was rampant discrimination and the Hispanic community was very much looked down upon.

While her and her husband spent a lot of time in Wilmington and Boston were her husband found it very difficult to find a job. They were in poverty throughout this whole time. As Peters feel deeper into poverty he left Whitley to often fend for herself.

“When she was only three years old her father got sick with typhoid fever which resulted in his death on February 19, 1915.” (Herringshaw 17) When her father died her mother got very depressed and couldn’t raise her kids. Since she couldn’t take care of the kids she moved them to their grandparents and they stayed

Lastly, her social class dictated parts of her lifestyle, due to her seemingly low class and low salary at her place of

Linda illustrates how the way we view Hispanics is what holds them back from fully growing in our society. This is mainly done through discrimination that withholds them from attaining jobs or opportunities that halts their overall progression up the ladder. The U.S. census and many other federal agencies confirms that the Hispanic race, much like any other race, works had to make a decent living and support their families. This depicts Hispanics as a race that shares a common norm of all others, yet is still treated as if they are the bottom rung of society. This is actually not the case when

It seemed like she had a normal family life and childhood that was probably typical of most families in the 1930’s. Her parents had typical and traditional roles, her father was motor man and worked for the Detroit Railways, her mother did “…very little work…” as she remembers, but “…was raising all nine children…”(Chenevert). Once the war came to America, things changed for most families; men went to war which was not surprising, but things changed in a surprising way for women, too.

Growing up in a Hispanic household has taught me many things. I have learned to see things as an optimistic person, and that it doesn’t matter where you come from as long as you work hard for what you want anything is possible. My family has always implemented the values of life that lead me to perceive what it was about to throw at me.

For Hester Prynne she experienced how difficult it was to start a life in America. Through her