Jose Rodriquez

Juan Seguin is one of the greatest Texas heroes we have.He was one of the only Mexicans to fight with the texians in the Texas Revolution.Maybe this story will help you learn about this great warrior during the Texas Revolution.

Growing up, people realize that around the time of reaching a mature state, education has affected their personal family life in one way or the other. With that being said, in his essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up, the life he had as a child, and the life he has as an educated man. He continued believing in his aspiration of how benefits of education can remarkably outweigh the past struggles of both his family and himself. Like Rodriguez, I also, in the past, found some form of solitude

There was an immigrant named Jesuś, he was a short man with slick black hair. He was

The memoir Aria by Richard Rodriguez expresses his personal experiences and feelings of his native-speaking family becoming Americanized by the English language and culture. Through elementary school and constant persistence from the nuns of the Church as well as his mother and father, Richard learned the public language and gained his public identity. As Richard continued to be silent and unwilling to speak English at school during class time, the Church's nuns visited Richard's home to discuss with his parents about the difficulties of their three children adapting to the English language. At the clash of the public and private world, the visitors asked if the Rodriguez family only spoke Spanish at home and suggested that the family should start practice speaking English at home to better the slow progress the children were showing at school. From that moment onwards, the Rodriguez family had lost its intimacy through their native language as they became Americanized. The memoir took place within

Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain, as a son of wealthy Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Sosa de Ulloa and Isabel de Luján Juan Vásquez. After spending 25 years with his family, Coronado finally set to seas with the son of his father's patron, Antonio de Mendoza. After they reached Mexico, Coronado married Beatriz de Estrada, with whom he had eight children. During his early life he managed to conquer the area of

“Our culture, our traditions, our languages are the foundations upon which we build our identity.” - Unknown. Bilingualism has many different interpretations and definitions and can cause problems in the community or unite it. The concept of bilingualism represents several different ideas, two writers, Martin Espada and Richard Rodriguez share in their essays their personal stories about being immersed into the English culture and learning the language. They share their views of what bilingualism means to them personally and make arguments about the importance of the concept. The two essayists bring awareness to the major role bilingualism plays in the communities today and highlight the effects of disagreements between cultural groups.

Being that the director of this film, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, is from my home city of Laredo, Texas, I was very excited when I saw the title Me and Earl and the Dying Girl at the top of the movie list in our syllabus. This film is superbly and artfully done,

Many people think that they can be success without an educational background, but a fourteen-year-old ambitious Hispanic boy Francisco Jimenez, Breaking Through, Jiménez. He knows that moving to the United State could help him to bet for a better future. He puts all his effort to study diligently, overcome and manipulate a foreign language and culture. Beside that, working hard on his part time job also required, earning money, gaining knowledge is the only way to keep him and his family survive. After I read his book, I found out that Francisco, and I have a range of similar formidable circumstance. We both are staying in an unfamiliar place, we have the same purpose to come to the US. We also have to face the financial issue, culture shock

Luis and Walter Alvarez are wanted for false advertising. These men are very successful and are a father son duo. They are Hispanic, and the first hispanics in the “all white male scientists club”. They infact are the scientists who came up with the, World stopping, theory. (transition) That dinosaurs are extinct because of a huge asteroid that hit Earth and destroyed their life on Earth.

When reading Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville for the first time, it is portrayed as a story of a Spanish slave ship lost at sea until being found by an American ship whose captain, Amasa Delano comes on board to assist, and his strange encounter with the ship’s captain Benito Cereno. The events and conversations that take place during his several hours onboard lead Captain Delano to see Cereno as a capricious man, at times very weak and others almost cruel and because the focalization of the story is only told in a third person narrative and Delano’s thoughts, the reader is likely to see what Delano sees without being able to understand Benito’s motives. When the end of the book reveals the true events of the story, that the slaves had revolted and took control of the ship, it dramatically

Jose Antonio Burciaga elaborates in his essay “Tortillas” the significant of tortillas in his life and culture. In the Mexican culture tortilla becomes a big part of the Mexican food. The tortillas for Burciaga had a great impact on his stages of life which not only enjoying it at his plate but to his career as well. He narrates his childhood and historical events of the tortilla. He begins by remembering the times with his family, being scolded by his mother for playing with the tortilla.

Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.

I hope you are having a good weekend. I'm sorry to bother you again. I have made some small corrections to my personal statement. If you haven't read the first one I sent you, would you proofread this one instead please? The corrections I made were very small, so it doesn't really matter. I wanted to send you this one in case you haven't read the last one. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

He had in his life been a major part of the conquering of the Aztec people, the Mayan people, and a number of other Native Indian city states from Mexico to Central America. He, in a way, is responsible for the colonization of Guatemala. It was his actions as a commander of a conquering nation that allowed the blending of the Spanish and Native Indians of Mexico and Central American cultures that define that region of the world today.

     Overall I thought that the book gave some very convincing theories about the war and it made me understand a lot more about what happened during the war. We only had one view at the war when it was going on and that was from the standpoint of the news stations. I believe it’s always good to have different views on a topic, because then you can really begin to analyze the topic.