I was asked, no I take that back. I was chosen to find a woman who chose not to be found. A woman who has lost the ones she loved the most in this world due to an angry man’s hand. A woman who has left everything she owned, including her job as an Undercover Narcotic Officer. This woman is Edith Salazar. I have found her, followed her, and studied her. I have watched her, admired her and odd to say fallen in love with her. I can’t help but to think about her every day and what hurts the most is this possessed feeling I have will never reach to her or that she will never return that same feeling for me back. This kind of feeling of being completely, hopelessly, desperately in love could be one of the worst feelings in the world. And
Sylvia Rivera was a survivor of the streets. A part of a thrown away community of drag queens, sex workers, and trans folks; the people that fell between the crack of the gay and
Ellen Ochoa is the world’s first Hispanic female astronaut. She was born in Los Angeles, California on May 10, 1958. She attended the High School Grossmont and she graduated in 1975, with a passion towards science. She lived with her mother and four sibling and around this time her parents got divorced. She commissioned at San Diego state University where she redeemed her Bachelor’s in physics in 1980, Was also named the valedictorian of the graduating class. After that she commissioned at Stanford University in 1981 where she received a Master’s degree in electrical engineering. Following a Ph.D she earned in 1985. While in Stanford, Ochoa had developed an optical system to detect imperfection in repeating patterns, Which she utilized in
Dolores Huerta was born on April 10th, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Dolores was the
Imagine a world where the social and economic conditions for the farm workers and immigrants get worst year by year, where the discrimination among these people growth and never decline. What would happen to farm workers if Dolores Huerta shouldn’t have made any action to change their situation? This same question should be in the mind of many Americans who don’t appreciate all the effort and work that Huerta put in to change our nation. Persistent, powerful, brave, strong, simply a heroin are the best words to describe Dolores Huerta, who is one of the most important women who contributed to the creation of an equal and fair society in the United States because, she founded the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) and also she helped create the National United Farm Workers Association (UFWA) with Cesar Chavez, she helped organize a nationwide boycott of abusive grape growers, and she founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
Amelia Earhart or “The Babe of The Sky” most popular for being the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Setting a record for longest distance without refueling, First women to a fly nonstop transcontinental flight, also achieving many more honors all while also writing two books.While achieving another record; to be the first woman to fly around the world she suddenly disappeared on her voyage so close to the finish line.But what exactly happened to Amelia Earhart? Did she truly meet her doom in the ocean or could other theories surrounding her disappearance possibly be true? Let's look at Amelia Earhart before her disappearance. Born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. A spirit of adventure seemed to consume the Earhart children. As a child, Earhart spent most of her time playing with her sister Pidge, climbing trees, sledding, and other outdoor play. Earhart soon Taking a course in Red Cross First Aid, Earhart enlisted as a nurse's aide at Spadina Military Hospital in Toronto, Canada, tending to wounded soldiers during World War I and when the Spanish flu pandemic was spreading. The following year, Amelia enrolled as a premedical student at Columbia University in New York. Shortly thereafter, Earhart soon changed her mind and changed schools, attending Columbia University. Learning to fly in California, she took up aviation as a hobby, taking odd jobs to pay for her flying lessons. In 1922, with the financial
Julia Alvarez is an acclaimed American-Dominican poet and author. She has written many successful books and poems, many of which reflect directly on her life and personal experiences. Because of Alvarez’s American-Dominican background, her poems display diverse, cultural themes. These include what it is like to be American and Dominican and the struggles of moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Alvarez has received praise for her ability to write a wide variety of styles, including poems, children's books, young adult novels, and essays. Her success, however, has come from her poetry collections, like Homecoming. These collections show her life in the Dominican Republic and her transition to the United States.
I believe that Sylvia Rivera is one of the three most important LGBTQ+ figures in America since 1970, because of her actions during her lifetime and the legacy that she left behind. In particular, her activism called out the conservative and exclusionary politics of LGBT rights groups in the 1970s, and the erasure of transgender women and drag queens from larger movements despite their significance to those groups. Much of Rivera’s activism focused on the inclusion and protection of transgender people, and that legacy continues today. For example, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization that provides legal help to non-cisgender people of color, is named in her honor and fights for many of the same causes that Sylvia herself did. Sylvia, along with her friend and fellow activist Marsha P. Johnson, formed the organization Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in the 1970s, to advocate for and house homeless drag queens in New York City. Although STAR was not a particularly long-lasting organization, Sylvia’s work through STAR and the Metropolitan Community Church of New York left their mark, and the Metropolitan Community Church of New York’s shelter for LGBT youth is named after Sylvia. Because of her impact upon the LGBT community during and after the 1970s, I think that Sylvia Rivera would be an excellent choice for one of the three most important LGBTQ+ figures since 1970.
Selena was born in Lake Jackson Texas to Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcella Ofelia Samora on 4-16-1971, and was the youngest child of 3 including her. When she was 6 years old her father realized her musical abilities and later on told People Magazine “Her Timing and Pitch were perfect I knew it from day one.” In 1980 in Lake Jackson, her dad opened his first Tex-Mex Restaurant, where Selena and her siblings would perform at only the age of 9.
On October 21st of 1925, I entered into the musical climate of Havana, Cuba. Me han dado el nombre de Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso. Within my first moments in the world, I was welcomed by mother, Catalina Alfonso Cruz, and my father, Simon Cruz. I was raised in a house of 14 children, including my three siblings and other relatives, within a poor neighborhood by the name of Santos Suarez. As a child, I had a true love for music as I would often listen to the radio, go to ballrooms, and sing the younger children to sleep. I was known for singing in community events and competing in singing contests. Recognition of my voice came when I sung “Nostalgia”, a tango song, in La Hora de Té. My father believed
Luisa Moreno, a Guatemalan-American born in nineteen-o-seven(1907) in Guatemala City under her real name of Blanca Rosa Lopez Rodrigues. Is a fine example of ‘The American Dream’ of where she fought for the right of the Latino-immigrations and other Latino-American (mostly Xicanos) along with other civil right groups of colors durning her time in the States, with her leftist idealogy, and demond for justice and to be treated as a citizen instead of a third class ‘w*tback.’ Being born in an upper-class family in Guatemala in nineteen-o-seven (1907) moving to Mexico than to United States (New York City, NY) in nineteen-twenty-eight (1928) with her first husband. Within a few years when the Great Dressipion hit the United States she worked as
After dating for five months, Daisy Fuentes, 49 and Richard Marx, 52 have been pronounced man and wife. The love birds tied knot in Aspen jus before Christmas. The pair doubled their Christmas fun with tying their lives together in wedding knot.
Nicole Hernandez is a young teenage girl who is going through life one adventure after another. She was born in Miami Florida, on February 2nd, 2002. She recalls some funny stories of her birth, one being how her parents said she came out with very dark hair and describing her as a little mouse. Growing up, the most influential person to her was her aunt Maria. Her mother's sister had a huge influence on Nicole.
Everywhere I go I hear stories of other slaves who have been mistreated or tried to escape this horrid slavery. Many of them won’t share their experiences though, but I will. My name, Jane Edwards and I grew up in Virginia. The events that I have gone through seem unbelievable, but rest assure that nothing is made up. They come from my experiences and also my families. I want to make all of those around me aware of how cruel people can be to one another. No one should have to experience what I did.
90%...90% of child abusers are related in some ways to their child victim, according to the National Children’s Alliance. The issue we are faced with today is the one of whether or not Mayella Ewell is a victim or a criminal. You will find that in the following paragraphs that there will be a profusion of proof that Mayella Ewell is a victim of rape, and child abuse, by her own father. Today I argue that Mayella Ewell is a victim, a girl living a life of hardship, who was abused and raped by her father, Bob Ewell.
They are persons in your life that when you meet them, you wish to be with them forever, and that's what I used to feel with my big friend Fabiola Lizeth Bonilla. She was a really proud Honduran girl. Proud of their food and culture and lived there for 17 years, then she moved to the United States of America and got in love with the country. Fabiola was an amazing person, she didn't like to see someone sad, and if I'm not wrong, her favorite hobby was to make all her friends happy.