Santiago baca

on how our priorities focus on creating more prisons than expanding the minds of children. If children don’t gain enough education needed, they would become this troubled kid who failed in life causing more prisons to expand. As stated by Jimmy Santiago Baca in his book titled, The Place to Stand, he says that his father and mother abandoned him and his brother Mieyo (18).

which a person controls their own life. Being determined is having a firm decision and being resolved not to change it. Malcom X, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Amy Tan were self-determined. They did not like the direction of their life, and decided that they wanted a change. Being determined in ones’ self after life has thrown you lemons is hard to reverse. X, Baca, and Tan all have their own life experiences that bought out their self-determination. Being self-determined helps you become a fulfilled

No matter where you come from, or what you have done, it is still possible to see your dreams through with right amount of help even though you do not realize it at first. Author Bill Pennington formulates about Victor Cruz, who attends the University of Massachusetts in the article, “Defying the Odds.” Cruz was a student who had all the support and help he could get while in college, but he just did not realize it. With him not taking the initiative to use the help he was being offered, his football

Meaningful, powerful, thought provoking are only just a few words that can be used to describe Jimmy Santiago Baca's writing. Baca's book titled, Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande is a collection of short poems, which take readers on a journey through his spiritual union and connection with nature, primarily a river. Through the use of his poems, Baca expresses his hardship and struggles growing up in New Mexico while connecting his need to find spiritually in nature and all it has to offer. Baca's

emotions or tell a story. The poems “LA Nocturne: The Angels”, by Xavier Villaurrutia and “Meditations on the South Valley: Poem IX” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, are two distinctive poems. In Baca’s poem he expresses the disbelief and the sorrow of the death of a boy named Eddie. While, in Villaurrutia’s poem reveals an expression of secret desire men have. Baca and Villaurrutia’s poems, both use repetition, imagery and metaphors in their poems to convey their message. Villaurrutia’s poem, “La Nocturne:

In "Coming Into Language," Jimmy Santiago Baca describes how he went from being illiterate to learning how to read and write and eventually becoming a poet while being in prison. From being embarrassed for not understanding and asking questions Baca become illiterate, and in ninth grade he decided to drop out. The only thing that seemed to interest him was books with pictures of people of the same nationality as him. When listening to prisoners talk in “ Chicano language” out loud it had inspired

and turn out to become worse after coming to the prison. Jimmy Santiago Baca carried on with existing by hardship and an unavoidable pathway of loss. Children who are neglected at a young age are increasing the risk of emotional and behavioral problem. The absence of parenting, especially at a young age, disconnects the relationship between the child and the parent. Family is one of the main themes that the author Jimmy Santiago Baca, wants the reader

Language essay, he wrote about how he can escape the chaos of being incarcerated by engaging himself in reading and writing. While behind bars Baca was able to release himself from confinement so much so that reading and writing helped him become “so absorbed in how the sounds created music in me and happiness, I forgot where I was” (Baca 52). Just like Baca can escape his feeling of being trapped by imprisonment, I can escape my feeling of being stressed and distracted by going to the gym to workout

Jimmy Santiago Baca is a poet and social activist who believes that Mexicans are not taking Americans jobs, he sees them struggling and to find jobs, and how they are being horribly treated. While Steven A. Camarota is biased he is against immigrants causing uneducated Americans lose jobs. In, Baca story he talks about how Mexicans do not want Americans jobs and how they get treated. When all browns and blacks want to do is find some type of money to feed their families. In, Camarota story he talks

to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most