A Case Study Of Lucia Esperanza

These major life activities include, but are not limited to, hearing mobility and hearing impairments. If you, or someone you live with, have a record of a disability, you are protected under the Fair Housing Act. Due to Federal Laws, housing providers cannot discriminate against people with disabilities. If you have a disability, you are allowed to make reasonable modifications to your home or rental property to allow you to live a more comfortable life. You are also allowed to change common areas, as long as you change them back to their original condition. Most cases may require the person with the disability to use their own money to make the changes. These changes or policies can be to add a ramp to the building or get an assigned parking spot for easy access to the building. One policy states that if you build complexes with elevators or other assistance for people with disabilities, all units must have the same construction (hud.gov). If this is in place, it would make it easier to make changes, due to the fact that most accommodations have been provided.

Immigrants leave their home countries to move to other countries in order to have a chance to start over. The book is, Esperanza's rising, the book is about immigration and her papa died and they have to leave mexico. After learning about papa death Esperanza's faced several challenges as an Immigrant was when her mother got sick with valley fever and she got really sick. She had to get Abuelita back to the U.S

Sharing a one bedroom apartment with eight other people is not a placid experience according to Jairo Gomez. Jairo and his family have spent their whole life growing up in poverty in the midst of New York City. According to the government the Family is fifteen thousand dollars under the poverty line. The Gomez’s mother is a cleaning lady who works all day followed by coming home and cleaning her own house and taking care of her children. Jairo’s mother asks Jairo to constantly stay home from school and watch his younger siblings or to babysit after school. This limits Jairo’s time hanging out with friends, work, and completing school work. Since Jairo has never had freedom he often cut class to hang out with friends. Soon enough Jairo realizes that him playing hooky on school and staying home to babysit is damaging his chance to graduate from school and become successful later in life after he enrolled in the tenth grade for the second time. Jairo finally realized he needed to take initiative and change his ways. He did not want to

Mexican immigrants faced discrimination, hard labor, and low wages. In Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza had to become a Mexican immigrant because her father, Sixto Ortega, was killed and Esperanza and Mama had to escape from her rude uncles. Since her Papa’s death, Esperanza had to face many other challenges as an immigrant such as she had to learn how to do daily chores because she always has had a servant, the dust storms caused mama to get valley fever, and Mexicans were discriminated against in America.

Mexican immigrants faced challenge such as discrimination for their skin color, Low wages, and being replaced for those who would work for less. In the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza had to go through everything every immigrant had to, and only because she was mexican made it worse. She had to go through chores she did not know how to do, discrimination, and many more problems. Esperanza's life was full of challenges, but he main three challenges that she faced were dealing with her chores, discrimination, and her mother's upcoming sickness.

According to Heller and Factor (as cited in Wood & Jackson, 2003) the number of “older adults age 60 and older who are diagnosed with mental retardation or developmental disabilities is expected to reach 1,065,000 by 2030.” In fact, “in the last 30 years, the life expectancy of people with intellectual disability has increased more dramatically than that of the general population” (Bigby, 2010). Doka and Lavin (2003) report that advances in medical care and a shift to deinstitutionalization have contributed to this increase in life expectancy for developmentally disabled adults. Increasingly, federal policy has linked addressing the housing needs of older adults with those of low-income and non-elderly disabled individuals, according to

Immigration is people coming from their home in like china coming to the U.S for a better life, and to start over. In the book Esperanza rising it was Esperanza’s birthday, and her Papa dies because of le louwes and so she moves to the U.S. in her life. Although Esperanza faced many challenges as a immigrant, her hardest ones were Papa dieing, and Mama getting sick.

“Don’t be afraid to start over.” Immigrants everywhere have to move and start their whole life over. Esperanza Rising is a book about a rich Mexican girl that loses everything when her house burns down. This book was written by Pam Munoz Ryan, and her life was much like Esperanza’s when she had to move from Mexico and had to work for very low pay as an immigrant. Esperanza faced many challenges like Marta and her friends trying to get workers to go on a strike, mama getting sick with Valley Fever, and other Mexicans facing discrimination in the U.S.

Ingrid is a social worker, wife, and a mother who lives in a two story colonial home with her husband and two daughters, aged 8 and 15 years old. She was active in the school of her children, serving on committees and volunteering to read in the classroom. She attended to church habitually, though her husband did not accompany her. Her interests included swimming, snorkeling, and hiking. Not only was she close to her immediate family, but also maintained frequent contact with her college friends living throughout the country. As well, Ingrid requires moderate assistance with most of her basic activities of daily living (BADL).

Esperanza Facing Challenges “Don’t be afraid to start over”. Being forced to leave your home, and make a new life for yourself and your family. Esperanza young Hispanic girl who was born a princess, than all of a sudden she’s facing challenges that she never thought she would have to deal with. Since her Papa’s death, Esperanza had to face many challenges as an immigrant. Such as learning how to do chores, dealing with Mama becoming sick with Valley Fever, than Esperanza and other Mexicans having to face discrimination in the U.S.

Anna Garcia, a 38 year old Hispanic female was found dead in her home. Ms. Garcia was a non-smoker, and she was a former athlete, but was not exercising regularly. She co-owned a bakery with one of her good friends, Lucy Leffingwell. Anna Garcia was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia at 14 months old. When she was 14 years old Anna Garcia was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. When Ms. Garcia was 37 years old, she checked herself into the hospital after intense chest pains. Her family had a history of early heart disease and uncontrolled hypertension. Ms. Garcia was diagnosed with High Blood Pressure, a slight heart murmur, and an EKG showed an irregular heart rhythm due to the ventricles not contracting correctly. Also at age 37, Ms. Garcia had

It’s hard to say that comparing two individual’s lives is an easy task. When looking at my life and Esmerelda Santiago’s life, the sociological imagination could be used to assist in doing that. The following concepts will be used to better understand the surprising similarities and differences: immigration, doing gender, conformist, double consciousness, deviance and traditional authority. I will start by analyzing Esmerelda Santiago’s life. Following that, I will analyze my life and will finish with a conclusion that draws out the comparisons and differences of both.

COLUMBAN CONNECTION. Madam Editha Barrera-Geniza (CC, HS 1971) celebrates her birthday today. She and her class supports CCAA-USA since 2013.

For example, she can make a timetable to study and take care of her siblings in order to follow the schedule more regularly, so she may have much more spare time. Also, Kelly’s siblings should learn to take care of themselves and be more independently not only rely on her. For instant, they should learn how to do homework by themselves and give a hand on doing housework. Hence, government and some non-profit organization provide many support to those low income family to assist or take care of the children, such as “School-based After-school Learning Support Programmes” and obligation tutorial “On Fire” respectively, I believe these kind of programs can effectively relieve Kelly’s

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