Alejandra Cardenas

Sandra Cisneros, an author who is deeply inspired by her Mexican American heritage. This inspiration is clearly shown throughout every one of her writing pieces such as “Salvador Late or Early” and “Eleven”. Both short-stories focus on adolescents with a mature mindset and adult precision, and each story does a marvelous job portraying Cisneros constant writing style. “Salvador Late or Early” is focusing on a young boy, Salvador, with heavy burdens to carry on his shoulders, which is unfortunate because he is such a young boy with an old soul. The responsibilities he has are unimaginable due to the fact they don’t pertain to his age. The short-story “Eleven” is about an eleven-year-old girl named Rachel, a forthright character who explains

Gloria Anzaldua’s short essay, Towards a New Consciousness, begins with the description of her mixed culture, a mestiza, and the conflicts she faces in being torn between being Mexican and Native American. Anzaldua expresses her struggle of her torn heritages by describing herself as being caught between two cultures and their values. Instead of being able to love and respect both cultures, Anzaldua feels as if we people feel the need to take up one side of our heritage and end up hating the other part. She paints an image as standing on an opposite side of a riverbank, yelling back and forth answers and questions showing that we eventually end up favoring one side and only getting pieces of the other

Decided to venture into the prostitution business and would bribe the officials with money or “sexual skills”.

Anzaldúa recounts her experience growing up in a community where her Chicana culture wasn’t widely accepted. She would be punished for speaking the language her culture influenced to create a language, which corresponds to a way of life. In Gloria Anzaldúa’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” the variety of languages helps her compare, contrast and define her argument of the distinguished languages concerning her Chicana identity.

The writer, Maribel Garcia Ochoa, begins her piece with making the claim that because of Donald Trump being elected, California shaped this “defensive” attitude. Then Ochoa supported her claim with the evidence of the immigration policy issue. In addition, she believes that, “SB 54 would prevent the use of state and local resources to assist federal deportation efforts.” In fact, SB 54 has been recently amended in Senate on March 6, 2017. Another claim that Ochoa made was that California’s immigration policy was not completely for Asians it was also towards Mexicans. Ochoa used statistics, “Early into the ’30s, over 15 million Americans, about one quarter of all wage earners, were unemployed,” to show that once Mexicans entered California the unemployment rate of whites skyrocketed.

Juan Nepomuceno Cortina was a man who was a rebel and a soldier who fought many battles that he believed was right for Mexicans in Texas and in Mexico. He took part of the Cortina Wars, where he fought Anglo or white Americans by stealing from them after how they treated Mexicans in Texas. He even took part of the War when Mexico went against the French invasion with Emperor Maximiliam, and he even helped out the Union in the American Civil war around that year. Cortina was on top of the in ranks and became Governor of Tamaulipas in Mexico. This man had many battles that he has faced in many years of violence he seen in wars and even during his own childhood. He would be known to many Mexicans as a folk hero and has Cheno Cortina, which was

Growing up Latino is difficult, especially with other races giving minorities the disadvantage. Although Latinos are constantly being overlooked, there are certain individuals who stand out in communities exemplifying their true demeanor. Maria Isabel Trevino is an epitome of a diligent citizen who spends her time contributing to the success of others.

I admire Susana Martinez as a leader. Not only was she the first woman elected as governor in New Mexico but also first Hispanic woman governor. I admire Mrs. Martinez because she stands for and against the same as as me. She fights for what she believes in and for what is right for our state to succeed in the future. She is known for her qualities of being outspoken and determined to improve her community which is what I believes is the qualities of a

In the “Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun” by Catalina de Erauso, one can see the difficult life on the frontier. For instance, it is shown that many of the soldiers needed to eat, drink, and sleep in their own armors. This indicates not only the discomfort one suffer on the frontier, but also the danger of the war where one must always ready. Moreover, the life here was an unstable life where one could die at any moment. In fact, according to Catalina de Erauso, many of the soldiers, captain, and even her lieutenant were killed in the last battle. It seems that one of the main reasons for this came from the lack of supply that Catalina and her companion found unease. Furthermore, the description of the chasing down for the flag through the

Alejandra Torres is the name of the angel that blessed my life with many memories. She accomplished everything from moving to a different country to serving the country that had provided her with many opportunities as a U.S. Naval Sargent. She has traveled all over the world from Asia to Mexico to Europe living the life that I want to live doing something she loved. She was a Breast Cancer survivor. That never stopped her, nothing really stopped her on that note. When the cancer was cleared she asked to be deployed to a Hawaiian base where she lived for a good while and she met my uncle Carlos Torres and got married there too!

I'm Nancy Diaz, a U.S citizen. I've been knowing Claudia Yazmin Salinas Cabarles since 2009. We met at a family event and after that we became really good friends. She's a very generous, respectful and lovely person. She's always helping others and she's a very good mother, daughter and wife. She would do anything to provide for her family.

Sandra Cisneros uses a few literary techniques to characterize Rachel. She uses her own personal experiences/feelings, she writes it in first person, and gave examples about how other ages act or feel to get the reader to want to read more almost like persuasion. Sandra Cisneros uses first person words all throughout the essay in order to make the reader picture themselves in the spot and situation of Rachel. Sandra uses “I” and “my” in order to draw in the readers. The author wrote sentences such as “you open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday.

It was her second text, Admiraçion operum Dey, Teresa de Cartagena explores the controversial idea of equality. In the opening lines of the text, she apologises for her delayed response to Juana’s request, and forcefully claims ownership of Arboleda de los obras enfermos with the intention of contesting the disbelievers (“Prudentes Varones”) who refused to accept that a woman was capable of writing a religious treatise. She describes physical and mental state using military or warlike imagery. She then begins to lay out the foundation for her argument; that Arboleda was addressing God to whom attributes the enlightenment that made her understanding and her writing possible. For Teresa, denying acknowledgement of her authorship is to not only

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was born on September 26, 1942. Anzaldua identified as Queer Chicana and studied Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. Anzaldua grew up on the Mexican-Texas border and her experiences and lifelong feelings of social and cultural marginalization was the bases on which she wrote her novel, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Through the analyzation of Gloria Anzaldua’s, How to Tame a Wild Tongue through poetry I was able to relate to Anzaldua through identity by speaking in our similar narrative as female minorities in America, referencing power movements, groups and people who fight for equality and equity among races and genders, by reflecting on my writing process, and sharing the significance

Louis Hémon creates a story of the rural life in a family of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, the Chapdelaine’s. He uses the climate and traditional values in a way in which the novel still has an ironic and crucial element. Also, the beginning of the novel on Ite, missa est[1] is (“the mass”) a claim on religious behaviour, a main theme in this novel. Maria Chapdelaine, a novel personifying the spirit of French Canada at its most romantic, was written by