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Vicente Fernandez is a well know Mexican actor, producer and singer, Vicente is known as the king of ranchera music all over the world. Vicente started singing on the streets when he was a young boy for tips, Vicente came from a very poor family, he was forced to drop out of fifth grade to support his family. He got little jobs around his home town. He says he would stop cars and offer to sing to them for a few pesos in Guadalajara, but has now won seven Latin Grammys and one Grammy. Vicente was born in huentitan el alto Jalisco, Mexico February 17 1940. He grew up in his father’s ranch in Guadalajara, at age eight Vicente got his inspiration from Pedro Infante when his mom took him to see one of his favorite movies. Pedro infant was a

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

1. Name of individual, where are they from, where do they currently live. (2-3 sentences) Edgar Morales, also known as Ricardo Arjona, was born on January 19, 1964 in Jocotenango, Guatemala. When he was three years old his family moved to Guatemala City, where he lived during the remainder of his childhood (“Ricardo Arjona Biography” 2016). Arjona currently lives in Mexico and has since the 1990’s (Quintana, 2017)

Arturo Marquez was born in Alamos, Sonora on December 20, 1950 (age 66). (He is still alive today) Marquez was named after his father, Arturo Marquez, who was of Mexican descent from Arizona. His mother's name was Aurora Marquez Navarro. Marquez was the first born out of nine children and was the only child in his family who became a musician. Since his father and grandfather were musicians, Marquez was introduced to several musical styles in his childhood, particularly Mexican ¨ salon music.¨ His dad was a mariachi musician. Until the early 1990s Marquez´ music was largely unknown outside his native country. At the age of sixteen he started composing

First, I will talk about her childhood and how she became famous. Selena Quintanilla was a Mexican singer. According to biography.com she was born on “April 16,1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas.” She was known as the “Queen of Tejano” which is a style of Mexican music such as country. Selena’s first language was English, but her father taught her to sing in Spanish, so she picked up on the language, and became a fluent Spanish speaker. At the age of 10 Selena was the lead singer in her family’s band known as “Selena Y Los Dinos.” They played in weddings and clubs in Texas but it was hard for them because a lot of people think that women can’t get the attention of men singing Tejano music, but she proved them wrong.

Gilbert Martinez was born in 1942, in crystal city Texas. Mr. Martinez was born Mexican American and his parents were both from Mexico City. During that time racism was still very much alive and most people in the city were Mexican American while the city council were white people. The city council was unfair to most people and never listened to their opinion on city affairs. So Gilbert decided when he was about 17 to start a campaign to run for city council. However he wasn’t even eighteen so he got some of his childhood friends to help him. Together they wanted to put local people in for city council to get their word in and have representation.

In Adam Hamze's essay "Removal of the Jefferson Davis Statue Falls Short." Hamze talks about his school's (University of Texas) removal of a statue of Jefferson Davis (the president of the Confederacy), and how to truly show their dedication to equality should put up a statue of a black person. Hamze suggests a statue in honor of the first black student at the university Heman Marion Sweatt. As Hamze explains, "Sweatt endured an emotionally tolling legal battle with the University after being denied admission solely due to his blackness. His victory paved they way for reform of the racist educational system plaguing the country. (Page 141)." Hamze's argument is strong because it offers a good canidate for what he is suggesting, and he offer facts about his

Melquiades Rafael Martinez Ruiz, also known as “Mel Martinez”, is a renowned politician who was born in Cuba on October 23, 1946. Martinez left Cuba in 1962 to flee from extreme violence in his hometown, Sagua la Grande. Later on, he became the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under George W. Bush. Mel Martinez is a very qualified individual because he helped thousands of people purchase affordable homes, while in the presidential Cabinet, became the first Cuban/Latin American to be part of the United States Senate, and currently runs a large region of banking for JPMorgan Chase bank. From the day he started practicing law to present day, he has always focused on bringing people affordable housing.

The childhood of Ted Nugent was filled with early talent for he started playing at such a young age. Ted had a very strict father that would never let him drink and/or do anything dangerous. He was once punished for going to drink with some friends. Ted Nugent started playing guitar when he was 8 years old. He had two bands by the time he was 14 years old. Then the he was forced to end the bands when him and his family moved to Chicago because of his father’s work.

As a kid Tyler always had a passion for music before he could walk he always liked drum on pots and pans around the house. When he learned to talk he could pick up on lyrics from songs on the radio and he loved to rap and sing around the house. When he Tyler was about 8 he still showed the same passion about music so his parents started buying him instruments and he learned how to play the drums and the piano. Tyler played his instruments and got quite good at it. So when he turned 12

Carlos was influenced by many musicians. Not only did he idolized Muddy Waters and B. B. King, but he loved the styles of John Coltrane, Bob Marley, Ritchie Valens and Steve Ray Vaughn. Living in San Francisco in

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,

Hi there Hernan Cortez. Here are some facts I learned about the Aztec. I hope this helps you out. First, I am going to tell you about the daily life of the Aztec’s. Next, about their specialized professions and what slaves are like in the Aztec Empire. Also, the Aztecs capital. Another, is government. Lastly, is a secret that will be at the end of the report and I think that will help you the most. Just to let you know Cortez, I almost got caught by a soldier but I got away. So if you can get here as soon as you can I will be happy. I hope to SEE YOU SOON?!?!?!

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

Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898 and died in 1936, he lived through one of the most troubling times of Spain's history. He grew up in Granada, Spain, and enjoyed the lifestyle and countryside of Spain. His father was a wealthy farmer and his mother was a school teacher and encouraged his love of literature, art, and music. He was an extremely talented man. A respectable painter, a fine pianist, and an accomplished writer. He was close friends with some of Spain's most talented people, including musician Manuel de Falla, and painter Salvador Dali. Lorca was a very liberal man who lived un dictatorship for most of his life. However, in 1931 Spain turned into more of a democracy, and was called "The