Aranzazu has always wanted to become a doctor. She has three older brothers, but is the first in her family to go to college. Her parents work at a local Thai restaurant her mother works as a waitress but her father works in the kitchen and sometimes manages the restaurant when the owner takes a day off. They taught all their children the importance of hard work. Fulfilling your responsibilities. Before her parents immigrated to the U.S. they were both in the medical field, in El Salvador, her father was a dentist and her mother was a nurse. However, their degrees do not transfer to the U.S. system. So they have accepted working at the restaurant to support their family. Aranzazu is a full-time student at PCC and is transferring to UCLA. She
Felipe Alou was a professional baseball player from the Dominican Republic. Felipe started his journey of life on May 12, 1935 in Bajos de Haina, San Cristobal, Dominican Republic. It was there where Felipe Alou was raised by his parents were José Rojas and Virginia Alou. Over his career, he was a loved Major League Baseball player and credited coach.
Throughout the years, there have been many rises to power and dictators. Some of them being good and some of them being bad. Everyone remembers the bad ones such as, Hitler or The Roman Empire. But, there are some that go unrecognized such as, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo rise to power and dictatorship over the Dominican Republic brought on many people to rebel against him and eventually take him down.
A Georgia elementary school teacher noticed a bluish-green marking on a fifth-grade student, sticking out above her strapless dress during a dance, it turns out it wasn't just a party decoration.
Bernardo de Galvez was born on July 23, 1746, in Macharaviaya, Spain. He was part of a very distinguished family in the royal service of Spain, and following family tradition, went into the military. At the age of sixteen, Galvez became a captain, and in the following years, he fought Portugal and then went to New Spain, where he eventually became the leader of some military forces. He later returned to Spain and continued to do various military work until 1776, when he was transferred to the province of Louisiana, and after one year, became governor. Galvez began helping the Americans before Spain even declared war on Britain. He provided a lot of supplies including money, ammunition, food, guns, and clothing, and also secured the Mississippi
Ruben Salazar was born on March 3, 1928, in Ciudad Juarez, and moved to El Paso, Texas where he grew up. Ruben Salazar was a well-known journalist and activist who brought together Chicanos and Americans. He was one of the first non-white journalists in an all-white male profession and proved that he was just as capable of journalism as all of them. Salazar brought together Americans and Chicanos in many ways, he reported on Chicano events and put himself in between a very tense boundary. Salazar began as a journalist for The Los Angeles Times and became a foreign correspondent until a new more powerful Chicano movement brought him back. Salazar was the Times’ best choice to report on the movement and brought him back to Los Angeles to report
Ruben Villa IV was born on April 16, 1997, in Salinas California. To his parents Ruben Villa III and Jessica Villa, both Salinas Natives. Being the only son out of 4 sisters. Ruben Villa III introduced his son to a gym in a recreation center for his 5th birthday. Since that day Ruben knew boxing was his passion. Ruben enjoyed throwing punches at the speed bags every time he stepped a foot in the gym with his coach Rudy Puga. In his corner for 12 years. Ruben’s father and his coach decided to take their passion for boxing to the next level. They started a boxing gym in Rudy’s backyard and this is where the beginning of Ruben’s legacy was birthed. Positive guidance has been important to Ruben, having his uncle George Villa as his strength and
Juan Cortina was born in 1824, in Camargo, Tamaulipas Mexico. Racher and Politician, Juan Cortina is remembered in our history for him and his army, taking control of Brownsville. He along with others saw the US as a threat against their property as Anglos set up land net to his, so he organized a group, an army if you will to fight the First Cortina War”. Cortina backed off following negotiations with Mexican leaders, but he was commonly known for demanding rights of Tejanos and MExicans and demand anyone be punished that would violate the rights that he stated. Once the Texas Rangers got involved, there was tension between them all, this went on for years between them both and on December 1859; Rangers finally went after Cortinas army in
Many people have greatly influenced the states by bring work and more jobs to an area or
Mariano Mejia Arias, life and death ... The incident occurred Tuesday, January 20, 1981 in the village of San Jose primero, City of San Martin. Around 6:30 pm, suddenly some 60 gunmen with rifles AK 47of the Farabundo Marty front, (FPL). Surrounded the house of Mariano Mejia Arias while he was about to eat supper on the porch Of his house his favorite place for dinner., he was a civilian man who never belonged to any political party or participated in groups or any force of government. When he married my grandma Catalina Cabrera on behalf of her family, they received as a wedding gift, one pair of oxen and a small piece of land., He spent his life working hard to inherit a better future for his family, created jobs and employed people of the
We have taken the city of Tenochtitlan on August thirteenth year of our lord 1521. Many people died in the siege because of the long hard fought battle. The city is nearly destroyed from Don Cortez’s soldiers that came in and took all the spoils from the Indians.
My mom immigrated from India to America in her adolescence and later was the first in our family to attend college and get a degree. I want to follow in her footsteps and go and get a college education and prove to her that I did not take all the back-breaking hours of work that both my mom and dad put in for granted, and to prove that I am willing to work hard. My parents both came to America with a couple dollars and a dream, and they were able to provide for me with little outside help. I am fortunate for this situation, and many, like me, have not had such lucky childhoods, and this has shaped my aspirations and goals in life. I want to go into the medical field in order to one day help other people. I want to make a living out of helping
Throughout the novel, the theme of revenge, more specifically getting revenge on someone who is dead, can be seen. In the beginning of the story, there is a conversation between Juan and his mother, Dolores, where she says “‘make him pay, son, for all those years that he put us out of his mind’”(3) referring to his father, Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo is referencing the Cry of Dolores, where Father Miguel Hidalgo called the citizens of Dolores, Mexico to take up arms against the ruling Spanish upper class and get revenge for the hundreds of years of Indian oppression and exploitation. In the same way that the Citizens of Dolores were called, Juan is called by his mother, Dolores, to get revenge on Pedro, but the problem is that Pedro has been dead for many
Approximately 69.2% of high school graduates, in October of 2015, were enrolled in colleges or universities. It is reported by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that in the year of 2016 the number of high school graduates enrolling in colleges will increase. Personally, a goal of mine is to enroll into the University of California Los Angeles, specifically UCLA School of Nursing. The career that appeals to me is one involved in caring for children. As a result of my interest, becoming Nurse Practitioner in Pediatrics would be the most desirable. UCLA is finest option in Medical Schooling around my location of interest. It is also the most reasonable for the price with benefitting high class education. In order to achieve this grand goal, one would need to pursue strongly a schedule in advanced academics as well as extra curricular activities to attract attention to the university application. A career in Medicine is one of the best options in occupations. As result of it’s reasonable amount of work in schooling for its tuition, it is practical in job application, finally Medicine is extremely beneficial for future financial income and retirement.
a soldier, and a conquistador, Francisco Pizarro was born in the year of 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. As a soldier, he went on the big, important trip of Vasco Nunez de Balboa in 1513. When he went there, he discovered the Pacific Ocean. Since he wanted to make his own discoveries and his own fortune, Pizarro found a partner named Diego de Almagro. They decided to go to Peru in 1526 and then came back to see if they can claim Spain as theirs. In 1531, their big, important trip (which had Pizarro's three half-brothers) sailed from Panama. The next fall Pizarro went to Cajamarca and took Atahualpa (Inca Leader) hostage. Even though they had paid a ransom to spare his life, Atahualpa was
Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Spain circa 1476. He was assassinated on June 26, 1541 in Lima, Peru by members of an enemy group of conquistadors. Before then, when Pizarro returned to Panama he prepared a quest, but the spanish governor refused back to the scheme. Later on, in 1528, Pizarro sailed back to Spain to ask the support of Emperor Charles V. Hernan Cortes who had just brought the emperor great wealth through his conquest of the Aztec Empire and Charles approved Pizarro’s idea.