Corina Victoria Alegeria Biography

In addition to tutoring and mentoring the children in the community, Jacelyn also holds the position as Volunteer and Outreach Coordination, requiring her recruit, organize, and oversee student volunteers in the project. In addition, due to financial constraints in her family, Jacelyn also has an off-campus job that requires her to work many late nights and weekends. This ability to manage two jobs, a research assistant position, and consistent participation in community service while maintaining her exceptional GPA at an academically rigorous institution like UCLA demonstrates her admirable character, work ethic, and time management, valuable skills found in few students.

Barbara Corcoran was born March Tenth, nineteen forty nine in Edgewater New Jersey. She has ten other siblings. Barbara Corcoran made straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty three. She graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College in nineteen seventy one with a degree in education. After Barbara graduated she taught school for one year. In nineteen seventy three she opened her own real estate business with one thousand dollars borrowed from her boyfriend called the Corcoran Group and soon after published the Corcoran Report. Barbara held various real estate jobs in New York . She had no experience in real estate but refused to work under anyone else’s oath. She didn’t really care what it was she just wanted

Living in Mexico throughout her teen years was very rough. Unlike other teenagers where their parents constantly provide for their children, Marisela’s life was a lot different than the usual parent- child relationship. She lived with her Abuela ( Grandma) Lupe, along with her 3 brothers and sister. She constantly had to take care of her brothers and sister at such a young age, that she became the mother-like figure of the

Cornelia Ten Boom, known as Corrie, was born April fifteenth, 1892 in Haarlem, Netherlands. She lived with her father, Caspar, her older siblings, Betsie, Nollie and Willem and her three aunts. Her whole family was part of the Dutch Reform Church and was very religious and part of that was helping out the community. No matter how hard times were for the Ten Booms they always gave food to the poor. Corrie’s

Martha P. Cotera’s life started when in Chihuahua, Mexico with her father Juan Piña and her mother Altagracia Castaños (Revolvy). Her parents had a total of four children including Cotera. She and her mother immigrated to El Paso, Texas in 1946 and she was educated in the El Paso Public Schools (Revolvy).

In the last four years, she has volunteered at various community events including, Relay for Life, Texas A&M Lil’ Anglers fishing tournament, George puls scholarship tournament, numerous beach cleanups, Loaves and Fishes Thanksgiving Dinner, Vacation Bible School at First Baptist church, and the Coastal bend walk & roll celebration. She is now employed at the Aleman Allstate Agency. Camryn would like to follow in the footsteps of her mother and uncle and attend Texas A&M University and become a member of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie class of 2022! At Texas A&M she will major in Psychology to later become an occupational therapist. Her desire is to help those in need while also giving back to the community. Camryn would like to thank her parents for all of their love and support, her dance instructor for all the help she has provided, and LULAC Council No. 1 for this opportunity to grow and learn how to be a leader. Finally, she would like to thank her Sponsors for their support during this time. She wishes the best of luck to all the contestants

Ochoa began as a young girl living in Kenner, LA from a low socioeconomic family. As the daughter of two Honduran immigrants, Dr. Ochoa learned from an early age the value of hard work, the importance of family, and especially the value of an education. Dr. Ochoa credits much of her success to her family for their support and guidance throughout her

Although Rigoberta lived in a traditional Indian society, she learned about the world outside of the fincas and the Altiplano at a very young age. She experiences the death of her younger brother at the finca. She feels angry and afraid of what her future holds for her as an indigenous girl. Rigoberta again feels scared, yet compelled, after her first trip to Guatemala City with her father. She starts to crave change for both herself and for her community as she gets older. She yearns for an education and hopes to learn Spanish so that she may explore the world outside of the Altiplano and the fincas; she desires to learn about the world outside and its people.

CaSandra is an extremely active, outgoing and family focused individual. She enjoys spending time with her biological and adoptive children as well as her extended family. CaSandra has two biological sons and two biological daughters. Dennis is 29 years old, Denzel is 22 years old, Carlondra is 21 years old, and Derrisetta is 20 years old. CaSandra her children's father co-parented together to raise their four children. CaSandra also has an adoptive daughter, an adoptive son and a custodial child. Loyalty is 15 years old, Morris is 12 years old and Jamiyah is 8 years old. In raising all of her children, CaSandra utilizes loss of privileges, restrictions, and natural consequences as forms of

Corwin is married to Natasha, who's working on a Ph.D. in comparative literature. They're expecting a baby in July.

Contreras-Sweet is a Mexican immigrant. She came to the United States at the age of five years old, with her family.

Maria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos Argentina. She was the youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress Juana Ibarguen. Eva had a difficult childhood, her father had his own wife and children, and he gave Juana’s Ibarguen children his last name and would visit them once in a while. When Eva was seven her father died living them in very poor conditions, all the family, her mother and the five children lived in a tiny one room and in order to pay the rent and have something to eat Eva’s mother her sisters and herself had to work as cook’s for a rich and powerful family in Los Toldos. It was then that Eva got her fist close look at the very wealthy families who controlled Argentina. Eva would recall her

Carmen is a thirty-year old Mexican woman who is married to Oscar and a mother of two children, an eight year old son and a four year old. Her husband Oscar has been in prison for the past two years for physical violence and alcohol abuse. Carmen has communicated with Oscar during his time in prison. She has also allowed her oldest son to visit his father. Carmen has adjusted to life without Oscar seemingly well. She has learned new skills and became self-sufficient as a single parent. She has strong support system of family and friends. Her independence and all that she had accomplished as a single mother has improved her self-worth.

Anastasia, Czarina or Fake? / Leslie McGuire Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1989, 96 pages This is a book about the mystery of Anastasia Czarina and what happened to her and her family. I am going to talk about the different opinions of people and my overall opinion of the book.