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Melanie Adele Martinez is an American singer, songwriter, and photographer of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent. She was a member of Team Adam in the third season of the American television vocal talent show The Voice. On April 22, 2014, she released the lead single "Dollhouse", from her debut EP Dollhouse. On August 14, 2015, Martinez's debut album titled Cry Baby will be released with lead single "Pity Party".

Selena was born in Lake Jackson Texas to Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcella Ofelia Samora on 4-16-1971, and was the youngest child of 3 including her. When she was 6 years old her father realized her musical abilities and later on told People Magazine “Her Timing and Pitch were perfect I knew it from day one.” In 1980 in Lake Jackson, her dad opened his first Tex-Mex Restaurant, where Selena and her siblings would perform at only the age of 9.

10-Ella Baker was born on December 13,1903 in Norfolk,Virgina. Baker`s grandmother is what inspired her to become who she became. Her grandmother was a slave. She recieved lashes for not wanting to marry a man her slaveowner chose for her. She was a very educated woman graduating from Shaw university as class valedictorian in 1927. AFter college,she moved to new york city where she founded the young negros cooperative league. Sometime in 1940,she bacame a NAACP field secretary untill 1946 where she bacame a national director of branches. Felling like her position required her to travel to much,she eventually left her position. She stayed in new york and worked for a number of new york orgizinations including the New york urban league. Through

Valeria Hernandez was born May 9th, 1999 in Fort Collins, Colorado. After six weeks of her birth, her family decided to move back home to Temosachic, Chihuahua MX. After two years of being there, they returned to Fort Collins. By this time, she was fluent in Spanish and beginning her life in the United States. Going into classes for preschoolers she began to understand the difficulties that lay ahead. During the first few months of her education, it was difficult being social by having a translator help her around in this new institution. After a few weeks, she learned enough English to understand directions on her own and to enjoy playtime with her new friends. Then came elementary school; attending a bilingual institution, for English and

Born on March 4, 1998, Ivanna Michelle Meza Nuno migrated from her native Mexico to the USA at the age of 9 years old. Although Ivanna and her family had a financially stable life, they migrated to the USA escaping house abuse. The obstacles that she has faced in her short life have made of Ivanna the young lady that she is right now. The experiences that she has gone through have shaped her life and defined the person that she is going to be one day. Her life hasn’t been the best or the worse life there could be, but it sure hasn’t affected her with her personality since she is a person that loves life and is a heck of a friend from what I can say.

Jenni Pulos is an Emmy-nominated television producer who was born on January 3, 1973, in Oregon being a Capricorn. She earned her fame through her role on Bravo’s hit show, Flipping Out which came out around the year 2007. The show also has a spinoff named “Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis” which came on 2012 and she was an assistant of Jeff Lewis for the show. She is a Greek-American. She is a multi-talented person and she is also a writer, a rapper, a comedienne and was also in sports. As a writer, her work can be seen in her book ‘Grin and Bear It: How to Be Happy No Matter What Reality Throws Your Way’ which was published in March 2014.

As a student of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and as a regular visitor of the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, I would like you to take in consideration, for future exhibitions, the work of a very talented Cuban artist, Laura Luna del Campillo, who is known as one of the most influential fine artist in Miami.

I am Alejandra Gomez and I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. My hobbies include camping, hiking, swimming and cooking in my spare time. I am a first generation Mexican-American. I identify strongly with my Mexican culture which is centered around family, food and music. My parents have been my biggest inspiration and motivators for accomplishing my career and educational goals. Even when I was completely uninspired, they were confident in my potential and I will forever be grateful to them for giving me everything that their parents could not offer them. As for what makes me, “me,” I would describe my personality as ambiguous. I can be candid but sarcastic, detail-oriented but messy, and unwavering but easy-going. For all of my contradictions, I have been told that it is difficult to get to know me, but one quality that I always try to maintain is to be

Born April 4, 1928, in Saint Louis Missouri throughout her life, Angelou defied several obstacles placed in her path by social norms. Angelou had a trying childhood. Her parents divorced when she was very young, and she and her older brother were sent to live with their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. During a visit with her mother, Angelou's mother's boyfriend raped her. Her uncles then killed the boyfriend, traumatizing Angelou. After her mother's boyfriend raped her and turned up dead a few days later, Angelou withdrew and chose to stay mute for five years. However,after much encouragement from her grandmother, who introduced her to literature, she gradually emerged as an artist. In 1944, Angelou gave birth to a son, Guy , at

Julia Child is the oldest out of three kids. She was very tall, which comes in handy when she plays basketball. Just like Julia’s mother Julia decided to go to Smith, an all women's college in the east. After a couple of years she moves back to California and her mom dies. Julia had many jobs before becoming interested in baking, for example she took a job at a new west coast Fashion magazine, or when she worked for the OSS spy agency. At the OSS Julia likes all of her coworkers especially a man named Paul Child, Paul is ten years older than Julia. Paul and Julia both get transferred to China coincidentally, where they like to try new restaurants together. When Julia and Paul go back to the usa, they get married. After they get married they

Selena Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, in a poor family whose parents divorced when she was five years old. Selena and her mother called Mandy Teefey struggled to survive in poverty. Selena said “I was frustrated that my parents weren’t together because my mother had to do 3 jobs to support me “. Her mother is an inspiration to all of us because she tried to raise her by herself in poverty with all of her affords. Sometimes they even struggled for food and they often got stuck in the traffic because they did not have money to pay the gas. Her mother saved money to take her to museums, oceanarium and concerts.

Good afternoon, everyone. I am …from…, I am going to talk about Sylvia Rivera, who was a transgender activist. My presentation will be divided into four parts, first introduction of Rivera’s early life, and then what she wanted, how she fought for it, did she get it. About Ray Rivera’s early life, he was born and raised in New York City in 1951, when Rivera was only three years old, he was abandoned by his father and became an orphan after his mother committed suicide. Rivera was then raised by his grandmother, who disapproved of his effeminate behavior, especially when Rivera began to makeup.

“Yolanda ... 185.” Those were the last words that Selena said before she died, telling who shot her and where. After researching Selena Quintanilla, Yolanda Saldívar, and the motive of the assassination, it is clear that Selena’s death had a massive impact on her fans.

María Álvarez, a 17-year-old Colombian girl (played by Catalina Sandino Moreno), works in sweat shop-like conditions at a flower plantation to help support her family. However, after finding herself pregnant by her boyfriend, whom she does not love, and being unjustly treated by her boss, she quits and decides to find another job, despite her family's disapproval. On her way to Bogotá to find a new job, she gets offered a position as a mule (one who smuggles drugs by swallowing drug-filled pellets). Desperate, she accepts the risky offer and swallows 62 wrapped pellets of cocaine and flies to New York City. After a close call at the US Customs (she was about to be X-rayed, until customs found out she was pregnant), she is set free and sent

Juanita Craft was born in Round Rock, Texas. She was an activist and politician. Craft received many awards through her years of hard work. Born in 1902, Craft went through the struggles of segregation and racial discrimination.