Esperanza Y Su Exito Program Analysis

A reluctant look mixed with hints of nervousness and boredom is projected clear as day on the face of 20-year old college student Gabriella Perpetuo. She attends Miami-Dade College and is currently studying Mass Communications with the intention to begin working in Public Relations. At first glance Perpetuo comes off as nonchalant and a bit detached; more focused on what is going on in her own world, or in this case her cellphone. Underneath that is a young woman who has a passion for education and strong family bonds. She and many other young people in today’s world find it challenging to balance school, work, home life, and social interests. Gabriella is a native of Framingham, MA and has lived there for 16 years before she moved to Miami,

Buenrostro emphasized the idea of Latino children being the majority ethnicity population attending K-12th California public schools. Documenting his research process Buenrostro demonstrated many statistics on school enrollment and challenging academic performance that Latino students from grades K-6th are facing. Buenrostro ultimately concludes that the results provided in this factsheet will help school districts and board members take action and come up with an idea on what can be improved in order to help these particular students succeed and obtain necessary resources. Ultimately, this fact sheet represents an important contribution to my research topic because it addresses numerous ideas about the education system in Latino students.

Ernesto Quinonez 's novel is very influential and gives insight into the harsh reality of being a minority in America. Quinonez also speaks on the history of the Latino culture and the life experiences. The fabricated stories based on true events, affected Latinos as well as other nationalities. This book has served its purpose and is speaking to families, friends, wives, husbands, and children on being aware and conscious of the reality that surrounds them. This novel amazed me with the political and historical content surrounding the Latino community, and it is extremely powerful as it shows independence in its own culture. The novel uses its content to bring awareness of Latino ethnic identity, their way of life, and defines social factors from within. (Barajas 2014)

The Hispanic League is a cultural, educational and community-driven non-profit organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for the Hispanic/Latinos through promoting community inclusion, education, health and multicultural understanding. On April 29th, I had the privilege to interview the organization's executive director, Mari Jo Turner. Mari Jo Turner has been part of the Hispanic League for about five years now. Before joining the HL, in 1990, Mrs. Turner was a member of another non-profit organization called, Association for the Benefit of Child Development (ABCD). This organization's main concern targeted the Latino families as well, they found several almost to be mothers did not have prenatal care for their babies due

Un Dia a la Vezis a non-profit agency with a purpose to help immigrants and give them access to medical care, education, and skill development. Many of the immigrants experience lack of knowledge and experience of not living or working with diverse culture background making hard for them to adjust in the United States (Barret, J.A., 2011). The goal of the agency is to improve opportunities and open doors for Latinos/ Immigrants. We believe that advocating, civic engagement, and community-based support are important parts of our community-empowerment goal. Un Dia a la Vez mission is to assist men, women, and children in providing adequate health care, education, and skill development.

Artistic expression empowers the Latino community and gives support for issues of concern to that community. The movie Lupe Under the Sol brings attention to various topics that have not been addressed by mainstream media.

Jugamos con Ninos is a parenting group for Latino mothers at Children Medical Practice within John Hopkins Bayview Hopsital founded by Joshua Barnes a social worker. Barnes created the program a social worker at the Children Medical Practice at Bayview Hospital. His inspiration to build this program at Bayview Hospital was inspire by his colleague Jessica Contreras a community health worker at Bayview Hospital and the founder of the program Jugamos Con Ninos at Casey Family Services. Joshua volunteered to work with Jessica and since has noticed how impactful the program was for new mothers and mothers that don’t understand how important it is to build effective parenting skills. After, observing the influence that the program had on the mothers that attended the meetings he immediately requested that this program should be created at the clinic for the mothers in the Hispanic culture.

United States Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio once stated, “The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised – that in the U.S., a free market system allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.” Every year Hispanics search the regions of Texas in search of this very opportunity to better themselves and especially their youth. One such region is the poverty stricken region that is the Rio Grande Valley. It is a region that has begun to accept its current role as nothing more than a region of widespread poverty and undervalued skill, but there is one man who will not sit idly by and watch as this region and the Hispanics who inhabit it are characterized by benighted stereotypes and filled with cruel insults. There is one man who will work diligently to better the region. That man is Eric Garza. Garza believes, “Future opportunity exists for Hispanics to excel and advance themselves and their families” (Garza). He sees that a disheartened culture has suddenly sprung up and is on the cusp of something greater than what people believe they can achieve. Eric Garza, a prominent figure in the RGV and State of Texas, has been working to better the welfare of Hispanics since he was a teenager, through his work with The Libre Initiative and his various involvements in local and statewide communities.

In a world of social, political, and economical inequality exists different levels of human beings in a hierarchy, where their level of importance is sometimes determined, not by their character, merits, or education but the race they are born into. In the case “Bodega Dreams” by Ernesto Quinonez, race plays a critical role in the social-economic development of the Latino students and a Latino teacher who is different than all his peers. The author,

Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo and Mariela M. Páez. Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997.

A key component to this study has been the involvement and advocacy in the community by the promotoras who work with Revision in Westwood. Promotoras are community members who work to promote civic advancement through the propagation of information to the people of their respective neighborhoods. This arrangement is common in Latino communities and often the role is assumed by women who are respected and active in the improvement of their neighborhoods. Promotoras usually are responsible for sharing specialized information normally not within the territory of their expertise (67). Because of this, education and training for the promotoras is often necessary to help them better understand the content they will be distributing. This model has been very effective for a number of communities. There are many documented case

Since this is my first personal theoretical orientation, I will be placed in the middle with all I have learned to help the Hispanic/Latino culture. I will be using the System’s theory because gives reference to everything else

The Latino and Hispanic population continues to increase at a lower rate every year in the U.S., they account for a large portion of the population. However, it hasn’t change the portrayal of Latinos in the media. Often, the Latino community is shown in a negative light that doesn’t represent the reality of this community. The main goal of this paper is to show and understand how the media portray Latinos and ways to solve the problem.

This paper will be addressing the differences between American and Latino culture. American culture is an individualistic culture in which everyone tries to be unique from one another and more successful. Success in the American culture typically means being wealthy. Americans make decisions based off of their own personal needs unlike Latino culture. Latino culture is based off of collectivism where the family is the most important aspect in their lives. Latinos are more likely to make decisions based off of the best interest of their families not necessarily themselves. The primary language Americans speak is English whereas Latino Americans typically speak Spanish. One thing that both cultures share is the importance of a good education.

In America today, we are faced with several different minority groups arriving to the United States. The most common of all minority groups are the Hispanics. America is known for their language being English, but as the year's approach, that language has faded and a new face in English language has taken over, it's called Spanish. We as the people of America have become controversial over this major change, and due to that major bilingualism and political movements that have occurred from the government to the education departments. In this paper, I am going to talk about the four most common Hispanic groups in our country today and the political, social, linguistic, economic, religious, and familial conventions and/or statuses that they