Essay On Barrio Boy

Nobody fully understands what drives people to undertake a mission, but it often causes people to take many risks. For example, Farah Ahmedi climbed a mountain on a prosthetic leg with a sick mother just to reach freedom. Rikki-Tikki fought for his life to save his family. John Steinbeck eavesdropped on people's conversations just to get material for his book. These stories show different people who had each set a goal for themselves. Ahmedi and Rikki-Tikki fought for their lives to survive and save their loved ones. While Steinbeck traveled to great lengths to write his book. Their goals may be different but they all had set a goal and they all eventually accomplished their goal.

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Many people undertake missions, but why? Most are looking for what they most desire, to prove themselves, to achieve their long lasting dreams and goals, and changing their lives from the difficult to the simple. For example, Farah Ahmedi, went through all of these challenges to reach freedom, Aengus went searching for true love, and Rikki- TIkki Tavi wanted to prove himself and protect his “family”.These characters had different for doing what they did. Ahmedi was determined to survive any circumstances, while Aengus wanted to find the girl to have true love, and Rikki-Tikki wanted to be a true mongoose, killing and eating snakes. However all three were able to go through these obstacles and reach their goals.

A few days later Lovell and his crew take off on the Apollo 13 mission. At first all is well until the second oxygen tank explodes, causing many problems for the crew; the most potent problem being that the crew was losing oxygen fast. Luckily, due to much ingenuity by the crew and mission control, the crew is able to arrive safely to earth without the deaths of any astronauts.

This quote marked the beginning of Enrique’s journey to America. He begins his journey in hopes to reunite with his mother. He started this journey because he was abandoned by his mother as a child. This journey consisted of both physical and mental parts. He grows up and matures at the end of the journey.

Don’t Eat the Bear: A Spanish adventurer named Gaspar De Portola in 1769 passed through a region what is now Santa Barbara. In the near by sand dunes he found a lake where he crossed passed with an “oso flaco”, a skinny bear. They were dying of hunger and ate the skinny bear not knowing it was poisoned.

From January 20 to 23, I went to Santa Fe and San Ildefonso in New Mexico with Dr. Laughlin and my classmates. I was totally surprised by the architecture of the housing and the rich collection of Native American cultures. I expected to see traditional suburbs but instead I found almost everyone has built houses resembling traditional adobe homes which I had never seen. Houses, businesses, government buildings including museums are almost built in this style. The colors seem to blend in with the desert. One of the most exciting events I attended in New Mexico was the museum presentation of the Zuni tribe. Although we actually did not meet the Zuni tribe, we learned a lot about them because Dawn Kaufmann who is a guide at the Museum of

The movie Juarez, starring Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne and Claude Rains, has the perfect story line. There’s action, love, violence and heartbreak, but most importantly, it brings attention to a piece of history that is rarely recognized: monarchs in Mexico.

Beowulf set his ego aside and hurdled into the face of danger in order to defeat a greater evil and liberate the people of Heorot from the demonic grasp of Grendel. The crew aboard the Challenger brought America together and helped us insure the safety of future astronauts. Tom pushed his body to the edge to live the life he dreamed of. Risks are imperative in life. Even beginning life, they are our instinct. We learn to crawl despite the bruises on our knees. We learn to walk no matter how many falls we endure. As we become further aware of the world around us, somewhere along the way, we experience failure; at that point, many people attempt to eradicate most risks from their life. But where would we be without our sense of exploration, our willingness to try new things? In order to push one’s boundaries, move forward as a society, and give purpose to life people must be willing to take risks.

On Sundays after Mass- every single Sunday, Latinos gathered on parks to play soccer and have carne asada something that is very traditional in Mexican families my family could be an example of that. These parks were built with the money taken from the Japanese which speaking of now a day’s use these complexes too and this is where the two cultures met.

The novel Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco takes place in Colorado. Eleven-year-old Jacinta Juarez lives in a small basement apartment with her fourteen-year-old sister, Rosa, and her baby sister Suelita. Jacinta and her sisters live with their father while their mother is in Mexico taking care of the girls’ grandmother. While all three girls were born in the United States, Jacinta continues to feel like home is back in Mexico. Jacinta’s father is busy working two jobs to support his family, so Jacinta and Rosa must take care of their baby sister Suelita.

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Ernesto Galarza is the main character in Barrio Boy. He is a young boy that moved to California as a Mexican immigrant with his family. Ernesto has to adapt to his new life and learn how to speak English. Ernesto’s teacher, Mrs. Ryan, is teaching him how to speak the English language. “They assured us that there was always a person at the school who could speak Spanish.” (Galarza 2) On the first day, Ernesto and his Mom come to the school and walk into principal's office to become registered for school. Ernesto is very frightened about the new principle and wonders whether he should trust her. “I had to decide whether she was a possible friend or a menace.” (Galarza 7) Ernesto finished registering and he was then sent to Mrs. Ryan’s classroom. He was surprised to see that the other kids were also immigrants from

One of the ultimate and famous routes of peregrination in the modern world is the Way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The peregrination to Santiago de Compostela goes back to more than 1000 years ago, with the discovery of the Grave of Santiago the Major. In the place where was discovered the remains of Santiago, the Major has constructed the first cathedral. Later and of gradual form, the city of Compostela and the houses of reception for all the pilgrims emerge along the way to Santiago de Compostela.

At about nine o’clock this explosion caused Oxygen tank number 2 to explode. this explosion lead to some major damage to the spacecraft and the astronauts chances and landing on the moon safely. Lovell looked out the left-hand window and saw that the spacecraft was letting out a gas and so the mission was aborted. The Command Module was losing pressure so they moved to the Landing Module which could be used as a lifeboat and had oxygen to survive. There was a problem however the Landing Module was only made to hold two people and support them for forty-five hours, but the astronauts were in a group of three and needed this to last about ninety hours. Another problem of the Landing Module was the astronauts had to have one-fifth water rations and eventually had to put up with temperature close to freezing. “Removal of carbon dioxide was also a problem, because the square lithium hydroxide canisters from the CM(Command module) were not compatible with the round openings in the LM(Landing Module) environmental system. Mission control built an impromptu adapter out of materials known to be onboard, and the crew successfully copied their model.” Navigation was a problem that could be solved only by the astronauts workings by hand to find the any directions home because the Landing Module did not have a navigation system to get home. They finally swung around the moon and took some pictures and