Frank Lepena's Views On The Benefits Of Oral Traditions

My grandfather Frailan Sendejo’s father Gregorio Sendeja would take him to work in the fields every summer. So, just like his father, my grandfather got married and had my father Enrique Sendejo and worked in the fields every summer just like they did with him. My father said to me “My dad and I went to multiple states like North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.” (Sendejo) It was tough for my father because he never got to go to a full year of school, he had to leave during the school year and then come back late in the next school year. My father told me “Some summers were harder than others because I would go on a bus to another state and work without my parents to pick cucumbers.” (Sendejo) He also said ”I had to walk on my knees all across the fields and back to help support my family, and I would only get paid $40 for the day.” (Sendejo) When he went back to Crystal one year he went to school and met my mother Gina Sendejo. My father was going to have to leave to the fields again, so my mother decided to go with him. Though, after a few years they decided to stop migrating up North to focus on their careers and family. I never realized how difficult it was for my father to get to be the person he is today, but I’m glad that he and my mother brought me to where I am today, so I can continue to share their

If your setting work well as a team, you will enjoy your work more and work more effectively – and the children will benefit. Then it can have a positive impact on children’s and young peoples:

She wants the audience to know right away that even though she is about to tell you the story of a difficult childhood, she did reach her goal in the end. After making this statement, Tan dives into her past and how she came to be where she is today. Her mother is the next most important point of discussion. Her mother influenced her writing style as well as her beliefs about her culture and heritage. ?Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her? (Tan, 2002, p. 36). The broken up English her mother uses is the next issue Tan focuses on. ??everything is limited, including people?s perceptions of the limited English speaker? (Tan, 2002, p. 36). Lastly, she talks about her education and the role it had on her deciding what she wanted to do with her life. ?Fortunately, I happen to be rebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions made about me? (Tan, 2002, p. 39). By structuring the essay in order of importance, Tan reinforces her message that you can be anything you desire even with a different culture than the norm.

For example, the first chapters of the memoir are predominately about Grande and her siblings’ experience living with their Abuelita Evila in Mexico. Numerous times throughout these stories, the children were grieving and felt abandoned by their parents, and their grandmother held great resentment towards them. A consequence of this was the siblings losing a part of their childhood, and forced to become adults at a young age. When looking at these accounts, it is important to view this story through the lens of American culture. Grande details her living situations, a house with no running water, scorpions in the room, and only a mattress to share amongst the three siblings. This was in the 1980’s, and in the United States, houses without basic amenities were mostly unheard of. This enforces the appeal to the audience’s pathos and aids them to understand why some people are so willing the make the journey to the United States. (Grande 14, 61)

I sat down to interview my father, soon to find out how intrigued I was about my dad’s stories. It was late at night, about 7:00 PM. I had asked my dad if I could interview him, and he excitedly accepted.

MU 2.9 1.1 Explain why working in partnership with others is important for children and young people

If people worked together there would be better outcomes. For example, Mattie and Eliza walked around the city helping others that had the fever. They were working together and there was a better outcome. People who were sick got taken care of when they were forgotten by others. The outcome was also better for Mattie as she matured and helped Eliza when she didn’t need to. “No… I’m not going anywhere. The work will go faster if you have me there.” Mattie says. (pg. 196) Mattie was helping the sick and the dying and both people had a better outcome. Therefore, when people work together there are better outcomes for everyone. Certainly it could be said that when people work together there are worst outcomes. While this is a good point… it fails to account for the fact that

It was a wonderful eye-opening experience to interview Carmen Anton, a Spanish immigrant for this project. I learned so many things about how she arrived in American as a small child with only her sister by her side and her strive to become American. The emotional struggles of Carmen and her sister, Elena, were real and I didn’t realize it was that emotionally draining to come to a new country. Her experience showed me how hard it is to fit into a new society knowing absolutely nothing about the world she was dropped into. The fact that she flew here with her younger sister and then live for three months without her parents to guide her in this unfamiliar setting, shows me how strong and brave Carmen was at the young age of eight. When she first came, she assumed it would be like

My grandmother Lynne Murphy is who I chose to interview for my heritage project. This summer at a family birthday party I was speaking short phrases in Spanish while joking around with my dad. My grandmother, sitting beside us, joined in the conversation and starting speaking fluent Spanish. I had no idea she could speak Spanish, so I asked her, “How can you speak Spanish?” Before answering my question she laughed. She went on to tell me that she lived in South America for many years as a teenager. I didn’t have the chance to learn anymore about her childhood until this project was assigned. When I learned we were to focus on a family member’s experience growing up, I immediately thought about my grandmother and the interesting life she seemed

Immigration is a heavy topic to address, but the authors of these articles have a way of putting a human face to these stories that help make the article more personal and understandable. In the article “In Trek North, First Lure Is Mexico’s Other Line,” the author talks about the story of an immigrant woman who lost her leg while on her way to America. The author begins to explain that the immigrant woman was trying to find work in America so she could support her four year old daughter back home. Archibold, author of “In Trek North, First Lure Is Mexico’s Other Line,” says, “[the woman] made it to Mexico and onto the train. But after it departed there were cries of “Migra!” — the immigration police — and a scramble that sent her tumbling under the train,” (Archibold 36.) The woman lost her leg, but all she could think about was staying alive for her four year old daughter. This story that archibold plants in the reader’s mind lets the reader understand the reason for why immigrants are so resilient into coming to America. The author for “The Heartache of an Immigrant Family” did the same thing as archibold. Sonia Nazario, author of “The Heartache of an Immigrant Family,” began to tell the story of Lourdes and her children. Sonia explains that, “Lourdes Pineda was the single mother of a 5-year-old

The individual I interviewed was my coworker Andrena’s adopted daughter Ann. Ann came to live with Andrena when she was 8 years old. The reason Anna came to live with Andrena was due to experiencing multiple natural disasters while living in Haiti which caused her to have an unstable living environment. The last event that Ann experienced prior to moving to the US was a flood in Haiti in 2008. Ann stated she was just six years old when the flood happened. The flood was caused after several days of torrential rain. It is reported that the rain left up to hundreds people dead. At the time of this disaster Ann was living with her biological parents and two aunts. Ann refers to her biological parents as her Grandparents since Andrena and her husband adopted her. Andrena’s husband is actually Ann’s biological brother, but she now refers to him as her father and Andrena as her mother.

How can immigrating to a new country affect a person's identity and the way they see themself? The novel How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, written by Julia Alvarez, takes place in both America and the Dominican Republic. It tells the story of a family with four daughters immigrating to America from the Dominican Republic. The story is told backwards starting with the four girls during their adult years, and as the story goes on it goes back to their childhood years. With the story being told that way, as the story progresses the reader gets to see how the girls grew up to become the sisters at the beginning of the novel. The second youngest sister of the four, Yolanda, has been affected by the immigration to America in multiple ways.

When reading through the different perspectives in Cristina Henriquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans, each perspective provides a different sense of emotion as each individual travels to the United States in search of the American dream. In Alma, Arturo, and Maribel’s case, the family travels in search of more adequate health care and better school systems to suit Maribel’s needs after her accident. By taking in their perspectives, it is nearly impossible not to root for their characters. Although immigration is such a pressing and more challenging topic to debate in the United States, the book raises the question of, “Wouldn’t you do the same for your family?” There are a numerous amount of influences in making this decision that tell what we should and should not believe when addressing this issue including family, friends, the media, politics, etc. With these influences, it is difficult to make an unbiased decision.

The authors of the four memoirs overcame their childhood obstacles by reconnecting with their parents. Gary Soto overcame his problem of not wanting to work in the fields by reconnecting with his mother. Laurence Yep reconnected with his father and found out that he loves him for who he is which helped him change his perspective that his dad didn’t like him. When Barack Obama’s father came to visit he reconnected with him and his fatherly love resolved Barack’s problem of not having friends in school. The cause of Julia Alvarez’s parents sending her and her siblings to an American school reconnected herself with them and fixed her issue of living in a dangerous country. Authors of memoirs describe overcoming obstacles to teach readers

Some may say that without a written language, literature cannot exist. However, to deny the oral traditions and songs of cultures prior to the existence of their written languages would deny the world some of the earliest literature of humankind. Whether passed down through oral or written means, literature consists of all stories, songs, and poetry every generation loves, inspires, and passes on.