George Lopez

Jenni Rivera was born to undocumented Mexican immigrants in Long Beach where she was also raised.

Gary Soto was born April 12, 1952, in Fresno, California to Mexican-American parents. His grandparents emigrated from Mexico during the Great Depression and found jobs as farm laborers. Soto grew up poor in the San Joaquin Valley and learned that hard work pays off through chores, such as moving lawns, picking grapes, painting houses, and washing cars.

He grew up in Bridgeport, Chicago and lived his whole

George was the third of four children. He has a brother and two sisters. His mother was from Peru and has some African ancestry through her grandfather. His dad is of German decent and was a career military officer. He served 22 years in the military and has been working for the Department of Defense for the last 10 years.

The movie began when a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez met a homeless man playing the violin beautifully on the streets. Intrigued by the performance that he had just witnessed, Steve approached the man asking him for his name. The homeless man introduced himself as Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Jr. By now, it is apparent that Nathaniel was suffering from a mental disorder manifested by the disassociation of his thoughts and non coherent choice of words. While asking several more questions, Steve discovered that Nathaniel was once student at Juilliard.

George Lopez is an Actor/Comedian, born on April 23, 1961 in Mission Hills, California. He became a highly successful comedian by find the humor in the traumatic experiences he faced during his childhood and life. He also found humor out of his experiences in the Mexican-American community. Through his hard work and perseverance he has become able to be renowned as one of the top comedians. Some of the traumas he encountered as a child was the fact that his mother and him were abandoned by his father when he was 2 which then led to his mother abandoning him at the age of 10, so he was raised by a grandmother who paid him little attention.

I think in the Latino community, nearly anybody knows journalist Jorge Ramos, who is the Univision news anchor. Ramos is not an activist, yet he is pro-immigrant and in the past years, he has spoken for the people whose voices are not heard: undocumented.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, born January 16th, 1980 in New York. Growing up in New York he had a chance every summer to visit his grandparents in Puerto Rico, which he is mostly of Puerto Rican descent. Also growing up he created jingles including one for a gubernatorial campaign in 2006. Then in college at Wesleyan University Lin co-founded a hip hop

On january 16, 1980, Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in Manhattan, New York to his lovely parents Luz Towns-Miranda and Luis A.Miranda jr. Growing up him and his sister, Luz Mirnada-Crespo, took piano lessons together, inspired by their parents. Both of his parents were born in puerto rico and happily married. His father was also a political advisor for a living. He went to exposed to different types of genres while growing up. While growing up he went to hunter college elementary and high school. He performed in the students performances in this preteen and teenage stage.

Kanye West was born on June 8th, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia to his mother Donda West, and his father Ray West (Kanye West Biography). When Kanye West was just three years old his mother and father divorced, and after that his mother raised him on the South Shore of Chicago (Kanye West Biography). Kanye’s fascination with music started when he was just five years old when began to write poetry (Chicago Tribune). Then in the 3rd grade he started rapping and in 7th grade he started selling his mixtapes to people that he knew (MTV). Though at the age of ten his mother and him left Chicago, Illinois for Nanjing, China in order for his mom Donda to pursue a teaching opportunity (Byng). Though this stent in China only lasted a year in which after it they moved back to Chicago. After they were back in Chicago, at the age of

George Lopez, one name almost everyone has heard. Whether you’ve heard of his comedy, his films, or his T.V show, you know who he is. Mr. Lopez was born in Mission Hills, California on April 23, 1961; this makes him 56 years old. Lopez has Sandra Bullock to thank for his acting career. She discovered him and approached him to star on a Latino- based TV series she wanted to produce.

Currently, Mr. Wilmore has been standing behind his stand-up, speaking out in a recent interview, “I don't know if I would take it back.” Larry Wilmore is not the first comedian recently to bring racial jokes to his act. Recently, Chris Rock at the Oscars had a

As Frank Sinatra grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was a classic representation of an average Italian American. He was the child of two Italian American immigrants, was Roman Catholic, but unlike others, he was particularly interested in singing, and he was good at it. Sinatra started off performing at family get togethers with his ukulele and before everyone knew it he was a great American singer, actor, and producer.

I would categorize this movie as a Gangster Film, simply because of the setting, dialogue, and language. For example, the movie starts off with G-money shooting a basketball, making the basketball, then collecting money from others at the court who doubted he will make it. Nino brown, then pulls up and g-money hops in the car and soon they are talking about crack. After just 5 mins into the movie you learn it’s a gangster film. Another example is the way they talked in the movie and the things they told at the moments they said them, for example, in the mid of the movie Nino brown “girlfriend” said she seen him kill too many people and she couldn’t take it no more, Nino didn’t have no remorse nor did he care he poured the liquor over her and

Born on June 3rd, 1926, Allen Ginsberg grew up in the city of Patterson with his mother and father. He kept a journal in his teen years and loved the poetry of Walt Whitman during high school and attended Columbia University after his high school years. In 1954 Ginsberg moved