Gonzalez: A Tragic Hero

August 2013, My uncle Juther Alfredo Perez was brutally murdered. He was 28 years old. He had two kids, a girlfriend and always cared for his family and friends. He was 6’8 with a lot of mouth. He started a gang in The Bronx, the Young Gunnas or Yg’z. Yes, his gang sold drugs and yes, his gang killed people. Around 2012, he started rapping and making music videos and attracted plenty of attention.

CNN journalist, John Blake, takes interest in a book written by Laurence Gonzales about why certain people survive while others do not. In Miraculous Survivors, Laurence Gonzales points out, that people with these certain traits are more likely to survive, than people who do not have those certain traits. One of the first traits Gonzales mentions is, survivors do not declare themselves as victims. He explains that survivors do not feel helpless with in complicated situations. They do not expect someone else to rescue them. Gonzales notes, “These are people who tend to have a view of the world that doesn't paint them as a victim . . . They’re not whiners”. They figure out a way to get out or fix this complicated situation on their

“Barrio Boy” by Ernesto Garza tells the story of a young boy emigrating from Mexico to the United States. In the beginning, of the story Ernesto is very nervous because he feels different. When he gets to the school he see’s the many different nationalities and cultures. He discovers the the school “roasted racial hatreds out of us”. Miss Ryan helped coach Ernesto out of his phonetic ruts in words like pasture, which to his Mexican ear had so many unnecessary sounds and letters. He learns how to conquer the language and become a “good american”. In the end Ernesto becomes very confident and welcomed at his new school and country.

The art of Fernando Botero is widely known, revered, paraphrased, imitated and copied, For many, his characteristic rounded, sensuous forms of the human figure, animals, still lifes and landscapes represent the most easily identifiable examples of the modern art of Latin America. For others, he is a cultural hero.To travel with Botero in his native Colombia is to come to realize that he is often seen less as an artist and more as a popular cult figure. In his native Medellín he is mobbed by people wanting to see him, touch him or have him sign his name to whatever substance they happen to be carrying. On the other hand, Botero's work has been discredited by those theorists of modern art whose tastes are dictated more

What I feel about Jose Angel’s presentation is that he was brave to share his story that is a common issue to face in America. This was nice book to be written and how many obstacles does he go through. The tenor of the presentation showed that it is right to step up to say your story. Even though he is still undocumented, he is still able to step up and show to the world that it takes effort to achieve one dream. He did not start off easy and had many challenges to face as well as receiving opportunities. His book has been written from diverse backgrounds, which makes the tone different because it was written from several locations, and how he was feeling at that time.

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The medal of honor recipient that I am writing about is Henry Johnson. His military rank was private and his service was in World War I in the U.S. Army. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia and received his Medal of Honor in 1918. In the army, Johnson risked his life beyond the call of duty. He served as a member of Company C, the 369th Infantry Regiment, the 93d Infantry Division, and the American Expeditionary Forces. On May 15, 1918, he did combat operations against the enemy on the front of the lines of the Western Front in France. Private Johnson and some other soldiers one day woke up early in the morning to go on sentry duty at the forward outpost then they received surprise attacks from at least twelve German soldiers. When Johnson

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Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales was born December 16 1945 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Gonzales was a Mexican boxer and former WBC Lightweight Champion also known as El Gato.

Douglas MacArthur was a US soldier, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. The son of a Union army hero during the Civil War (they are the only father and son to win the Congressional Medal of Honor) and a mother ambitious for his success, he trained at West Point (1903), rose steadily in the army, and demonstrated his bravado on a secret mission to Mexico (1914). In World War 1 he commanded a brigade in combat in France (1918), where he earned a reputation for bravery (wounded three times) as well as foppery - he carried a muffler and a riding crop into the line, but not a helmet or a gas mask. After serving as the superintendent of West Point (1919–22), he completed his second tour of duty in the Philippines.

During that summer he took many different back strengthening exercises, and in September he was accepted by the Navy. In March 1943, as a lieutenant he took command of a PT (torpedo) boat in the Solomon Islands. On the night of August 2, his boat was cruising west of New Georgia it was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He rallied the survivors and managed to get them to an island after being thrown across the deck onto his back. He then towed a wounded man three miles through a rough journey through different seas. He was a very brave man, for several days he risked his life repeatedly, swimming into dangerous waters hoping to find a rescue ship. He finally met up with two friendly islanders and sent them for aid with a message that he carved on a coconut. Back home he received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, and the Purple Heart, but his earlier back injury had been aggravated, and unfortunately he contracted malaria. After an operation on his back, he was discharged early in 1945.

In The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez, Panchito does not like being a migrant worker for two specific reasons. One reason is that doesn’t like the back-breaking work. The text states, ”The next morning I could hardly move. My body ached all over. I felt little control over my arms and legs.

After watching Raising Victor Vargas, I could not help but reflect on my own personal experiences. Growing up as a female is quite different than growing up as a male. Both experiences are unique and come with there own array of problems and perks. The film Raising Victor Vargas, does an excellent job portraying how men and women act based on the cultural contexts they are raised in. I do not believe that human behavior is gendered-specific. I believe human behavior is influenced by a number of things, internal factors, external factors, and cultural factors. Throughout the film, it is apparent that boys and girls seek the same thing but they differentiate in which they go about acquiring those things.

Carlos Fuentes author of The Death of Artemio Cruz has used his novel to show how Mexico has been transformed and molded into its present state through the use of his character Artemio Cruz. Fuentes uses Cruz to bring together a historical truth about the greedy capital seekers, robber barons, if you will, who after the revolution brought Mexico directly back to into the situation it was in before and during the Revolution. Fuentes wrote the novel in nineteen sixty-two, shortly after the Cuban Revolution. Fuentes is able to express his disappointment from the Mexican Revolution, the revolution by the people in his native land. The revolution seemed to change nothing for the average person in Mexico; the

Who was Carlos Fuentes? Carlos Fuentes was one of the most recognized Mexican writers. Fuentes most distinguished by his talent of writing about countries, for his strength, passion of writing, and for the great person he was. Fuentes left a legend in the Mexican and Latin children. His father Rafael Fuentes Boettiger and mother Bertha Macias Rivas. Fuentes father was a Mexican diplomat and Representative of Mexico. His father became the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D. C. Between the inauguration of Citizen Roosevelt in 1930s (Carlos Fuentes 4). During Fuentes childhood he had travel all over the job his father had including “Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; and Quito,