Interview With Terry Ramos And George Vargas

There are millions of undocumented immigrants living here in America. Jose Antonio Vargas is one of them. Because Vargas’s family sent him here at age 12 with fake documents, there is nothing he can do about his illegal status if he wants to stay. After finding out his papers were fake, he has looked for a path to citizenship but has found no viable solution. My evaluation is while he is not legally an American, he pays taxes, grew up in the School System, and has completely immersed himself into our culture with a love for the country. By definition, then, he is an American.

In the collection of vignettes, The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops the theme that people should not be devalued because of their financial circumstances through metaphors of classism, the motif of shame, and the contrast between minor characters Alicia and Esperanza’s mother. Esperanza, the protagonist, is a Mexican-American adolescent living in the rural Chicago region. She occupies a house on Mango Street with her father, mother, two brothers, Carlos and Kiki, and little sister, Nenny. Mango Street is filled with low-income families, like Esperanza’s, trying to adapt to their difficult circumstances. Esperanza realizes it is difficult, but she dreams of leaving her house and Mango Street altogether.

Our families are the people we grew up around, whether they are our blood relatives or not. They are the people that make you who you are, though they might not always be around. In the story “House on Mango Street, Esperanza's family plays a huge role in shaping her identity. Throughout the story we are shown how her family, community, culture, and gender impacted her character and actions. In her community, there are Hispanic minorities and people who have lived more unfortunate lives. In fact, her family is a part of this group. Not only are people prejudiced against because of their culture, but the women face sexism from both outsiders and people in their community. Although our identities are influenced by a multitude of factors, the family we are surrounded by in our adolescence end up shaping our identities the most.

In “The House on Mango Street”, the young daughter desires to leave her neighborhood as a way to escape her Mexican-American culture. One of the cultures which are most powerful in this story is the Hispanic culture that Esperanza and all of her neighbors emerge from. Her Hispanic culture has such a powerful influence on her

Judith Ortiz Cofer a Latin American author of short stories, poetry, autobiography, young adult fiction, and essays, as a young child migrated to Mainland America from Puerto Rico with her family, moving into an apartment complex with other people of Latin descent. Although, she spent most of her years in the Continental U.S. her writings are reflective of the strong latin heritage that her mother undoubtedly instilled in her from a young age. This is clear in her short story “Nada” where the narrator makes references to the hispanic community that live at an apartment complex in New Jersey. Cofer’s style of writing and experiences in her life are brought out in this story as well as many more of her writings. She includes some Spanish words throughout the story and ideals of the hispanic culture.

In the book The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros presents a series of vignettes that involve a young girl, named Esperanza, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza Cordero is searching for a release from the low expectations and restrictions that Latino society often imposes on its young women. Cisneros draws on her own background to supply the reader with accurate views of Latino society today. In particular, Cisneros provides the chapters “Boys and Girls” and “Beautiful and Cruel” to portray Esperanza’s stages of growth from a questioning and curious girl to an independent woman. Altogether, “Boys and Girls” is not like “Beautiful and Cruel” because Cisneros reveals two different maturity levels in Esperanza;

On Sunday October 23rd at midday I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Marie Hobart from Community Healthlink. For over twenty-four years Dr. Marie Hobart has been an employee of Community Healthlink as a psychiatrist and for the last ten to twelve years as the Chief Medical Officer of CHL. She is also an employee of UMasss Memorial Healthcare, and a clinical associate professor of psychiatry. Dr. Hobart 's work with CHL focuses on "people with serious and persistent illness, developmental disabilities, and addiction" and her goal in addition to helping patients one-on-one is to help create "a system of care for people who are traditionally not able to access care in other ways" (Hobart). Dr. Hobart explained that she always wanted to work in health, and "working with people in the community" leading her to become a public psychiatrist in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. As Dr. Hobart works in the Worcester public health sector as both a practicing physician and an administrator, her dual roles create a unique position as an agent of direct community support and an advocate for changes to the public medical system. Dr. Hobart is a medically focused community organizer and her work is most easily tied to the Women-Centered model of community development (Stall, Stoecker; 202). Her desire to see greater connections between medical assistance and social aid, as well as, her work that recognizes the social factors that lead to health problems illustrates how she is an

Sandra Cisneros is a latina born in Chicago in 1954. She is the only daughter out of seven of her siblings. She worked as a teacher and counselor to high-school dropouts, as an artist-in-the-schools where she taught creative writing at every level except first grade and pre-school, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and as a visiting writer at a number of universities including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. When she began writing books it was soon translated into many languages such as Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian and many more. She is very proud of her family. Her grandfather even played piano for the mexican president. She is know mostly for her famous book, ‘The House on Mango Street’. The book was based off her neighborhood that she grew up In Chicago. In 1995,

Sandra Cisneros’s House on Mango Street is a novella that explains a young Mexican-American girl’s journey through physical and emotional maturity. Cisneros’s most prominent stories of have

It is important that laws be enacted that help the impoverished, the unemployed, and the uninsured, and those who have limited income and resources. There are many laws, policies, and programs enacted to eliminate health disparities faced by people in regards to age, race, religion, disabilities, and economic status. This discussion post will explore the federal and state programs of Medicare and Medicaid respectively and how it helps and is improving the delivery of culturally competent care to the groups of people within our nation.

Politics and government intervention has come to represent an increasing influence within Human Services. Our culture has since its beginning valued determination, and the ability of the individual to direct, and build their own future. For the extremely poor, elderly, physically, and mentally ill the task of providing for themselves becomes impossible. The history, and influence of government on human services within our own culture has often been met with controversy. Beginning with the New deal in the 30’s, with the creation of social security and the social welfare system; to today’s newest program involving the forcefully implemented affordable care act. The reliance on government funded welfare for many of the poorest is a necessity.

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.

Fred Lee's conviction is that any social insurance group can discover its approach to enormity on the off chance that it has the enthusiasm and capability to do as such. On the off chance that Disney Ran Your Hospital portrays how Disney outlines and prepares around individual client needs and needs, and how those standards can be connected in a doctor's facility setting. The book highlights the contrasts between the way of life of most human services associations and Disney. Lee spotlights on standards proposed to enhance quiet recognitions and fulfillment with doctor's facility administrations. At Disney, workers and administration take a wide perspective of the opposition.

The Case of Dr. Breeze and the San Marcos Community Mental Health Center started when Dr. Breeze, a psychoanalyst and a previous director of Manford University’s Outreach Mental Health Services Department was hired to direct the new established San Marcos Community Mental Health Center. Upon his arrival to the newly established mental health center, Dr. Breeze found many things invalid. He decided to make changes to improved San Marcos Community Mental Health Center. For an example, as it stated “They have to build and maintain a staff, design programs, mediate internal disputes and conflicts, develop decision-making process, produced budgets, attend to logistical tasks, and maintain their facilities” (Jansson, 2014). After six months of changes, many of the staffs were divided into different groups and departments to service the different area of needs in the mental health center. However, due to Dr. Breeze major changes, a few primary staff members objected to Dr. Breeze changes. They took an offense of not having the ability to voice their ideas on the new mental health center changes. Therefore, those staff members went forward with action to make a complaint regarding Dr. Breeze changes.

The film McFarland, USA presents the true story of Coach Jim White, his family, and their move to the small, cultural Hispanic town of McFarland, California. Through this experience, shifting from the predominately affluent, Caucasian culture of their previous home to the lower income, Hispanic community, White is forced to navigate through the trials of acculturation and building relationships within this new context. Even the White’s family dynamic is challenged and redefined in their new circumstances. By observing Coach White’s interactions with members of the McFarland community, his students, and his family, one begins to see his process of enculturation into his new home as well as key elements in how genuine relationships that transcend language and cultural barriers are built.