Laredo: A Personal Analysis

I am a second generation Mexican-American and the last of seven children. My siblings and I were born and raised here in the United States with a mix of Mexican and American values. Our parents migrated to the U.S. at an early age in search of the American dream. Both my mother and father left their families in Mexico to start a better life for themselves and their future children.

Growing up in a Mexican household has many definitive factors. Growing up an Hispanic child means being awoken by loud Spanish music every Sunday morning which sent a reminder to your brain telling you that it was cleaning day. It means having your parents call you names such as precioso, mi rey, and gordo at any age. Growing up in a Mexican household means never having to buy outside food because “there’s food at home”. Growing up in a Mexican household means many things but all these things make us who we are.

As the final addition to this social issue, Laredo charter and public schools have become victims of this change in not implementing music into their curriculum. This issue particularly narrows its intended audience to the United Independent School District, and how the district is not doing an exceptional job in contributing to student’s performance in school. Students in class performance have suffered greatly, grades from exams are constantly failing, and greater budget cuts are being made to fix the problem in adding more mathematics, history, and science courses. Not only does this apply to elementary schools, but also middle schools, high schools, and even the college systems in Laredo being greatly affected. Authors Jamey Kelley and Steven

I was born and raised in the small but growing city of Perris, CA. This isn’t the best city out there but it tends to grow on you, and you begin to truly love it for what it is. The people, however, not so much. The community can vary from which part of the city you’re in. That’s because there’s diversity here in Perris. I’m a product of this diversity, being half Mexican and half African American. My parents fell in love after high school and later on began a family. I am the youngest of five. I have two older brothers, an older sister, and an older cousin who lives with us. The order is boy, girl, boy, boy, girl with my cousin being included in there too. We all live in the same house with my parents and are quite close with each other. They all seem to have raised me growing up due to the fact that my parents were busy trying to provide for us. This was a challenge by itself, resulting in lots of house moving and my father being unemployed for six years after losing his job. I never complained about moving because I knew that my parents were doing their absolute best and were working with all that they had and then some. This unquestionably made me adaptable to new environments and gave me a

Per your request, I am putting in writing the improvements being made to our “Family Store,” as well as, our vision for the Laredo Corps. Our goal for the store is to expand the sales floor. This has been done by making repairs to the front of the building and reorganizing the warehouse. The front part of the building will be utilized is completed remolded and will be used to sell new and specialty items that can gross higher income. The warehouse will be used to store inventory, expand our bric-a-brac shelving, and furniture space. The remodeling that has taken place in the warehouse includes, the removal of an inserted plywood wall that separates the connective of the stores’ rooms. We have reorganized the wood shelving and reinforced it, in order, to utilize it effectively. The result of

The hispanic community has influenced me in a positive way. Keeping the family close and always having good relations with one another is important to the culture. That is

The Hispanic culture is a major part of my life because half of my family is Hispanic and it is what I was raised with. This culture has effected the way I am in my everyday life. It has influenced me by wanting to show my culture to people. Family is a major part of my culture. Every single family member whether it is an aunt, uncle or cousin helps shape you into the person you will become. I have a close relationship

At some point of our lives, we have all felt that feeling of what to do next, and mine would have to be the time I had to move from different cities. I was born and raised in McAllen, Texas. Throughout the years I was able to create and cherish many memories. Everyone around the neighborhood knew me as the shy, sweet, and kind Emily. My life was made in the valley until I got the announcement from my parents that we were moving to a new city named “Laredo.” At that moment my world had paused, so many questions were running through my head. What am I going to do? Where will I live? , and how will I adapt to this new town? So many mixed emotions were created, but I tried to hide them.

I was just a small town girl living in Grants, New Mexico. There is a saying that if you blink you will miss it driving down the highway. I was born and raised in Milan; it was just a little portion of Grants. My entire mom’s side of the family lived close by us and my dad’s side of the family was in Espanola, except for my grandma Yolie my dad’s mom. I grew up knowing almost everyone in that small town. The challenge in living in Grants was there were no available jobs. My parents had to drive back and forth to and from Albuquerque. As I was in kindergarten through second grade I would stay at my auntie’s house early in the morning or with my grandma while both my parents were in Albuquerque. Family was everything to me or at least what I

Both of my parents worked blue-collar jobs, my father was a firefighter and my mother worked in a hospital cafeteria. Both of my parents were very loving and caring, but also respectable and not afraid to instill discipline when required. I was the middle child, my older brother is a half brother from my mom’s previous marriage and my younger brother was in his infancy and toddler stage. My older brother was in his late teenage years and preparing to finish high school. He was very active with sports during those years and would try to teach me to play football or soccer with him. I had lots of friends growing up during this period of my life and spent the majority of my time out doors with them after school and on the

Although I was born a U.S. citizen my parents saw it right to know my culture. As soon as I was old enough to travel I was swept to Mexico with my missionary and bilingual family. Even though spanish was my first language when I got back to the states I learned english in a couple of months. My parents became pastors soon after in a church that only spoke spanish and was bathed in the Mexican culture. We had men who sang christian “cumbias” on top of a horse and we made tamales as a church fundraisers.

No matter our age we will always value something. Whether it's a toy, friends, or family will differ between us. At a young age, we might value our toys and more materialistic possessions opposed to when we mature because we start to value more non materialistic things like friends or family. I personally value the place my family and I live in.

Growing up with my many family members from my mother and father side have help me create and see my future. Having a female cousin join the Army has brought a change as a whole of how originally a female in the Mexican society is being label to only grow up and be a housewife. Being proud of her has taught me to lead in example to the others after me whom I have a lot of younger cousins. I joined clubs to learn new experience and be different. I am the oldest and only girl in my family with a young brother.Being the first generation to finish high school and decide to go to college.

Well I guess my birth is a pretty good place to start at. I was born in Shelby, North Carolina, on January 27th, 1996. I grew up in Forest City, North Carolina, I have lived there all of my life, and also lived in the same house my whole life. I love it there, there’s no where else I ever want to live. The county, everyone knowing each other, being outdoors seventy percent of the time…Some people hate living , but I absolutely love it. There isn 't too much I remember about my early childhood, so I will just tell you what I do remember. Alright so, I have two brothers, Jonathan, 23, Keaton,16. Both of my brothers and I are pretty close to each other. I am also pretty close to my parents, even like I would like for us to be closer at times, I wouldn 't change our relationships for anything. But the people in my life that I am closest to would be three of my friends , Geoffrey, Josh, and Tyler. We have went to school together since elementary and middle school. All four of us are just like brothers, we’ve been through many valleys and mountain tops with each other, and I’m truly blessed to have them and the family I have.

Through my middle school and high school career, I would’ve never thought growing up in a dysfunctional family would build my character. My family was separated like two couples that divorced. Although I didn’t like some of my sisters, I showed favoritism to one who had the same interest as me. My mom worked at a retirement home where she took care of elderly people. Her taking care of us was already stressful since she claimed we put her through hell in her late 30’s. As for my dad, he didn’t have much luck landing a job and remained a stay at home dad. The one thing that I appreciated the most was being around my other 5 siblings. Ronny, 27, and Louis, 24, are my older brothers. Ashley, 23, and Iesha, 22, are my oldest sisters. However, Arnae is 17 and she is the baby girl of the family. Most of us got along when we decided to be in one another presence. For example, my sisters Ashley and Iesha hung out with one another because they found interest in gossiping, fashion, and makeup. My two eldest brothers loved watching the NBA together and playing video games against each other. My youngest sister and I were left together despite our times of arguing over food. I was the only talented person in our family with skills in Art, dancing, and basketball.