Maria Borges Research Paper

Julia Alvarez is an acclaimed American-Dominican poet and author. She has written many successful books and poems, many of which reflect directly on her life and personal experiences. Because of Alvarez’s American-Dominican background, her poems display diverse, cultural themes. These include what it is like to be American and Dominican and the struggles of moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Alvarez has received praise for her ability to write a wide variety of styles, including poems, children's books, young adult novels, and essays. Her success, however, has come from her poetry collections, like Homecoming. These collections show her life in the Dominican Republic and her transition to the United States.

Many female Hispanic-Americans have had a significant part in shaping Florida today. Maria Mestre de los Dolores Andreu was one of those miraculous women who played an important role in history. She was the first of her race and gender to become an official lighthouse keeper in Florida and inspired many great female Hispanic-Americans to join the U.S Coast Guard. Maria made a big impact on women all over Florida and proved that women can do anything if they put their minds to it.

Maria made an impression because she took up her husband’s obligations as a light keeper after he dies. She was Florida’s first lighthouse keeper and she sacrificed countless hours to helping the city of St. Augustine. But before that her husband Juan Andreu, was the first Hispanic-American to

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

On March17 , 1985 Richard had bought a .22-caliber revolver from a guy off the street (Carlo). He also had stolen a car from a gas station then hopped on theLos Angeles freeway looking for his next vicim. While on the freeway he seen Maria Hernandez driving her gold Camaro home after having dinner at her boyfriend’s in Monterey Park (Carlo). Hernandez was a petite , attractive brunette with large round eyes and clear olive skin (Carlo). When she exited the freeway she made her way to a residential community of 46,000 in the suburbs of Rosemead. Ramirez followed her for three blocks until she slowed down to make a right into a new condominium community on Village Lane. Maria exited her car holding her keys and brown leather pocketbook. When she went to pushed the button to close the garage door , Ramirez snuck in and dropped his AC/DC hat.

Have you ever put much thought into how an uneducated woman with a disability in reading and writing, could still find a way to work and fight for not only her rights but others too? Isabella Baumfree was a phenomenal woman . She took a stand for women’s rights, blacks rights, and anti-slavery. She was a well-known abolitionist and orator.Isabella Baumfree, was born in 1797, to parents who were enslaved; she was one of twelve children. She had a rough childhood. She was sold at the age of eleven, along with a flock of sheep for the price of one hundred dollars. She experienced countless beatings and sexual abuse from her master (slave owner). Later, she married a man named Thomas and had children of her own. Her children were eventually sold to different plantations. She was only left with her infant daughter . Isabella Baumfree was a runaway slave. As the result of her children being sold, she was only able to escape to freedom with her infant daughter. After she obtained her freedom ,she went to court and challenged the validity of her son being sold into slavery. She was successful against so many odds in the court case. She won. Isabella Baumfree continued down her religious

My mother was 16 when she came to the United States on July 22, 1977. Maria Belen Carrillo is her name and it all took place at Pierdas Negras, Mexico. Originally she was staying with her uncle after her mother allowed her to stay only for a month. In the time, she became a nanny taking care of two children, cleaning the home, and cooking.

For anyone, especially children it is easy to become attached to a place and to call it home. As they grow up and make memories that are associated with a particular place it can be hard for them to leave that place especially if it is involuntarily. How would you feel, if you had to had to leave your home, leave all your memories? Julia Alvarez found out her answer to this question after her family was forced to flee Dominican Republic and settle permanently in the United States. The involvement of Julia’s father in an underground movement to remove Dominican Republic's ruthless dictator Rafael trujillo made this move necessary once his participation was discovered ("Julia Alvarez Biography"). Julia was forced not only to leave her childhood

In 2017 at a high school gym you could walk in and see girls and playing sports such as basketball, volleyball, tennis etc. But back in the 1960s you weren't able to see girls playing those sports in a high school gym. Not not only because they they weren't interested, it's because they weren't able to play by the law of women's rights.

Luisa Moreno, a Guatemalan-American born in nineteen-o-seven(1907) in Guatemala City under her real name of Blanca Rosa Lopez Rodrigues. Is a fine example of ‘The American Dream’ of where she fought for the right of the Latino-immigrations and other Latino-American (mostly Xicanos) along with other civil right groups of colors durning her time in the States, with her leftist idealogy, and demond for justice and to be treated as a citizen instead of a third class ‘w*tback.’ Being born in an upper-class family in Guatemala in nineteen-o-seven (1907) moving to Mexico than to United States (New York City, NY) in nineteen-twenty-eight (1928) with her first husband. Within a few years when the Great Dressipion hit the United States she worked as

Imagine being separated from your family when you’re only eight years old. Imagine spending seven months in a 4x6 hole in the ground while being chased by Nazis. This is what Lola Rein endured during the Holocaust.

Annika Santos is fifteen and lives in Manchester Hills. She is the middle child; her older sister Erica is sixteen, and her younger brother Sam is seven. The Santos have lived in both McDonna and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as Florida before coming to Michigan. Annika currently attends Forest Hills Central High School as a ninth grade. To say that she is very involved with her school is an understatement.

Maria Andrade Silva, 66 years old, lives in Cambridge, Boston with her granddaughter, Marcia Soares.

One would think that high school English teachers prepare you for college English courses. However, Maria P. Rey disagrees with this in many ways. Rey announces early on in her letter that she wants high school teachers, "... to re-evaluate not only the method of teaching but more importantly the substance of what is taught."(Rey 2009) I agree with Rey in that teachers should reconsider the content of what is taught to students because my college experience has confirmed it. In college writing, I soon learned that I was not prepared for what was expected of me. On the other hand, the method of the five paragraph essay gave me a formula to begin my writing, but Rey contends that this method could keep writers "at a very elementary level of writing."(Rey

Notably, in an interview earlier this month, the Australian actress had said that she loves the sexy getup chosen for her. She also revealed how the team went through an exhaustive selection process before finalizing the