Vanessa Molano's Love For Math And Science

I’m an American grown up with Mexican roots; with all their traditions, religious beliefs, holidays, and foods. I come from a small town of south Texas, called The Rio Grande Valley, where I live with my average size family. I’ve grown up with my family facing hardships, and flaws yet united always. As time has gone by I’ve come to learn that everything around me has shaped me to be the young lady I am today, and I’m grateful for that.

In High school, she continued to excel where others fell short by focusing and exceeding in her academics, setting an example for others to follow and instilling confidence into others rather than letting them fall into peer pressure. With the help of her

2. What was their childhood like (2-3 sentences). Arjonas’ father gave him a guitar at an early age because could tell that his son had a passion for music. When he was eight years old, he was fully able to play the guitar (Quintana, 2017). Arjona began school in a Catholic school, and then moved towards a military type school (Artist Direct, 2017). He attended the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, where he earned a degree in communications (Quintana, 2017). After he graduated college, he became a rural schoolteacher then, went on to basketball for the Guatemalan national team (Bush, 2017). In 2014 Arjona opened a school in his native area of Guatemala for underprivileged children. He named the school

Vanessa Brenes is currently a student at Salem Church Middle School and is in eighth grade. She is 14 years old and lives with her parents and two sisters in Richmond, Virginia. She has a dog who’s named Lexi, she is a beagle who loves to play. Vanessa is in all honors classes and is excited about transitioning into high school. One of her favorite subjects in school is Algebra I and Civics and Economics. She has applied to a specialty center and is hoping to get accepted. She also loves to go to starbucks, loves to shop until she drops and enjoys being around her close friends and family! Although she hasn’t written any books and isn’t famous, yet, she is sarcastic and so much fun to have around.

Raicine Rodriguez was born in San Bernardino California; she was the middle daughter of three girls. Her siblings and she had all different personalities; Raicine was the one who always seemed to think things through, perhaps a little too much. She lived her life as full as she allowed herself, while always thinking about the “what ifs,” before she gave her one-hundred percent. It was a very cautious act, but it held her back in many ways as well. Once in college it took her several years to decide what she wanted to major in. In her mid-twenties, she moved to Nashville for a job. Here was able to figure out the kind of person she wanted to be in life. All of her friends and family were in California so she was able to concentrate solely on

Even though English is her native language, she became fascinated by learning other languages, particularly Spanish, when she was in high school and was taking her first foreign language class. She took Spanish I, II, and III during high school and decided to continue her pursuit in developing the language even further when she went to college. She said that she taught Spanish on the high school level for a few years but then later took a position working at an elementary school. At that particular school, she saw a number of students coming in with their parents and neither the parents nor children spoke very much English. She usually would be the one who had to translate to the appropriate people to help out. So she saw that need and decided that she wanted to help in that capacity and therefore lead her to what she has been doing for the past eight years.

Marisol Ortega was born on April 1,1994 and grew up in a family of eight and is the youngest of six siblings. She grew up and raised in the city of Bell and comes from a traditional Mexican household. Marisol is on her third year at East Los Angeles College and she is studying psychology with an emphasis in social behavior. She recently got accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz and was awarded the Osher scholarship. Her future goal is to obtain a degree in psychology and a master’s degree in criminology with a minor in ethnic studies. She hopes to obtain a career as a forensic psychologist and as a educator.

Jessica Krob is a sixteen year old girl who was born in Wichita, Kansas, and she has lived in two other states since then. When she was about five years old she moved to Springfield, Missouri, and when she was thirteen years old her parents got a divorce. The summer before her senior year of high school, her mother remarried a farmer from Leachville, Arkansas. She moved to Arkansas and transferred to Buffalo Island Central High School. Jessica really enjoys school, and her favorite subject is science. She plans to use her passion for science to earn a degree in biology to become orthodontists. Outside of school, she enjoys reading great books, and playing the violin. Jessica always strives to do her best, and reach

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.

As I mentioned earlier, Jose was born in Nueva Rosita, Mexico but grew up here in the United States. He does still have some extended family in Mexico along with aunts, uncles, and cousins here in Las Vegas. Jose considers Las Vegas his hometown but acknowledges the effects of his Mexican culture and heritage in his family. Jose’s family speak Spanish at home and his parents’ only language is Spanish. Jose and his sisters are bilingual and prefer to speak English when they are not at home. Jose and his siblings often have to help their parents with forms or appointments where English is required and have often acted as translators, even when they were younger. Jose did explain that he initially had trouble in school because when he started Kindergarten

Julia was born in 1914 in Puerto Rico, as a young child she had a burning passion for literature and language. By the age of 19 she had already graduated from a university and then joined the

Born to Helen and Ivan Daly on April 16th, 1921, Marie was a bright and beautiful child. She grew up in Queens, New York. Her father, an immigrant from the West Indies, was avidly interested in science, and he would’ve continued to study chemistry if a lack of money hadn’t got in the way, forcing him to drop out. Her mother, on the other hand, was from Washington D.C., and she loved to read.

She married a young Mexican-American dental technician at age 16 and gave birth to three children, Victor, Mario, and Martha. Her children were put into a group called “Yellow Birds,” a group for slow learners. Guadalupe’s children had followed their mother’s path and they can’t learn like other children. One of the three teachers told Guadalupe that her children would do better if they spoke English at home. Guadalupe decided to go back to school to learn English.

Deveny, I decided to declare a minor in Spanish and applied for a study abroad program. I was awarded the Bailey Family Memorial Scholarship and studied abroad in Costa Rica for six weeks. This experience was a crucial step to developing confidence in Spanish and life, to gain independence, and to realize a burning passion to inquire more about the Spanish language and culture. Learning a second language, something that began as a doubtful consideration, became deeply engrained into my life aspirations. I am certain this would not be a reality this would be a reality without Dr. Deveny’s presence in my

This really intelligent girl studied in Honduras, and a really nice school in her neighborhood where she met a lot of great persons, then she ended high school at Conroe High School, where she also met a lot of extraordinary persons and teachers.