Selena Quintanilla Do you know the queen of Tejano Music? (A Mexican-American inhabitant of southern Texas.) Selena Quintanilla was that person. She died March 31, 1995. She was a singer and much more.
Julia Johnson-Bey was born in Chicago, IL at Cook County hospital to Brother R. Johnson-Bey Sr. and Sister Cora Johnson-Bey. She grew up in a two-parent home with three much older brother. Now, Julia was the only girl and the youngest. Her brother was quite jealous because she received more of the finer things in life due to the fact she had older parents who had twenty plus years in their careers. Julia was raised in a strict home where morals and values were taught and executed.
Alina was born on January 11th, 2003 in Providence, Rhode Island to Leonor Anginette Contreras Guillen and Elvis Diaz. She graduated
Jenni Rivera Biography: Dolores Janney “Jenni” Rivera Saavedra was born on July 2nd, 1969 in Long Beach, California to Pedro Rivera and Rosa Saavedra. Her teen years weren’t easy, she got pregnant at the age of 15 by her boyfriend Trino Marin. Her parents kicked her out of their house so she went on to live with Trino. She married Trino in 1984 and had two more children with him. She described these 8 years she was married to Trino as a mentally and physically abusive marriage.
On the 13th of September 1775, Elizabeth Ingersoll gave birth to Laura Ingersoll, a clever, beautiful baby. When Laura was eight, her mother died, leaving her and her three sisters, Myra, Abigail and Elizabeth. Her father remarried twice and had two children, named Nancy and Charles with his third wife. Her family was originally from Massachusetts, so in 1795 her family immigrated to Upper Canada where her father had obtained a township grant for settlement. Her father’s farm became the site of the modern town of Ingersoll.
The famous Tejano Queen, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, was born in Houston, Texas on April 16, 1971. Selena was involved in the music industry from a very early age because her family was struggling to find a way to get by. Selena started off singing with her siblings, calling themselves, “Selena y Los Dinos”. Quickly Selena’s music career started taking off and soon enough Selena became known all over the United States as the Queen of Tejano music. Selena was murdered on March 31, 1995 by one of the members of her fan club.
On April 8, 1993, Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman to go into space. Ellen Ochoa was born May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, California. She calls La Mesa, California her hometown. She is the third of five children, three brothers and one sister. When she was in her teens her parents got a divorce.
Theresa Williams is my great grandmother the mother of my grandma Terri Williams and her two other sisters and brothers. Grandma Theresa was born in 1936 on July Thirty-first in Cleveland,Ohio. She spent most of her childhood in the Kinsman and Harvard area. Her parents are Elazora and John McMillan and Theresa had a total of eight siblings plus her makes nine children. Theresa is the fourth oldest of her siblings and the third of the girls.
Loreta Velazquez was born in Havana, Cuba on June 26th, 1842. She has a Spanish father and a French-American mother. In 1849, she was shipped from Cuba to New Orleans to live her aunt, she attended Catholic school. There she learned to speak English and eventually married an army officer known as William, she ran away with him and at the age of fourteen.
According to the article, "Honduran Entrepreneur Helps Central American Immigrants Gain Legal Status in Mexico" by Mayela Sanchez, Nora Rodriguez is considered a heroine. What makes Nora Rodriguez a heroine is what she does for Central American immigrants. She helps immigrants get their citizenship and gives them advice. Mayela Sanchez states in her article, "She helps them to fill out forms and to write the letters the immigration office requires." According to Gregoria Morales and Jorge Rojas, which are immigrants state, "The immigration office only gives applicants a list of required documents but does not advise them on how to fulfill the requirements.
She was then raised in El Paso, Texas. As a child, she began kindergarten where she spoke the only language she knew, which was Spanish. She soon discovered that her language only brought her trouble from her teachers and administrators. Being
My essay is upon Sylvia Rivera, she was and still is classified as a strong independent woman who fought for what she believed in. Ms.Rivera knew who she was at a really young girl and had a immensely hard up bringing; but still had that drive and dedication to help her people whom were discriminated against at that time and still are. She work in alliance with two of the strongest gay organizations at a tender age. She became the leader of an organization for people whom were discriminated based on there sexual orientation. She was the cofounder of STAR.
Life is weird when you 're being raised by your great grandmother. Born October 30th Estelle was left in the care of her great grandmother since her mother and father weren 't ready for a child yet, both still in high school. Marguerite 's own daughter, Estelle 's grandmother, had passed in a car wreck three years before hand and her son in law wanted nothing to do with the new baby. So Marguerite took the infant Estelle from her birth city of Abbeville, Louisiana and went back to her own home in New Orleans. Raised in a rural environment Estelle was brought up along side the neighbors children and basically allowed to raise hell for most of her childhood.
She came here to America by plane and she is now 31 years old and lives in Rodeo, CA. Leaving the Old Country "I wasn't planning on coming to America,but my family was there so I had no choice. I also knew that if I came here I would have a good future .My
Amy Tan is a Chinese-American author who was born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. In Tan’s early life she had many struggles because her parents desired for her “to hold onto Chinese traditions and her own longings to become more Americanized” (Encyclopedia). While she wanted to become a writer when she was still young, her parents wanted her to become a neurosurgeon. When she got older and went to college she majored in English then started her career in the 1970’s. She was a technical writer and then started writing fiction stories.
