The book I am reading is Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario. I predict that the author will explore the human rights issue of Immigration Laws and the plight of illegal aliens in the United States. I believe that this issue will be important in the story because Enrique the main character in the story is very driven to find his mother who has gone herself illegally to the United States to earn money to provide an education for her children and to better the life of her family. I made this prediction because Lourdes leaves her children in Honduras as she goes to make money in the United States and her son Enrique is left saying “Donde esta mi mami?” “Where is my mom?”
In the article "What Makes Nora Rodriquez a hero ? " The author Mayela Sanchez states that Nora Rodriguez a native of Honduras, helps people gain legal status in Mexico. I agree that Nora Rodriguez is being a hero because she is helping immigrants fix their paperwork. Her office is a table on a corner with a beach umbrella to protect her from the sun, despise were she works people come to her for help on filing their paperwork for legal residency in Mexico, she helps them fill forms and wright letters to the immigration offices. Nora has been experienced what they are going through " her experience motivated her to offer similar immigration services at a lower cost.
She studies their background and circumstances, explaining how “whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, mining town, or urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built fictive kin networks, and participated in formal and informal community associations” (p. 5). These are the ways, Ruiz found, that helped Mexican American women make them part of the American society. She also talks about the attempts made by groups like Protestants that tried to civilize or Americanize the immigrant women but were unsuccessful due to the religious and community groups as well as labor unions that were formed to give them
Have you ever hear or read about these three articles called “ How Jackie Robinson Changed Baseball “ , “ The Underground Railroad “ , and “ The Story of Ida B. Wells “ ? If you haven’t well you will hear about them right now . These stories are actually kinda inspiring. Jackie Robinson was known for changing baseball.
My favorite poem from the Module “Myths and Archetypes in Hispanic Cultural Production” is the poem “I Am A Warrior Woman” by Ines Hernandez. I like the poem because I can see my mother, my hero, as a warrior woman. She moved to the United States from Mexico, leaving her friends and family, in order for her future kids to be given opportunities she never knew they couldn’t receive in Mexico. As a matter of fact, lines such as “at whatever moment that you find me I am a warrior woman” prompted memories of my mother never giving up. For example, when I was 10 years old, my mother’s husband was deported leading to half of my home’s income getting ripped away.
What makes Nora Rodriguez a hero is that she helps Central Americans with their immigration paperwork, according to the text Mayela Sanchez the author of the text states,"... a Honduran woman runs a small business helping Central Americans with their immigration paper". She helps them making them fill out forms and letters so they can be sent to the immigration office. She does this because when she was younger she try to cross to border from Guatemala and Mexico and to th U.S. To make money to send to her to her three children she had, but when she was crossing the border between Guatemala and Mexico, she was assualt and so the thiefs took all her money she had save to use when she was crossing the border. She didn 't have money to continue
After she got her degree in political science, Grace created the “Immigrants Protective League.” She started the organization to help new arrivals from different countries, like immigrants, to make it easier to move to other countries. Grace felt that immigrants needed protection from those who would want to hurt them because they weren’t from here. Grace always found a way to help immigrants adjust to their new homes. She worked hard to help them.
Women like this face harsh criticism from older generations, but they are celebrated by their generation and by those younger. They are the ones seen making speeches and not following the norms of society. Last but definitely not the least are women who struggle like Evelyn. They are strong, hardworking and powerful women. While they struggle to find who they are and struggle to be confident, they are stronger for it.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up in America in the 1800’s and saw just how bad women were treated and knew something had to be done. In “ The Declaration of Sentiments And Resolutions Seneca Falls Conference” and “Solitude of Self,” Stanton uses great examples of how women are being treated unequally. She uses examples such as them not having the right to vote and having what little rights they do have taken away from them by men.through her courageous acts she fought for women's rights. Elizabeth Cady stanton was born in New York on 1815 sadly to her father she was a girl he often told her he wished she was a boy. Stanton grew up in a hard time for women they had nearly no rights and were viewed as unequals to men.
Furthermore, Tina is African American and survived life on the streets during a time in which being African American put you at an increased risk. Living in an environment and occupying, not one, but two minority statuses is why Tina impacted me the most. I can relate to Tina because I am an African American female in the environment of higher education and in the professional arena where being African American and being female makes surviving and being successful a little more challenging. Another aspect of Tina that resonated with me was her tendency to display overcompensating behaviors, such as
She dabbles in the real problem of why people "judge books by their covers". I wish to show my audience that changing stereotypes like the one Amy Tan had to overcome starts with changing the way we think as a society. We must teach our children to think differently if we wish to see real change. Most bias stem from childhood, and while in school. Even some teachers are biased without knowing it.
She explains that there’s only one type of folks and shares her own different but unique opinion on prejudice. She explains how she believes that all people are born equal,
Marina Warner penned the scholarly book Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism. Dame Warner is a British Novelist and Historian. She is also a professor at All Souls College in Oxford with a vast array of honorary degrees. Her resume has extensive awards and accolades making her a proficient novelist and historian. They can attest to her knowledge and expertise.
She risked so much not knowing if any of it would pay off. As she described living with the Jewish family, “Jews in hiding couldn’t be visible, so I stayed with them, it was the right thing to do.” (Burns 1). She had no strong ties to the Jewish faith and yet, of her own free will risked her life to help, for no other reason than that she knew that what was going on around her was wrong, and she wanted to do whatever she could to stop it. And how even after the war ended
Her story somehow touching my feeling where I was making fun by others Spanish and American during the gym period in High School. I was asking myself that what kind of society is this. Do I belong here? I feel her
