In “A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields,” author Gabriel Thompson presents a look into the life of a migrant worker in the lettuce fields in Yuma Arizona. First, Thompson gives a first look into the job by describing what the area of the fields look like. “I wake up staring into the bluest blue I’ve ever seen. ”(89) “To my left, in the distance, a border patrol helicopter is hovering.
The best part of my paper is the second body paragraph. I believe that it entails a detailed description of Rodriguez’s journey of transitioning from Spanish to English. I also highlight the point where Rodriguez finally built the courage to speak in his English boldly and confidently, something he struggled with throughout his entire child hood. I thoroughly enjoyed the story of Rodriguez and how he developed how he transitioned to a little boy to a confident young man. I specifically liked the quote that I chose that explained that although the Rodriguez family changed.
Immigrant from Cuba Speaks His Mind through Poetry Luis Estable’s poems are simple yet thought-provoking and fun to read. Cuban immigrant Luis Estable offers his gift of poetry to America, and what a wonderful gift it is. Over the years, he has written hundreds of pieces of poetry, in styles ranging from free verse to sonnet. Estable covers a wide range of topics and themes, and he conveys different thoughts and emotions between the lines. Such poems are found in his first published book of poetry
In chapter nine (The Columbian Exchange) of his book, The Unending Frontier, John F. Richards argues that the “Columbian discovery and colonial rule in the West Indies brought drastic changes to the people and natural environment of the Greater and Lesser Antilles.” For instance, the biological exchange of diseases such as smallpox and swine flu to which the indigenous peoples had developed no antibodies for “thinned (the native’s) numbers, destroyed their institutions, and broke their resistance to Spanish aggression.” In fact, after only a century after European contact, the indigenous population in the New World shrunk to one tenth its previous size from 53 million to 5 or 6 million people. Spanish rule, therefore, only expedited the eventual
America Founded on Immigration When reading “Our Brave New World of Immigration” by Victor Davis Hanson, he argues that we ask too little of our immigrants in today’s society, and that we have entered a new world of immigration that allows immigrants to not be responsible human beings in society today. After viewing the title of the essay, I expected to hear an empowering essay on how far immigration has come. However, after reading the essay I perceived the authors’ persona to be belittling towards immigration. Also, he seems to have tunnel vision towards undocumented immigrants, by not considering that the undocumented immigrants, he speaks of may not even be undocumented immigrants.
Soto was inspired to write poetry when he began to read it. He was influenced by poets like Edward Field’s, W.S. Merwin, Charles Simic, James Wright, Pablo Neruda, and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write it. Soto writes most of his poetry based on his life experience. Gary Soto writes poetry more for the youth although he has poetry that is published in the adult field. Gary Soto has written an autobiography on himself and a couple novels.
Finally, he portrays the result of a young death through the affected family’s mourning in the solemn poem: “Avocado Lake” (1975). Through the use of powerful imagery, precise descriptions, and free verse poetry, Gary Soto’s poems evoke a sense of sympathy for the underprivileged Mexican-American community where he grew up, while telling a beautiful story. Gary Soto illustrates his unfortunate childhood realities through powerful
Munoz states a valid point that over time Anglicization leads to the loss of identity or culture this is unavoidable unless families keep their cultures traditions intact and never lose sight of their identities. Manuel Munoz mentions in the short essay Leave Your Name at the border “when white teachers asked, what your name means?’ when what they really want to know was “What’s the English one.” (Munoz 159) with this statement Munoz brings up the normality in the non-acceptance of foreign names in the United States. This type of arrogance causing Mexican parents to anglicize their children’s names.
In the essay "Children of Mexico," the author, Richard Rodriguez, achieves the effect of relaying his bittersweet feeling regarding how Mexicans stubbornly hold on to their past and heritage by not only relaying many personal experiences and images, but also by using an effective blend of formal and informal tone and a diction that provides a bittersweet tone. Among the variety of ways this is done, one is through repetitive reference to fog. The word is used many times in the essay, especially in segments relating to Mexican-Americans returning to Mexico for the winter. One of the more potent uses reads as follows: "The fog closes in, condenses, and drips day and night from the bare limbs of trees.
The Crossing, written by Gary Paulsen. What are the various dangers Manny faces in day-to-day survival? Which does he consider especially threatening? Which ones would I consider especially threatening?
In A Summer Life by Gary Soto, the reader is taken on a journey through Soto’s childhood. The story starts when Soto is at age four and continues on until he is a mature seventeen year old. The impressive way in which Gary Soto writes this story provides the reader with enough details that they feel like they know Gary personally. That is especially true about the last chapter, “The River”. The symbolism and literary devices used in this chapter make it the best chapter of the story.
This poem is the topic of familial relationships and home life as well as the main theme of the poem being self-isolation. Mora describes the struggles of a Mexican mother who moves out of her home country to start a better life for her and her family: The language barriers she must try to overcome will affect her life indefinitely mentally and emotionally, changing her forever.
The U.S – Mexico border states are an important piece for the global aerospace industry because this area concentrates the knowledge, design, innovation and manufacturing this business needs to excel and deliver high quality products to be used worldwide. Major aerospace and defense firms with manufacturing facilities in the U.S – Mexico border states include Honeywell, Gulfstream, Textron, Rockwell Collins, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Safran, Fokker, Triumph, and Bombardier. From 3D printing and mobile data collection, to the design of aerospace materials that are both strong and light, innovation is present in all aspects of aerospace manufacturing in this region.
In a poem it is very good to use different types of figurative language in the poem. These ideas are clearly seen in the poem”Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, talks about how it is good to be unique ,and yourself. Even if people dislike you or treat you with disrespect. In “Identity”Polanco uses the literary devices of simile, alliteration, and repetition. The poem that Polanco wote is about being unique and yourself is a good thing.
It can define you, change you, make your views and can make you, you. Culture really is who you and what makes you whether it comes from parents, ethnicity, or environment it usually it can have some sort of impact on who you are. Since every person is different that would have to mean that everyone’s culture extends differently. In all circumstances a person's culture extends and influences the way they view others and the world.
