Pedro Alonso Lopez was born in 1949 in Tolmia, Colombia. His mother was a Colombian prostitute who had thirteen children, Pedro was the seventh. At age eight, Pedro was caught by his mother, touching his sister’s breast after she kicked him out of the house and never return. After getting kicked out, Pedro became a beggar on the streets. A man later approached Pedro and started comforting him. The stranger offered Pedro a place to stay and food to eat; falling for the trap Pedro followed him and was lead to an abandoned building where he was raped several times. After the incident, he went back on the streets. “During the attack Lopez angrily vowed he would do the same to as many little girls that he could, a promise he later kept” (Montaldo). …show more content…
He started hiding during daylight. At night he would go back on the streets and look for food. After staying a year in Tolmia, he decided to try out the streets of Bogota. One day he was begging for food and an American couple felt sorry for him and decided to help him out. “They brought him to their home an enrolled him in a school for orphans but when he was 12, a male teacher molested him. Shortly afterwards Lopez stole money [from the school office] and fled back into the streets” (Montaldo). Living on the streets Pedro had to find other ways to survive. He then would commit petty theft like.......... In order to survive on the streets; Pedro decided to join a gang for protection. Being in a gang; meant having rivalries. Sometimes Pedro had to fight other different gang members with knifes for a good sleeping spots. He then turned to stealing cars for money. At age 18, he was caught stealing a car and sent to prison. While in prison four inmates gang-raped him. “The anger and rage he experienced as a child rose inside him again, consuming him. He made another vow to himself, to never be violated again” (Montaldo). Pedro full of anger avenged himself by killing “three of the four men” who raped him (Montaldo). Another two years were added to his prison
Throughout the autobiographical narrative written by Gary Soto, many different literary elements are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self. Different elements such as contrast, repetition, pacing, diction, and imagery. Soto narrates this story as a young boy at a time when he seems to be young and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, but at the same time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to convey different occurrences in the narrative.
Carlos Deluna was born on March 15th 1962. Carlos DeLuna, who was arrested for murder, was developmentally disabled and had a low IQ. He dropped out of junior high and took a series of manual jobs. He had a history of petty nonviolent crime, including robbery and car theft. DeLuna also developed a taste for huffing spray paint. He was arrested multiple times holding a can of spray paint with his hands and mouth “smeared with the stuff.” DeLuna was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the state of Texas. On the night of February 4th,1983 a 24 year old gas station attendant named Wanda Lopez was murdered.Reporters said the young woman had been stabbed multiple time with a buckle knife. At his 1983 trial, Carlos DeLuna told the jury that on the day of the murder he had ran into Hernandez, who he'd known for the previous five years. The two men, who both lived in the southern Texas town of Corpus Christi, stopped off at a bar. Hernandez went over to a gas station, the Shamrock, to buy something, and when he didn't return DeLuna went over to see what was going on.Mrs.Lopez was killed while on the phone with the police, having just called 911 reporting a suspicious person. Police found DeLuna hiding in a truck a few blocks away. DeLuna told the jury that he saw Hernandez inside the Shamrock wrestling with a woman behind the counter. DeLuna said he was afraid and started to run. He had his own police record for sexual assault. "I just kept running because I was scared, you know." When he heard the sirens of police cars screeching towards the gas station he panicked and hid under a pickup truck where, 40 minutes after the killing, he was arrested.(Pilkington) DeLuna always maintained that he didn't do it, but waited until his tr...
In the novel, Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, settings serve the purpose of being much more than merely locations. Various settings are utilized to represent symbols throughout the novel in order for Rulfo to develop the plot of the novel. Comala is a location that clearly acts as a symbol in Rulfo’s writing; however, to truly recognize the symbolism in the novel and to acknowledge the presence of key themes such as those of purgatory, religion, and oppression, it is necessary to analyze less conspicuous settings, particularly, the home of doña Eduviges, the church, and the Media Luna.
Due to an awful circumstance, in which a wealthy man attempted to rape his young sister, Pancho Villa killed the transgressor. Pancho Villa had no choice but to change his name, hide in the mountains, and live as an outlaw. Over the years he gained the public’s attention for being sneaky and cunning towards the wealthy, and generous amongst the poor. His popularity as a modern day Robin Hood caught the attention of Francisco Madero who promised change to the lower class if they fought alongside him. Azuela recounts some of the problems the poor people faced “…
Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 on a farm near Yuma, Arizona. His family was originally from Northern Mexico (Chihuahua). His parents Librado and Juana Chavez raised their kids in Arizona's Gila valley. Cesar's father worked in his ranch and also owned his own store and pool hall. His father wasn't around a lot because of work so his mother Juana had a lot of influence on him. His mother taught him to be a non-violent person. She told him to turn the other cheek. Also she was a really religious person, a good Christian that also taught him to always help out poor people. In 1929 while the Great Depression Cesar's family lost the ranch. The family traveled to Oxnard, California wear they struggled to put a roof over their head and food on the table. So they moved from town to town in search for work. In 1944 Cesar joined the U.S Navy as a deckhand on a troop transport for 2 years. He joined so he would avoid getting drafted and being forced to fight in real gun fire. After he finished he moved to Delano, California. Their, one day in a theater he sat in an only white section. He didn't move so the police to him to jail and then later they released him because he didn't brake any laws. While he worked in a malt shop called "La Baratita" he entered a grocery wear he met his future wife Helen Fabela.
The television show, George Lopez, is a series in which Latinos make up the entire cast of the family. It takes place in the present day Los Angeles and focuses on a family and their daily lifestyle. This is one of two television shows that are directed to the English speaking population that has the Latino minority as the main ethnicity of the cast.
Ramon was an incredible actor and was born in Mexico City but raised in Juárez. Ramon Valdes is best known for playing the role of Don Ramón in the hit television show El Chavo del Ocho. Although, Valdes was best known for the playing in El Chavo he also starred in more than 50 other Mexican films. Ramon was born on September 2, 1923 and sadly died on August 9, 1988 at the age of 64 battling stomach cancer. He was an inspiration to many kids who found El Chavo del Ocho funny and very amusing. I chose Ramon Valdes because he was an interesting man with a big sense of humor.
The number of victims Pedro murdered includes, “One hundred and ten young girls in Ecuador and confessed to more than two hundred and forty murders of missing girls in neighbouring Peru and Colombia.” the total would include three hundred plus victims all happening to be young women (Wikipedia, 2015). Even when the authorities were informed about the missing girls they concluded that they were either kidnapped or sold as sex slaves. Sex slave rings in South America were growing rapidly through this time. The motivation for his killings is unknown, but some research includes it was due to his childhood life and sexual desire that provoked his actions he later took when he was an adult. “After his move to Colombia and then later to Ecuador he began killing almost three girls every week, every month, every year over a three year long murder rampage. Pedro explained to the police, “I like the girls in Ecuador, they are more gentle and trusting, more innocent.” (Wikipedia, 2015). In fact, “he confessed to the police about his three hundred murders. The police only believed him when a flash flood uncovered a mass grave containing many of his victims. The police couldn’t get Lopez to cooperate so they enlisted a local priest and dressed him as a prisoner, Lopez quickly shared his brutal crimes with him. He confessed to doing his crimes at sunrise so he could satisfy his sexual needs by watching their eyes fade as they died. Also he told of having tea parties and playing games with the dead children. He would prop them up in their graves and talk to them to give them company. Once he became bored, he would go out and find another victim.” (Wikipedia,
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People disappear for several reasons; it could be to start a new life, it could be to hide from someone or it could be because someone doesn’t want you found. This paper is about the disappearance of Yessenia Suarez and her two children. Can the police determine if a crime was committed and by whom? This paper will describe the evidence and the timeline of events in the case.
Reymundo was born in Puerto Rico in 1963 in the back of a 1957 Chevy. His mother was married at age sixteen to a man that was seventy-four years of age. Reymundo’s father died when he was almost five years old, therefore he does not have much memory of the relationship that they had. Reymundo has 2 sisters with whom he did not have a relationship with, one sister would always watch out for him, but that was about it. After the death of Reymundo’s father, his mother remarried a guy named Emilio with which she had a daughter for. After Emilio, Pedro came in to the picture with his son Hector. Pedro was an illegal lottery dealer and Hector sold heroin.
Logan Gutierrez-Mock’s “F2MESTIZO” takes on the subject matter of intersectionality between race, gender, and class similarly to bell hooks’ theory on drag balls within the film, Paris is Burning. Because the ideas of passing between two races and defining gender identity are interdependent, we see characters enter and exit worlds of powerlessness and privilege, imitate white status to gain privilege, establish a two-fold world of us against them; this reveals much about the internalized racism that arises from the power complexities between races and genders.
In Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo creates an array of characters who live in a reality different than the one that exists within the framework of their world. Specifically, the realities of Pedro Páramo, Susana San Juan, and Juan Preciado are altered to the point where their searches for meaning are developed and shaped by their varying perceptions of the events happening around them. Additionally, these altered realities aren’t completely psychological states of mind--the town of Comala is actually filled with supernatural elements that contribute to the unsteady nature of reality and make people who are just introduced to Comala (Juan Preciado and the reader) question what is real and what is not. The mostly unintentional alteration of reality can either damage or enrich the individual’s search for meaning.
This paper was written about a man named Eduardo Oviedo, who is 66 years old and is accused of locking his wife and son in a cell covered in dirt with old mattresses, for almost two years. His 32-year-old son is autistic and his 61-year-old wife has psychiatric issues. The prosecutor, Alejandro Pellegrini accused Mr. Oviedo, who is a former contract worker, of keeping his wife and son in a cell made of iron bars and an iron door. He also stated that piles of rubble were found as well as pet food in the cage. On top of that, the wife and son were said to have their own excrements in bags around them. There was also rope found in the cell where they were likely tied up. Mr. Oviedo has been arrested and
Ramirez was born in 1960 to his Mexican immigrant parents Julian and Mercedes Ramirez. He was the youngest out of his five siblings of 3 boys and 2 girls. He grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he had a relatively normal childhood to start off with. Even though Ramirez seemed to be on a down hill spiral, his father always maintained that Ramirez was a "good boy". At the age of 12 he started to spend a lot of time with his cousin Mike, a Vietnam veteran, his cousin would show him pictures of women he had raped and tortured during his time in Vietnam. Mike would sometime take Ramirez out to the desert at night to show him how to sneak up on animals and kill them. Ramirez was taught how to use a knife and where the vital spots were on the animals. Some believe that the turning point in Ramirez's life may have been when he witnessed his cousin murder his wife. At the time Ramirez was 13 and was smoking pot with his cousin Mike when his wife came in and allegedly started to "nag" him on getting his life together and getting a job. Mike then took out a gun and shot her in the face. The blood of Mikes wife spattered onto Ramirez. After Mikes conviction Ramirez became fascinated with the photos that Mike had showed him. From being a bright young stude...