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“In some ways, the heartache we feel for our loved ones is deeper, rawer, than any we could feel for ourselves,” stated Diane Guerrero, the author of the biography In The Country We Love. From experience, Guerrero tells that we will always love our family more than we will ever love ourselves. Diane Guerrero is an actress starring in the famous television shows Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin. At the age of fourteen Guerrero’s parents were taken away; deported while she was at school. 14 with no family. Luckly, she was born in America so she was able to stay in U.S. to continue her education. She relied on the help of her family friends, who gave her a home away from home and helped her create a life for herself. Along with a life-changing
In Stevie Cameron’s essay “Our Daughters, Ourselves,” she proclaims “ We tell our bright, shining girls that they can be anything: firefighters, doctors, policewoman, lawyers, scientists, soldiers, athletes, artists. What we don't tell them, yet, is how hard it will be. Maybe, we say to ourselves, by the time they’re older it will be easier for them than it was for us.” My parents raised my sisters and I very congruous with this view. They would always tell us that we could do or be anything we wanted when we got older. However, contrary to Cameron’s apprehension on the matter, my parents always told us how difficult it would be straight from the beginning. They told us how financially strenuous becoming a doctor would be. They told us how
There were many quotes throughout the book, In the Country We L1ove, that had an impact on me because I either learned something new about Diane Guerrero that I did not already know, I could relate to a few parts of her book, and my perspective of supporting undocumented immigrants grew stronger. The first quote that I decided to use is when Guerrero describes Colombia, the country where her parents are from. “The entire scene was chaotic. Colorful. Exotic. Wild. And, because of the straight-up poverty, it was also a bit unsettling… I was stuck with a realization: This could have been my life (Guerrero 111).” In making this comment, Guerrero is informing the reader that her parents grew up
On one hand we can see that she pushes back and challenges her tradition on the other hand it is difficult to not see emotion expressed by herself when she is alone. One scene that does do this is when she is buying condoms for the first time but does not know what to purchase. This small but significant scene revels that although she is strong and ready she also needs guidance through her path of adulthood. She is able to ask a pharmacist for advice but not her own mother. This lack of connection to be open up to mothers is emphasized enough to create awareness that young Mexican American women need someone to talk to and it should preferably be their
It’s not easy to build an ideal family. In the article “The American Family” by Stephanie Coontz, she argued that during this century families succeed more when they discuss problems openly, and when social institutions are flexible in meeting families’ needs. When women have more choices to make their own decisions. She also argued that to have an ideal family women can expect a lot from men especially when it comes to his involvement in the house. Raymond Carver, the author of “Where He Was: Memories of My Father”, argued how his upbringing and lack of social institutions prevented him from building an ideal family. He showed the readers that his mother hide all the problems instead of solving them. She also didn’t have any choice but to stay with his drunk father, who was barely involved in the house. Carvers’ memoir is relevant to Coontz argument about what is needed to have an ideal family.
In America, many people are divided by a class system. Within our society, many people find themselves not interacting much with people outside of their class and can rarely find something in common with people of different financial backgrounds. In Andre Dubus the Third’s writing “The Land of No: Love in A Class-Riven America, he speaks about his experience with his roommate who comes from an affluent background opposed to his less advantaged upbringing. In “The Land of No: Love in A Class-Riven America, Andre Dubus the Third displays that the experiences the people face from different classes can differ entirely and therefore it makes it difficult to identify with someone outside of your class.
The tone of the short story “America and I” changed dramatically over the course of the narrative. The author, Anzia Yezierska, started the story with a hopeful and anxious tone. She was so enthusiastic about arriving in America and finding her dream. Yezierska felt her “heart and soul pregnant with the unlived lives of generations clamouring for expression.” Her dream was to be free from the monotonous work for living that she experienced back in her homeland. As a first step, she started to work for an “Americanized” family. She was well welcomed by the family she was working for. They provided the shelter Yezierska need. She has her own bed and provided her with three meals a day, but after a month of working, she didn’t receive the wage she was so
Interestingly for the Mexican woman, Amelia who is nanny to Richard and Susan’s kids the non-place (America) has now become the place. It has been suggested that she left Mexico fifteen years ago for a better life. In his book Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998) Giorgio Agamben emphasises on the concept of citizenship and how it occupies an important place in the modern biopolitics. Agamben believes: “One of the essential characteristics of modern biopolitics (which will continue to increase in our century) is its constant need to redefine the threshold in life that distinguishes and separates what is inside and what is outside” (131). The division of who is deemed as a citizen and who isn’t becomes fundamental and more importantly
My mother is an outspoken woman. In her tiny appearance lies an extraordinary fortitude story. Bravery is a virtue that not a lot of people possess, but my mother has proven her courageousness. Before my mother gave birth to me, she lived in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Her family lived in poverty, and every bit of food was valued and cherished at their table. It’s hard to tell whether my mother’s decision to migrate to the United States was an act of courage or impatience. She certainly had no bright future at home, her parents could barely afford used clothes from the town’s thrift shop. She certainly wanted to find a way to turn her life around and provide the needs for her family, so she decided to come to “The land of opportunities.”
Poems are forms of communication that give an applicable view of the past, present and future events. Reading the poem titled “America”, written by Richard Blanco brought me memories from my childhood in my parent’s house and also what is happening now in my house as a parent. The poem explains how one person doesn’t have all the knowledge about something. It also, describes the daily life struggles I experienced during my childhood, when my parent 's and I moved from our hometown to live in another town becuase of their work and it brings to light the conflict of cultures I and my children are going through since we moved to United State of America .
The American Dream, yes everybody has one, it can be from living in a large house and having a million dollars to just having the privilege to live in America and try to make something better for themselves in this new life or new start they are trying to grasp. There are many traditions and dreams of every American today while some dreams are practical and some are not and most of all their dreams are from the heart. The American dream is really simple--it consists of a house a job a car three kids and one dog but this is not always the case.
This illustrates how immigrants think they’re going to have a much better life in the US than they actually end up having. Rosa and her brother both escape death in their home country, but Rosa is still not able to avoid death brought on by the destitution of an immigrant’s life.
The increase and changing demography in the United State today, with the disparities in the health status of people from different cultural backgrounds has been a challenge for health care professionals to consider cultural diversity as a priority. It is impossible for nurses and other healthcare professionals to learn and understand theses diversity in culture, but using other approaches like an interpreter is very helpful for both nurses and patients. In this paper of a culturally appropriate care planning, I will be discussing on the Hispanic American culture because, I had come across a lot of them in my career as a nurse. The Hispanic are very diverse in terms of communication and communities and include countries like Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, South and Central America, and some of them speak and write English very well, some speaks but can’t write while some can’t communicate in English at all but Spanish.
What is culture? Many people ask themselves this question every day. The more you think about it the more confusing it is. Sometimes you start leaning to a culture and then people tell you you’re wrong or they make you feel like a different person because of your culture. I go through this almost every day. Because of the way I was raised I love Mexican rodeo but I was born and raised in Joliet. This can be very difficult trying to understand culture. I live in this huge mix of culture. Culture is personal. People can have many cultures especially in America and because of globalization. Cultural identity is not one or the other, it is not Mexican or American. Cultural identity is an individual relevant thing.
Iveth Spaulding was born on June 4, 1982, in Bogota, Colombia. She is the youngest of two sisters born to a happy, loving couple. Iveth’s mother, Dora Martinez, always made her two daughters her top priority; she wanted them to feel loved and appreciated. Therefore, she was always very caring, loving, and affectionate with them. For example, she would tuck them in every night and stay with them until they fell asleep, and every afternoon Dora would have a plate of food ready for her daughters to eat once they got home from school. It was the little things that her mother did that made Iveth feel loved and appreciated. As a result, at age fifteen when Iveth had her first daughter, she too made her a priority, and she also wanted her to feel
This book, which speaks of past America, must have a reason for its relevance. This novel establishes connections between household workers of five decades ago and current immigrant domestic workers, many of whom are of Latino, African, and Caribbean descent.