Advice: “Pinta tu vida con los colores de tus pensamientos.” Translation: Paint your life with the colors of your thoughts. Most of my childhood was spent in many different hospital rooms: all different but equally just the same. The nurses were always helpful, the doctors cold and serious, and my mom always watching my monitors. Despite being connected to multiple different machines and having a heart suck at doing it’s job, I always found a way to be cheerful. I am now seventeen years old, and I have had three open-heart surgeries; my first one happened when I was about seven years old. Pretty intense stuff for someone who should be spending her time coloring and mindlessly playing. I still remember telling all of my friends
and family not to cry because that will only make me think I'm getting worse. For some reason that would only make them cry even harder. Many people visited but my favorite visitor was always my uncle. He always filled the room with life, never focusing on the fact that I was ill, but only on the fact that I was still alive and happy. He was the one who reminded me never to look at the negative but work towards the positive. During this difficult time, my uncle found the way to help me start journaling. He bought me this small, brown leather journal. On the first page, he told me that he had taken it upon himself to get me started, He wrote in black ink across the top, “Pinta tu vida con los colores de tus pensamientos.” At the time, I was not able to read in spanish but he translated it for me. I remember being very grateful for the journal and began to write in it whenever I got the urge to vent my little seven year old emotions. It is a decade later, and yet those words still ring true to me. It’s with that cheerful and bright attitude that I once used as a child, now as a young adult deciding on a college. I have always known that I will go into a profession in the medical field. Hospitals feels like a second home and doctor’s offices are soothing. I’m my family’s at home nurse and my friend’s physical consultant. Never have I doubting that helping others is something I want to do for the rest of my life.
Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and who also introduced color television to Mexico,
Paula Gunn Allen was an American Indian Poet that was the middle child of five siblings. She grew up on the Cubero Land Grant Reservation in New Mexico where she started her early education at St. Vincent Academy, followed by attending Missions School until the seventh grade at San Fidel in Pueblo town. She furthered her education by attending Colorado’s Woman’s College. Paula obtained her B.A. in 1966 and her M.F.A. in 1968 at the University of Oregon, that led to her receiving her Ph. D at the University of New Mexico in 1976. Paula was best known as the best Poetic, Novelist, and Critic. She wrote six volumes of poetry including her poem Recuerdo.
Many countries have the pleasure of celebrating Independence Days. These historic holidays are filled with nationalistic celebrations and delicious traditional food. In Chile, the natives celebrate their break from Spain with Fiestas Patrias. In Mexico, the president begins the celebration by ringing a bell and reciting the “Grito de Dolores” and he ends his speech by saying “Viva Mexico” three times.
¡Diles que no me maten! A short story by Juan Rulfo, which depicts the reality of a peasant’s life in rural Mexico. This short story is about a farmer who had a disagreement with the landowner after asking if he would be able to share his animals’ food. Due to the refusal the farmer sneaked his animals at night to feed them; however, when the landowner found out he killed one of the farmer’s cattle. As a result, the farmer killed his landowner; consequently he had to hide for over 40 years only to be murdered later on by the landowner’s son. This paper will discuss the following ideas; themes explored in the short story such as family, death and revenge. Then, an analysis of the strong need of survival and the symbolism of corn crops. Continuing to the structure of the short story and what it adds up to the overall understanding of the story. Finally, there will be a conclusion of all the aspects and what findings are reached after reading this short story.
“Se habla Espanol” wrote by Tanya Maria Barrientos. She is growing up in Texas, but she was born in Guatemala. That causes she cannot speak Spanish like Latina. In the article, she talked about what the feeling as a Lantana without the ability to speak Spanish so well. Her parents give her a few of knowledge about speaking Spanish. Because, she grew up in a special era, which Mexican Americans were considered dangerous radical. Nowadays, this theory is politically incorrect. The author wants to find some people that like her, does not fit in Spanish culture and help them, giving them a big mental supporting. I’m from China, growing and living in different places, which have different language and culture habit.
Elena Poniatowska escrita durante una epoca de cambio en Mexico. Antes de sus obras las mujeres mexicanas eran sometidos, docil, y pasivo. En la tiempo de sus obras las mujeres estaba tratando salir de los estereotipos de antes. Esta problema social tomo un afecto en Elena. Aunque ella no viene de un movimiento literatura directamente, ella escrita con el concepto de compremetido. En su narrative El Recado ella crea un mujer estereotipical que no puede controlar sus emociones. La titula es eso porque ella viene a ver su amante, pero el no esta, asi ella escribe las cosas que sentia. La perspectiva es de un personaje y ella nunca interacta con otros personajes. En facto la unica descripcion de un personaje otro de la protagonista es de su amante Martin. Habla de otros personajes, pero solamente de sus acciones. Porque ellas es la unica perspectiva que tenemos es sencillo a sentar compasion para una protagonista de quien nombre no aun sabemos. Ella da la descripcion de toda que vea, y mas importante todo que se sienta. Tambien tropos y figuras retoricas dan un tono significante al poema. Estos sentimientos de la portagonista y el tono emocional de la narrativa transporta una tema de una mujer estereotipical y debil quien quiere ser reconocido.
In her essay “Always Living in Spanish,” Marjorie Agosin justifies her preference for writing in Spanish as surviving to culture shock, a reminder of her childhood, and a vivid experience of her senses. As a member of an immigrant family, Marjorie Agosin deals with the sorrow and pain of leaving behind her native land to migrate from Chile to United States. She illustrates the frustrations of “...one who writes in Spanish and lives in translation” (167). During her teenage years, Agosin discovers writing in Spanish as the only getaway to escape from constant discrimination, because “... [her] poor English and [her] accent were the cause of ridicule and insult” (167). For this reason, in such times of emotional turmoil, the author decides that
Enns, C., Gregory, D., (2007). Lamentation and loss: expressions of caring by contemporary surgical nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing 58(4), 339-347
.... I was relieved when the clock struck 2:00 and I was able to go home for the rest of the summer. Looking back, I regret leaving that hospital. It was, by far, one of the best experiences in my life.
I had known for years that I wanted to work in the health care field, but I always believed it would be as a doctor. I watched for the first few years of my brother’s life as he struggled with different health challenges such as being born premature, having croup and breathing difficulty, and speech impairment. Watching my brother struggle and then being able to overcome these difficulties, as well as seeing other children around him who were not as fortunate, really pushed me even at a young age to make a difference. My family, both immediate and extended, were very supportive, and I felt a real positive push towards working hard to achieve that goal of working in health care. In high school, I was fortunate enough to do a cooperative placement at the Peterborough Regional Health Center’s Intensive Care Unit. Through observing rounds and being in the medical setting, I truly knew this is where I wanted to
The writings of Cervantes may have been influenced by the writings of Shakespeare, Petrarch, etc. regarding concepts such as the story-within-a-story and the tyrannical female image, giving them a spot in the classical genre. However, Don Quixote has received multiple criticism for its style of writing and ambiguity, but of course, like many other authors, Cervantes had a clear reason why there were mini-narratives surrounding the main one. Despite critics’ opinions that the stories in Don Quixote are irrelevant, Cervantes included the stories on purpose to develop Don Quixote’s character through themes such as deception/manipulation and delusion/imagination that are seen in the main narrative and side narratives.
“Death isn’t sad. The sad thing is, most people don’t live at all.”- Socrates. While growing up in Vietnam, I was a boy who just did what everyone else at my age did at the time without much of a second thought. I played sports, games, and read comic books with the kids around the neighborhood without any goals of my own. Everything seemed dull, and passion was a word I had never understood. My parents were both doctors in Vietnam so there was always a sense of pressure from everyone around me expecting me to be like my parents. I never really cared to plan that far ahead in my life, and I did not have a passion for being a doctor either. After all, I was just a boy in elementary who loved to eat Choco Pie and did anything to keep myself occupied
I decided to watch Todo Lo Que Tu Quieras. The main character, Leo, is a mediator, and married to Alicia. They have a four year old daughter named Dafne. Alicia takes Dafne to the park, and has a seizure on the bench. She passes away leaving Leo to care for Dafne.
As I walked through the halls, people knew; and people glared at me with curiosity glowing through their eyes - piercing me like shards of broken glass. I never knew it was so intriguing seeing, or even knowing someone who had been through a major surgery; but I guess it would be fun to know those things from another person 's perspective, one who has never had the audacity to learn what it 's like to go through those things, let alone to know how it feels to go through it themselves. Even my own friends, were curious. And I will be honest, it 's not a nice thing to be asked every hour of every day where you went or what happened; when you were still crying and traumatized about what had happened. It 's definitely not nice to learn after a while that everyone was talking behind my back and slowly making fun of me as the days went by. The names they called became much more clearer as I noticed the people who I thought were my friends, betray
Being at a hospital for medical reasons is a very different feeling than just being there. While I was sick and had to be hospitalized, I felt like the people who were enlisted to my wellbeing, were going to give me the upmost respect and give me their full attention. I was also overcome with a feeling of safety while staying at the hospital. I tried digging deep into my emotions