I interviewed Valente Martinez and I can tell that he is very pleasant. These are some basic facts about him. His nickname is Valentin, but prefers that people call him Valente. He is Mexican, is twenty and is single. He born in July 31, 1996 in Austin Texas. He lives at Austin with his parents since he born. He never moved to another place. Valente wants to become a master mechanic at Nissan and open his own auto shop within 10 years, he chooses that major because he loves fix cars; he hasn’t served for the military, he thought about it but changes his mind because he decided to go to Austin Community College and try it. When I talked to him about the school, he told me that he dislikes reading or writing, do homework, test, or going to school
In Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring, Angela Valenzuela investigates immigrant and Mexican American experiences in education. Valenzuela mentions differences in high schools between U.S born youth and immigrants such as how immigrants she interviewed seemed to achieve in school as they feel privileged to achieve secondary education. However, she found that her study provided evidence of student failure due to schools subtracting resources from these youths. Both are plagued by stereotypes of lacking intellectual and linguistic traits along with the fear of losing their culture. As a Mexican American with many family members who immigrated to the U.S to pursue a higher education, I have experience with Valenzuela’s
There are many things that have molded me into the person I am today such as being born into a family with four children. With three siblings, I have been forced to be able to work out problems from stealing each other’s toys to having to rush to the emergency room to get stiches because my brother chased me around the house and I tripped. My mother, father, brother, and two sisters were all born in Pennsylvania and I am the odd ball and I was born in Adrian, Michigan. From when I was a child I always loved being involved with sports because of my competitive nature. I grew up playing soccer and having success with that but then my love changed and I began playing lacrosse and football. I started playing lacrosse in middle school and played
Growing up in a Mexican household where education isn’t a priority or important has been one of my major obstacles that I’ve had to overcome. Although my family’s culture believes that education isn’t necessary their experiences and lifestyles have influence and motivate my choices for my future. I come from a home where I have no role model or someone influential. I have no one to ask for advice for college or anything involve in school. In most homes, older siblings help their younger siblings with their homework or projects but in my house no one was able to provide me with any help. I grew up to be independent and to do anything school related on my own. My parents are both immigrants who didn’t get to finish elementary
Maybe it’s the fact that I tend to stay in my room all weekend, which leads to people thinking I’m studying when in reality I am probably binge watching a TV show or maybe it’s my glasses, but most people who don’t know me too well assume that I am smart. Now that is a great thing for me because I don’t have to try as hard to impress them, but I end up finding myself in a bit of a problem. The problem is that everyone thinks I enjoy admiring school textbooks. But the truth is I’m usually admiring my Justin Bieber poster on my bedroom wall. Ever since I was in sixth grade I’ve been a huge fan of Bieber. His music always brought a feeling of calmness and back in the day his “never say never” motto, was what I lived by. I might still be living by that motto because I’ve decided to write this essay
When Raquel Ruiz was four she was the happiest little girl in Ambato, Ecuador. She had all her family and her dad whom she really loved with her. Raquel had a big house and all the toys and food she could ever ask for. One night her mother married a wolf in sheep's clothing, her stepfather. He took her and her mom to the United States to live with him. From that moment on her happiness slowly withered away like a ripened banana. She didn’t have a nice house, toys, yummy food, and her dad. Her stepdad was a man with low self esteem and an empty wallet. Raquel saw her mother cry every night because she had been lied to about everything,who he was and how he lived in America. Despite her mother's struggles and emotional pain, her mother left him
“You got him! Nice shot man! You did amazing on it,” my brother congratulated me.
The air hung around them, tensed and quiet. The fragility of her emotion was threatening to shatter. It is as if that time stood still for her. She fingered the brim of her notebook, nervously and took notice of the cup of coffee on her side. Controlling the sudden urged to drown the caffeine all at once; she carefully picked the cup and warily sipped its content. It had long been cold, and her tongue appreciated that fact.
Chris Specht is a program coordinator, accelerating opportunity adjunct instructor which she teaches GED students and adults find a position in the workforce. She also mentioned that she has a great emphasis on grit towards the barriers and difficult that students are facing. The idea of her background and why she focus on helping students is because of the experience that she have been involved in and Chris has been having the same vision of the American Dream even though she’s constantly traveling around the United States and has lived in numerous states such as Nashville, Tennessee and she has the opportunity to travel constantly because her husband is a civil engineer so she stated that her American dream has been stable regardless to moving to different states. Education has been an important component and element in her life and allowed her to be educator today because of
I, Destinee Belle De La Cruz come from a mixed multicultural and multi-racal background. My mother immigrated to America from Dominican Republic, when she was about 3 years old. She grew up in a Spanish speaking household and growing up in the lower east side of manhattan, which is predominantly a Spanish majority area of New York, she grew up very immersed in the Dominican culture. My father on the other hand, as I, comes from a mixed background, as my fathers mother is white, of Irish decent, and my fathers dad, is of African American decent. My fathers parents are both from the south, Virginia, and they moved to New York City together in their early 20’s as there relationship was not accepted by the people in the south, nor their families.
It is a pleasure to write a letter of recommendation for Andres Kardonski. I have known Andres as a student for many years, and I have been his high school counselor since the 9th grade. Andres is extremely bright and gifted. He is the youngest in a family of four boys whom all have graduated at Balboa Academy. Andres is the kind of student that loves a challenge. Since an early age, he has performed much better if he is placed in rigorous and challenging classes. If you look at his transcripts, he has done better last year and this year, when he has been able to choose the classes he finds more difficult. Last year, he took three AP classes, which is the limit for students to take without having to be approved by the director. Andres
In high school, Shae was just like every student. She played sports, participated in FFA, Student Council and other school activities. She loved high school. Shae had many friends and thought of herself as “popular.” As high school started to come to an end, she was worried about graduating. She was scared that everything would change in her life. When graduation day arrived, she was so excited but again, she was scared. As she walked across the stage to receive her diploma, her anxiety started to disappear. She was no longer only worried about everything changing in her life, she was worried about college too. Shae’s family has always dreamed of her going to college because her parents never went. They wanted her to go so bad that she felt
The alarm clock wakes me up around 7:30 a.m. The sun is already trying to sneak into my room. I do not think that El Paso has a much time living in the darkness. The scintillating sun does not leave until 9 p.m.
I chose Henrique Oliveira as my artist to present because all of his artwork intrigued me from the moment I looked at them. I felt a connection with the work which I feel is one of Henrique’s goals for his work. I realized as I was looking at a piece there was always something that I had not seen before every time I would move my eyes due to so much detail. I had to invest my time in looking at it to attempt to catch it all. This effect along with being able to have guest engage with instillations has brought Oliveira major popularity. Oliveira works in three different mediums, which he displays on his website, in the forms of paintings, sculpture, and large instillations. Oliveira truly brings his creative touch to life with his art by creating images and 3-D work that is crazy to have ever been imagined or even thought to be possible to make; making him a true artist in my opinion.
Perhaps my most gratifying research experience was also my biggest research obstacle. During my early undergraduate research in Professor Paul Sternberg’s Lab, I had grown to learn how to communicate science, determine the important experiments to conduct and obtain the necessary laboratory skills. These experiences came from my project in engineering C. elegans to express a photosensitive archaea proton pump in the mitochondrial membrane to explore how we can engineer a more efficient strain of C. elegans. In this process, I learned to construct plasmids using molecular biology and learned to introduce these genetic changes by injections and genetic crosses. Each successive step, I learned to troubleshoot and optimize. The hardest task to
He went into the military, the Mexican Air Force to be exact, he was the one the people that jumped off of helicopters with his parachute, but after several injuries, a broken leg, arm twice, he was discharged because in the Mexico you were no longer useful in the military if you had broken bones. Since there was no money to take him to a proper doctor after he was discharged my father had to take care of his broken leg himself, it was his last injury from his air force years, there were no pain killers there were no proper casts, he told me that he got two planks of wood and tied one on the right side of his leg and one on the left side of his leg. As soon as his leg recovered he went off to college with the money he had saved from the years of working in the military. His goal was to improve the living conditions for his mother, who had given up so much for him and his siblings. He got his degree as a math teacher and a physical education teacher, he thought that having two majors would increase his chance of getting a job. In order to become a teacher in Mexico, after you complete your four years in college and pay for them, you had to pay for something called "plaza" with is a teaching slot, it's a document that allows you to teach in a school; however, they are really