I thought the Mexicans just migrated to the U.S. because their government was bad to them. And then I found out that they moved to the U.S. because of water and jobs and better resources. ... Over the past century, Mexican migrants were negatively selected: those who left Mexico usually had less education and fewer skills than the average Mexican, and most of the Mexicans who arrived had their first US jobs in seasonal agriculture (Martin 1993). ... She came because of my mom came and the reason that my mom came was because my dad died and she wanted to forget everything bad like all the mem...

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• Grade Level: High School

As children we all want our parents to feel pleased and accepted for who we are. ... Her father constantly told Cisneros how he wanted her to grow up according to the Mexican culture. However the Mexican culture did not support women working. ... Her father only wanted her to go to college to find a good husband. ... When I read this I felt sorry for Cisneros. ...

• Word Count: 716
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• Grade Level: High School

The book I read was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street is a book about culture of Chicanos, also known as Mexican Americans. ... The house on Mango Street was not what she wanted, but is what she could get. ... Which is bad for Esperanza because the Mexicans don't like their women to be strong. ... People from out side the neighborhood walk in the neighborhood scared because they think Mango Street is a dangerous block and some one will hurt them just because there are a lot of Mexicans they think badly about the neighborhood...

• Word Count: 483
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• Grade Level: High School

Mexicans also stayed on the farm with them in the barn. ... The Mexicans worked from farm to farm all year around. ... The novel didn't state it, but I assume the Mexicans were uneducated also. ... I think if the Mexicans were educated they could have ran their own business and maybe even had their own farms. ... All of the Chandlers in one way or another had their only little plan on how they wanted to escape. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This movie takes places in Morocco, North America, Mexico and Tokyo. ... Amelia who has a family in Mexico is babysitting the two kids of Richard and Susan. ... A rifle that was handed to a Moroccan guide named Hassan only because the Japanese tourist wanted to be generous. ... I believe this is a cause of being vulnerable and not having many options. ... The other tourists felt that the village that they were being held at wasn't safe for them so they wanted to leave, as quickly as they could. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Bless Me, Ultima I enjoyed reading Rudolfo A Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima because it show the many different religions and beliefs people have and the conflict they deal with in everyday life. The story starts in the past in the mid 1940's, during and after the World War II in Guadalupe, New Mexico. ... Maria his mother was a daughter of a farmer and a catholic and wanted Antonio to be a priest. ...

• Word Count: 341
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

I grew up in a small neighborhood in Santa Fe, New Mexico with my family. ... I knew that she didn't want me living in poverty when I grew older. ... When I turned 14, I got offered a scholarship to attend a private school with Caitlin. ... I got offered a job at New York which I took immedialtely, after I graduated from Harvard. ... She asked me if I wanted to come to Venice to spend a week with her. ...

• Word Count: 481
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The first example of the power men have in this book is when Esperanza comments, "The Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong (p10)." Mexican males don't want any competition between themselves and their women and if the question of who has the power ever arises, it is explained with forcefulness of words or aggression that more often than not lead to violence. ... Many Latinos want to escape this way of life but few do because of lack of money for further education or a house in a decent neighborhood. ... I want to be Like the waves on the sea, Like the clouds...

• Word Count: 1127
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• Grade Level: High School

Many great personality characteristic traits, traits that I believe to be far more important factor in the Hispanic culture, really shined through in this movie. ... From the time Selena was very little, Selena and her siblings demonstrated what I believe to be a strong Hispanic trait, respect for their familia. ... Selena responds, "when I am on stage I feel like I can be anyone I want to be". ... first of all I would like to thank my family, my dad who is my manager, my brother......my sister....." ... After being turned away from a "gig" because they were Mexican and being offered a to...

• Word Count: 582
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• Grade Level: High School

Homosexual couples have spent the last ten, twenty or fifty years with that person - and want to honor their relationship in the greatest way our society has to offer, by making a public commitment to stand together in good times and bad, through all the joys and challenges family life brings. Many others want the right to marry because they are parents and know that marriage offers children a vital safety net, guaranteeing them protections that unmarried parents never could. ... A county in New Mexico has also issued marriage licenses to applicants of the same gender. ... This is supporte...

• Word Count: 1093
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He ethnicity is Mexican and Caucasian. ... Appetite decreases between ages 2 and 6 Cashius plays on a tiny tots baseball team and I was able to watch his first game. He was so excited, I could see his anticipation. ... He didn't want to be told what to do or where to go. ...

• Word Count: 460
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Esperanza was Hispanic, raised by a Mexican family. ... "You want to know why I quit school? Because I didn't have nice clothes. No clothes, but I had brains. ... I was a smart cookie then" (Cisneros 91). ...

• Word Count: 722
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"My Grandmother, she was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse- which is supposed to be bad luck if you are born a female- but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong."... I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn't be all the things she wanted to be.... She doesn't want to sit and look out the window her whole life. She doesn't want to have a man throw a sack over her head and make her marry him. She doesn't want her life to become a life fu...

• Word Count: 1121
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

People think it will be easy to accomplish it, but they have no idea what people who come here to America go through to accomplish where they want to be, and sometimes they don't achieve their goals. I interviewed my grandmother Maria and she told me her perspective of the American dream and everything she did to try and accomplish her goal. ... Maria didn't only leave her home (Mexico) for a better education, for herself as well. ...

• Word Count: 690
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Also Esperanza's father said,Nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad.? ... People make fun of her name, and she thinks it sounds like something from a Mexican song that her father plays while he shaves (10). ... People who come to her neighborhood want to leave because it frightens them by being so run down and dirty (28). ... Which I think would make her feel positive about herself. ... I feel it will take a lot for Esperanza to overcome all the horrifying experiences that have happened over the past 13 years of her life. ...

• Word Count: 905
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• Grade Level: High School

In the quote, " accept in her father's name the old gringo she wanted to see and listen to, not as a journalist, but as a military man lost in action, lost in the desert with no comfort but hers, his compatriot imbued with notion of military honor and of the succor due compatriots in a foreign land" (72). ... She pulls away and says, "Don't you know I wanted to save you in order to save my own father from a second death Don't you know that with Arroyo I could be like my father, free, and sensual, but that in you I have a father. ... Arroyo respected the old gringo's wis...

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• Grade Level: High School

With a revenge driven heart, Horace Clarke wanted to kill those who killed his father. ... As for Greybill's writing style, I enjoyed most, as I stated before, the author creates a cinematic experience for the reader to enjoy by adding dialogue in important events. ... As far as Greybill weaknesses, I felt that Greybill went of on a tangent a time or two. ... As far as the content itself I was very satisfied with the storytelling. ... I feel that these readers would enjoy this story of a different type of family around the late 1800s. ...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School