watch a completely unfamiliar world appear as we traveled deeper into Mexico. We saw run-down shacks that were probably smaller than my bathroom where entire families lived. There were a large number of police cars, men with guns running through the streets and homeless people sitting on the sidewalks with all their belongings beside them. After four long leg-stiffing hours we arrived to our mission site in Monclova, Mexico. The days at our working site
In December 2014, I went to Mexico. Going to Mexico is nothing new to me since I go there often. But that year was different from all the other years. Usually I go to Mexico to visit my family down there and to explore new places, I never imagined that I’d be helping other people while I was down there. I guess it all started when we crossed the border to get in Mexico. I’d see people out in the streets, begging for money or some food. Some people, usually guys, would wipe your windows when you
my life an exciting turn… I was born in Mexico City but at the age of three, I moved to Cancun. I was raised in a family where the bible is something fundamental; therefore, my parents were always seeking to learn more profoundly about it. That was the main reason they decided to immigrate to Israel, where most of the Bible events took place. The day I found out I was moving somewhere else, I remember being in my room playing with
There I was standing 3ft 6in in Mexico. Green spray can in hand hands covered with the awkward green I found laying by my grandfather’s old farm truck. Surrounded by people I didn’t know or could fully understand at the time. I was away for vacation in Durango, Mexico for the first time, spray painting everything and anything I could find at the school yard. But it’s not for the reason the reason you think, I was 7 years old in a foreign country trying to understand my grandfather’s language. I knew
portraits. Born in Coyoacán, a former small village on the outskirts of Mexico City, she was one of the four daughters to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican-Indian descent. Kahlo’s life began and ended in Mexico City, in her family’s home — La Casa Azul or the Blue House. In 1922, Kahlo became one of the few female students to attend the pre-med program at the National Preparatory School in Mexico, she was known among others for her jovial spirit, as well as her love of
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. Project Gutenberg, 2006, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm . This autobiographical book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass focuses on exposing the atrocities that enslaved people suffered every day while enlightening our knowledge on the religion practices of the time. This narrative also exposes Douglass’s transformation from ignorance to knowledge, as Douglass understood the crucial
strategy to fix a problem there are always other ways to solve a problem. In the book Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, McDougall writes about the journey he encounters in Mexico and how he took part in the greatest race the world has never seen which all started with a question: Why does my foot hurt? McDougall takes a narrative approach as he tries to get answers after being told he cannot run anymore after suffering a painful injury. As McDougall looks for answers he discovers the Tarahumara Indians
Netflix is one of the premier international platforms for streaming media and is more recently gaining favour with their original programming. House of Cards (cite), Orange Is The New Black(cite), and Daredevil (cite) have all been throttled into popularity by the internet giant and have gone on to win several awards (CITE). With over 4000 reviews on Netflix, one such original show, Sense8 is a science fiction television series that follows the stories of eight strangers and is defined by its immersive
story of two families: the Darrells, who are transplanted from New England and the Alamars, who are landed gentry from Mexico. Through the narration of the characters’ tumultuous struggles over social status, personal integrity, and property, Ruiz challenges the social norms of her time. This essay demonstrates how Ruiz pushes the restrictions of place and time through her narrative. The first sign of Ruiz challenging social borderlines is seen in her introduction of the Alamar family. Don Mariano
of view, the personal aspect of conflict deals with minimizing “the destructive effects of social conflict and to maximize its potential for growth in the person as an individual human being” (p. 24). Alex Lopez was at the heart of this conflict that changed the lives of so many. Yet he was still fighting the good fight nearly fifteen years later. Since the end of the strike, Lopez “had been riding the Steelworkers’ southwest circuit—as staff representative in Arizona and New Mexico, district director