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Luis Rodriguez Research Paper

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Luis J. Rodriguez went from being a gang member to governor, he is a 60 year old chicano and also a best selling author. He was a member of a gang and faced felony charges also struggled with drug addiction. Also Luis has some good things he has done such as work in various countries as a journalist, painted murals, organized against war and racism and ran a cultural center and bookstore in Los Angeles. From going through that his whole life since he was 11 years old he started to realize that a lot of stuff started happening to his friends more than him like getting shot or someone getting killed by a type of drug but it was not really affecting him the world would always save him but he never realized what it was. He was losing family and …show more content…

Then he got kicked out of school when he turned 15 years old so practically when he was in high school. When Luis turned 18 he was a facing a 6 year prison sentence and he lost many friends he said he wanted to die because of that and he mentioned that's when he realized the world kept saving him from all the gunshots he never got shot. Rodriguez mentioned he had a world of books, he said “reading books a whole world opens up to you even though your world is limited”. That's when he knew he wanted to start writing by reading all those books and he decided to write a book on his own about his life and how he wants to become …show more content…

Health is not a luxury and you cannot live and work and pay bills if you're not healthy. Luis also calls for arts , culture and creative economy to be accesible to everyone. He said " all people need art because we do not just material poverty but poverty of imagination a poverty of dreaming and of vision". To me I'd say you don't need art just because all people choose whether or not they do what they want to do it's their world but yet they do have that little imagination in there and plus most people don't like art they think it's not for them although I really like art but i don't think i'll be good at it unless I try but i don't think art is for me

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