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It provided her with the will to want to strive for a better future. A future that she can be proud of. In the end, Esperanza is young and has hopes of one day leaving the house on Mango St. She has hopes of changing the same narrative that to many Chicanas fall victim 's too. Esperanza has hopes of becoming someone of significance.

In 10 years she thinks that she will be in college to be a nurse. She 'll also try to live on her own, but if not she 'll still live with her parents. To prepare for being a nurse and college, she is taking a human body system class. She hates to see people hurt or sick. "I want to be a hero,"

What this image is trying to convey is that society makes certain rules on how to act and who to be that as a black woman she forgets who she is. Simpson is trying to

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is an influential book that teaches a simple lesson: life is not perfect, but we can still find our happy ending. Hurston demonstrates this by following the life of Janie Crawford. Janie is a headstrong African American who is caught up in the mess of early 20th century America attempting to get used to living with free African Americans. Additionally she must decide for herself what it means to love another person, discover who she is, and thereby, what she wants. Even though Janie is born after the American Civil War, she lives in a society still learning to come to terms with the reality of civil equality.

My mother says and sighs. She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an

These two sisters have grown together all through their life’s, creating a strong bound, and the fact that her family and a “old guy” is taking away her sister is something she can’t stand. In the end Nea believes that she is saving Sourdi from Mr.Chhay and her mother. However what Nea does not understand in all her youth and idealism , is that sourdi does not want to be saved: She willfully accepts her fate and her marriage to Mr.Chhay because she finds financial stability and a secure future.

This means that the stories are not true, but they could happen in real life. Taylor leaves home and goes on a journey to start her new life. This could happen because she is a believable character in a real life setting. In My Sister’s Keeper, Anna is a 13 year old girl with a sick sister. Her family is the typical American family.

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Remembering back to preschool playing doctor with Mrs. Eischens, I knew becoming a pediatric nurse wasn’t

She had grown up with two sisters, her mother, grandmother, and uncle. West mother was a single young parent who went through many hardships with relationships, drug, alcohol, and physical abuse. Shaquile mother took care of her up until she wasn 't stable to care for Shaquile. Tracy took care of Shaquile from the age of one month to four years old. West had problems with her development stages, she did not develop as normally, mostly due to her mother not having time to show or teach things that she needs to know as a toddler.

To Da-Duh in Memoriam is about an adult’s life story (the narrator) as she looks back on a childhood memory from the year 1937. The recollection of this memory focuses on the trip she took as a nine year old girl to meet her grandmother, named Da-Duh, for the first time. She travels from New York to a Barbados and is accompanied by her mother and her sister. The visit makes a great impact on Dah-Duh and the girl (the narrator) as they develop a loving, yet competitive, relationship. There is a competitive edge to their conversations because they each try to outdo each other on the virtues of where they each call home.

Ms. Arviso Rodriguez is planning to continue her education with a master degree in Education. She grew up with her parents and aunt speaking Spanish, so she was placed in ESL classes in elementary school from 1st to 5th grade. Ms. Arviso is considered a heritage bilingual student. Please,

After high school, Kerri traveled away to college to Texas Christian University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Then she received a Master’s degree in occupational therapy from Washington University. Later on, she pursued a PhD in movement science from Washington University. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the occupational therapy program at her alma mater, Washington University. She teaches an introductory course on assistive technology, along with mentoring students and conducting research.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25th 1954 in the South Bronx area of New York to parents Juan and Celina Baez Sotomayor. Her parents who were of Puerto Rican descent moved their family to New York for a better opportunity for their children. Her parents worked hard to make a living her mother was a nurse a methadone clinic and her father worked with his hands and the family lived modestly within their means. Justice Sotomayor was diagnosed with type one diabetes at the age of seven and began taking insulin shot’s, shortly after her father died in 1963 when she was nine, leaving her mother as a single parent, during her upbringing her mother Celina placed a huge emphasis on the importance of education, pushing her children to become

" The Clique," by Lisi Harrison is based on the life of 4 very wealthy girls and a girl that comes to live in their neighborhood, Claire. Claire is not as wealthy as all the other girls, Massie, Kristen, Dylan and Alicia. Massie 's parent own a guest home and that is where the new girl Claire moves in with her family. In the book Claire tries so hard to be a part of Massie 's clique, but the girls do not really like her.