Book Report On Enrique's Journey By Nazario

The author also does not discuss how the title of the film is meant to demonstrate how even though the issue of immigration is on the rise, that we all are still under the same moon; meaning that at the end of it all we are all the same. Thus, when the author states the plot fails to address immigration she is incorrect, the film does address immigration but does it in a subtle way, without shoving a political agenda in their audience

By her doing this, he claims that she had dishonored him. Mulan's father tells her that it would be an honor for him to be in this war. He would be protecting his country and his family's honor. In the beginning of the movie, Mulan is getting ready with the help of a few ladies. These ladies tell Mulan some of the things that they think she should have to bring honor to her family.

The anonymous mother is the main speaker in this poem, who gives a powerful statement, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair (Hughes, 1922). " She stated this in the beginning and at the end of the poem to allow the readers as well as her son to believe that, life is filled with different obstacles and can never be an easy journey to success. People are forcing themselves to give up based on a negative impact, but the speaker is telling them, to keep moving forward; Always stay positive. Readers know this because, she expresses, "It's had tacks in it/

Persepolis Reflective Statement In the graphic novel Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi incorporates the theme of rebellion throughout the novel. She emphasizes that rebellion is key to her coming of age story and is important to everyone’s coming of age story. The first sign of rebellion is when she wants to be a prophet, women didn’t work, let alone become prophets, she establishes in this moment that she was different from everyone else. Her parents play an important role in her rebellion, they encourage her to rebel, to be “avant garde” (6/1).

According to “Life After Bully” by Hannah Rand Alex Libby collected money to make some t-shirts that said “I stand for the silent.” “Turning E-Waste Into E-Treasure” claims that Alex Lin collected E-Waste, refurbished it and sold it to other people. Teen activists need to be hard working and give hope to people affected by the bad things in life. The second reason that teen activists need to be hardworking is that they have to go all the way to the big men/women in the court to change laws about their cause.

Sanchez now a Gardner, meets his wife to be Maria, a domestic care taker; soon after marries; starts a family, then while she's pregnant with two of her children during the depression period, the United States government rounds up Mexican families regardless to whether they were citizens or not including Mrs. Sanchez and her two children. However, Mrs. Sanchez a legal citizen refused to be stopped from returning to the United States and eventually, makes her way back to her family. The Great Depression period was a very hostile moment towards immigrants in American history, a time when jobs were scarce and the economy was weak. Trickledown economics and a work shortage is what I believed triggered the hostile xenophobic response.

Suyuan’s American Dream starts in her heart when she decides to escape from the chaotic China and find a better life by immigrating to America. However, she loses her two babies on the way to Chungking. American Dream means different things for different people. Suyuan has fulfilled her American Dream in a certain degree by trying to provide her daughters with successful, blissful and better lives. First of all, Suyuan left Kweilin for Chungking in order to find her husband and avoid the Japanese.

In Persepolis, Marji molds her own home in adulthood by forcing herself to become a rebellious individual. During a time of heavy crisis in her country, Marji decided to steal a cigarette from her uncle. As the reality of her country’s state dawned on her, Marji realized she needed to create a safe home in order to survive. Satrapi wrote, “I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother’s dictatorship by smoking the cigarette I’d stolen” (117). Satrapi’s use of the verb “sealed” represents the fact that she has detached herself from childhood through her own actions.

In “Two ways to Belong in America” there are the two sisters that have to interact with the country that they’ve chosen to live. The author contrasts her American lifestyle to her sister’s Indian traditional life. When a new legislation that stimulated citizenship to legal immigrant living in the US was passed, both sisters had different reactions. Starting with Mira saying “I feel manipulated and discarded. This is such an unfair way to treat a person who was invited to stay and work here because of her talent.”

The theme of “My Favorite Chaperone” by Jean Davies Okimoto is, that life in America gives us more opportunities and is a place that can give us hope. In the exposition of the story Aunt Madinia marries a man from America named Bob Campbell which is how they end up coming to America so, they can be closer to Aunt Madinia. The conflict is that Mya wants permission to go to the dance. One day at school Mya is called to the front office because, Nurzhan has gotten into a fight at his school and they need Mya to call one of her parents to come talk about this. Mya is able to reach her father.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman is the story of multiple teenagers who’s parents have decided to unwind them. After the second Civil War, they decided to make abortion illegal, but you could unwind them once they reached 13. Nobody knows how unwinding happens, except for the unwinds. It’s basically a process of separating your organs, so they can be donated to people who need them. When someone is unwound they don’t die.

What makes Nora Rodriguez a hero is that she helps Central Americans with their immigration paperwork, according to the text Mayela Sanchez the author of the text states,"... a Honduran woman runs a small business helping Central Americans with their immigration paper". She helps them making them fill out forms and letters so they can be sent to the immigration office. She does this because when she was younger she try to cross to border from Guatemala and Mexico and to th U.S. To make money to send to her to her three children she had, but when she was crossing the border between Guatemala and Mexico, she was assualt and so the thiefs took all her money she had save to use when she was crossing the border. She didn 't have money to continue

She wanted to prove to her family that she could be independent, and that was very important to her. According to page 16 in the book Outcasts United, it states "Luma gave her parents the news by telephone: she was staying in the United States - not for a little while, but forever. Hassan al-Mufleh was devastated. " This quite shows the struggle that Luma had to go through as leaving her family and dealing with the devastated and angered family members. She was also cut-off from family funds so she was living all on her own in a new country of opportunity.

Let’s look at what happen post 9/11. After it’s devastation, the Department of Homeland Security was created to assist in fighting the “war” against terrorism. The DHS implemented many “strategies” to help fight this war, including increasing airport security. American parents protested that TSA agents were groping their kids, and “(Janet) Napolitano (former DHS Secretary) defiantly retorted that if people did not want their children groped, they should yield and use the unpopular full-body machines – the machines being sold by her predecessor, (Michael) Chertoff” (Turley, 3).

¨The Circuit"by Francisco Jimenez is a very good story because it is very descriptive and detailed, entertaining, realistic, and has a good overall message. This story shows the struggles of what it was like to be a bracero. This story proves that in this time bracero families were very poor and were constantly moving so that they could find work. The message in this story is that when life gets tough, push forward.