Elizabeth Rodriguez Book Report

Steven comes from a very hard and, low income neighborhood. Ada was born and raised in New York but her parents are from Dominican Republic Santiago. Ada is 35 years old she’s a very nice person but didn’t have a job because of her drug

Two years after she retired from writing in the year 2000, she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire. For Pilcher, writing helped her escape from her daily life, and that it saved her marriage. Her breakthrough would not come until the late eighties, when she released “The Shell Seekers”, a novel that sold over five million copies around the world. It also stayed on New York Times bestseller lists for months, as did

Who is Cecilia Gallegos? Cecilia Gallegos is a little too complex to describe in a mere essay, I’ve been pondering this question for years but the answer is simple, I am Cecilia Gallegos. I was born one cold late night of the last year of the 20th Century, I was 3 minutes from being named after my Grandma Ramona almost being born on her birthday, luckily I was born at 11:57 pm and was named Cecilia instead. I am the youngest of 5 parented by Jose and Cecilia, three sisters and one brother. Enough about my family, this essay is an autobiography and it is all about me.

My childhood was not most would consider to be easy. Both my mother and father had addiction issues that forced my younger brother and I to care for ourselves. By the time I reached the fifth grade, I had attended five different elementary schools. On the days that I did actually go to school, I was not on time. A few years later, I moved in with my grandparents, and my entire life improved.

Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born on December 12, 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. She was born into a very well off family as the fourth of five kids. Growing up Dorothy was a very athletic person and very invested in her education she went to Smith College which is a liberal arts college in Massachusetts. After Dorothy got out of college she traveled to Chile, Panama, Peru, Cuba, and Argentina with her father. When she came back from South America she only lived back in her hometown, Kansas City, Missouri for a couple months.

She has recently moved to the area at the start of the year and began preschool over the summer which she attends 5 days a week. The pre-school is an ECCE (Early Childhood Care and Education) community run pre-school in a quiet country side village within the grounds of a primary school. Emily is

Maria was a senior in high school. Her plans after high school was to go to lone star college to do 2 years of basics, then transfer to Sam Houston University. Maria was excited to graduate high school because she was going to be to be the first child of her family to get a high school diploma but also be the first one of her family to go to college. Maria had big dreams.

“Maria Padian was born in New York, but when she was five years old she moved to “the country” which was New Jersey in 1960. She grew up on an acre of land and was allowed to roam with her brother.” ( Padian) Both of her parents immigrated to the U.S. “Her father was Irish and her mother Spanish. She didn’t even learn English until she was five years old. Maria Padian says that her mother was like J.Lo, beautiful, a great dancer, and a lot of fun.

Cadence Sinclair goes to her family 's private island every summer, and is reunited with her two cousins, Mirren and Johnny, and their friend, Gat. Together, they earned the title, the liars. During summer fourteen, Cadence and Gats relationship takes off, and they become very close, so naturally she cannot wait to see him again the next summer. After cadence’s dad leaves her and her mom, she remains hopeful for summer fifteen, but when she arrives, she finds out that Gat has a girlfriend. Summer fifteen was also when her accident happened.

Haiti; country W. Indies on W Hispaniola; a republic, the factual definition of Haiti, but if someone were to ask me my definition of Haiti, I would say Home. Five years ago I fell in love. I was a fourteen-year-old going on my first mission trip ever, but little did I know I would return five times before I turned eighteen. The second we landed in Haiti I knew that it was different. People who had been there before told me how poor the country is, but I just brushed it off and thought,

While living in Indonesia, Barack attended Catholic and Muslim schools. After moving away from Hawaii, Barack only saw his father once, due to his father’s return to Kenya, where he worked for a US oil company and the Kenyan government. In 1982, Barack Obama Sr. was killed in a car accident, at the age of 46. Ann, Barack’s mother then moved her family back to Hawaii to attend graduate school in 1974. However, she returned back to Indonesia in 1977.

Alina Diaz-Hernandez passed peacefully at home on Thursday, November 4, 2103 in Providence, R.I. at the age of 100. Alina is survived by her spouse, Francisca J. Hernandez Ruiz, her best friend, Elhaisha Tatis, her brother, Elias Diaz, her children and grandchildren, Rosalinda Bella Hernandez Rodriguez, Mariela Angelee Hernandez Mendez, and Jose Antonio Hernandez Mendez. She is preceded in death by her mom ,Leonor Anginette Contreras Guillen, her father, Elvis Diaz, her step father, Jeury Tavares , and her brother Derek Diaz and step brother Deury Tavares. Everyone above was/is a resident of Providence, R.I.

In the readings of Martha Menchaca it is similar and an in-depth history we have learned thus far in lecture. When we talked about the entradas we discussed some of the conquistadores and explorers that went through Mexico and parts now known to be the United States like Cabeza de Vaca, and Juan de Onate. Menchaca mentions these in her text as well, when she gives a short summary of Cabeza de Vaca which’s journey was a beginning to many other explorers to follow. Which is an important mark because this goes along with her narrative of these people’s actions, she is not defending them nor denying them acknowledge that they took part of our history not like other’s that fail to mention this part of history.

Narciso Rodriguez was born January 27th, 1961 in New Jersey. He is the son of Narciso Sr. and Rawedia Maria who are Cuban immigrants. Rodriquez is the oldest of three children, and the only boy. When he was in elementary school, he developed his liking to sketch. By the time he was in high school, he was taking art classes and was an apprentice with a tailor.

“Where are you from?” is a common question people ask if you look ethnically mysterious. Being a different race with unique facial features shows you are, not what they call in the United States “American”. Evelyn Alsultany was born and raised in New York City. Her ethnicity is Arab from her father's side and Cuban from her mother's side. She describes the social issue, she confronts the way people approach her creating assumptions, consequently making her feel excluded from her cultural background.