Lup Medrano Character Analysis

Clarkston became home for many of refugees all over the world. Clarkston being stuck in its southern ways, many residents raised in Clarkston felt that the refugees changed its community, and some others accommodated to the new sudden change. Noticing the separation, many refugee families stayed to their selves to avoid any confrontations. Coming from war countries which made them flee from their homes, also having to live with these traumatic experiences left many refugees to be self- conscious. Finding it hard to adjust to their new lives in Clarkston Luma helped many families because they couldn’t turn too many residents in Clarkston for help because of their inability to speak English or just because of their ethics. In Warren St. John’s

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In the story “Marble Champ,” By Gary Soto, the main character Lupe Medrano is a role model for kids my age. Lupe is a role model because she is hardworking at things that she does, she shows sportsmanship, and she is intelligent.

The Mirabal sisters are three revolutionaries, who were greatly involved in the overthrow of Rafael Trujillo, the dreadful dictator in the Dominican Republic. These courageous sisters at a young age observed countless flaws in Trujillo's regime, including his overpowering nature and the establishment of numerous unjust reforms. Moreover, the Mirabals recognised that it was their obligation to assist and support this revolution in order to terminate this terrible regime, so the sisters immersed themselves into the revolution becoming, Las Mariposas. The sisters were obliged to abandon their children and eventually sacrificed their own lives for this rebellion. However, the sisters are viewed as selfish by numerous people because they abandoned

“One, two, three…” she groaned. By the end of the first set she was breathing hard, and her muscles burned from exhaustion. “The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto, Lupe learns to never give up when trying to reach her goal. Lupe learns this by, never stop practicing, and she never stopped trying even though the competitors were getting harder.

In “The Fourth State of Matter” Jo Ann Beard portrays a perspective of the shooting of the physics department at the University of Iowa that not everyone knows about. A look at the relationships and some of the tension with the shooter and the people the shooter interacted with.

Walking down through the tunnel of the Hershey Arena has been one of my most decorated moments in my high school career. Last March I had the amazing opportunity of reaching the State Tournament for wrestling. Not only was it the first time I have reached the state tournament, but also Scranton Prep’s first wrestler.

Lupe Medrano a shy girl who was bad at sports, wanted to be the marble champ. Lupe is the main character in the story “The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto and she is a great role model and that can be hard because not everyone is a role model. She is a role model because she is hardworking, a good sport, and she is very intelligent.

What exactly is a good leader and how should they be? In the readings, by Christine de Pizan The Treasure of the City of Ladies and another by Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince. They both talk about how a prince and a princess should act upon their people. For Pizan she talks about how a princess should be kind hearted and accepting towards her people. She should act like this sho that they will help her whenever she is need. Then for Machiavelli he talks about how a prince should show no fear instead for him to show that he is the one with power. That a prince's people should fear him. Both authors go on to talk on how their people react based on the prince and princesse act. The authors then go on to explain how they should view and run their people. Both authors also reflect the fact that the way their people are going to act towards them is mainly based off of how they treat them. The authors go into how gender plays a big role on how they should act upon their people and how their people should accept them. There are many factors that go towards one being a good leader or a bad leader. That is what exactly the authors Pizan and Machiavelli explained in their readings.

In the beginning of the story, we notice how Lupe learns that hard work pays off. For instance, she started doing push-ups on her fingers every day which made her fingers stronger and stronger. She also started squeezing erasers as hard as she could to build muscle in her thumb. After doing these things she got ten times better at shooting marbles.

This chapter describes the beginning of Luma’s life in Decatur Georgia. Luma finds a job waiting on tables, and eventually start looking for a job as a soccer coach. She found a job coaching an all girls soccer team at Decatur-Dekalb YMCA. Luma’s practice routines were strict and many of her players ' ' and their mothers complained and or left. However the players who were insistent on staying had seen an elevation in the team’s performance. Luma then wanted to start her own business, she got aid from the some of her players mothers at the YMCA and a group of investor, and in 2003 Luma started Ashton’s. Sadly Ashton’s wasn’t as successful as Luma hoped. Luma started working more hours due to the lack of money. One day on one of Luma’s trips

Do you ever have a hard time being determined and never giving up? In the short story called “Marble Champ”, written By: Gary Soto, Lupe has to be very determined to reach her goal of being good at the sport marbles. What the famous Michael Jordan said is: “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But, I can’t accept not trying .”

Have you ever met someone that keeps trying to be good at something and wants to be perfect like the other kids in the school? In The Marble Champ by Gary Soto Lupe Medrano is always challenging herself to try new things. First Lupe challenged herself to try new sports. Another Lupe challenged herself to practice a whole lot. Lastly Lupe challenged herself to exercise.