Marta Salinas Short Story Charles

In Martha’s personal narrative, “The Scholarship Jacket,” Martha Salinas shares her experience when she has earned the scholarship jacket but almost loses it to a less deserving peer. In the beginning, 14 year old Martha, is attending in a small Texas school in 8th grade. Martha knows she would get the scholarship jacket because she has earned straight A’s for the past 8 years. Forgetting her PE bag in one of her classrooms, she overhears a conversation between her history teacher, Mr.Schmidt, and Mr. Boone, her math teacher. When she hears they were arguing about her and who would get the scholarship jacket, Martha became shocked and ran.

One home remedy that I remember that my Mexican grandmother, called guelita, does, is that she would always use an egg and plant, called ruta, and will begin to rub both the plant and the egg all around our whole family’s body. As a kid I remember each time I spend the night over at my guelita’s house, she will grab an egg and a piece of the ruta plant and tell to stand still, so she can start rubbing the egg and plant all over my body every time right before I go to sleep. And every time I ask her why does she do that, she explains to me is that, all she is doing is blessing me and getting rid of any bad spirits or the evil eye from me and that it will also help me get a good night sleep in the night. To me the whole thing is something I don’t really believe in but glad that my guelita cares about her

I agree with what you say about de las Casas "narratives were only effective to an extent. " I think it was admirable what he did do because the atrocities may have continued for much longer had he not spoke up. In speaking up, Casa was "accused of treason and even endured charges of heresy" (Bartolome De Las Casas 39). Casas went into seclusion for 7 years and then returned to political activity after which time, laws began to take effect to protect the Indians (39). I see de las Casas as an early activist and social reformer.

Hi Kimberly, I appreciate how genuinely you stated that it is very difficult to address all the issues in Maria 's story. The issue of immigration is complex and it generates a multitude of events. It is for this reasons that topics such as the health care and the immigration are the still on the debates table of elections for the last decades. Merjona

“ Help me help me please I 've been shot” - Selena Perez. Those were her last words before she died 3 minutes later. When the cops and ambulance finally got there she was laying in her trucks seat dead. They were sad and little mad and had to find her killer. Her killer ended up being her fan club president, Yolanda Saldívar.

"Once a man has won a woman 's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. "~Robert Brault. That 's how the plot went in the story of "Romeo and Juliet".

Waking up Amy felt the discomfort of pressure in her throat. Her groggy mind trying to remember what had happened, a flash of a memory -almost dreamlike- skated across her mind. Tires sliding across wet asphalt, the rush of the dense green forest racing by in a disorienting display, the ear piercing, stomach churning sound of metal on metal. Her eyes snapped open taking in her surroundings, the EKG machine giving a sound to her erratic racing heart. The room looked like your typical hospital room and even had the terrible sterile smell.

Journal Entry # 6 Miriam Zoila Perez: How Racism harms pregnant women and what can help Miriam Zoila Perez brings up some interesting points with regards to maternal health and race. I was intrigued to hear of her experience as a doula at a public hospital in North Carolina where she observed firsthand how race impacted quality of treatment. The statistic she shared with regards to deep south infant mortality rates being on par with Sub-saharan Africa is absolutely staggering and sad. To me, it almost illustrates a long held cultural belief that minorities are still considered inferior to the Arian race and that

Maria Tartar, professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at Harvard University explores other reasons for reading in The Journal of Aesthetic Education. In her article, Tartar introduces a motive that she calls “vicarious reading.” Vicarious reading is when children read to experience things that are lacking in their own lives (Tartar 22). Tartar says that this is why children’s fiction is so full of rich descriptors like “the million golden arrows pointing the way to Neverland” and how on some days Alice “imagines as many as six impossible things before breakfast” (Tartar 19). Vicarious reading allows children to go on adventures, meet incredibly interesting people, and experience danger, which Tartar maintains are often components missing

Mara Salvatrucha Known to some people as the most dangerous and violent gang in the world, Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13, has gained, held and showed its power through many forms. Mara Salvatrucha is slang for Salvadoran Army Ants and they are spreading nationally with increasing numbers of members. They gain, hold and show their power through the use of recruitment, extreme brutality, different sorts of operations and their brotherhood.