Summary: It's That It Hurts By Tomas Rivera

In “Se Habla Espanol,” Tanya Barrientos elaborates on her personal experience growing up in the United States. In the first couple decades of her life, Barrientos distanced herself from her cultural roots fearing that she would be judge and belittle. It was essential for Barrientos to fit in with the American society.

With the rise of student resistance, Chicana and Chicano students in East Los Angeles schools were motivated by a desire to create just and equitable learning environments. However, the school resistance of Chicana and Chicano students is often marred by narratives, such as the one in the Los Angeles Times, which suggests that the students’ goal was to incite chaos and violence without acknowledging that the walkouts were a response to unequal access to education and omission of Chicano history and culture in their school curriculum. In the Los Angeles Times article, “Start of a Revolution?: ‘Brown Power’ Unity Seen Behind School Disorders,” the author, Dial Torgerson includes the voices of students at the foreground of the Chicano movement, but fails to include that their acts of resistance were more than a rise of militancy. Torgerson recognizes the walkouts as acts of “Mass Militancy” and “Scenes of Disorder” sparked by student rebellion, and by doing so he is ignoring the role police played in executing violence against students. More importantly, Torgerson marginalizes the experiences of Mexican-American students when he questions the validity of students’ complaint about facing discrimination at the academic level (“Is there any significance to students’ complaints that Mexican-Americans are being pushed into shop courses, and

To seek out change, you must believe that you deserve to be heard. To believe that you deserve to be heard, you must value your existence. Therefore, language allows Baca the space to present himself as a human being outside of the dehumanizing number which he is allotted, language acting as “a resource that allow[s him] to confront and understand [his] past [… and open] the way toward a future that [is] based[,] not on fear or bitterness or apathy[,] but on compassionate involvement and a belief that [he] belong[s]” (5). During his incarceration, “reading books became [Baca’s] line of defense against the madness,” the monotony, and the isolation which prisons often use to stifle their populations (214). However, when recognizing Baca’s growing self-esteem, it is important to acknowledge that his personal development is invariably tied to his identity as a Mexican-American. In order for Baca’s self-esteem as a human being to develop, he must also recognize his worth as a cultural entity. Thus, it is vital that Baca’s self-education and thorough exploration of literature is not one that is guided solely by the white sphere of

The book Always Running by Luis Rodriguez is an autobiography. Luis has been involved with gangs since he was eleven years old. He was attracted to the power he saw when he witnessed a gang burst into his elementary school chasing a guy and noticed everyone ran and hide. His gang involvement was with the Las Lomas barrio during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He grew up in the Hills it’s a part of East LA, the neighborhood was not the best during this time in his life and was populated mostly by Chicanos (Mexicans living in America). By the time Luis was a teenager he had fail into enculturation and he was out committing crimes sometimes just to have food to eat.

"The version of that sentence that a writer chooses tells us a lot about the situation, the speaker, and the person being spoken to." "From Exclusion to Belonging” by Gary Yee is a narrative essay based on Chinese immigrants who search for a place to belong. It is about Chinese immigrants having to pay a separate head tax which prevents Chinese immigrants from coming to Canada and separating Chinese families. “Long Long After School” by Ernest Buckler is a short story based on a teenage black boy Wes who is bullied and looked down upon due to his skin color. He was protected and liked by a third grade teacher, Miss. Threthway, but that was until she dies and Wes goes through it all alone. An author can have many styles of writing such as literary

Psychoanalysis is the way the mind investigates itself through consciousness and unconsciousness by bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind. It brings better understanding to what shapes our personalities and why people are who they are. Grendel is just like everyone else, the way he grew up influences who he is. By looking through a psychological perspective we can get a better understanding of Grendel by observing him through Freudianism, object theory, and Neo-Freudianism.

It is a story about a family who shows so much loyalty to their traditions and cultures, but it clashes with the strict American “norm” and creates conflict for their most prized possession, their daughter. Young Lia’s health is at risk when the doctors are trying to treat her epilepsy, but the culture barrier between them and her parents put her at risk. Lia’s parents, Nao Kao and Foua Lee believe that their ancient traditions and healing is what Lia needs in order to get better, but Lia’s doctors prescribe her with many prescriptions to help with the seizures and her parent’s inability to read or speak English to communicate

Luis Rodriguez’s childhood was filled with humiliation, he was always tortured and beaten by his older brother named Rano. For example, Rano would tie a rope around Luis’s head and play cowboy treating him like a horse, he would also push him off from the roof of the house. Luis was often times bullied by his older brother, which inspired other children to mess around with Luis as well. Luis had a difficult time adapting because his family was constantly moving from one

Starting from their years of adolescence both Moore’s were exposed to physiological altering events. The main difference between the two was which events were inflicted upon them and how they handled witnessing or taking part in the given event. From observing both Moore’s it can been seen that the main contributor to the end result of their varying paths would be from their loved ones and where they lived at the time. Therefore, the most significant third party influences that resulted in both Wes Moores differing fates were primarily from familial influences and the environment in which they resided in.

The film “Twelve Angry Men” involves a lot of logical fallacies, some of which are quite prominent and provocative. Like for eg. The fallacies which involve racism and bigotry of Juror #10 and the anger revealed which manifests into personal anguish by Juror#3. The script introduces the viewers to the typical behavior and the state of mind of these jurors, who surprisingly turn out to be the last to change their opinions from “guilty” to “not guilty”. Juror#3 the frustrated father whose personal conflicts and experiences influence his view of the accused’s crime is very desperate to make it clear that his mind is already made up before the deliberations even start. Similar

A child is struggling to learn at his/ school. He is more of a visual learner, like learning with pictures and shapes in front of him. His school, however, does not have the power and funding to do such things for him, which leaves him struggling and get bad grades. Now, why does he have to struggle in a school system which can’t even support his learning style?

The character I had wrote about is Andy Mott. He has gone through a lot in his life. I had put a piece of a prosthetic leg because he has lost his leg.His teammates found out after he told them.The story he had said was horrible. He had also metion that he had been rapped by his mother boyfriend when he only had one leg.

Montresor woke up at his usual time, about 6 in the morning, on a cold winter day with the ground frozen white.

In the play Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, and the novel Sounder, written by William H. Armstrong, most of the characters have a great deal of loss to cope with. The mother in Sounder suffered the loss of her husband and also lived through extreme poverty. She is a strong person to have survived the loss of a husband and lived on in poverty with a child to take care of. The next character who suffered lots in their life is Mrs. Gibbs from Our Town. She was forced to cope with the loss of both of her children before she herself died at the end of the play. The third character is the boy from the novel, Sounder. This young child lossed his father, and his dog that meant a lot to him. “Only it seems to me that once in your life before you

A child is struggling to learn at his/ school. He is more of a visual learner, like learning with pictures and shapes in front of him. His school, however, does not have the power and funding to do such things for him, which leaves him struggling and get bad grades. Now, why does he have to struggle in a school system which can’t even support his learning style?