What makes Nora Rodriguez a hero is that she helps Central American immigrants become mexican citizens and will do anything to help her clients. In the article "Honduran Entrepeneur helps Central American Immigrants gain Legal Status in Mexico" by Mayela Sanchez states that " The immigration office only gives applicants a list of required documents but doesn't advice them how to fulfill the requirments." The evidence shows that Nora helps Central American immigrants fill out there papers to fulfill all the requirements without the form telling them how to. I can relate this to another hero that stood up for what was right. His name is Cesar Chavez. He stood up for farmworkers who were working all day. He stood up for them and never stopped…
Luis Chavez is an upstanding young man who was also one of the most inspiring teenagers I had ever met in my life. I had the pleasure of working with Luis while I was employed with City Year Chicago, an AmeriCorps program. Luis had done volunteer service with City Year’s Young Heroes Program for years as a middle school student. In 2008, he joined the City Heroes Program, the high school equivalent of Young Heroes, during my term as a Senior Corps Member and Program Leader for City Heroes. Not only was Luis a consistent participant, he was a leader among his peers. He met with us weekly to plan activities and contribute…
According to Gonzalez, “. As a maternalist with Methodist influences, she expanded these primary roles into the community…”(Gonzalez 201). She volunteered and was part of her kids PTA when she realized that Spanish speaking moms were not included with the…
She started her work career as a Director of a day nursery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This experience gave her an acute awareness of her social surroundings. She saw first-hand how minorities were in substandard housing, inadequate schools, subjected to drugs and police brutality and no basic civil rights. This was when she determined that bad government had a connection to the fate of these minorities. She joined the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League and gained lots of experience and political insight. She helped her neighbors to register to vote, unemployed to get jobs, students to get scholarships and fought with the league for 10 years and gained lots of respect and connections.…
Before watching I assumed it was going to be another person about the dire issue of racism or health care in Africa. However, she completely captured my attention within the first few minutes. I was intrigued by the way children literature influenced the way she wrote, but also the way she saw other ethnicities. This later turned into how she saw others perceiving Africa. Her solution was to challenge people to not buy into the single story. She firmly believes that if people were to know all the stories of a certain place they wouldn’t treat them any differently than they would their…
been better if she presented herself as a scholar who was writing a book and conducted interviews, instead of writing it as a story. Like the quote says, “The best way to find out what a certain life would be like is to walk in the shoes of one who lives it.” (Anonymous) Even if she did try to place herself in the position of the working poor, she is never going to feel the same way that they will. They did not start their…
A time when Sonia Sotomayor was determined to give back to her community was when she had to give her speech during her speech competition. She started by talking about the killing of Kiddie Jenaveys and how it took place. After she got off work from her job at a bar late at night around three in the morning, getting home to her apartments in the queens, she parked her car in a nearby parking lot walking through an alley towards her apartment when a stranger appeared in her shadow and frightened her so she ran and he caught up to her and stabbed her in the back as she screamed and cried for help. Several neighbors heard her cries and her struggle as Winston Mosley stabbed her. The windows were shut due to the cold weather, but kiddie kept screaming for help as he stabbed her repeatedly and beat her to shut up and finely raped her. When it was all over the neighbors called the police and they arrived minutes after but Mosley got away that night later caught for a burglary charge and now is faced with life in prison.…
One such initiative that has resulted because of her work is the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow (CENJC). This initiative was formed in Harlem, New York during October of 2011 and is a coalition of several racial injustice prevention groups. The group’s mission is to raise awareness and about mass incarceration and institutional racism, with the goal of building a grassroots, bottom-up movement that challenges the racist ideologies that have helped produce these conditions (CENJC, 2014). The groups vision is to foster a "movement that is committed to ending mass incarceration entirely and to push for a fundamental shift from a punitive model to a healing and transformative model of justice--a model that does not criminalize people for public health problems like drug addiction and does not criminalize poverty" (CENJC, 2014). Since it’s beginning, the group has developed and implemented several outreach programs, committed to advocacy and uncovered numerous incidents of racial injustice within the local area, pursuing their investigation and demanding responsibility (CENJC, 2014). While there is much work to do, the CENJC is collaborating with similar groups throughout the country to address and remedy the disease of mass incarceration and racial justice…
The glass menagerie is a superb work of art by Tennessee Williams. It is a play that highlights the various realities and desperations of its characters in their response to a confused society. Williams has an admirable talent for creating a play that’s genre is serious and has a tragic ending; yet he keeps the story interesting to the audience whether it be through reading it as a text or in the theater.…
I discovered that her story was very relatable, because I grew up hearing my parents stories about leaving their families at such young ages and moving across country for a fresh start in the States. At 14 years old, Diane Guerrero, was left utterly alone. She stated angrily, “When the authorities made the choice to detain my parents, they did not even bother to check that a young girl, a minor, was just without a family”(43). The immigration officers did not care about Diane, in fact, they never contacted her to find out if she had a house to stay in, now that she was homeless and parentless. Luckily, a few close family friends took her in, but she went bouncing from home to home for the next 4 years, hardly ever talking, let alone seeing her parents. She could have gone back to Colombia and let go of any and all opportunities, shockingly, she chose to stay here and take advantage of her citizenship. Hopeful, she said, “College gave me a shot at a future” (141). Diane was aware that college was her way to get a future and “maybe even bring my parents back” (145) I think, that’s a valid example of why people want to live in this country.…
She revealed, to the world, how much the destitute suffered. The international community, and even Mother Teresa, was shocked upon seeing the living conditions of the poor. She wrote, “Today, I learned a good lesson… I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health,” (Spink, 241) Mother Teresa’s work inspired others to help the needy, because she truly loved and assisted them (“Mother Teresa of Calcutta”). She devoted more than 45 years of her life to those who are stricken with poverty, dying, or unwanted around the world. Many believed her never-ending love of the poor brought “light” into the world.…
Understands to make a difference in the world you must treat other with kindness. Her classmates describe her as a person who is always willing to help everyone. She always does the right thing and corrects her friends when they are not. Her kind words make everyone around her feel special, important and cared for. She come in the class like a Rae of Sunshine and greets her classmates with hug or kind words. Sienna closest friends describe her as “A Loving and Amazing Person”.When a student joined the class who did not speak English, she went home and practiced the most common phases used in school to communicate with her new friend. Sienna Rae Fernandes exemplifies the qualities of kindness and the High Flying Hawks characteristics of being…
Similar to Malala, RaSia also brings awareness about the community he lives in by creating an organization that shines a light on gun violence in Chicago and discussion to help prevent it. He also takes the the loss of someone important to him and manifests it to something positive for those also affected by gun violence. RaSia is a prime role model of service as he gives back to his community and spreads awareness of the growing issue. RaSia influences me to learn more about the community I am in and see the problems surrounding it and motivate me to come up with solutions for…
This woman’s name is Jeanine Perkins. She is fifty four years old. She had been staying at a local shelter. According to Bangor Daily News, Jeanine was in the shelter because of violence in her home. She left and lived in her vehicle for two months. She had experienced two important deaths in her family – her brother and her mother. She was at the shelter for three months. She says, “I know I’m here for a purpose. I don’t know what it is, but God does.” (Rhoda) I found that quote to be inspiring. She is a homeless person, has experienced two deaths, and still carries on and has hope for her…
The children that she works with come from different cultural background and this is a major challenge in making them accept their differences and live in harmony as a family. The children comes from Asian, African and Mexican cultural background and this present a challenge in making these three groups of people to live together in harmony. First, they have different approaches in the way they tackle different life issues and it is not an easy task to make them come to accept the unique way of dealing with life issues that have been adopted by the organization that…