One major value that I’ve embraced over the course of high school is not to only to never give up,
One major value that I’ve embraced over the course of high school is not to only to never give up,
A Pharmacologist job is to conduct tests and experiments on drugs to see if they are safe for human or animal consumption. There work is important because E-cigerate companies are claiming their products are safe and are encouraging young people to smoke well as previous smokers. It was determined that more than half of e-cigerattes contained toxic chemicals. Reasearch also found that theses e-cigerattes that are to be considered healthy contain elements such as nicotine which can cause addiction. E- cigarettes contain some unknown element that can cause cancer. These cigarettes have also found to be unsafe as some have blown up and caused serious damage.…
This builds up the chances for poorer Hispanic families to send their children to colleges, enabling them a high quality education and getting them closer to the average American’s society education level. Only time will tell whether these promises towards the Hispanic population will be held and are sufficient to fully integrate them into the society.…
Shortly after I was born, my family and I moved to Nuevo Laredo, a Mexican town bordering the city I was born in. In Mexico, I completed my first three years of education and successfully graduated from kindergarten. Several months after my graduation, my family and I moved back to Laredo, Texas to gain the advantage of an American education. In order to better prepare myself academically, my parents decided to hold me back a year and repeat kindergarten. Despite the fact I was older than most of my peers, I am grateful I was held back, for my proficiency in English increased as a result of studying an extra year in the United States.…
I am interning at Barrio Logan College institute (BLCI). BLCI is a non-profit organization whose mission to help children from the community who are predominantly Latinos, to become the first in their families to attend college. They serve students starting in 3rd grade through graduating high school seniors. BLCI provides academic assistance such as tutoring, college preparatory classes and one-one-one counseling. Additionally, BLCI also believes that helping the parents of their students is important; therefore in 2011 the parent program was instated with the goal of encouraging parents to become more involved in their children’s education. As an alumnus of BLCI, I decided that my internship would be a great opportunity for me to help parents…
Women in the Hispanic culture are pressured by family and the men in their lives to be successful in both school and taking on the traditional rolls of a housewife. The Hispanic community is so focused on making sure Latina students become great mothers and wives that they disregard the more important and prosperous ways to succeed in life. However, women are stepping out and obtaining college degrees and making strides in changing the traditional gender roles. Latinas are becoming more aware of the economy stimulating women to challenge their traditional roles and soar above the expectations.…
I have had the opportunity to go to two middle schools due to moving locations. This paper is going to be based on my experiences at Hermosa Middle School in Farmington, New Mexico. Since, this where I started caring more about my education and I can relate more to this placement. To begin with, Hermosa Middle School serves grade from 6th-8th. The demographic in this school is about 42% Caucasian, 31% Hispanic, 23% Native-American, 2% Asian, and 2% African-American. Notice, that there is a high population of Hispanics, I believe that this is why I started to be more involve at school. Prior to moving to Farmington, New Mexico; I lived and attended a junior high school in Huntington, Utah where 5% were Hispanic. I can honestly state, “That Hermosa Middle School is a contemporary developmentally responsive middle schools”. I quote this because I can point out the differences between what both schools had offered me as a student.…
Community engagement efforts to attract Latin American families into schools has made administrators and teachers refocus their approach and adapt to new cultures and values. Much emphasis is placed by our school's P.T.A and parent liaison team on strategies to attract Latin American family to a predominantly African American school. Participation level from Spanish-speaking parents has steadily grown over the years, but it’s not at the level desired by school staff.…
A quality I have always valued is perseverance. Perseverance is having determination to achieve your goals despite the difficulty. I do not give up even during the hard times if I really desire to have a goal achieved.…
The Latino community is the most rapidly growing minority in the United States. Yet it is also the minority group that suffers with many barriers in their education. Unequal opportunities for the Latino students and poor conditions of education still exists in many of the Latino community school. The dropout rates among the Latino students are very high. Chicano Students suffer of the lack of help from the counselors in their schools that will help them finish high school . The rate of Latino that graduate from a 4-year universities is very low, because if the equal opportunities of scholarships among them. However, throughout the Latino history in U.S. there have been civil movements that have fight to change the poor and unequal conditions among the Latino community. The Lemon Grove case and the Chicano Walkout are two significant civil movement in the fight to improve…
This problem can be seen in the students that live in the Rio Grande Valley, also known as “The Valley”. “[The Valley] is a low-income, majority-Latina/o, border, rural community” with significantly lower high-school graduation rates and college attendance rates than the rest of the state (Cabrera, López, and Sáenz 233). The lower percentages of students from this area can be attributed to barriers such as “financial difficulties, teachers limited in their abilities to teach college knowledge, and the inaccessibility of counselors” (Cabrera, López, and Sáenz 239). The reason why many students face financial difficulties when they are trying to go to college is that many of these are from low-income families. The limited ability of teachers in The Valley to teach college knowledge can be attributed to the fact that schools in the area emphasize standardized testing, as “high school courses were heavily focused on preparing students for the [TAKS] exams,” leaving teachers with little time to teach about knowledge and skills necessary for college (Cabrera, López, and Sáenz 240). As a result, students are not often equipped with skills that will help them in college. The inability of students to have access to counselors can be attributed to the feeling that many students have “that there were too few school counselors given…
Growing up in a community that is mostly Hispanic creates a type of shield, not allowing for different cultures or ethnicity to diversify the community. A Hispanic family living in such an isolated community takes a toll on the way we view the world. This environment has indulged my curiosity. Being the second youngest sibling of my family of seven has allowed me to learn from my older brothers, and have the privilege to be a leader to my little brother and serve as a role model to him. Though none of my family members went to college, and my parent’s highest education being a high school diploma, it hasn’t discouraged me to follow their footsteps, but rather give the encouragement to dedicate myself to be the first generation and in my whole…
I belong to a community that praises hard work and intellect, always striving to earn a better life. This community is the first generation immigrant community. Since I am the oldest sibling, I am designated in the unique role in my family as a cultural advisor to American life, an overachieving role model to my younger brother, and the face of my parents’ source of pride. I view my situation not as an impediment, but as a catalyst for my business and public service aspirations in the future. Education has always been stressed even when I was in elementary school. I would spend all evening working on supplementary reading problems and critical thinking math problems, assuming that this was what my American peers did when they got home. I have…
Even in the earliest stages, my Nicaraguan immigrant parents devoted their efforts entirely towards my education. After being bullied in elementary school for being “brown,” and “poor,” my parents decided that enough was enough and it was time to move. With my father being a cook, and my mother working at the local drycleaners, abandoning their small apartment and moving towards a bigger, more “sophisticated” town was exceedingly difficult. Neither of them had the proper English-speaking skills or formal education, but they both possessed the drive and desire for their daughter have access to a good school with less racism and more attentive teachers.…
At Grandma’s house, Creole was the only language we could speak. Never having the opportunity to go to school herself, she still taught me how to count in Creole and instilled in me the value of education. As we waited for either my mother or my father to get off of work, she told me stories from her poverty stricken times in Haiti, and I formulated my aspirations for the future. Aspirations were her efforts to come to America were worthwhile, and I could proudly overcome the clutches of poverty through education. It was in her home that I decided that my future would be the future that she imagined for her children and the children of her…
The expression "Never, never give up" means to keep trying and never stop working for your goals. Do you agree or disagree?…