In ALWAYS RUNNING‚ Luis J. Rodriguez offers a loosely organized but thoroughly wrenching account of his experience growing up in and around Watts and the Las Lomas barrio‚ just east of Los Angeles. Rodriguez‚ a poet and journalist who now resides in Chicago‚ was born in 1954 in El Paso‚ Texas. His parents‚ recent immigrants from Mexico‚ soon migrated to the Los Angeles area. There‚ Rodriguez experienced the indignities of poverty‚ prejudice‚ and nearly unchecked police brutality. Joining a gang and
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than 450 active gangs made up of different races. In 2005 LA had 600 members that were white and only 11 gangs is from. But in LA there are 21‚790 members that are Hispanics and there are 264 gangs made up by Hispanics. The title of my main work is Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez is about the gang in La and he lives in a struggle environment‚ racism occurs in his lifetime. Despite the school board’s recent sentiments regarding the lack of value that fiction provides‚ fiction should remain in the
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Book will always exist We are living in a century of technical progress. More and more new gadgets appear in our everyday lives. If I had been told ten years ago that I would be able to check e-mails‚ listen to the music and read electronic books with the use of only mobile phone‚ I wouldn’t have believed it. Nevertheless nowadays it’s as easy as abc to read a book through computer‚ mobile phone or a special e-books reader. Major IT corporations raise competition for the invention of the most
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Wars are always wrong It has been approximately 100‚000 years that modern human beings first evolved in the Earth. Along with the pace of time human civilization has been diversified into different racial‚ ethnic and language groups. This disintegration has lead people to live in a myriad of culture which is considerably different from each other‚ in most of the ways. The hodgepodge of various culture‚ race‚ and language has created complex and factious human societies. From the beginning of
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Only The Heart is a novel written by Brian Caswell and David Chiem that tells a story familiar to many Australians. A Vietnamese family is threatened‚ pulled apart by the war in that country. Some of its members disappear; hard-earned wealth is lost. The novel leads the reader to a new understanding of refugees with the demonstrated views of pain‚ determination‚ survival and freedom‚ which are brought to life throughout the novel. The fall of Saigon in 1975 provides the momentum for Mai and her daughters
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Q1 The profile said that hes one of a new breed of young sportsman who are a breath of fresh air‚ and hes hugely exciting. He is a calm person. Q2 Paul Scott shows Hamilton his reactions to his success by saying First Black Man to win to win a Formula 1grand prix. Hamilton is a marketing dream and rags to riches story. Q3 I think that Lewis Hamilton is a great formula one driver because he exploits on every opportunity he is a really good formula racer. He gets payed £285‚00 a week this means
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Heart of the Aztlan In the novel Heart of the Aztlan written by Rodolfo Anaya I found many interesting comments or cultural beliefs that I could relate to. I found this book to be easy reading there weren’t many difficult vocabulary words to stumble over and it was interesting to read because of the words that were thrown in the story that were written in Spanish. Coming from a Chicano background‚ I was able to relate to some of the characters and what they were going through. This
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Love Love is something that most humans look for in life because it comes with one of the greatest amount of pleasure a human being can experience. The love for our mother and our entire families is one of the first thing a baby feels and as the years goes by we know that life is about two big thing: success in work field and being able to find people that will love you for who you are. Being able to love is one of the most important thing because it can lead to a great amount of trust and knowing
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Parents are not always right. Parents‚ are humans. Humans‚ make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. However‚ most parents THINK they’re always right. Because they think that they are older and more knowledgeable‚ (which is true) they will never make mistakes. However‚ it is because that they think that they’re older and more knowledgeable they make the mistakes. Often‚ they do not admit their mistakes or they make up excuses like "I’m testing you". There are a handful of parents in this authoritative
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The customer is always right is usually wrong. In my line of work I see this every day. I am a manager at an outlet store and dealing with customers is my number one priority. There are all kinds of customers‚ some will make you happy‚ some will make you scream or some will just be okay. Customers sometimes do not realize that our job is to help them the best way we can. I believe that some of the customers are abusing the “customer is always right‚” because they know that the company does not
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