the development of human beings would involve dividing them into different races‚ and certainly God would never have expected the fact that race became a societal issue as to how minorities are being bullied. In the book “Always Running” wrote by a Mexican-American‚ Luis Rodriguez‚ he records his early life as one of the gang members in the City of Angel‚ Los Angeles. He attempts to use his story to show the racial oppression and violence of the gang members‚ and more significantly‚ he uses his story
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that is not strange. We can become so focused on just getting by with good grades in school we can forget what an amazing opportunity we have‚ and when we can access to each other’s minds the possibilities are endless. I definitely agree with Luis Rodriguez. I notice myself leaving behind the spark of learning just to complete a task and move on to the next. I may even change my answer on a test because I think that is what the teacher wants to hear but is not what I think. I see this in others as
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This book written by Luis J. Rodriguez is a self biography about his life. In this book he writes about his young life as a gangbanger and how he ran away when he was young‚ just like his son did when he was young. He writes this to his son so that he won’t go the same way he did and end up like him. He also writes about all the bad things he did and what happens to his family‚ and how he does not want that to happen to his family‚ and also he hopes that this book would make young people turn away
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familiarize themselves with gang members know them on first name basis‚ keep an eye on them and the place where they hang out‚ as well as offering programs for this gang members to get involved in‚ that wil pursue a carrier on law enforcement. Rodriguez‚ Luis J. Always Running: La Vida Loca‚ Gang Days in L.A. New York: Simon & Schuster‚ 2005. Print. "Sin Nombre (2009) - IMDb." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 05 Dec. 2011. . the movie helps understand the background of the people involved in gangs‚
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In the book Always Running La Vida Loco: Gang Days in LA by Luis J. Rodriguez‚ the author is the main character. He shows through his writings a remarkable amount of personal character development. From the beginning of his story Luis describes the many changes he goes through as his life unfolds. Luis uses many examples to describe his life experiences and the way he acted when obstacles stood in his way. Luis experienced many highs and lows throughout his life. He also had many wants and desires
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Jorge Luis Rodriguez highlight in the interview. As a University of California‚ Riverside student‚ I had the opportunity to interview a successful‚ wise and kind man‚ who owns his own small business. He owns big trucks that pick up‚ transport‚ and drop off packages and small shipments within the state of California. He began by talking about his early life as a garbage collector and how the backbreaking job led him to serious health problems that ended up with him in the hospital. Rodriguez informs
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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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In “Always Running”‚ a former gang member named Luis J. Rodriguez writes about his rough past. He joined his first gang when he was eleven years old‚ and saw many of his friends die one-by-one as a result of the dangers of being in a gang in east L.A. This broke him down and made him weak‚ but he had no one to share his emotions with which resulted in his joining of a gang. He killed an innocent man for the sake of being in a gang‚ spent several months in prison‚ and participated in numerous shootings
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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 school’s curriculum
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Ivania Martinez Chicano studies 37 SN #0164 May 4‚ 2013 Book Report Always Running Always Running is an autobiography written by Luis J. Rodriguez. The setting takes place in California‚ for the most part takes place in east of Los Angeles‚ Watts a neighborhood that was designated "as one of the 10 poorest in the country." The protagonist in this autobiography is Luis he is also the narrator‚ and the antagonist in autobiography is the gang life. The autobiography basically
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