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    WALKOUT The Movie

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    americans to gain the rights they deserved. Being that I have family from Mexico‚ I know that there is a struggle for people to get to the promise land of America. When they get here they deserve the rights everyone else has. This movie showed us how the chicanos fought for that right and used the freedom of speech to get the word out. As we know‚ many things we see today in the news today has been altered in a way to favor the majority. The problem is that we don’t hear from those who are not able to send

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    Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration

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    Sec's Rule 78j-1

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    Securities and Exchange Commission rules; applicable federal and state laws; and common practices. While a complete delineation of these requirements is beyond the scope of this article‚ this series will focus on SEC’s Rule 10A-3 which implements the requirements of Section 10A(m) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [15 U.S.C. 78j-1(m)] as mandated by Section 3 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 [15 U.S.C. 7202] relating to audit committee standards. The series will further highlight some of the

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    Guatemala has more people than any other Central American country‚ with an estimated population of 11‚980‚000 it is home to many different cultures. The population can be divided into two groups; Indians and people of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry. But in Guatemala‚ being called an Indian or a non-Indian does not depend entirely on a person ’s ancestry. It is basically a matter of how people live and of how they categorize themselves. For example‚ a Guatemalan is considered an Indian if he or

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    Mayor of L.a

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    Ramon Quezada Professor Romo Chicano Studies 8 December 9‚ 2012 Take Home Final Exam 1. Two historical events that I observed in the museum were the California Gold Rush and The Signing of the California Land Claims Act. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought large numbers of new immigrants from Mexico‚ Central American and South America to California. The presence of gold made California tremendously valuable to the United States. The Gold Rush funded money for the union to buy supplies

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    victim to oppression. In this essay I’m comparing the authors of “How it Feel to Be Colored Me by Zora Hurston‚ and How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua. Gloria Anzaldua became a victim of oppression by accepting society expectations of the Chicano culture. Meanwhile‚ Zora Hurston accepted who she is despite who people perceived her as because of her skin color. These two authors defends their personal identities through their cultures in separate ways. In the story How to Tame a Wild Tongue

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    Cited: Acuna ‚ Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 7th. New York: Pearson‚ 2011. Print. Covarrubias‚ Jesus. Lectures: January- March 2013. Cruz‚ Maria. Lectures: January- March 2013. Ruiz‚ Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows. tenth anniversary edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1998‚ 2008. Print

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    enough to be informed and ponder the ties to other things. Chicano history is a vague type of history that

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    In Martha Menchaca’s‚ “Constructing History‚ Constructing Race‚” she exposes how Anglo-American’s neglected Spanish American roots creating a false representation of Chicanos throughout history socially‚ economically and politically. She emphasizes that race was created by racist people in order to degrade certain ethnic groups. Mexican Americans were seen as an inferior race being that they lived in poverty because of their “dysfunctional culture”. (Menchaca 14) Lionel Steinberg’s quote‚ “Farmworkers

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    Daniel Venegas’s Don Chipote Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605) has inspired many writers to create their own modern day Don Quixote. Writers like Kathy Acker‚ Paul Auster‚ and Daniel Venegas have used Cervantes’ work to not only express themselves‚ but also the times they lived in. These writers along with many others have adopted Cervantes’s notion of quixotism (book-inspired idealism) and applied it to their own individual works. In his novel‚ The Adventures of Don Chipote or When

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