Enrique Salazar Camarena Enrique Salazar Camarena‚ also known as "Kiki"‚ was born on July 26‚ 1947 in Mexicali‚ Mexico. At the age of nine Camarena moved to the U.S. and settled in Calexico‚ California. He worked in the fields with his family picking plums and peaches. Camarena yearned to get a proper education and soon it came. He took advantage of this opportunity and became an ethical student. He played football‚ basketball and helped publish the yearbook. Camarena was voted "Best all Around Senior
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Khalil’s Journey: Not the Tail of an Average Man Our story of our protagonist opens in 1983 when the elderly Khalil is lying in Groote Schuur Hospital‚ trying to gather his memories to “make a good yarn”‚ or story although no one is there to hear it (p.2). We soon find that his end in this life is imminent‚ and what follows is his journey from birth to childhood‚ adolescence and adulthood in the Cape Muslim community‚ and returning in the end to the scene at his demise in the hospital. After this
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Sonia Sotomayor is a Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is known for being the first Hispanic justice‚ the first Latina‚ the third female justice‚ and the twelfth Roman Catholic justice. Sonia was born in the Bronx to her two Puerto-Rican born parents. Her mother’s occupation was a practical nurse while her father had a low education and was unable to speak English. During her early ages of life‚ she was mostly raised by her mother because her father died when she was
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9/18/10 Mr.Izarry Forensic Sci. The Enrique Camarena case When I read the article I thought of how the evidence played such a big role in the case of Enrique. Even though the Mexican police did all they can to destroy all of the evidence FBI agents were able to use limited evidence to bring Enrique’s killers to justice. The MFJP tried to destroy
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! Jordan Sparks INTD 101-08 14 Sept 2014 The Boy Left Behind “Enrique’s Journey”‚ by Sonia Nazario‚ tells the story of a young Central American boy on his journey to find his mother in the United States. At the age of five‚ she left both Enrique and his sister with the hopes to find work within the United States. Undoubtedly‚ Sonia Nazario uses Enrique’s story to present the negative long term effect immigration has on family. For example‚ Enrique’s mother‚ Lourdes‚ decision to immigrate
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Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor was born as the eldest of two children in the South Bronx area of New York City‚ on June 25‚ 1954. Parents Juan and Celina (Baez) Sotomayor‚ who were of Puerto Rican descent‚ moved to New York City to raise the family. Sotomayor’s family functioned on a very modest income; her mother was a nurse at a methadone clinic‚ and her father was a tool-and-die worker who died when Sotomayor was only nine years old. Sotomayor’s first leanings toward the justice system began
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Enrique and Lourdes have different perspectives and objectives in this story. Lourdes feels she has to make a difficult decision of either being with her children and watching them grow up while suffering with poverty‚ or migrating to America‚ far from her children‚ and making a decent amount of money for her children and their future possibly could be brighter than hers. She keeps a long-term and bigger objective in mind‚ however when she does so‚ she underestimates the consequences of these actions
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Sonia Nazario is an American journalist‚ born September 8‚ 1960 in Madison Wisconsin to Argentinian-American parents. Nazario has been one of the youngest writers to have worked for the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. She primarily writes about social justice issues such as poverty‚ drugs‚ immigration‚ and Latino statistics. She has won many awards including the George Polk Award‚ a Pulitzer Prize Award‚ and the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Nazario is also the recipient
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Many of Ricardo Nazario y Colon’s poems focused on the theme of prejudice. In multiple different poems he points out how the people make he feel unworthy and unwanted. In “Dalton” he explains‚ “This not so Pleasantville is being transformed by Latinos who dared to live the dreams advertised by the same people professing no dogs and no Mexicans allowed” (42). Then in his poem‚ “Silence In The Mountains”‚ it says “I just wish- I could stop feeling dirty. That my sense of worth was higher. That every
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reading the novel‚ “Enrique’s Journey‚” I have only somewhat enjoyed it. The points of view change frequently‚ and the author introduces characters who appear to be insignificant to the story. For example‚ on the fourth chapter of the book‚ the author writes‚ “Enrique reaches out. He grabs with one hand but holds tightly to the hopper with the other. The role of crackers flies several feet away‚ bounces off the car‚ and thumps to the ground” (Nazario 104). She discusses Enrique for the next seven paragraphs
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