Maria Jose Florez Garcia is a Latino immigrant from Bucaramanga city‚ Columbia who wrote about her positive view of immigrating to the United States. Her life was mostly focused on tennis‚ since her family played it. She moved to U.S by herself looking for a scholarship for tennis. Her parents and brother are a big inspiration for Maria. Maria believes that God has good things for her in the USA. For instance‚ Maria wrote about how her parents‚ her brother‚ and her play tennis. Her brother was her
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The Life of Maria Montessori A woman of pure determination Maria Montessori had a very interesting early life. Born in Chiaravalle‚ Italy on the 31st of August in the year 1870 (Maria-Montessori‚2017‚ p.1) she would grow to become a very successful and influential woman of her time. In a world that belittled female knowledge‚ strengths‚ and opportunities‚ she was the billboard for woman across Italy in the late 1800s. She broke social normality’s that would then be‚ considered disgusting in the
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Maria Theresa: Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa was born on May 13‚ 1717 in Vienna‚ Austria. She was the oldest daughter in her family‚ raised by her dad‚ the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. As she was maturing into an adult‚ the possibility of her being the one to take over her father’s throne was extremely high. Charles did not have a chance of producing a son‚ so Maria was a perfect candidate for it. Once her father died in year 1740‚ for forty years she started to rule and have full command
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A Short History of Dr. Maria Montessori and her Methods Teaching a two years old child how to be independent‚ responsible and confident sounds impossible‚ but more than 100 years back an Italian doctor named Maria Montessori made it possible. As she believed "the study of child psychology in the first years of life opens to our eyes such wonders that no one seeing them with understanding can fail to be deeply stirred. Our work as adults does not consist in teaching‚ but in helping the infant mind
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The significance of Las 3 Maria’s syndrome is that it represents our culture’s/society’s essentialist views about women and because our society is primarily a patriarchy‚ society’s views are centered on a "macho" way of thinking. In Borderlands‚ Anzaldua tells us that "Culture forms our beliefs" and because culture is run by those in power‚ it’s the men that make the rules. She also goes on to explain how our society condemns selfishness‚ the needs of the family/community and therefore La Raza‚ are
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Appearances: They Say More About You Than You Think The term “homophobia” brings to mind individuals that hate those who are homosexual. Most of us aren’t ignorant to the fact that homophobia is a problem in America. These homophobic people call homosexuals “faggots” or “dykes” with no regard as to if these people are actually gay or not. We often believe this is as far as it is taken. Carmen Vazquez’s argument in her 1992 essay “Appearances”‚ slightly changes the definition of homophobia (Goodreads)
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Maria Reiche Neuman‚ known as "The Lady of the Pampas"‚ was a scientist in love with mathematics‚ geography‚ physics‚ pedagogy and archaeoastronomy‚ born May 15‚ 1903 in Dresden‚ Germany. Marie Reiche arrived in Peru to 29 years‚ which started trablahando as educator‚ translator and assistant. Subsequently‚ from 1946 until his death in 1998‚ Maria Reiche dedicated his life to the study and preservation of "Nazca Lines"‚ stimulated by the American archaeologist Paul Kosok‚ who conducted an expedition
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Santa Maria del Fiore The Santa Maria del Fiore was to be the most beautiful attraction of Florence. The building would be the biggest project for Florence nevertheless the complications would decelerate the process. The will of the citizens allowed the building to continue in order to finish the masterpiece they had started‚ no matter what the expense. Flying buttresses were the traditional towers for gothic architecture but those were considered unappealing to the people of Florence. The
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child’s learning‚ Maria Montessori has always believed that a child observes the world around him best through his senses and that teachers should encourage children’s observation by offering them activities from which they learn by using their senses (Maria Montessori (1988)‚ The Discovery of the Child). “The senses‚ being explorers of the world‚ open the way to knowledge. Our apparatus for educating the senses offers the child a key to guide his explorations of the world’ (Maria Montessori (1988)
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MARIA ELENA Case Study 1 a. Summary of the case: Maria Elena works as a cleaner in your home You find her quite pleasant but of late she seems to be restless so you decide to find out the reason for it and you are shocked Her story in short goes this way .Maria Elena is an illegal immigrant who lives in San Jose with her husband and 2 children in a run down apartment with two other couples. Maria and her husband Luis heard of how good everything was in the USA from a cousin and decide
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