Author : Mari-Luci Jaramillo
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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178 pgs. This is the story of a life of success beyond all expectations. A child of poverty dreams of a wonderful life of noble purpose and service to others and achieves it despite doubts, fears, and lack of money.
Author : Matt S. Meier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313088608
Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive coverage of the Mexican American experience. Entries range from figures such as Corky Gonzales, Joan Baez, and Nancy Lopez to general entries on bilingual education, assimilation, border culture, and southwestern agriculture. Court cases, politics, and events such as the Delano Grape Strike all receive full coverage, while the definitions and significance of terms such as coyote and Tejano are provided in shorter entries. Taking a historical approach, this book's topics date back to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a radical turning point for Mexican Americans, as they lost their lands and found themselves thrust into an alien social and legal system. The entries trace Mexican Americans' experience as a small, conquered minority, their growing influence in the 20th century, and the essential roles their culture plays in the borderlands, or the American Southwest, in the 21st century.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230436845
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... " Why, don't you think it must vex people to see you so silent and melanoholy ? " asked Anne in return. " Nobody cares about how I am looking," Mary answered in the same melancholy voice. " Oh ! yes they do, more than you think," replied Anne, cheerfully; "father and I would like a great deal better to see you more cheerful, and I dare say your own father and sister would be better pleased too." Mary remembered how often she had been scolded, or laughed at, for " moping," and being so silent and dull, and she felt that Anne was right. " But, Anne," she urged, " even if I looked happy, it would be only pretence; I should feel just as miserable." " No, I don't think you would1," her friend answered; " but, at all events, it is worth while to try. Now promise me, Mary, that you will try this one week to be cheerful, and to look and speak cheerfully. Make up your mind to show those about you how happy religion can make you. Promise me you will really try with all your might." It was a good while before Mary would mako this promise, but at last she did. " Now I am satisfied," Anne said, smiling; " I know you would not make a promise you did not mean to keep. Now, all the week, whenever you catch yourself lookthg dismal, and grieving over your troubles, remember your promise to me, and try how cheerfully you can smile and speak. And you will begin with this very evening; how pleased father will be to see you in good spirits! " From that time Mary's spirits greatly improved. She began to feel, as well as to look, really cheerful and happy; and Anne encouraged her in such feelings as much as possible. In this way, with little change, the weeks and months passed by, until Christmas came, and with it William Upfold, for a week's holiday. He...
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Art
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Author : Rose Castillo Guilbault
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0313397678
This hands-on manual provides Latinas with the tools they need to succeed at work by examining some of the societal and cultural obstacles that hinder their progress. Despite being 20 million strong, Latinas represent America's most undervalued human resource. This career guide is the only one of its kind to focus specifically on empowering the working women of the Latina community to embrace success and build skills for workplace advancement. The Latina's Guide to Success in the Workplace explores the complexity of the Hispanic/Latino identity and the impact of this culture on professional mobility. The author asserts that there are five obstacles which Latinas confront within their own belief system: the idea that women do not need an education; the assumption that the needs of men come first; a belief that it is sinful to desire money; the opinion that Latinas should not be ambitious; and the mindset that successful women in the United States lose their femininity. Throughout the book, up-to-date research, case studies, and inspirational interviews offer strategies for overcoming the cultural factors that limit Latinas and providing a roadmap for achieving success.
Author : Thomas E. Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611395968
Based on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Chávez has created a historical novel about the American southwest, specifically in New Mexico and Arizona, a place where Europeans settled in 1598. Here is a historical narrative about one of those families. The story begins and ends with Edward Romero who became the United States ambassador to Spain and is prototypical of the thousands of young men and some women who sought a new life in the new world and became American. These were people taking risks, accepting fate, succeeding, failing, loving, and hating. The Romero story is an American odyssey shared by any number of families in a region and whose cultural legacy is part of the heritage of the United States that only recently has come to the fore in the United States’ national consciousness. This story delineates a part of the heritage of every American and enriches an already beautiful history. A bibliographic essay, maps, and genealogical charts will assist the reader to differentiate places, names, and generations.
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Hispanic Americans
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781346550572
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Dressmaking
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Author : Jesse H. Rhodes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2012-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801464668
Since the early 1990s, the federal role in education—exemplified by the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—has expanded dramatically. Yet states and localities have retained a central role in education policy, leading to a growing struggle for control over the direction of the nation's schools. In An Education in Politics, Jesse H. Rhodes explains the uneven development of federal involvement in education. While supporters of expanded federal involvement enjoyed some success in bringing new ideas to the federal policy agenda, Rhodes argues, they also encountered stiff resistance from proponents of local control. Built atop existing decentralized policies, new federal reforms raised difficult questions about which level of government bore ultimate responsibility for improving schools. Rhodes's argument focuses on the role played by civil rights activists, business leaders, and education experts in promoting the reforms that would be enacted with federal policies such as NCLB. It also underscores the constraints on federal involvement imposed by existing education policies, hostile interest groups, and, above all, the nation’s federal system. Indeed, the federal system, which left specific policy formation and implementation to the states and localities, repeatedly frustrated efforts to effect changes: national reforms lost their force as policies passed through iterations at the state, county, and municipal levels. Ironically, state and local resistance only encouraged civil rights activists, business leaders, and their political allies to advocate even more stringent reforms that imposed heavier burdens on state and local governments. Through it all, the nation’s education system made only incremental steps toward the goal of providing a quality education for every child.
