After this, Castillo felt to better her life for her and her son so she went back to school. She received her masters in Latin American and Carribean studies and minored in secondary education. After graduating she went to teach English as a second language. She also taught Mexican and Mexican American history in community colleges throughout Chicago where she grew up. She taught feminist journal writing for several years and became a feminist activist herself.
She thinks that if she would want to change something about her careers and choices it would be that she would try more things out rather than just sticking with the same job for her entire life. My mother has been working at Social Security since she was eighteen years old, she currently is fifty-one years old. She spends her time taking claims from clients applying for Social Security. It is a lot of paper work and interviewing, but you are now required to have a college degree to be in the position that she is in. She has been awarded multiple times for her excellent work and excels still past the graduates that are coming into the position as of lately.
Andra the program Rush which involves itself with organizations that work to improve the position of minorities. (Hughes, 2012) The Pipeline applied to Andra because she used her experience as a nurse to remember that time is better spent out with your employees and not in an office. She started the educational program “The Readers Edge” so that her employees could improve their skills. (Hughes, 2012) Andra has become a leader not just to her heritage but to the community by being on the board of directors for the Michigan Minority Business Development Council. (Hughes,
Though her final breath was taken in 1994, seven-year-old Megan Kanka has changed, and possibly even saved the lives of many Americans. Megan may have died on July 29, but since that day, her legacy lives on. Megan’s mother said she believes that Megan was destined to die in order to save the lives of other children (www.pennlive.com/news/expresstimes/stories/molesters5_mainbar.html). By inspiring the Megan Kanka Foundation and giving America a reason for Megan’s Laws Megan is still benefiting America today, by giving families and kids the resources to stay safe, and learn about sexual
Maxine Smith: A Civil Rights Pioneer from Tennessee By: Dr. Donna Artrip Maxine Smith is a name that should be recognized and honored by all humanity (especially Memphians) for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. She was born in 1929 and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School at the young age of 15. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in French. However, she was denied admission to the Memphis State University graduate program in 1957 due to her race. Despite the obstacles, Maxine Smith was determined to change the laws and policies of segregation and discrimination.
The when I was 14 years old I had the opportunity to came here, to the United States to meet with my mother and other relatives. I came in the summer 05. When I came here my first obstacle was the language. In my country I just learned the basic stuff like colors, the personal pronoun, etc, if helped me at little bit but I knew that if I wanted to have success here I had to learn the English language. I took some courses in the summer and I also practiced with my little sister, she was born here so she helped me in the pronunciation part at home.
However in 1980 she rededicated herself to raising funds for civil rights and educational organisations. She co-founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation for high school students who wished to attend college. In 1987 she also co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development which runs bus tours to introduce teenagers to civil rights and Underground railroad sites across America. Although her health began to fail her as she was in her seventies, Parks continued to make many public appearances to tell her story and of the civil rights
Education is an important factor in gaining a job that can provide her with monetary wealth. The school that Sally attends is pretty reputable and the school offers a prestigious honors program which needs to be tested into. Sally took the exam but did not score well enough to place into it. Sally’s mother did some research through talking to her neighbors and found out that there was another way which her daughter could potentially join the honors program. After hiring a private tutor to evaluate her daughter, Sally was able to enroll.
With my efforts, I was able to obtain a grant for my High School education in a private school and that made my mother so happy and proud. When I was 16 they discovered that I have a rupture in the retina of my left eye and she did everything to collect the money to take me to the hospital and had a surgery; I remember seeing her cried, telling the doctors to please fix my eyes, that she wouldn’t me suffer the same way that she did. Even that I don’t see perfectly well, I been able to succeed thanks to the prompt actions that were taken. I never thought of moving out of my country, what for? I had it everything: a house, a job, my family, a fiancée; but different social and family situations take me out of my nest and sent me to fly to a different world.
Personal Goals Paper Laura Robles HCS 301 February third, 2014 Karen Benjamin RN, MSN Personal Goals Paper My name is Laura Robles, and I have been a register nurse for almost 7 years. Becoming a nurse is one of the things I am grateful for since it gives me many professional and personal satisfactions. When I first graduated from nursing school, I wanted to take a little break and dedicate some time to my poor neglected husband and my little daughter, who was a year old at the time. Shortly after passing boards and obtaining my license, I started to work in the department of Maternal/Newborn where I have been working since. After all these years of dedication to my family and gaining experience in my profession, I decided that I need