She had a gay brother at a time when this was considered unacceptable. She had seen that life was very hard for him and heard that the United States was more accepting of people’s differences. She and her husband first moved with their children two young girls and a boy to Florida. Maribel took a job for the first time. She was 33 years old and did not speak perfect English, but her community had a large Spanish speaking population, so she got by just fine.
A lot of people always think Brennan High School is for bad kids, kids that get kicked out of school that might be true for a few but most of us were there for emotional problems. Threw all my years of high school senior year was the only year I wasn’t in a psych ward. The last memory I really have of high school was getting punched in the face by a male student. He was starting with my two favorite teachers calling them very derogatory
They would fight so bad in front of me that it affected me with my school work, sports and social life. Everything started getting better until the day my mom moved out and I had to choose who I was going to life with. I went to a divorce counselor and lawyer because I was unable to make the decision. I finally spit the time equally, which was not enough for both of them and ended up making them fight even more and putting myself in the middle of it. Finally sophomore year of high school my biggest support system came into my life, my boyfriend and his family.
She is by far one of the most influential people in my life, her hard-work and optimism are just two of the things I admire most about her. Unfortunately my grandmother, had limited knowledge of the war itself, but had extensive amounts of familiarity with the social aspect of the sixties. My grandmother was 19 at the time of the war, but without attending college she had little to no familiarity with what was going on at the time. She quoted, “The closest I ever got to knowing discrete information about the war was when it came on the radio.” However, she was able to tell us how racism affected her life personally. She mentioned how she wasn’t able to use certain bathrooms, water fountains, stores, and even gas
Capitan Mark Kelly Ever since I was a young girl I have always had great dreams and high expectations for myself. Anytime I was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I would quickly reply” a lawyer” As the years went by I still had that goal in mind, but I began to realize that I was not exactly Ivy League material. Though I did work really hard in my classes, I was still at best average. During my junior year I took my SAT’s, and cried when I got my scores back. For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material.
I have always taken interest in the Jamaican culture, and this experience helped me to overcome my zone of ethnocentrism. The American way of life is all I am knowledgeable of because I have never taken out the opportunity to really learn about another culture. The interview I conducted introduced me to another culture, and showed me a whole new insight of Jamaicans that I was not familiar with. I had the privilege to interview Ashley Codling, an attendee at the Fort Valley State University. She was born in Negril, Jamaica and raised there until her mother put her up for adoption to a Jamaican, who served in the United States Army.
All the traditions, all the hard work, all the love we have as friends, family, and community have taught me how to be a part of a caring family like the Gilroy/Christopher Alliance where everybody has your back no matter what. It was a great two years with you all.
Learning to read Both of my parents arrived to the United States as illegal immigrants with no real education past the sixth grade. With that being said, they weren’t given many opportunities. And so… like many immigrants of Latin America, they became field workers. By the time I was four my parents divorced. We were all placed in a homeless shelter for abused women.
What made this whole thing even worse was when he looked at my grandmother and just said “where is the baby”? That took a few days to figure out but at the time he was ill my wife was pregnant with our little girl. When we finally realized he kept asking about our baby he kept smiling upon talking about her. Our little girl was born a day earlier than her due date in November. After we were able to leave the hospital we went straight over to my grandfather’s house to show him that the baby was here.
And for what, their hair, clothes or appearance? On average 30 percent of children get bullied daily whether it is at home, school, or on the playgrounds and at a local park. An estimated 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack intimidation by other students. If one of those children that were getting bullied were yours would you not want the bullying to be stopped? A major total of 71 percent of children have reported that bullying is a problem at their school and 15 percent of all school absentees are directly related to bullying.