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Barrio Boy Analysis
Why should you undertake a mission? Well Ernesto Galarza, Farah Ahmedi, and Buck all undertook a mission. Some day you will have to undertake a mission or you already have undertaken a mission. Like these very different people and dogs did. This is an example that anyone or anything can or does undertake a mission.

Ernesto Galarza had to undertake the mission of learning the English language.Ernesto moved from Mexico to The United States. He had trouble learning English up until Miss. Ryan helped him. In the excerpt Barrio Boy in paragraph 13 it says, “...,No less shining than mine the day I conquered “butterfly” which I had been persistently pronouncing in standard Spanish as boo-tee-flee.” Have you ever had to cross the border to save

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