I am interning at Barrio Logan College institute (BLCI). BLCI is a non-profit organization whose mission to help children from the community who are predominantly Latinos‚ to become the first in their families to attend college. They serve students starting in 3rd grade through graduating high school seniors. BLCI provides academic assistance such as tutoring‚ college preparatory classes and one-one-one counseling. Additionally‚ BLCI also believes that helping the parents of their students is important;
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function‚ or effect on the reader? Barrios are everywhere: in playgrounds and workspaces; in churches and bars; in estates and small houses. The feeling of division does not discriminate. Barrio has come to mean hispanic sectors of a town or city‚ characterized by poverty and high crime rates. Barrios of this sense are physically divided‚ but more importantly culturally divided.Homo sapiens‚ and all members of the animal kingdom‚ are inclined to form groups‚ or barrios‚ categorizing themselves and others
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Undertaking Missions What drives people to undertake a mission? Barrio Boy‚ The Other Side Of The Sky‚ and Where The Red Fern Grows all share different hardships and goals. All of the characters in each life story have the determination to accomplish their goals. All of the characters in these life stories have someone they love‚ or care about to go through the journeys with them. In the life story “Barrio Boy”‚ a young boy named Ernesto Galarza faces the challenges of moving to a new country
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Ashir Mirza 4/23/2012 LST 303 The class has broadened my thinking process quite a bit now since the beginning of class. The Oral presentation on gentrification in El barrio has changed my outlook on how communities in the united states are being manipulated to change because of the area they live in and how that area is in need of change but not for the betterment of the people that live in that community but for the investors and other people that are trying to move in to change the demographics
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Abdi Ethnic Studies 101 Scottsboro Boys Summary In the year 1931‚ all nine of the Scottsboro boys Haywood Patterson‚ Charles Weems‚ Clarence Norris‚ Andy Wright‚ Ozzie Powell‚ Olen Montgomery‚ Eugene Williams‚ Willie Roberson‚ and Roy Wright are arrested and tried on charges of assault from fighting white boys on a train. Along with accusations made by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates that the boys raped them. Their trial begins April 6‚ 1931. All of the boys except for Roy Wright are tired and convicted
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‘‘Boys and Girls’’ was first published in 1968 in The Montrealer‚ The story‚ narrated by a young girl‚ details the time in her life when she leaves childhood and its freedoms behind and realizes that to be a ‘‘girl’’ is to be‚ eventually‚ a woman. The child begins to understand that being socially typed entails a host of serious implications. Thus becoming a ‘‘girl’’ on the way to womanhood is a time fraught with difficulties for the young protagonist because she senses that women are considered
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another is one of the lessons “El Tonto del Barrio” illustrates to the readers through the protagonist of the story‚ Romero Estrado. The story begins describing with very specific details the life of “El Cotorro” or Romero. Mr. Armas continues the story inviting all of the people from “El Barrio” to come along in the story to show their influence in the life of Romero. Summarizing what happens in the story‚ Mr. Romero seems to be the happiest person from el Barrio. He always whistles joyfully and sings
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The Lost Boy This book tells the story of a young boy who has never had a family. His only possessions are the old‚ torn clothes he carries in a paper bag from foster home to the next. The only world he knows in adaption to survive is one of isolation and fear. Thankfully others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother‚ but his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home. Lost boy is a follow up to Dave Pelzer’s book “A Child Called It”. This Novel is an auto-biography
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Boys are falling back‚ what can we do to help them? The author‚ Christina Hoff Sommers‚ resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute‚ in her article The Boys at the Back published in the New York Times in 2013‚ addresses the gap that exists between boys and girls and the impact that this has on them and society in general. Sommers is the author of ‘‘The War Against Boys’’ a book that also comments the social and educational problems that boys are facing and supports that they
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Brown‚ Daniel. The Boys in the Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler’s Berlin. London: Pan‚ 2014. Print. The author’s purpose in writing the book: The author‚ Daniel James Brown‚ attended college in California‚ and became a non-fiction author. One of his books‚ The Boys in the Boat‚ grew very popular and contained a lot of historical significance. Daniel James Brown wanted to tell the story of Joe Rantz‚ and his life that mainly involved rowing. He also explained adversity that occurred
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