Monroy Judith Watry WRT102 April 19th‚ 2014 World renowned author and playwright‚ Luis Valdez‚ carries a rich Mexican-American historical background that gives him the ability to integrate his beautiful culture in his writings. In 1940‚ Luis Valdez was born into a family of migrant workers along with his nine brothers and sisters. According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography in an excerpt on Luis Valdez‚ he began picking crops at the age of six and was forced to travel around California’s
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In "Catch the Moon"‚ Luis‚ the main character‚ changes throughout the short story. Luis is a male student at Central High and has been in trouble ever since he started attending the high school. After his mother’s death‚ Luis organized a "social group." The group’s members were mainly high school age guys who found amusement from harassing the local authorities. His social group lead him to take part in activities that he wouldn’t have before his mother past away. For example‚ the group broke
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Have you ever encounter any basic question in such as who should you be or how should you live? Perhaps this come from a good fictional novel that makes us think like this. In the story‚ “ Always Running” by Luis Rodriguez ‚ In Los Angeles‚ during the outbreak of gang violence‚ luis‚ an immigrant from mexico‚ having a rough start in life which make him join hardcore gangs. In a way we can evaluate why people are in gangs and why they do it just by reading a book or actually interview a person
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Mission San Luis was found to be the only settlement besides St. Augustine to house hundreds of Spanish residents among the Florida’s native people for at least three generations. It was known to early Europeans as the Apalachees native “Capital” village which was active from 1656 to 1704. In 1656 the Apalachee Indians decided to move their village to the second highest hill in present-day Tallahassee‚ where Mission San Luis is currently located off Tennessee Street. Using groups of palm-thatches
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books‚ history will always glorify the hunter". In his play "Los Vendidos"‚ Luis Valdez tries to become a lion and let the voice of Chicano history be heard. Luis Valdez does this in a satirical way by presenting the views and stereotypes that many American’s have had and continue to have‚ about Chicano’s in the form of a shop where Chicano "model/robots" are sold. By presenting each Chicano as a robot and stereotype‚ Luis Valdez tries to earse of the "models" of Chicano’s that people have in their
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In the story “Catching the moon” Luis Cintron was just released into his father‚ Jorge Cintron’s‚ custody after 6 months in a juvenile detention center for a breaking and entering. Luis did it for a dare. Unfortunately‚ the old lady was a light sleeper and also had a very good aim with her aluminum cane. His father determined that Luis should wash and polish every single hubcap in the yard. Lately‚ Luis has been getting in trouble since he started high school with his “social group” he organized
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there are novels‚ poems‚ short stories etc that has come from countries such as Argentina‚ Mexico‚ Venezuela‚ Cuba etc. Who is Luis de Góngora? One of the most prominent literatures author and Spanish poet Luis de Góngora comes from his beginning to find his voice. His objective was aesthetic; aesthetics is based on the concept of beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Luis de Góngora was born on July 11‚ 1561 in Córdoba‚ Spain. He was born Francisco de Argote‚ later change to Leonor de Góngora (Mujica)
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have just stayed as a small military party but even if he did Luis wouldn’t have been there to inform him other certain things. What if Camila had gone home? Would Demetrio live with it or continue to think about here? Considering Demetrio had a wife and a son I believe that he could soon forgot about her if she had just left and returned home. War paint had made few good choices in the novel what made her do those things? What was Luis trying to achieve by going to Demetrio and joining his army?
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In the memoir‚ Always Running‚ by Luis Rodriguez‚ Luis had power over himself to make choices. Some of the choices he’s made by himself are getting in a gang‚ standing up for his beliefs‚ and changing his life around to get out of bad situations. Luis had an older brother who never got involved in gangs and steered clear of trouble‚ unlike Luis who left school several times. In the book‚ the Lomas boys meet up to fight against their rival‚ Sangra‚ because they think Sangra was guilty for the death
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He lived in poverty and was the oldest child. Luis raped and murdered kids that were poor and on the streets. (Murderpedia) He would give them stuff‚ take them on walks‚ and once they got tired he would rape them and most of the time‚ dismember their bodies. He confessed to killing 140 people‚ charged
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