Are young immigrants crossing borders to the US to join gangs or just escaping and seeking a better life? In the Op-Ed "The Wrong Way to Fight Gangs" written by Laure Markham, she explains the struggle young undocumented kids go through when they arrive at this country. Markham being a teacher in the Oakland international High school cannot stress enough the important role that after-school activities play in preventing kids from going off the rail and joining the criminal activities. I agree that
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both deserve justice for what they did to them. In my own opinion I can say that it was about races because by the time United stated was going through a races problem. I believe that they didn't see Lopez as a good citizen because he was born in Guatemala. In my opinion I feel like that's why Lopez didn't get justice because he was not an American and he was an immigrant. But they were both people they both deserve the same justice. The author of the story look for over 20 years because he couldn't
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people you’ve never met before, to go to a whole new country by yourself? This happens everyday, dozens of kids from Central America illegally cross the border to get away from gang violence in their home countries. Most of the immigrants come from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras (pg. 9 Junior Scholastic). An astonishing amount of 63,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border illegally since October (pg. 6 Junior Scholastic). A child crossing the border alone is very dangerous, risky and
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around the world. Poverty and hunger can affect young and old and is the biggest contributor to malnutrition. This can be seen in the Central American country of Guatemala. The Guatemala Poverty Assessment states that, "There is a strong correlation between poverty and malnutrition, as four fifths of malnourished children are poor" (Guatemala Poverty). In politics, a 66% super majority is rarely required when deciding on an issue because of the difficulty in achieving it. Therefore, when a supermajority
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Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo is a famous Mexican painter. She was born July 6 of 1907 in Coyoacàn Mexico, and Died July 13 of 1954. Frida was born and passed away in the same house, the house gained a nickname of “ La Case Azul” for its vivid blue exterior. She is known for her unibrow and self portraits, she was inspired to do this style by Mexican popular culture. A third of her paintings were self portraits, with this being said she uses one of her quotes “I paint myself because I am
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cooperation between the leaders. They both had different ideals. -Stalin and Truman Guatemala 1954 -June, 1954 -Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the president of Guatemala, put forth a number of new policies such as seizing and expropriating unused, unfarmed land that private corporations set aside long ago and giving land to peasants and the US intelligence community deemed the plans communist in nature. They feared that Guatemala would become a “Soviet beachhead in the western hemisphere”. National Defense
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didn’t have to work. She moved to Guatemala to earn money for her family. Rigoberta was devastated when her parents and her brother were killed by the Guatemalan Dictatorship for criticizing the government. Some achievements she made was when she taught herself spanish so that she could better speak for indigenous rights and also used her fame to raise money for education and anti-racism projects among Mayan Guatemalans. Her exposure of the Human rights abuses in Guatemala helped to end
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to us, while the countries of Malaysia and Guatemala have the highest scores. This means they believe all societies are not equal and they accept power over them. The United States have a very high score of 91 on individualism. The belief that anyone can make something of themselves, or be anything they want to be when they grow up, helps contribute to such a high individualism score. Australia is very similar to the US with a score of 90, while Guatemala is very low on their individualism score
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Stanwick), GMCR claimed that 23% of their $2.6 million (GMCR 2011 Annual Report) sales were from Fair Trade products. That equates to approximately $600,000 US dollars to local Guatemala bean growers. The $600,000 dollars exchanges into about $4.6 billion local Guatemala currency. While the cost of living in Guatemala is about 30% less than in Charlotte NC,
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multiple people including Lou Ann, a teenage mom with no money and a runaway husband, Dwayne Ray, her child, Mattie, who doubles as the owner of Jesus is Lord Used Tires and the head of an immigrant house, Estevan and Esperanza, illegal immigrants from Guatemala staying at Mattie’s house, and Edna Poppy and Mrs. Virgie Parsons, two elderly neighbors. Lou Ann, Taylor, and the children all live together happily while enjoying each other’s company, until one day Turtle gets attacked at the park while the blind
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