My Father

Joseph H.
Period 2
April 28, 2012



My Father

              My dad Jose Hernandez Lopez was born in august 23 1975 in Mexico Tijuana. When he was 9 years old his mother died of a heart problem. He was placed in the care of his aunt who started him working at a very young age.  Then he drop out of school and started working a full time job. Then at the age of 16 he joins the Mexican army. His duty was to scout the mountain to find marijuana plant and to destroy them. It was mandated by the government that illegal substances be controlled. He cut them and burn them to prevent the drug cartel. He did that for a year in a half and then returns home. When he turn 18 he and his sister decided to come to the U.S to leave there past behind. He starts to work as a baker, then a construction worker. Then he tried truck driving, which is what he wanted to do.  Then at the age of 36 he finds out he is suffering a disease call bipolar. This relate to history because presidents around the world are stopping the drug selling business. For example president of Mexico in 1993, Salinas started working with the U.S to stop it.” Mexico insists that the trackffing in the U.S won’t grow a enormous amount”. (U.S library of congress) “Americans large truck radar deploy at the border or on the highway”.

Double Voicing: My Street

Stephanie G.
Period 5
April 25, 2012 



 

Double Voicing about My Street 

My street is a pretty chill street. My neighbors are not problematic. They are also clean. There isn’t trash in the street. The only bad thing about my street is that almost every house has a dog. In the middle of the night when one dog barks they all bark. There is this one little annoying dog that always goes inside my drive way, starts to chew my plants and barks at my dogs. Sometimes I feel like letting my big dog loose so it can scare that little shit away. That dog is my neighbor’s dog. Other than that my street is a nice street. I think my neighbors aren’t problematic because right down the street is the police station. The fire department is also close, so if a house is burning the firefighters can even go walking to the house. Everything is also close by my house. For example the store is close by and the school is close by.  If there wasn’t that many dogs I think my street would be better.

I just moved in to this street and I think I’m going to like this street,  except for the dogs. I used to live in Compton and I think anything is better than where I used to live. I can see that this street is safe because the police station is down the street. My neighbors are also clean people. I really don’t see that many children on this street. I mostly see that there are old people and some young people. There is this one guy that thinks he’s a cop and he wants to scare people. I think this is a calm street. The first night I slept in my new house I heard a lot of dogs barking, I wanted to call the dog pound so that they could take all those dogs.  I didn’t call the dog pound because I felt bad for the dogs even though they annoyed me.

Civil War

Emmy V. 

Period 3

May 16,2012 

Civil War

My uncle was recruited to be part of the Guatemalan civil war at the age of 15 he was forced to be part of the civil war with my dad. They were both trained to become soldiers and start from the bottom like being part of the ones that would go to schools and get teens from ages 14 and up to be part of it. It really wasn’t a choice for them it was not if they wanted or not their was no other choice but to go. They had to be in training for two years and after that they get a chance to either get out and do what they want with their life’s or they continue in it and grow until they get to the Generals position or so. My uncle decided he would stay and fight for his country. A decision that would change every single part of his life. In 1995 my uncle already been threw a lot was a few days away from becoming a Guerilla general when he got shot to death 15 bullets hit his entire body. “By the end of the war, it is estimated that over 200,000 people had been killed. The internal conflict is described in the report of the Archbishops Office for Human Rights. Which attributed almost 90.0% of the atrocities and over 400 massacres to the Guatemalan army (and paramilitary), and less than 5% of the atrocities to the guerrillas (including 16 massacres).”(Briggs, Billy) My uncle involve in the majority of this war fought and got killed with honor fighting for his country.

Short Story

                       One of the most amazing things my uncle had to face was when he had to go on a night round up to look if everything is the way it’s suppose to be. Walking at 10:45 in the night around 5 minutes after he got out of his base walking normally checking for anything suspicious he heard foot steps that were definitely not his so as he walks he turns and sees a shadow and slowly gets his gun out when suddenly the first bullet is shot not from his gun which doesn’t hit him the second bullet landed exactly in in his leg the other bullet landed in his stomach and the third bullet in his arm. Still alive my uncle shoots to the sky as a signal of help the guy that shots runs away and my uncle is left to his luck. Soldiers that were near by rush to where the shots were heard and take my uncle to 

       get checked out luckily still alive my uncle survives every shot.

Work Cited

"Guatemalan Civil War." Wikipedia. Oct. 2010. 13 Apr. 2012.

My Great Grandpa-Rudolph Galiana

Stevie A.
Period 2
May 11, 2012

My Great Grandpa-Rudolph Galiana

 

My Great Grandfather Rudolph (Rudy) Galiana was born on May 1, 1920 and he passed away June 29, 1988, on my Auntie Stephanie’s High School Graduation (from Bell High). My Great Grandfather was born and raised in East Los Angeles, around the 1920’s and 1930’s, he attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, Home Of The Mighty Rough Riders. After my grandpa graduated from high school he attended the United States Marine Corps, after leaving the Marine Corps he attended The California College of Mortuary Science, which he graduated from on June 25, 1948, he opened his own mortuary business in East L.A., where he raised my two uncles and nana.

My Great Grandpa was a one of a kind man, he was over 6’2” and he was liked by everyone. My grandpa was the type of man that was very kind, affectionate, sweet, smart, and assertive, he had a great sense of humor and very big personality. My Grandpa was also one of the men who helped design the original King Kong ride in Universal Studios. My grandpa was also very opinionated and was involved in political situations and he was also the type of man that wouldn’t take any BS from anyone.

My family tells me that my Great Grandpa was loved by everyone that knew him. They tell me stories on the way he would treat my aunt’s and uncle’s, they would tell me that he would treat them like little kings and queens, he would take them anywhere and everywhere. They use to tell me that when they were little my great grandpa would tuck them into bed and sing to them. The people that knew my great grandpa would tell me he was very loveable and fun to be around, but they also tell me that he was the type of man that would hide a lot and was very secretive.

Even though I never had the chance to meet my Great Grandfather, I believe everything my family says and I know I would have loved by grandfather so very much. I wish I was able to enjoy and see how fun my grandpa was and to be there for all the accomplishments he achieved well he was alive, but there is one thing my Godmother told me he enjoyed saying to people that she’ll never forget, “Chicken Shit”.  

Radical Revision

My Short Story about My Great Grandpa

My Great Grandfather was the best man in my life. I remember the times when my grandpa would pick me up after school and take me to get some ice cream and take me for a walk through the park, my grandpa would tell me so many stories about his childhood, like what he use too do for fun, the sports he was in, and the type of people he would hang around. I remember one day I and he were walking through the park and he told me about the first time he laid eyes on my great grandma Sally Santoyo, they married on June 12, !939 in St. Mathis Church in Huntington park. My grandpa told me when he first laid eyes on my grandma he was buying some food, he would tell me that he would see her at the same fast food place at the same time, so finally after a couple weeks, he decided to ask her out, she was shocked but excited, then after like 2 years he asked her to marry him and he told me she screamed yes. My great grandpa was the number one man in my life, I loved him with all my heart and I still do, there’s times when I think about him and cry because of how much I miss him. My Great Grandpa Rudolph (Rudy) Galiana will always be my number one man,

          Facts about My Great Grandpa

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My Father

Erik O.
Period 2
May 11, 2012

My Father 

             My dad José Orozco came to the United States to get a better life. He came in the late 1970’s when he was 17 years old. Jose would just work in little dinners in long beach. Jose came for one good reason and it was to for he can get a better life. . He told me, “I wanted to work good here to help my family in México”. With his hard work he did make it come true. My dad would take mostly any job and kept going at it he was a very hard worker he would never get tired. He said that, “as long as I have work I have nothing to worry about because I would just save my money and not waste it on dumb things like cigarettes and alcohol drinks”. That’s good because if you add up the money you waste a lot of money a year. If for any reason they laid him off first thing in the morning he would go early to go find work. Every month he sent my grandpa money to buy things he needed. He would work in restaurants and the owner wasn’t paying him what he deserved and to little hours even though “Unemployment stayed close to its natural rate -- at any time 4 or 5 percent of people are unemployed -- during the first half of the 1970s. After 1974, unemployment averaged 7.9 percent and some years saw the rate reach more than 9 percent, according to the BLS” {ehow.com}.Jose just didn’t want to lose his job. He just decided to leave from there and when he did the owner saw he was actually losing money because he had to hire more people to do the jobs. So the owner called my dad and told him to come back and my dad did. After when he was 25 years old he started to work in construction. He worked in construction for 25 years.” Immigrants account for nearly 30 percent of construction workers {ehow.com}”. Before he came he lived in Arandas Jalisco with his grandparents because my grandma died giving birth and my grandpa was leaving to Léon Guanajuato  but dad just stayed with his grandpa. 

  

Work cited

                                           

                 Ehow. Ask.Demand media inc. 1999. 4-12-12. Web page.

Radical Revision

My father

My dad was the best worker

He never gave up

Always working never stopping

Construction was his passion

Everyday lifting drywall

Trying to put food on the table

Filling me up with joy to make me happy

Happiness was one thing he really gave us

Caring for me

Loving me

Kissing me to show how much he cared

Showing he was just one of a kind

Thinking back now what more of a dad did I want

My dad

Joseph H.

Period 2

May 11, 2012 

My Dad

 

             My dad Jose Hernandez Lopez was born in august 23 1975 in Mexico Tijuana. When he was 9 years old his mother died of a heart problem. He was placed in the care of his aunt who started him working at a very young age.  Then he drop out of school and started working a full time job. Then at the age of 16 he joins the Mexican army. His duty was to scout the mountain to find marijuana plant and to destroy them. It was mandated by the government that illegal substances be controlled. He cut them and burn them to prevent the drug cartel. He did that for a year in a half and then returns home. When he turn 18 he and his sister decided to come to the U.S to leave there past behind. He starts to work as a baker, then a construction worker. Then he tried truck driving, which is what he wanted to do.  Then at the age of 36 he finds out he is suffering a disease call bipolar. This relate to history because presidents around the world are stopping the drug selling business. For example president of Mexico in 1993, Salinas started working with the U.S to stop it.” Mexico insists that the trackffing in the U.S won’t grow a enormous amount”. (U.S library of congress) “Americans large truck radar deploy at the border or on the highway”.

 Works Cited

NewYorkTimes.Dillon,Sam.5Feb1999.28April2012.

Radical Revision:

Raton 3

My name is José Hernandez I was born in Augusts 23 1975 in Tijuana Mexico.

At the age of 9 I lost my mother and the day I start working full time.

I drop out of school in the 5grade and move with my family

 To Tepic Nayarit .when I turn 16 years old I enlisted in the Mexican army.

My job was to find marijuana plants and burn them to prevent drug trafficking.

That was my job for a year in a half and return home to my family.

Then I came to the United States to start over.

When i turn 35 I realize I had bipolar.

Now I in a trucking business and I enjoy it.

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Agriculture

Karely R.

Period 1

May 11, 2012 

Agriculture 

My father, Agripino Ramirez Vasquez was born on June 22, 1946. He grew up in a ranch located in San Juan De Los Lagos, Jalisco, Mexico. As a young child he started working on the fields with the help of his 17 brothers and sisters. Him and his siblings were working to support the family and always cooperating together. It was really tough in those times because it was long hours in the hot sun with very poor materials and equipment compared to the improvement of modern machinery and technology that is invented now. They would run establishments that produce crops, livestock, dairy products, and take care of the animals they owned.

            My dad was a very hardworking, punctual, strong man and would do a lot of manual labor himself. He would plant corn, potatoes, beans, yams, and other types of vegetables and other fruits. He was very responsible and always made sure they were alive. He would always keep track of the environment and have it in good condition. Sometimes it would be harsh due to the climate changes during the seasons. “Cropping systems vary among farms depending on the available resources and constraints; geography and climate of the farm; government policy; economic, social and political pressures; and the philosophy and culture of the farmer.”

My dad’s duty was also to take care of all the farm animals such as horses, pigs, ducks, sheep, chicken, cows, bees, fish, goats and many more. He would use these animals mostly for food and business. He would milk cows and also make cheese out of them. He would shave off the sheep’s fur and use it to make warm clothes. He would take care of the chickens and wait for them to hatch eggs. Then, later kill the chickens and roast them to eat for dinner and as well with the eggs. Bees were used for the honey. He would gather up jars and fill them up with honey to sell them and make money. He would go fishing for fishes to eat. The goats would provide good milk and cheese. Pigs were usually meant to be killed and eat their meat. “Farm animals are animals that are kept for agricultural purposes. This includes such domesticated animals as cows and chickens, and wild animals that are raised in confinement, including mink and fish. Animals are farmed for a variety of reasons. Most were raised to be killed. Meat from cattle, hogs, and chickens provides the bulk of protein.”

I’m very inspired by my father and his life because it showed me to give more value to my life and never give up. He grew up in a poorly environment and doing harsh labor work. I admire him because he failed many times but he never lost hope and always tried his best. My father influences me to stay positive in hard times, give it your all, and always be a go getter. My one and only hero, Agripino Ramirez Vasquez. I love you papi.

Works Cited

Agriculture. www.wikipedia.com. The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. December 26, 2011. April 12, 2012.

Skate and Destroy

Joshua L.

Period 2

May 3, 2012 

Skate and Destroy

          Andrew Reynolds was born on June 6, 1978, in Lakeland, Florida. He has a regular stance which means he kicks with his left and pops with his rights. He is also the owner of Baker Skateboards and has 8 pro model shoes. Andrew has been skating since he was 9, and won thrasher Magazines [“Andrew Reynolds”] “Skater of the Year”, award in 1998. He also suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which he refers to “The Madness”. Before he does a trick, he has to do something 3 times, whether it’s tapping his shoe 3 times or calling out someone’s name 3 times. If he doesn’t do that he panics and messes up his motivation.   Reynolds was best known for his front side flips. He found skating off high ledges and big stair more comfortable [Cave, Steve] than skating vertical ramps. In 2005, he heel flipped and front side flipped 17 stairs [“Andrew Reynolds”]. Reynolds has been known for going all out when it comes to skateboarding.  

My Father's Life Story: Radical Revision

Christian C. 

Period 1

May 2, 2012 

Elmer Cruz's Journey 

          My name is Elmer Cruz, I was born in Cuscatlan, El Salvador on May 20, 1962. I’m the oldest of six brothers. My mom worked at the market selling fruits and vegetables and my dad worked fixing roads so he was never at home. Since I was the oldest brother, I had to take care of my brothers and make sure they do all the tasks my mother gave us. I was around sixteen years old my the civil war broke out. The war was not that bad from where we lived, but I got to see thing I’ve never seen before.in the San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, hundreds of people got killed every day. We used to go to San Salvador with my mom and my brothers every weekend to buy food and stuff for the house. My little brothers and I got really scared every time we saw dead people on the streets. My mom used to tell us to close our eyes every time we saw a dead person. But the truth is that I never covered my eyes. I was a very curious guy. Even if I was scared, I kept watching the dead bodies and wondering how they looked when they were alive. I used to have nightmares of my little brother Vicente being beheaded before my eyes. But I thank God nothing bad happened to us during that time.

My Father's Life Story

Christian C.

Period 1

May 3, 2012 

My Father's Life Story

       My dad, Elmer Cruz, was born in Cuscatlan, El Salvador on May 20, 1962. He is the oldest of five brothers. When he lived in El Salvador, when he was around seventeen, had to take care of his brothers and make sure they did all the tasks her mother gave the. His mom worked at the market selling fruit and vegetables and his dad worked fixing roads so he was never at home. He was around seventeen when the civil war broke out. “Significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil war's full outbreak, over the course of the 1970s” (NCW). The war was not that bad where my dad and his family lived but he saw things he’d never seen before. They used to go to San Salvador every weekend to get some food and stuff for the house. It was really dangerous to go to the capital at that time because many people got killed every day but it was more like a necessity for them to go there and buy cheaper food. “Countless disappeared and More than 75,000 people were killed” (ES). A few years later, my dad decided to come to the United States and work to help his parents and brother.

Civil War in El Salvador

       The Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992) was a conflict in El Salvador between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or umbrella organization of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil war's full outbreak, over the course of the 1970s. El Salvador's Civil War was the second longest civil war in Latin America after the Guatemalan Civil War. The United States supported the Salvadoran military dictatorship. The conflict ended in the early 1990s. Countless disappeared and More than 75,000 people were killed.

          Since the early thirties, El Salvador had been ruled by the military with support from the country's landed elite. Military leaders had been pro-fascist during World War II, but by the 1950s at least some of them were leaning more toward the values of those who won that war. Some younger officers had reformist views, and, beginning in 1956, a military-civilian coalition took power, led by a reform-minded lieutenant colonel, José María Lemus. El Salvador’s agricultural elite and more conservative military officers said the government was influenced by Communism. Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, and, in January, 1961, these more conservative officers took power in a coup and announced their anti-Communist and anti-Castro convictions. The new regime promised elections, and in 1962 the junta’s candidate, Lieutenant Colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera, was elected president, and he was succeeded in 1967 by Colonel Fidel Sánchez Hernández. 

Works Cited

Gentleman, Marvin E. "Salvadorian Civil War." Fsmitha. 15 Aug. 2001. 13 Apr. 2012.Digital