After listening to all my classmate’s presentations, I was amazed at how great they all were. The students all provided informational content, well organized, and the delivery and communication of the information was well discussed. The students were able to reinstate Texas historical figures that have never been heard of or individuals that have been forgotten. The historical figure I found most astonishing was Emma Tenayuca’s struggle for justice. The presentation by my classmate Brianna, disclosed Tenayuca’s historic achievements throughout her life here in San Antonio, Texas. The content presented was incredibly interesting and informative of both hard working documented and undocumented workers. Viewing the presentation, I learned …show more content…
Brianna organized her information through significant dates in chronical order of Tenayuca’s life span. First, by giving information of when Tenayuca was in high school on the debate team and then transitioning to the major events of Tenayuca’s life time as they occurred in order. Brianna ended her presentation by informing the viewers of Tenayuca’s life after winning various strikes. Tenayuca life after the political stikes and movements she studied to become a bilingual teacher and worked for the Harlendale Independent School District (Brianna Garcia). Finally, the delivery and overall communication while presenting the PowerPoint presentation Brianna maintained eye contact, talked in appropriate volume and rate of speech, and preserved clarity while speaking. The use of media and visual aids were properly used to help maintenance her supporting topics interesting and informative. I did notice Brianna was well-prepared because she had notes to refer to while presenting just in case she had forgotten something. In conclusion, the presentation of Emma Tenayuca’s historical events was inspiring because of the content, organization, and delivery of the information. I learned who this historical figure was and how she had helped change history. Informing students of the forgotten or unrepresented historical figures is such a great way to preserve
When asked to write about an important activist who has demonstrated protest, I immediately drifted towards a Hispanic and/or feminist activist. Various names came across my mind initially such as Cesar Chavez and Joan Baez but as a later discussion in class concluded, there are numerous others who are rarely highlighted for their activism and struggles, which lead to me researching more. In my research I came across Dolores Huerta, an American labor leader and civil rights activist, who I felt was an underdog and brushed over activist in the Hispanic community.
This term paper was written to shine a little light on one of America’s extraordinary women, Maya Angelou.
I thought that Diane Guerrero who is an American actress speech about her family’s deportation was interesting. She recently appeared on an immigration themed of Chelsea handler’s talk show. Guerrero is the citizen daughter of immigrant parents. Guerrero mentioned how her family was taken away from her when she was just 14 years old. “Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if i had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, i found myself basically on my own”, Guerrero added. Luckily, Guerrero had good friends to help her. She told handler how her family try to become legal but there were no sign or help. Her parents lost their money to scammers who they believed to be a lawyer. When her family’s
Who were the key historical figures presented in this episode and what were their contributions to public education?
Her slow yet concise way of speaking, coupled with easy to follow transitions allowed for a speech that was enjoyable to listen to. Her use of examples from her personal life allowed her audience to get a picture of who she was if they did not know, and allowed her to better relate to them by provided examples of how she is related to the college they are graduating from. Her reference to many modern political problems allowed her to bring up her important role as an activist and facilitated further understanding from the audience. While some areas of her speech were weak, such as the longer than needed pauses and her lack of consistent eye contact, to a few points where she didn’t speak clearly enough, the overall picture that was her speech was fairly strong. Looking at this speech, I hope to incorporate some aspects that I failed to include in my previous speeches. Some of these include her use of hand gestures to emphasize and exaggerate certain phrases and topics, and her combined use of appeals. While my initial thoughts going in were “This is boring” and “This is too slow”, it evolved into me wanting to hear more, and overall my defeat in the beginning turned into a victory at the
Maya Angelou was one of America’s greatest writers in history. She was known for her many writings and for her part in Civil Rights Movements. Maya Angelou went through many hardships during her childhood, the most prevalent of those, racism over her skin color. This racism affected where she grew up, where she went to school, even where she got a job. “My education and that of my Black associates were quite different from the education of our white schoolmates. In the classroom we all learned past participles, but in the streets and in our homes the Blacks learned to drops s’s from plurals and suffixes from past tense verbs.” (Angelou 221) Maya Angelou was a strong believer in a good education and many of those beliefs were described in her
Throughout the semester we touched on several topics, but one topic that stood out for was immigration. We watched and discussed movies like “Sin Nombre” and “El Norte” which depicted the process of migrating and the risk factors associated with it. On a personally I more interested in it because been an immigrant myself I can relate to Sayra in “Sin Nombre” and Pedro and his sister in “El Norte” to some extent.
Whenever I walk into Foellinger Auditorium, it’s usually to attend my econ lecture, but this time is different. I’m not going to listen to a lecture about how the economy works, but instead to listen to a family that caused the nation to rethink the educational system. The famous Brown family was going to give a talk about the famous case that carried their name and forever put them in history.
I think this speech is an appropriate text for a year 12 audience as it holds significant world history and it shows the audience the importance of understanding problems that weren’t/aren’t necessarily occurring in their society, country or town. Reading this speech gave me a personal understanding of what it must have been like in 1963 America, it shows me how the world has changed in such a little space of time. From 1963 where there were still slaves and the ‘black’ people were segregated from the ‘white’ to 2015 where Obama is the first ‘African American president to serve The United States of
Throughout life graduation, or the advancement to the next distinct level of growth, is sometimes acknowledged with the pomp and circumstance of the grand commencement ceremony, but many times the graduation is as whisper soft and natural as taking a breath. In the moving autobiographical essay, "The Graduation," Maya Angelou effectively applies three rhetorical strategies - an expressive voice, illustrative comparison and contrast, and flowing sentences bursting with vivid simile and delightful imagery - to examine the personal growth of humans caught in the adversity of racial discrimination.
When the Bob Bullock Texas State History museum opened in March 2001, it advertised itself as “The Story of Texas.” It still calls itself the story of Texas in letters chiseled into the top of the building, on its Web site, on signs directing visitors to the museum, and even on the refrigerator magnets you can buy in the gift shop. When I first saw the slogan, I wondered how there could be “the” story of Texas, since Texas has been culturally diverse throughout its history as a part of Mexico that became a separate nation and later a state. Shortly Texas will have no one group as a majority. I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, where the great majority of the population, like me, is Mexican American. How was this new museum going to present my story? I had to go and find out.
Graduation by Maya Angelou really touches on the fact that discrimination towards blacks in the hundred or so years following the end of the civil war was an endless and relentless torture that had to be endured even at an event as innocent and important as an 8th grade graduation. To hear the superintendent go in front of the school and talk about white accomplishments made Maya feel insignificant even though she had n...
I used the site Emaze to create my presentation due to the effects and the unique twist on an ordinary PowerPoint. Using the cite Emaze made me the most proud because the site is not simple to use, and it took a considerable amount of time to format the information into my liking. This concludes that I was dedicated to creating a pleasant presentation that was both enjoyable and informative. Likewise, I am proud that I utilized voice demo to speak through my presentation, so my audience would not have to read my Emaze. I wished my voice memos would have turned out differently. If I had more time to complete the project, I would better articulate my voice and speak clearer. Additionally, I would have included more detail in my media project. Lastly, by completing this project, I learned that I am a tedious creator, meaning that I want everything to be perfect. Creating this project through a platform I am not familiar with made me aware that not every aspect of my product has to be perfect, and the imperfections of my media project contributes to its
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Throughout all works of literature, the daily events affecting the lives of the authors can be found in many different pieces of their work. Although it may not be a direct relation to what these authors experience, they often relate the themselves to their narrators through many different literary devices. However, these processes really stand out through the works of Maya Angelou. Through the use of metaphors and similes, Angelou relates her writings back to the harsh conditions of the socially unjustified period of the 1930’s onward; explaining the restraints placed upon both herself and her race by those who considered themselves to be her superiors.