Anna Ramirez is a mother of two sons and is divorced. She is the youngest out of seven siblings and only her and two others are alive today. Both her parents passed away from natural diseases. Anna left home young, graduated high school early and has a degree in accounting. Her hobbies include, reading, cleaning, garden work, listening to music, smoking and drinking with friends. Music is a big part of her life, it's how she copes with the day’s issues. There was never a day that music did not play in her house. From MC Magic to Miley Cyrus, she loved it all. Anna has three tattoos, one being a cross symbolizing her divorce and the other two are her son's names. Only being 5’1, you would think she is weak but Anna is stronger than most and
Ester Hernandez is a Chicana artist, best known for her works of Chicana women. Ester’s goal is to recreate women’s lives to produce positive images of women’s lifestyle and to create icons. Her piece, Frida y Yo, contains the iconic painter Frida Kahlo. Frida, after being in multiple accidents causing long-term pain and suffering, began painting, mostly self-portraits, to portray her reality and glorify the pain. Similar to how Hernandez's goals are a juxtaposition to Frida’s artwork, the art piece Frida y Yo creates a juxtaposition between life and suffering and death and fortune.
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Maria Garcia was born on November 16, 1966, in Montecristi, Dominican Republic. She was encouraged by her father to study law and became a lawyer. She graduated from the Dominican University O & M school of Law. She became a justice of the peace in the misdemeanor court of the city of Montecristi in 1990 and was elevated to justice of the criminal court of the province of Montecristi.
Frida Kahlo is known for the most influential Latin American female artist. She is also known as a rebellious feminist. Kahlo was inspired to paint after her near-death bus incident when she was 17. After this horrendous incident that scarred her for life, she went under 35 different operations. These operations caused her extreme pain and she was no longer able to have kids. Kahlo’s art includes self portraits of her emotions, pain, and representations of her life. Frida Kahlo was an original individual, not only in her artwork but also in her
Bianca Mendoza was a teen that was trafficked. She first met the man whose name is Ariel Guizar on social media, they got in touch and she soon ran away to him thinking that they were gonna have a relationship. But, he started abusing her and sooner forced her to prostitute. He wouldn't let her leave and told her he would shoot anyone that tried to pick her up. During the second year she was prostituting for over 20 guys a day. After a total of 2 years she escaped and Ariel Guizar was arrested.
Sunday night, August 18, 2016, at 2 a.m. in the morning, the world lost such a beautiful being to Heroin. She was found on her bathroom floor with OxyContin and a needle in her arm. Andrea White was just 17 years old. Her mother and father were fairly wealthy and said they believed she had a good life. Her parents replenished her walk of life with anything she could’ve wanted. Her father, John White was the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and her mom, a lawyer working for the residents of A1A. Andrea was a schoolgirl who had good grades, was the captain of the cheer squad at her local school (not naming for personal issues), and valedictorian of her class. She did not have
Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal in February 1909. Her christened name was Maria do Carmo Miranda de Cunha. Her parents were Jose and Maria. She grew up in a strict Roman Catholic household. Jose was both a salesperson and a barber. However, Carmen was only educated until she was fourteen years old. Afterwards she began working at a department store to help support her family. She was both a model and a saleswoman. To pass the time she sang to her fellow co- workers. This lead to her big break when a chance encounter with a guitarist landed her a vocal gig on a local radio station and a job at a nightclub. Her father did not approve of the way his daughter’s life was headed. However, when presented with the sum of money she would make his mind changed. He still didn’t want her full name to be used though so she became known as “Carmen Miranda” (Carmen, 2006).
Christine Cruz lived in the early 1970s through the late 1980s. Christine had a total of 3 plus her is 4 siblings. Christines oldest sister Desi is 54 years old, her brother Michael is 52 years old, and her other brother Junior is 49 years old. A typical day in her life was walking to school, hanging out with friends, watching a 3 o’clock show with her mom, playing outside, doing homework, doing her chores, listening to music, and dancing.
Anna is a seventeen year Latina female residing in the home with her parents and two siblings. Anna reports that her family is very religious and upholds the traditional beliefs of her culture. Anna indicates that her father is the head of the household and therefore makes all of the decisions
Lola Alvarez Bravo is recognized because of her photography and the way it depicted life in Mexico in the second half of the 1900s.
Daniela Vega Hernandez was born on June 3, 1989 in San Miguel, Chile. She was the first child of Igor Vega, a Printing owner, and Sandra Hernandez, a housewife. After a time, the family moved to Nunoa, where her brother Nicolas was born she did not have a nickname. Daniela began studying Opera with her grandmother at the age of eight.Growing up, she attended an all boys school where she was bullied.
Lizzie Velasquez is a victim of neonatal progeroid syndrome. This condition is very rare; in fact she is one of the three people that have ever suffered from it. When she was born, her parents were told that she would never have the ability to walk or talk. However she does both professionally as now she is an inspirational speaker.
The first member of this Wahl family to immigrate, with a husband and children, was Anne Maria. Annie Maria was the third child of Anders Larsen and Berthe Syversdatter Wahl. She was born, 22 December 1848, at Bjørgeeie in Gran.
Connie is a carefree, fifteen-year-old girl who is obsessed with her looks. While she is a free spirit and often daydreams, she is also very naïve. Connie is described to be a beautiful young girl with equally beautiful dark blonde hair. She could not help but at every chance to admire herself. She was pretty and she knew it, owned it in fact. This infuriated her mother, who was once pretty as well. Her mother often reprimanded her about being obsessed with herself. Her mother’s rants made Connie angry to the point that she actually wished both she and her mother were dead. Her mother would repeatedly complain to her sisters about Connie but would always compliment Connie’s sister June. Unlike their mother, their father worked most of the time
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