Download or read book Between the Lines written by Larry Siems and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continuing U.S. debate over illegal immigration, a human face has rarely been shown. The topic has been presented as a monolithic abstraction, a creation of statistics, political rhetoric, and fear. This collection of letters between undocumented immigrants in California and their families back home reveals the other side of the story. Published for the first time in paperback, Between the Lines reveals the often poignant human drama currently being played out along the U.S.-Mexico border. The letters, presented in Spanish and English, express powerful feelings of hope, uncertainty, and fear among the undocumented travelers as they arrive in the United States and seek work, social support and legal status. The letters from their families in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador return feelings of hope, love, and support. Translator/editor Siems provides a powerful and lyrical introductory essay that sets the stage for the letters that follow.

Download or read book A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish written by John Butt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.

Download or read book Tougher Than Nails written by Amanda Flores and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The next day he came for my children. The time to go had come.... The river was very strong and very cold.... When I heard the sound of the helicopter, my heart pounded....” Choices must be made whether bad or good. I went from hot El Salvador to cold Canada, but my faith kept me cool and kept me warm and safe, just like I kept my family. The Salvadorian civil war didn’t kill me, the Rio Grande didn’t drown me, la migra didn’t catch me, Canadian winters haven’t frozen me. Yet. Many people have had trials and tribulations and chose the wrong attitude to get through them. I did the same until I truly listened to my heart and the voice of God. Using His map, I took my family from the dark into the light. I didn’t know how to swim, speak English, shovel snow, drive, or sometimes feed my family. But I am a survivor, a fierce wife and an even fiercer mother. Some people say I’m tougher than nails. My life shows that determination and faith—and strength—can lead to wonders. I hope my story can inspire people—my children, my grandchildren, everybody.

Download or read book El Gran Silencio written by Nicolas Lehoux and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Gran Silencio es individual, lo siento en mí con tal intensidad que poco importa si me creen o no. Hace tiempo que ya pasé la fase de la aprobación. Aunque sería bueno saber que soy comprendido, no tengo ninguna expectativa en ese sentido. Simplemente he tratado aquí de expresar una vez más lo inexpresable, de dar testimonio de lo que Yo Soy. Al entrar en el Gran Silencio he capitulado. He dejado de creer que la humanidad podía en su conjunto despertarse a la consciencia. No obstante, creo firmemente que algunos individuos lo pueden lograr ya que es su deseo más preciado. Es para ellos que escribo esta obra, es hacia ellos que dedico mi obra. Me gustaría recordarles que es el deber de cada uno el liberarse a sí mismos incluso antes de tratar de hacerlo para los demás.

Download or read book C ncer Por Qu Yo written by Viviana Ruiz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Te Regalo la Experiencia de mi Lucha, mi Fuerza y mi Fe entre la Realidad y los Sueños. En esta obra me he propuesto narrar mi experiencia vivida con el Cáncer y además proponer caminos que mitiguen su crueldad. Encontraras el dolor de un corazón y el grito de un alma herida por un diagnostico devastador. Una historia donde se enfrentan los sentimientos y se descubre que hay una vida por salvar: La nuestra. Donde se narra una experiencia llena de obstáculos y retos de los cuales nosotros los pacientes de cáncer pasamos, dejándonos una cicatriz que arde como un ligero recordatorio. No solamente donde comprendemos que no solo tenemos que luchar contra los siguientes tres monstros: el cáncer, sus desbastadoras terapias y sus efectos secundarios. Pero también enfrentarnos los enemigos de esta enfermedad que afectan: lo emocional, lo físico y lo social en nuestras vidas. Es un relato corporal al igual que espiritual al cual usted querido lector le podrá sacar beneficios. Encontraras un popurrí de las técnicas de la medicina convencional, la medicina alternativa, la fortaleza corporal, una fantasía encantadora y la fe necesaria para poder luchar contra esta enfermedad. Obtendrás conciencia de tus apegos, debilidades y logras liberarte de ellos. Conseguirás una visión positiva, un deseo de armarnos con una gran fuerza, determinación, fervor y tenacidad listos para luchar contra el cáncer. Un entendimiento que el cáncer en muchos casos se cura. Entre la realidad y los sueños podrás trazar unas nuevas metas en un futuro lleno de amor, ilusiones, aceptación y bendiciones..

Download or read book Dreams and Nightmares written by Liliana Velásquez and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At fourteen, Liliana Velásquez walked out of her village in Guatemala and headed for the U.S. border, alone. On her two-thousand-mile voyage she was robbed by narcos, rode the boxcars of La Bestia, and encountered death in the Sonoran Desert.

Download or read book A Concordance to the Plays and Poems of Federico Garc a Lorca written by Alice M. Pollin and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 100 LATINOS 100 HISTORIAS written by R.C. ONTIVEROS and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro que tiene ahora en sus manos posee contenidos y caraterísticas únicas: encierra historias narradas por estudiantes de secundaria como parte de un proyecto de su clase de español. Habría que buscar a 100 estudiantes latinos quienes, a pesar de los enormes problemas de los jóvenes de hoy, alcanzaron la meta de graduarse de “high school” y quedar fuera de las terribles estadísticas de deserción entre los hispanos. Este libro logra adentrarse en la página del diario vivir de un adolescente, quizá su hermano, su primo, su vecino, su hijo, y se convertirá seguramente en una gran fuente de inspiración para toda la población latina.

Download or read book The Road to Nowhere written by Matt Patrick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2016 spring semester, the Patrick, Tannenhaus, Hernández Sophomore team embarked upon a journey. A journey to discover what drives people to move. Focusing on U.S./Latin-American immigration during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, students were exposed to an array of perspectives and policies. Combining Spanish and Humanities, language and culture; preconceptions were challenged and minds opened. Forming groups, students selected a Latin-American country and attempted to get inside the minds of those affected by immigration. Often victims of more powerful forces, the immigrant's story is rarely told. Through works of historical fiction, students revealed why immigrants leave their homeland, what they experience on their journey, and how their life is altered once in the U.S.

Download or read book Russian English Dictionary of Proverbs and Sayings written by Alexander Margulis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary contains 2,375 Russian sayings and proverbs and their English counterparts. Variants of each saying are included, and careful attention is given to the differences in British and American versions. For example, the Russian saying that is interpreted as “Children behave in a childish way, and they cannot be expected to act like grown-up people,” is first given in Russian (in the Cyrillic alphabet) and then in English, and is then followed by the nearest English-language equivalent sayings in Britain and the United States: “Young colts will canter” (British) and “Boys will be boys” (American). The proverbs and sayings are arranged alphabetically by the first Russian word (in the Cyrillic alphabet) and are cross-referenced so the reader can find analogous Russian versions of English sayings. There is a keyword index for each language (one in English, one in Russian in the Cyrillic alphabet), which allows the reader to find a proverb or a saying without knowing the first word. Proverbs and sayings are current and include those popular in both spoken Russian and literature. The prefatory matter is in both English and Russian, for readers who have a command of either language.

Download or read book Cara de Pr Cer written by Roberto Luis Guzm N. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palabras, acciones, escenas se despliegan por aquí y más allá en Cara de Prócer, un libro de cuentos y relatos que línea a línea construye su lugar. Tramas que marcan momentos de la vida. Impensados, comunes, ajenos, irreversibles. Ni más ni menos que el delineado del paso de hombres y mujeres que viven dentro de cada historia. Así los relatos: El caballo de Troya, y Extraña lluvia, se dirimen en las fronteras de lo fantástico y cotidiano. Tomografía computada, exhibe desde un realismo crudo cuan frágil y hasta patético se puede ser en el decurso de un problema de salud. Es Macao grr..., una historia que nos acerca los desatinos a los que se puede arribar, simple y llanamente por seguir la ruta del azar, la seducción del juego. Nadie se dispone a perder, aunque simule lo contrario. Escenas, personajes, lugares, amores y humores... Nada escapa a la pluma de Roberto Luis Guzmán. Marta Rosa Mutti

Download or read book Nada En Absoluto written by Darielys Tejera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El propósito de este libro es, fundamentalmente, dar esperanza a aquéllos que atraviesan por la misma situación que una vez vivió la autora Darielys Tejera. Pretende además sacar a la luz una historia con la cual el lector pueda identificarse, y crear una conciencia entre los demás de que el suicidio sí ocurre, y que cuando ocurre, la víctima nunca está sola porque hay muchos que pasan por lo mismo. A algunos se les dan talentos, mientras que otros tienen que encontrar por sí solos su razón de ser. Mis talentos los descubrí. Mi razón de ser la tuve que buscar hasta que la encontré. Mi razón de ser era y es ayudar a otros. Por eso decidí escribir este libro. Creo que todos estamos en este mundo para, en un momento u otro, de una manera o otra, salvar a alguien, aunque no siempre tengamos conciencia de ello.

Download or read book Oculto sendero written by Elena Fortún and published by Editorial Renacimiento. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oculto sendero, novela inédita y testamento literario de Elena Fortún (1885-1952), por fin sale a la luz. Fortún escribe esta autobiografía novelada durante su exilio en Argentina y la firma con el seudónimo de Rosa María Castaños. La protagonista es María Luisa Arroyo, pintora y antes niña que quería vestirse de marinero, alter-ego de la autora. El camino de su vida es el sendero hacia el entendimiento de su homosexualidad, camino que avanza parejo al conocimiento y realización del potencial artístico e intelectual de la protagonista. Tras una infancia narrada al más puro estilo Fortún, María Luisa Arroyo irá dejando atrás, como la creadora de la inolvidable Celia, los dictados de la feminidad convencional para adentrarse en una modernidad inevitable y también desgarradora. Ambientada en la España anterior a 1936, Oculto sendero ofrece un retrato único y necesario de la intimidad y la lucha de una mujer excepcional.

Download or read book Peque as Historias de una Revoluci n Chucuta 1998 2005 written by Elio C. Aponte and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elio C. Aponte, nacido en Caracas. Cum Laude, Ingeniero Aeroespacial, Universidad de Míchigan, 1984. Presidente y Fundador de ORVEX - Organización de Venezolanos en el Exilio (abril, 2005), en Miami. Ha escuchado, transcrito y traducido al inglés testimonios de persecución de más de quinientos venezolanos en diez años. Ha promovido la protección migratoria de los venezolanos exiliados así como la lucha noviolenta en su país. Testigo experto sobre Venezuela en Tribunales de Inmigración de Estados Unidos, ayudando a detener la deportación de sus compatriotas. Creador de las páginas web www.orvex.org y www.ruedalo.org, esta última un medio de comunicación alternativo por la que el gobierno de Venezuela lo considera TERRORISTA, acusándolo de trabajar para el derrocamiento violento del gobierno de Chávez y ejecutar el magnicidio con grandes ayudas financieras del Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. y la C.I.A., cargos muy graves pero infundados porque todas sus acciones han sido, son y serán siempre noviolentas. Productor y conductor del programa dominical de TV por internet “ALO RESISTENTE”. Su trabajo ha sido reconocido por organizaciones defensoras de derechos humanos de varios países. Creador del canal ORVEX en YouTube que cuenta con más de 1400 videos que han sido vistos más de 20 millones de veces. Entrevistado por medios de comunicación masivos como UNIVISION, TELEMUNDO, CNN EN ESPAÑOL, LA VOZ DE AMERICA y NTN 24 HORAS, entre otros, dado su amplio conocimiento y análisis acerca de la realidad venezolana. Actualmente se encuentra en el exilio.

Download or read book Transmovimientos written by Ellie D. Hernández and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces across gendered and racialized contexts, all crucial elements of the trans-movements taking place in the United States. This collection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and social activism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQ communities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and political discourses that produce untenable living situations. The focal point of analysis throughout Transmovimientos examines migratory movements and anti-immigrant sentiment, homophobia, and stigma toward people who are transgender, immigrants, and refugees. These deliberate consciousness-based expressions are designed to realign awareness about the body in transit and the diasporic experience of relocating and emerging into new possibilities.

Download or read book Gender Violence at the U S Mexico Border written by HŽctor Dom’nguez-Ruvalcaba and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S.ÐMexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is not a new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed. The sociological and cultural implications of violence have recently emerged at the forefront of academic discussions about the border. And yet few studies have been devoted to one of its most disturbing manifestations: gender violence. This book analyzes this pervasive phenomenon, including the femicides in Ciudad Ju‡rez that have come to exemplify, at least for the media, its most extreme manifestation. Contributors to this volume propose that the study of gender-motivated violence requires interpretive and analytical strategies that draw on methods reaching across the divide between the social sciences and the humanities. Through such an interdisciplinary conversation, the book examines how such violence is (re)presented in oral narratives, newspaper reports, films and documentaries, novels, TV series, and legal discourse. It also examines the role that the media have played in this process, as well as the legal initiatives that might address this pressing social problem. Together these essays offer a new perspective on the implications of, and connections between, gendered forms of violence and topics such as mechanisms of social violence, the micro-social effects of economic models, the asymmetries of power in local, national, and transnational configurations, and the particular rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics of discourses that represent violence.

Download or read book Angelbound El Camino a Mi ngel written by Christina Bauer and published by Monster House Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myla Lewis, de dieciocho años, es una chica que ama dos cosas: patear traseros y dar palizas. Ella no es la típica chica cuasi demonio, parte demonio y parte humana. Durante los últimos cinco años, Myla ha vivido por los días en que pelea en la Arena del Purgatorio. Cuando las almas quieren un juicio por combate por su derecho a entrar al Cielo o al Infierno se enfrentan a ella, y no ha perdido una batalla, aún. Pero cuando comienza su último año en Purgatory High, las peleas en la Arena ya no son suficientes para mantener su ánimo. Cuando los demonios comienzan a actuar extraño, incluso para los demonios, y el Rey de los Demonios, Armagedón, aparece en la escuela de Myla, ella sabe que las cosas están cambiando y no se ven bien para los cuasi demonios. Myla comienza a cuestionar todo, y no le gustan las respuestas que descubre. ¿Qué sucedió hace diecisiete años que convirtió a los cuasi demonios en trabajadores esclavos? ¿Por qué su mamá siempre está tan triste? ¿Y por qué nadie le dice quién es su padre? Las cosas se intensifican cuando Myla conoce a Lincoln, el Gran Príncipe thrax, un súper sexy cazador de demonios parte ángel y parte humano. Pero, ¿qué puede hacer una chica cuasi demonio cuando se enamora de un cazador de demonios? Es bueno que Myla no tenga miedo de romper algunas reglas. Con un amor por el que vale la pena luchar, Myla va a revolucionar el Purgatorio. *** El libro clásico más vendido, ahora traducido al español de América ***