Mi Vida

Autobiography of deaf and blind woman, and activist, Helen Keller.

Con este significativo título, el más universal de los escritores daneses, autor de cuentos tan populares como "El patito feo", "La sirenita" y tantos otros, nos dio un relato de su vida que no sólo nos proporciona las claves para entender su original y compleja personalidad sino también para comprender mejor los argumentos de sus famosísimas cuentos.

In Forest Gump, Sally Fields says, Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what youre gonna get. MI VIDA is like a Latino Forest Gump story. However, it is the true-life story of Jos Harris: his challenging childhood; Army enlistment as a cook but eventually ending up a Paratrooper, Airborne Ranger then Green Beret; obtaining and losing success, and ultimately finding out what matters most in life. Around 56 A.D., the apostle Paul wrote the Corinthian Christians about the importance of faith, hope and love. Harris takes the reader along on his life's journey on the road to finding peace, love and happiness. Along the way, he works to strengthen his faith in God and his hope for the future. At the end of the book, the reader may ask the question that Harris asks himself throughout, "Who Am I?" The reader may discover the answer, and find out today's meaning and importance of the three attributes that the apostle Paul wrote about, 2000 years ago.

Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds—they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context—Dartmouth College—often very different from their childhood ones.

Perico, or parrot, was what Dad called me sometimes. It was from a Mexican saying about a parrot that complains how hot it is in the shade, while all along he's sitting inside an oven and doesn't know it.... For Manuel Hernandez, the year leading up to his test of courage, his initiation into a gang, is a time filled with the pain and tension, awkwardness and excitement of growing up in a crazy world. His dad spends most of his time and money at the local pool hall; his brother flips through jobs like a thumb through a deck of cards; and his mom never stops cleaning the house, as though one day the rooms will be so spotless they'll disappear into a sparkle, and she'll be free. Manny's dad is always saying that people are like money--there are million- and thousand- and hundred-dollar people out there, and to him, Manny is just a penny. But Manny wants to be more than a penny, smarter than the parrot in the oven. He wants to find out what it means to be a vato firme, a guy to respect. In this beautifully written novel, Victor Martinez gives readers a vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy's life. Manny's story is like a full-color home movie--sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always intensely original.For Manuel Hernandez, the year leading up to his test of courage, his initiation into a gang, is a time filled with the pain and tension, awkwardness and excitement of growing up in a mixed-up, crazy world. Manny’s dad is always calling him el perico, or parrot. It’s from a Mexican saying about a parrot that complains how hot it is in the shade while all along he’s sitting inside the oven and doesn’t know it. But Manny wants to be smarter than the parrot in the oven—he wants to find out what it means to be a vato firme, a guy to respect. From an exciting new voice in Chicano literature, this is a beautifully written, vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy’s life. 1998 Pura Belpre Author Award 1996 Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 1997 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) 1996 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Isabel una joven madre, una manana fria de invierno decide abandonar a su familia, para trasladarse a una ciudad desconocida, bajo el mandato de una Orden religiosa. En ese delirio arrastra a sus dos hijos, Javier de ocho anos y Katherine de seis. Es la historia de una lucha encarnizada de una nina que no tuvo, ninez, infancia, adolescencia y juventud. A traves de los anos empieza a luchar contra esa dictadura Politica religiosa. El conseguir una pequena libertad, le costo el mas alto precio que se puede pagar. Con su esfuerzo llega a lo mas alto, a vivir una vida de lujo, llena de suenos, pero eso no la lleva a alcanzar la libertad, ni la felicidad. Seguira buscando y la vida le ira ensenando, como se puede sobrevivir a la adversidad, sin peder la esperanza de encontrar el camino a la libertad y la felicidad.

Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920s and continued well into the 1980s, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke. Her status as a working-class idol continues to this day, making her one of the most prominent and long-standing performers in the history of the recording industry and a champion of Chicana/o music. This bilingual edition presents Lydia Mendoza's historia in an interview between the artist and Yolanda Broyles-González: first is the English translation, then the Spanish original, as told by Mendoza herself. Broyles-González concludes the volume with an extended essay on the significance of Mendoza's career and her place in Tejana music and Chicana studies. Known as a lone artist and performer, Lydia Mendoza's voice and twelve-string guitar-playing figure prominently in her ability to both nurture and transmit the vast oral tradition of popular Mexican song with beauty and integrity. She sang the songs of the people across generations in the old tradition; all are indigenous to the Americas, and many of them to Texas. It is the music that emerged from the experiences of native peoples (on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border) within the colonial context of the nineteenth century. Mendoza's prominence and stature as a Chicana idol stems from her sustained presence and perpetual visibility within a complex network of social and cultural relations in the twentieth century. Along with being one of the earliest female recording and touring artists, she is loved as a voice of working-class sentimiento, sentiment and sentience, through song, which is one of the most cherished of Chicana/o cultural art forms. Through her vast repertoire and unmistakable interpretive skill in the shaping of songs she is a living embodiment of U.S.-Mexican culture and a participant in raza people's protracted struggles for survival.

A lo largo de casi cuarenta años de ministerio, el autor ha sido testigo de las innumerables experiencias que componen la trama de la vida humana. Entre los capítulos de alegría y felicidad, también se encuentran aquellos momentos desgarradores que todos enfrentamos en algún momento de nuestras vidas. En "¿Qué Hago con Mi Dolor?", el autor comparte una profunda verdad universal: el dolor y el sufrimiento son una parte inevitable de la condición humana. No importa cuán virtuosos o errados seamos, nadie está exento de estos desafíos. El dolor no discrimina; afecta a todos por igual. Este libro se sumerge en las páginas de la Biblia para arrojar luz sobre una realidad innegable: en la vida, lo bueno sucede a personas consideradas "malas" y lo malo puede golpear incluso a las personas más virtuosas. El sufrimiento no juzga, simplemente es parte de nuestra existencia. A través de una serie de Mensajes Pastorales con una sinceridad conmovedora, el autor explora el dolor desde una perspectiva bíblica. Aborda preguntas difíciles y desentraña las respuestas que se encuentran en las Escrituras. En estas páginas, descubrirás cómo enfrentar el dolor de una manera que te ayude a crecer y madurar como individuo. La vida es un viaje de altos y bajos, y "¿Qué Hago con Mi Dolor?" te guía a través de este paisaje emocional. Con la esperanza de que encuentres en estos mensajes al Dios que camina junto a los corazones quebrantados y que sana a los espíritus abatidos, este libro te ofrece una brújula espiritual para navegar por los momentos difíciles con fe, fortaleza y comprensión.