Write an essay based on Service Learning- Oral History Project.

Write an essay based on Service Learning- Oral History Project. Think about narration and description as occupying equal parts of the paper, approximately. Take your time to unfold the events (chronologically is the easiest way, but you can make use of flashbacks too), and also take your time to immerse the reader into the place of your choice, making it vivid through an appeal to the five senses.
Oral History Project
Visit with a of our1 older citizens (must be over 65 years of age; must have been born on or before 1956) and ask them to share with you their perspectives on all 3 of the following issues: EDUCATION, COVID, RACISIM
Get a general sense of the experience, but also try to get the interviewee to tell a specific story if possible.. Gather the following information from the participants and write it here on this page
a. full name: Bertha Hinojosa
b. nickname: none
c. date of birth: 06/15/1957
d. where they were born, what are their origins, if they were not born in the United States, how were they able to come this country.: Bertha was born in Mier Tamaulipas, Mexico and currently in Miguel Alema. Tamaulipas, Mexico
e. name of their parents and where were they from: Maria Martinez and Octavio Hinojosa
f. name of their spouse: Gregorio Alanis
d. number of children (did they all survive? Were they all born in hospitals?) 4 daughters, all born in hispotal at Miguel Aleman Tamaulipasa Mexico.
e. number of grandchildren: 11
Begin each story with the interviewee’s background information (above) in an introductory paragraph (once written you can copy the introduction to the other stories). Try to tell the stories with as much detail as possible, as genuinely as possible, but keep each story to one page only. When finished you should have 4 pages.
THEMES: EDUCATION
Early Educational Experiences: Francisco Ramirez Canales at Mier Tamaulipas Mexico (elemenatry)1st- 6th grade. no cars, had to walk 30 minutes to an hour to get to school
THEMES: COVID.
What are their experiences with the virus? cuerrently lives in mexico annd can not cross the border deu to the virus. she herlsefl had covid in december of 2020 and was very sick, had cough fever and basicallly all of the covid 19 symptoms.
Have they lost any loved ones? yes 2 brother in laws. the actually passed away the same day just different hours. the both were intubaed and were sick at the hospital for over 1 month.
What are their thoughts on the vaccines? she thinks that vaccines are very helpful and everyone shouldn get them
What do they believe the future holds, as far as the virus is concerned? thinks if people wont get vaccinated the virus and the pandemic will never end. but if everyone was to get the vaccine the pandemic will be somewhat over in about 2 years.
THEME: RACISM
Racism and Discrimination:
3. Confrontations with Police/Border Patrol/Texas Rangers:
OTHER VENUES THAT CAN BE INCULDED IN THE INTERVIEW, AND THAT WOULD PROVE WORTHY OF RECORDING THESE EXPERIENCES. (IF YOU FOLLOW ANY OF THESE VENUES, MAKE SURE YOU LABEL THEM ACCORDINGLY ON YOUR ESSAY).
1. Their first job: never has worked always been house wife / mom
2. Local Legends/Folklore (evil eye, la lechusa, la llorona, etc.)
3. Migrant Experiences: na
4. Daily Life/How they lived—house, car, family, meals, clothing, shopping: when she was young she lived at a ranch with her 4 daughters ina 2 bedroom house and only one car available. Her spoue was an agriculture and did not make much money. mos of the time they had to walk to get to places.
5. Dating and Courtship leading to Marriage: married at age of 19
(The Rio grande Valley is at border is at the border of mexico)
Our discussion this week is designed to help you with the prewriting stages of your narrative paper. Here is what you’ll do:
Paragraph 1: First, read the Paper 1 Assignment and start it by engaging in the prewriting process we discussed this week. Free write, brainstorm, list–whatever helps you get ideas out is good. Write about the strategy you used and how it helped you, or not?
Paragraph 2: Second, create an outline using the guidelines we discussed this week. This is what you will be posting.
Paragraph 3: post your essay

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