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A smile that moves mountains PDF Imprimir Correo electrónico
Escrito por Juliana Stout   
Lunes 18 de Mayo de 2009 19:24

Jessica Martínez-Brooks embraces the best moment of her professional career.

 

When she talks about her past, she is overcome with emotion; the detailed account of her life takes you back in time.

 

You can almost see this little girl with a contagious smile ready to swallow the world. She had always wanted to be like her grandmother, Anita Martínez, a very strong willed person.

 

Little Jessica Martínez Brooks, loved to assist her grandmother at a place called ‘La Puerta de Oro’, a senior citizens center, which doors are still open to the community.

 

Jessica remembers as well as her grandfather, Jesse Martínez who droved the bus at the senior citizens home. Jessica’s brother two years younger than her; along with her would participate in several activities at the center. 

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The will to succeed PDF Imprimir Correo electrónico
Escrito por Willie Quiñones   
Lunes 18 de Mayo de 2009 19:15

 The story of Rudy J. Alvarado.

 

Anyone can succeed in this world it’s just a matter of connecting the dots. Everyone is born with basically the same potential. Genetically our possibilities of achieving any set goals are astronomical. We can do anything we put our minds to. Failure belongs to those that never attempt anything. This is the philosophy of Rudy Alvarado, a man that once you meet him, is difficult to ignore, impossible to forget. He is an engineer by education and an entrepreneur by choice. When he talks to you about business he sounds more like an artist craving an empty canvas to deliver from it a masterpiece. Those who desire the same, heed his words of wisdom.

 

In the business world, not everything that you touch turns to gold, but for Rudy it’s more often than not. Rudy Alvarado was born in Laredo, Texas, but was raised across the river, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He was barely five years old; still he remembers how the two towns were divided, on one side the Anglos, the other side the Hispanics (mainly Mexicans). After graduating from high school in 1950, he went on to Laredo Junior College for one year. Later on he transferred to Texas A&M, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and two minors, in Electrical Engineer and Thermodynamics.

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When I die, bury me standing up, so I can go on dancing PDF Imprimir Correo electrónico
Escrito por Willie Quiñones   
Viernes 20 de Febrero de 2009 22:54

Hazel Lopez reflects in her long journey as a dancer.  

To see her move, with calculated expressions, her feet barely caress the ground and her body glides through the air.  It’s almost as to see a butterfly in full flight, and for only an instant, to imagine that something magical has happened.  A silhouette in the distance … that in her sway bewitches the audience, as the uncontrollable force of a restless storm and among pirouettes, doubled and jumps, she incites, infects and arouses.
Then you are convinced that you have seen grace itself manifested in dance. 
Yes, we are talking about the ballet; it’s a form of dance that can be use for story telling, to express a feeling or simply to represent a musical piece.  The dancers must be capable of floating in mid air, defying gravity, or spinning on their tiptoes.

Some steps of ballet are so rapid that often it becomes almost impossible for the audience to follow the movements of the dancer.  The techniques of this dance have an extreme difficulty, since it needs absolute concentration and control of the body, in addition, a supreme level of flexibility, coordination and musical rhythm are essential.
In order to warm up, dancers use slippers made of fabric (skin or leather) with split sole, smooth and easily adaptable.  When the experience, the physical condition and the force of the dancer allow it, the training begins with ballet slippers.  The wardrobe must be comfortable, especially, it must enhance the figure to be able to correct and see the movements of body, arms and legs.  The training in solfeggio is recommended, but it is not indispensable.  It’s ideal to start ballet training at an early age, to assimilate and to automate movements and technical steps. 
Hazel López began to dance at four years of age.  She possessed a curiosity and attraction to the movements of the human figure.  Her mother would take her, on a weekly basis to enjoy several presentations of the Ballet Guatemala.  All the arts in Guatemala are sponsored by the government, which allowed her access to the various cultural functions.
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Planting the seed of Hope PDF Imprimir Correo electrónico
Escrito por Willie Quiñones   
Viernes 20 de Febrero de 2009 22:49

How the imagination of a few change the lives of many. 


 

Between Art and Education, has wavered Esperanza Álvarez’s life, better known by her coworkers and close friends as Hope.  So it happens that hope is one of three theological virtues, along with faith and charity.  Hope is the virtue from which people transform or elevate themselves to an altered spiritual state.
It has been defined as ‘inspired virtue that prepares the human being to gain confidence and truth to obtain the eternal life by natural and supernatural means.’
In her long journey Hope Álvarez has used this virtue time after time to reach out to those innocent souls, starved for knowledge, saturated in curiosity but lacking in direction.  Hope is a pioneer in Education, even more so in ever so challenging field of Bilingual Education.
In 1975 while attending Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, Hope heard the call to Education.  “I still remember that we would go out in a bus from Denton to Ft. Worth.  There we had the opportunity to work with children from pre-school to eighth grade.  The hours were long and exhausting, but the rewards were unimaginable,” says Hope.
She adds that her group was the third one of its class and only Arizona and California were experimenting at that time with Bilingual Education.  After finishing the educational program in Denton, Texas, her mom told her about a vacancy in Oklahoma, she got an interview and in the blink of an eye, began her long career as an educator. Westwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City was where along with two other young women, one of Mexican descent, Mónica Sandoval and April Haulman, originally from Colorado, took the reins of bilingual education in the school district.
The need for bilingual education was great and it reflected in the faces of 137 Hispanic students.  With barely one year in this school, Hope realized that the shortage of bilingual teachers was enormous.   
The demographic figures were an indication of the need for bilingual educators; it was then when Rosa King, who would later found El Nacional News and Violeta Crain joined in the ranks to fill the void.    Using the opportunity of education subsidies established by the administration of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Hope submitted proposals that once approved, would warrant financial assistance to academically prepare her bilingual assistants.

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