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In the passage, "I couldn't imagine wanting to dye my hair blonde". Mendoza was very insecure about herself as well as made fun of for it. Mendoza was different. she had brown eyes and hair as well as brown eyes while, everyone else had blonde hair and eyes which made Mendoza different. Mendoza's grandmother also called her "mija" while others grandmothers didn't.
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Instead of being blond with blue eyes like all of her Czech classmates, Mendoza has chocolate and espresso eye and hair color and a grandmother who would call her "Mija" which means " my girl or my daughter" in Spanish which made her insecure because other grandmothers wouldn't call their granddaughter Mija which left her confused and hurt. Mendoza mother who is a Caucasian woman with blue eyes and blond hair would tell Mendoza " You're unique and beautiful" speech but it was hard for Mendoza mother to truly empathize with her because she didn't understand how she felt. Mendoza father is Mexican American but she still felt that her father also doesn't feel how she feels because he's the only is a doctor within 50 radius so he is accepect. Mendoza sister is their town beauty queen with glossy hair and olive skin complexion and her brother with blue eyes and fair skin looking like everyone else, Mendoza felt stuck in the middle of two cultures but not accepted by either. It takes time to heal Mendoza had to mature and learn not to be ashamed of her ethnicity and she learned to embrace her Mexican heritage and become proud of it. " I love being different and not walking the same path as everyone else." Now Mendoza doesnt feel insecure instead confident.

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The text "I Couldn't Imagine wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza is a story about a Hispanic girl growing up in the Czech Republic, not being able to fit in. Christina is mixed girl and she is very insecure about her culture and looks. In the text, Mendoza is not able to fit in with her other Czech classmates because of the way she looked. The other girls in Christina's class had blond hair and blue eyes, while she had chocolate and espresso. Additionally, she also thought that she was the only one who had trouble fitting in with others, unlike her family. Christina then soon learns to embrace and not be ashamed of her culture as time passes. This would lead her to become a National Hispanic Scholar.

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Christina Mendoza who grew up in a small conservative town was really insecure about her ethnicity and appearance. Mendoza was mixed as a half Mexican half Caucasian. At the start of the essay Mendoza was insecure. In the middle of the essay Mendoza started to gain more self esteem. By the end of the essay Mendoza was proud of her ethnicity and appearance.

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In "I couldn't imagine wanting To Dye My Hair Blonde" Christina Mendoza the narrator/ Author of the text is writing a college admission essay . She writes about how her life was in her conservative community . She tells us how she was teased and tormented by her Czech classmates . The reason for this mistreatment was because she didn't have the same characteristic of the other people in her community . while everyone was blonde and blue , she was chocolate and expresso. Although she had a lot of insecurities , overtime she matured and learned to accept her self . she loves love being different and she also learned how to block out the hateful comments. Then she later became a national scholar.

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The story " I Couldn't Imagine wanting to dye my hair blond" by Christina Mendoza is about a girl who grew up in a conservative town where everyone has blonde and blue eyes while she was chocolate and expresso. This made her insecure about her culture because in school she would get teased a lot for being different. However over time she over came being insecure because she matured and was able to accept her culture. When she started accept her culture she became a National Hispanic scholar.

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In the story" I couldn't Imagine wanting to dye my hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza, Christina grew up in a small conservative community, which meant that they didn't like change. In hear community, all of her classmates were Czech and had blue eyes and blond hair, while she had brown hair and brown eyes. She felt really insecure about herself because she didn't fit in with the people surrounding her. She wanted to look like everyone else because she was different. Later on as she grew, she actually enjoyed being an Hispanic scholar.

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In the passage I couldn't imagine wanting to dye my hair blonde it talks about how Mendoza  gets bullied about the way she looks. Making her feel insecure and bad about herself but grows to love her self. According to the first paragraph it says  that instead of having blonde hair and blue eyes she had chocolate hair and expresso eyes and in result she was bullied bringing her confidence down a lot. However in paragraph 4  it states "Time does have a way of healing things. I didn't just wake up one morning and think "I'm proud to be Hispanic", but as I matured I learned not to be afraid of my ethnicity". In conclusion this evidence shows why Mendoza gets bullied for the way she looks but grows to love herself.

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The text "I couldn't Imagine wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" is about a girl named Christina Mendoza who grew up in Seymour. According the Mendoza, her community is not open to change. As soon as she enters grade school, she is constantly teased because of her differences. While everybody has blonde hair and blue eyes, she has brown and espresso hair and eyes. This makes her feel insecure about herself, calling herself a half-breed. She even talks about how everybody in her family is accepted due to their look or position, while she is left out. But with time, she accepted who she was, and embraced her heritage and uniqueness along with other people's as well.

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The text "I Couldn't Imagine Wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza is about a girl named Christina who is very insecure about how she looked and her ethnicity. This was because her Czech classmates who had blond hair and blue eyes use to tease her about her brown hair  and expresso eyes. Christina was a mix of Hispanic and White. Her family couldn't relate to her troubles because they were able to fit in. But as the time went by Christina was able to get over her insecurity and became more prideful about being Hispanic by becoming a National Hispanic Scholar. She also started to embrace the other cultures.

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“I Couldn't Imagine Dying My Hair Blonde” by Christina Mendoza is a college admissions essay. It’s about a Mixed Girl (Christina Mendoza) who was going through trouble because of her differences. She grew up in a small conservative community where everyone looked the same. They all had blue eyes and blonde hair which made her not fit in. Her family couldn’t relate to her troubles since they did not go through it. Her family fit in since her dad was the only Spanish speaking doctor, her mother was a Caucasian. Her sister was a beauty queen and her brother looked like everyone else. As time went on, Mendoza matured and began to love to love her self and enforce her culture. Due to this, she became a national scholar and encouraged others to do the same. Her insecurity’s had just disappeared.

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Create a summary of "I Couldn't Imagine wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza - Caleb Gillespie

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Create a summary of "I Couldn't Imagine wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza - Caleb Gillespie

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In the passage " I Couldn't Imagine wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christiana Mendoza it states "It is easy to grow up in a certain community if you aren't the same as everyone else." The passage also states that she was a half-breed meaning she was half white (Caucasian) and part Mexican while everyone else was fully white (Caucasian) with blue eyes and hair was blond, her skin tone was pretty dark and she had darker eye color. She was very insecure about what she looked like because she was always different from everyone else. She always tried top fit in when she stood out. Shortly after she dyed her hair blond to fit in. Though she still stood out because of her skin tone. Mendoza thinks she doesn't fit in with her family because everyone else looks "perfect" but nobody is "perfect". Now that she is looking back on what she had done. She realizes her ethnicity is beautiful and she became more confident with herself being an half-breed. As she grew more confident she accomplished a lot of things and became an National Hispanic Scholar

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Christina was insecure about not fitting in with everyone else and was trying to find ways to show how miserable she was using pathos. She used flawed logic (fallacy) such as her dad being treated fine even if he is Mexican because of her insecurity for looking different to everyone else. She really wanted to dye her hair blond shortly after to try to fit in and feel better about herself for this. Now, shes looking back at it and talking about how much she regrets wanting to dye her hair because she loves being different to everyone else now which shows that she accepts her self and doesn't agree with trying to fit in to be like everyone else and wants to be unique with her own attributes. Because she started respecting herself and accepting being different, she feels and does better academically and mentally.

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In "I Couldn't Imagine wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza, Christina Mendoza is a mixed Hispanic girl who lives in a a small town called Seymore. She grew up in a conservative community in this case where everyone had blond hair and blues eyes, where as hers were chocolate and expresso. This makes her very insecure and she views herself as half breed. She believes that none of her other family members were having trouble fitting in like her. However as time went by she became more confident in her ethnicity and was named as a National Hispanic Scholar.

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Christina Mendoza was to write a personal essay for the college committee and so she wrote about her insecurities from when she was younger. She did this because it was a way to induce emotions like pity or to make the committee feel empathetic for her and her former self. From paragraph 2 she has emphasized the word "half-breed' which is a derogatory term, this shows how she felt about herself and the thoughts she hinted at having. In paragraph 3 she disproves her own claim, showing she was making excuses because of how insecure she was. As her essay goes on in paragraphs 4 and 5 she says "Time does have a way if healing things.". This sentence shows how she's matured and moved on from that time, to show that she's ready for a new life in college.

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In the text "I couldn't imagine wanting to dye my hair blonde" , Christina Mendoza learns to love her Hispanic features and learns to love being different then everybody else. Christina Mendoza grew up in a community where she was the only one who stood out. In class all her classmates had blonde hair and blue eyes, where she had brown hair and eyes. Paragraph 1 states, "My last name had a z in it and my grandma called me Mija (Spanish for my daughter)". This evidence shows how she felt as if she stood out due to her Hispanic background, as well as her looks. In paragraph one Mendoza says "Why did everybody except me have blue eyes". This shows how she thought she was different from the rest of her classmates. Mendoza also felt that her family could not understand her struggle as they did fit in.  Mendoza says in paragraph 3 "My other family members didn't seem to have trouble fitting in". This shows how Mendoza believes her family members fit in to the standards more, however in paragraph 3 she also states " My fathers ethnicity is well respected. He is the only doctor within a fifty-mil radius who can speak Spanish". This shows how she is insecure, she blames her not fitting in on her looks however her full Hispanic dad fits in due to his other traits.

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The text "I Couldn't Imagine Wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza is about a mixed girl getting over her insecurities when being in a community that doesn't like change. Christina Mendoza grew up in the small town of Seymour. Mendoza's community is conservative which means they don't like change. Mendoza's classmates were Czech and they had blond hair and blue eyes but Mendoza has brown hair and brown eyes. She was teased by her classmates for looking different. Mendoza's mother is white and her dad is Mexican. She is insecure about herself because she felt like she didn't fit in. According to Mendoza, her family fits in but she doesn't. As Mendoza matured, she realized that she should be proud to be Hispanic. She is proud to be diverse.

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"I Couldn't Imagine Dying My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza is a text about a mixed Hispanic girl (Christina Mendoza) going through the troubles of being different. Christina Mendoza grew up in a conservative community, where everyone is white with blonde with blue eyes but she has brown eyes and hair. She goes through the troubles of insecurity, and noo one around her relating to her troubles, including her family. Christina Mendoza soon learns to love herself and her ethnicity as she grows up, and she shows her Hispanic heritage with pride.

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In the text "I Couldn't Imagine Wanting to Dye My Hair Blond" by Christina Mendoza, she talks about growing up in a small conservative town. Mendoza was really insecure about her appearance and ethnicity. Instead of having the features of every other Czech classmate, she had looks of a Hispanic. But as time went by, Mendoza learned to love her uniqueness and heritage. Which later led her on to being a National Hispanic Scholar.