https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd en-us 2018-01-12 01:31:05 UTC 2023-02-20 18:44:18 UTC hello@padlet.com nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220835184 In the nonfiction book, Famous Mexican Americans by Clarke Newlon, the central idea is that the past doesn't always make up the future. ]]> 2018-01-12 01:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220835184 nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220836417 On page 36 it says, "I had to quit school and go to work after the eigth grade,' Lee said, continuing his personal history briefing for the sports writers ( and the national television audience which had followed his game, stroke by stroke, for the last several holes)." This piece of evidence shows that Lee Trevino had a rough and tough childhood. He didn't use that as an excuse for his future self. He went from drop out to famous professional golfer.]]> 2018-01-12 01:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220836417 nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220837491 2018-01-12 01:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220837491 nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220837558 On page 71, it says, "'I wasn't a food picker,'  he said, 'but i did pick cotton on my father's ranch to earn spending money - a few pesos."' This quote shows that he could have been a rancher like his father or a food picker. But overall, he wasn't destined to be that. Ricardo ended up choosing a different profession. His future was not going to be him being a food picker or rancher.]]> 2018-01-12 01:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220837558 nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220838392 2018-01-12 01:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220838392 nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220839100 On page 61, it says, " It is not an easy battle, but Cesar Chavez has never found his battles easy, nor expected them to be." This quote shows that instead of accepting that his past battles failed ,  he still continued to fight and fight and fight. Cesar Chavez ended up being a civil rights activist and co-founding the National Farm Workers Association.

]]> 2018-01-12 02:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220839100 nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220840746 2018-01-12 02:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220840746 nmorales51 https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220842351 On page 25, it says, " He laughed at me and told me, ' Son, face up to reality. You will always be poor. You will always be a laborer. It is the destiny of people like us. '" This quote shows that people always told Henry that he was going to be poor no matter what in Henry's childhood. His father told him that he was going to end up like this. Fortunately, Henry was not destined to be like the people of his childhood. Henry ended up going to college and being an educator for the kids that were going through the same things as him.]]> 2018-01-12 02:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nmorales51/fwx1rnuud1zd/wish/220842351