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Mi Familia - Paper

Mi Familia

The film I chose to write about was . is the story of events in the lives of three generations of a Los Angeles Mexican-American family. The theme of this story is that this country has been populated by millions of humans from around the globe. People from Mexico escape religious persecution, economic disaster, or warfare. And too many of these immigrants have been tragically abused by the system that was designed to welcome them and protect them. The time period that this movie takes place was after the Revolution and the Great Depression had just begun. The great depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. History. The depression began in 1929 and lasted for about a decade. ...

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a year to get to the other side. Finally he reached Los Angeles. The border in those days was just a line in the dirt. El Californio was the name of the only living relative Jose had. They called the old man "El Californio" because he didn't come from anywhere else; he was born here in California when it was still Mexico. Children soon followed, first Paco then Irene. Jose Sanchez was always working in the milpa (corn in the back and beans in the front). Then came the day that everything changed, when Maria (Jose's wife) didn't come home from the market. It was the time of the great depression. Some politicians got it into their heads that the mexicanos were responsible for the whole thing. The mexicanos were taking up a lot of jobs, jobs that were needed for real americans, so the migra made some big sweeps through the barrio. If you looked mexicano you were picked up and shipped to Mexico. Maria was all alone and pregnant, the year was 1933. The Southern Pacific railroad made the ...

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Added: 11/28/2005 04:11:01 PM
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 896
Pages: 4

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