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Mexican culture through the years: video

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The story of my grandfather

 Written by: Kelly Claire Moreno García In 1951, United States of America was the country as the Operation Faust started, 5 bangs because the bombers were going to develop a nuclear weapon. That was the year that Rufino Moreno was born in the Town of Zolotpec, he is my grandfather and I admire him for somethings. First, he told me that when he was an infant was the best in his class, but he could not finish the elementary scholl because his parents hadn´t had money to buy him even a pencil to continue his schoolarity. Second, when he was an infant as well he got his first job as a farmer, the most important thing is that when he was in his teen, he was the first person who worked in Mexico City from my city, in this moment he felt in love, when my parents met the, so they got married and became parents. While he was working in Veracruz, he became father from his first daughter, and in next years he became a grandfather. He is 70 years old and he still work, because he is a very har...

My grandfather

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 Written by: Alejandra González In 1942, Mexico army was fighting in Germany because they had sunk Mexican oil tankers, and Mexico signed the first trade agreement with the United States containing the most favored nation clause for Mexico. That was the year that my grandfather was born more specifically on November 15th in the village The Oro, his name was Leopoldo Gutierrez Martinez, and he was a mechanic because when he was a child he loves the cars and the motorcycles. He left school when he finished primary school. His parents never loved him, so my grandfather left the Oro and arrived at Toluca when he was a teenager. When he arrived here, he stayed with his uncle and aunt but not all was perfect, he had searched for a job, so his first job was washing cars at his uncle’s friend business and so he began to earn money, he had this job until he was 20.   When he was 21 years old, he met my grandmother, and they fall in love at the same time. In 1962 they married, and they ...

Elvia González

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 Written by: Alejandra Aguilar Flores In 1932, the president of Mexico Pascual Ortiz Rubio resigned his position and there was a financial fall with a loss of 14% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). That was the year that my grandmother Elvia Gonzalez was born in Toluca, Mexico. She lived with her parents and her five siblings. She liked to do housework and she usually went to church. My grandmother is a relieved person, but she likes to be with her family and talk with them. She lived for a time in the State of Mexico with her aunt. Her aunt was an entrepreneur and my grandmother helped her at her store. After one year, she returned to her parents and helped them with the housework. She also worked in a tablecloth factory at 17 because her father had an accident and lost his arm. In 1960, at the age of 28, she married Armando Flores and they had 7 children. After she got married, she moved to Capultitlan and she still lives there with her husband.

Xóchitl Cecilia González Piña's Biography

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 Written by: Xiadani Velazco González Xóchitl Cecilia Gonzalez Piña (my mother) was born in 1964 in Tenango del Valle a small town that gradually turned into a city. She was the first daughter of a teaching couple. However, a few years later, two more siblings joined the family. She lived in a house on the cerro of the village, but it was too far from the centre, so she moved when she was 15 years old. She started to study high school in 1975 in the first school of the place because her father was the director. Xóchitl decided to study business administration, but after two years she changed her career and studied to become a teacher. She got her first job when she was 22 years old in Tenancingo, then she learnt psychopedagogy in the ENSEM. Immediately she was married to Carlos Enrique Velazco Torres (my father) and they had two daughters. 13 years later she got divorced and kept her two daughters. Although she now has a friendly relationship with her ex-husband. Sh...

Vicente Ruiz Zagal: An admirable person

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  Written by; Paulina Daniela Villegas Ruiz Vicente Ruiz Zagal was born in July 29 th , 1940; in Angangueo Michoacán, he was one of the middle brothers in his family, he lived with his parents and siblings, and their family dedicated to sell fabrics, at that time he lived with a lot of deficiencies in his childhood and adolescence, at the age of 11 years old his family and him had to move to Toluca, to continue with their business, because they realize that people buy more in Toluca than in Michoacán, they had to rent a house near by the downtown, in order to make them easy the movement of the fabrics. Despite everything his parents want him to study a professional career, and he decided to start working, to help their parents with the money of the career. He decided to study Tourism, and thanks to his academic excellency he got a scholarship that help him to pay all of his trips, we went to travel around the world, he visited countries like Egypt, Indonesia, Argentina, England, ...