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United Nations DPI |
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US
Congress woman helps give a voice to new Americans - Loretta
Sanchez |
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Loretta Sanchez is very
proud
when she talks about her father. “My father came to the US from
Mexico and worked at a rubber and plastics factory,” she says.
“Now, he
owns
a rubber and plastics factory. He’s an example of what the
American Dream can do.”
Like her father, Loretta Sanchez is an American success story,
too. Last autumn, Sanchez was elected to the US Congress. |
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Education is very important to Sanchez. She has six brothers and
sisters. One is a lawyer and three are engineers. “My parents
kept education the focus of our home,” Sanchez says. “They
made sure we did our homework. They were also very involved in our
lives – being scout master,
little
league manager and
den
mother.”
She
learned at a very early age to like learning and develop important
skills. That is why she is successful today. She went on to
graduate from college and get a master’s degree in business.
Sanchez knows from her own family’s experience that being an
immigrant can be a wonderful thing. The combination of her
parents’ Mexican culture and American values has given her a
strong
background.
“I never forget my life-long values of placing family first,
focusing on education and treating everyone as equals,” she
says. “Because of these values, I never have to think twice
before a vote in Congress. I simply vote for what is right.” |
Source:
New English Digest - Author:
Bill
Henning |
"You
have to change the way you see the world" - Jo Dickie,
Malaysia |
I
want
to set up
my own marketing agency. I have taken a break in my career. I am
using the time
to build
up my design skills and my understanding of what makes
marketing work from a visual point of view.
Sometimes standing
back from the everyday pressure of business is the only way to
really get ahead and change the way you see the world. |
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I
got married just before I left the UK for Malaysia. My husband and
I decided to come to Kuala Lumpur. We thought it would be a real
adventure to cross the world and experience life from a completely
different cultural point of view. As I was unable to work, I
started a course at art college. I found it really strange to be
not only the oldest, but also the biggest student in the class -
and the only one who could not speak in
Bahasa
Malaysia. Everyone was wonderful and the whole class
ended
up being run in English just to make me feel at home.
That’s the kind of human value I’d like to be able to bring to
my work - no matter where I find myself in the world! |
Source:
New English Digest - Author: Sara
Hall |
"In
New York City people always need apartments" - Lan Lan Wang,
New York |
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Looking
for an apartment in New York City can be a full-time
job. Lan Lan Wang found a way to make it easier. In 1993, she
started Manhattan Listing Xpress (MLX). It is a service for the
rental and sale of apartments. New Yorkers can now find an
apartment more easily and also
avoid
the large fees that real estate brokers charge for finding an
apartment. |
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Wang didn’t discover the problems with New York City house
hunting until she moved there. She was born in Cleveland and is
one of four children of Chinese immigrants. The family left their
homeland after the Communist Party came to power in China. “My
father and mother were studying in the US during the Chinese
Communist
takeover and they
didn’t go back. We wanted to adjust, so we immersed ourselves in
American culture,” she says.
Wang,
44, remembers being the only Asian in her grade school. It
wasn’t until she went to college that Wang
rediscovered her Chinese heritage.
“My parents always told me that we had to do better,” she
says. Wang listened carefully to her parents and
she reinvented
herself. After graduating from Smith College, she earned a
master’s degree in business from Harvard University. She started
her business in 1993 with the help of one assistant. Today MLX has
15 employees. There is a saying many people use: “The only
things that will always be there are death and taxes.” In New
York City, people say, “The only things that will always be
there are death, taxes and people looking for apartments.” |
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Source:
New English Digest - Author:
Mario
Quirce |
GLOSSARY |
proud:
feeling self-respect (orgullosa)
owns: has, possesses (posee, es dueño de)
little league:
American
baseball league for boys between 8 and 12 years old
(equipo
de béisbol).
den mother: a woman who supervises a den of Cub Scouts
(líder femenino de un grupo de Scouts Junior)
background: previous experience (experiencia
previa)
to set up: to establish (establecer) |
to build up: to start, to grow
(para desarrollar)
Bahasa Malaysia: the Malaysian language (el idioma malayo)
ended up: finally was (terminó)
looking for: searching (buscar)
avoid: prevent from happening (evitar)
takeover: a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by forcetake
control of (apropiación)
reinvented: made
herself into a different, better person ("se reinventó") |
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