Francisco Ruiz 

The Profile Article

Francisco, a father of 6 born January 29, 1934 he was never was educated at a young age and worked in fields at a very young age. Francisco didn't had a normal childhood like any other children and was raised on a farm without wealth or luxury. He had to wake each morning at around 4 just to tend the animals that were raised on the ranch. He didn't like much of it, but still had to do his part in order to support the ranch.

Francisco was very responsible and respectful. He had many family members and he loved so much but he had to leave them due to the fact that he wanted to have a better life for his family back in Zacatecas. Francisco Carlos Ruiz had to make a tough decision. He had to decide on leaving his family for a better life, and so Francisco walked from the Tijuana Border to Escondido San Diego.

From walking over 50 miles, for 17 hours and 3 minutes, he had gained huge blisters and bruises on his feet. He later had met a dairy farmer who had helped him by soaking his feet overnight in gasoline. In the morning when Francisco woke up his feet were fine. In return for healing his sore feet, Francisco helped him at the dairy farm by feeding the animals and cleaning up after them.

After worked as animal mentor, he later took a job at a warehouse. At this time Francisco had a family. He made good pay so he bought a Bobtail truck. Francisco thought for while,and decided to quit the job to own his own business called Carlos trucking. However, in 2008 things change. " In 2008 when the Economy crashed he unfortunately lost his business." Therefore he became a stay home dad and continued his love for doughnuts by going to Winchells almost everyday.

Francisco age later took his toll and experience Alzheimer's, a condition that makes the patient lose memory over a period of time. This did not help with his comfort of stay home, so he moved to a nursing home and soon after passed away.

About the Author

Stephanie Carlos

Hey everyone ! my name is Stephanie Carlos, I am 13 years old, and I go to Alvarado intermediate. I have 2 sisters and 1 brother. The person you are reading about right now is my grandpa. My partner Jayden and I have been working on this project for quite some time so we hope you enjoy it.

Jayden Lee

My name is Jayden Lee, and i'm currently working on a project in Mrs. Sember class at Alvarado Intermediate school. It is about different varieties of people that live in us and the people that are trying to get to the us. By reading journeys from people from different ethnicity I can connect their challenges and cope it with my daily challenges, like how I can escape hard work of homework.

Some things about me are really simple, I do everything in a average pace, getting As and Bs or turning everything on time. I live in family of 4 with a brother, mother, and father.

Reflection

By doing this project I solved the essential question which is " How has immigration shaped america" The answer to that is we won't be here without other people. As project is named Face of America it tells me america is the people. People change the us changing us how we think about other people.

People tell stories of family members coming to america as immigrants, but what does this got to do with us? Problem solving that they did coming to us can help us cope with problems today like racism and war.

What I learn about immigration is that its not always bad but instead it can bring more people making america stronger. I made a skill by learning immigration myself, I learned how make stronger paragraph by just learning different formatting styles that other other wrote about the interviewee. Social skills I learned was to engaged myself to actively listen to my interviewee as like listening to other groups critiquing our work. Daily situations and personal concepts that occur to me are hard so I like to use project that we work on to solve problems at home or at school.