In The Daily Texan I read an article about building a brighter future written by Mariana Munoz.
She does however reach out to a specific audience which happens to be Hispanic
students and those students that feel like they have it hard for themselves.
Mariana grew up having to see her mother struggle working two jobs to support
her and her siblings and her mom would take them at times to help her in an
okra factory. Her mother would tell her to try hard in school and to not give
up and by taking them to work her mother hoped to force them to hate it so much
they would not settle for less and continue their education. She became a
student of the University of Texas at Austin and came to a conclusion that as
she was still in high school she watched many of her peers drop out that she
just could not live knowing that she could make a difference. The media has a very
strong stereotype of Hispanics having low income and just having a lack of education,
which helped her want to make a change and a brighter future to many. Mariana
did not want that stereotype to stop many students from trying and giving up
and making them actually believe that stereotype so she decided to study to
become a teacher because her path in her education was surrounded by supportive
teachers and she felt like she could do so as well. Hoping that as a teacher
she can help her students not give up, be a great source of support for them,
get rid of those stereotypes and help them have a great future since she knows
the struggles they have to overcome just to be successful and have a great
income.
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