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Essay Do you know who Fernando Bujones, Antonia Novello, and Jaime Escalente are? They are really important people, they have helped our country become a better place. Fernando, Antonia, and Jaime all had really terrible struggles, but they fought through they struggles and now they are successful people. Some of the struggles that they had where medical and some weren't. These people are very smart, strong, and hard working. They may have even changed the face of America.

Fernando Bujones was born in Miami Florida in March 9, 1955. He was born in Miami when his mother was visiting family. Later that year he returned back to is home in Cuba. He came a very poor family. His mother and father divorced when he was only 5 years old, that made it very hard for his mother to pay bills and keep food on the dinner table. He had a chose either go to school or dance because his mother couldn't afford both. He had passion for dance and didn't want to live without it, so he pick dance over school. Once his mother could afford school he went, he began school at the age of 11. Fernando excelled in dance and became a very great dancer, so great that at that from the 1970 to the 1980's he was the best male dancer in the America. Only at age of 11 he got a scholarship to a very nice dance school, he took the scholarship but it was really hard to travel to the other dance studio his mother worked super hard to get more jobs to pay for all the dance. He loved dance so much because his mother was a dancer. Fernando's grandmother was also poor, she had to go through the work to keep Fernando mother in dance. Fernando mother wanted to the some thing that her mother did to her .Fernando Bujones when to 60 different dance studio all over the world. When he got famous it was much easier for him to travel. Fernando Bujones has now been die for 3 years.(Fernando Bujones )

Antonia Novello was born in Puerto Rico, on August 23,1944. She was born with something call Abnormally of the Colon, her family was so poor and her father died when she was 8 years old, that's she couldn't treat her issue. After 10 years of having her condition she got it treated. Unfortunately the surgery that she had didn't work and when she was 20 years old she traveled to the renowned Mayo Clinic for another operation that finally corrected the problem. Thankfully the second surgery worked and she was all better. Antonia barely ever got out of the hospital which gave her a lot of time to study for school. She graduated high school at the age of 15. After that she went to study at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Pedras. When she was done with college she decided the join the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Her first assignment was as a project officer for the Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Disease this was in Maryland. A year later she was promoted to a staff physician. She is currently 71 married and living a very happy life.(Antonia Novello)

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Guti é rrez is his full name. Jaime was born on December 31, 1930. Jaime did not come from a very rich family, he lived in a 3 bedroom apartment rented from a doctor. He grew up in a small town called Achacachi. As a child would play soccer, football and many other sport. As child he would spend a large amount of time with his grandfather because he was a teacher and that was what Jaime always wanted to be when he grew up. He also spent a lot of time with his grandfather because his dad was an alcoholic, and died when Jaime was only 15 years old. Many years later he took his time to teacher to poor Latino children in Los Angeles. He couldn't afford to to buy the books for the children, he really cared about the kids so much that he fought to get the money to buy them. He liked to teach math and physics to 12 year olds. After many years of teacher these children math and physics he became more wealth. Jaime has died at the age of 79.(Stamatel)

Antonia Novello, Jaime Alfonso Escalantes, and Fernando Bujones have all showed people that we can do anything even if your not very wealth or have had struggles. All of these people inspire people so much because they are smart, strong, and very hard working. These people need to be to be respected because of there strength and courage. This shows that the Hispanic people in America can do anything, even if you do have struggles you can do anything if you stay strong and fight through them.

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