StoryCorps Reading Notes

Robert Kukla

Reading Notes: StoryCorps


For the Story Corp RN I chose the Mary Warm Interview, the Ramon “Chunky” Sanches Interview and the Lourdes Villanueva Interview. For me, the over all theme is diversity and individual differences, both Ramon and Lourdes talk about growing up as immigrants while Mary talks about having Down Syndrome, however each shows that really, they may be different, but they are human like everyone else.
The overall themes of each story are Diversity and Embracing Differences.
The Ramon and Lourdes interviews reminded me of this movie I saw once called Walkout; in the movie its about Mexican American students who protest the inequality in their school.
1. What does Equality mean to you?
2. Describe the relationship between you and your mother, is it similar to Lourdes and her son?
3. How did Mary’s interview make you feel?
The three things I would further research are Mexican Americans in America, Down Syndrome and diversity in Public Schools.
One idea that struck me was in Ramon’s interview, how he described that teachers would change Spanish names and Americanize them. I found that interesting.