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Presentation Script First slide Physical Map: This is the map of my mother’s journey. Second slide Connection between geography and culture : Mexico is the most popular Spanish speaking country in the world. There are approximately 11,285,654 million people living in Mexico today. The metropolitan population of Mexico City grew from 3.1 million in 1950 to 5.5 million in 1960, and it skyrocketed to 14 million by 1980. By the early 21st century the metropolitan area was home to some 20 million people, with more than half of them living outside the boundaries of the city itself. Third slide connecting between geography and history: The scarcity of farmable land, make it impossible to employ many Mexicans in agriculture. This has resulted in the waves of migration to large industrialized Mexican cities, including Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the world. People came to seek work, but there were always too few jobs for the number of people flocking to the large cities. To make matters worse, Mexico City experienced large-scale factory closings and layoffs in the 1980's Fourth slide Photographs and locations: Mexico City, Chicago Fifth slide connecting geography with literature: Book: Crossing the wireAuthor: Will Hobbs In the book crossing the wire, the story starts in central Mexico, in a poor town named Los Arboles. Many people have moved from Los Arboles to go to the United States without the benefit of documentations to get better jobs. Many years ago Victor's father died while working on a construction site in the U.S so now Victor has been making a living by farming in Los Arboles ever since. Then his best friend Rico has a plan to run away to the U.S for a better life, Victor learns that he might not be able to sell his corn this year because the Americans keep selling cheap corn in Mexico. When its about to get worse Victor heads northto go into the States, find work, and send money home. //This book can relate to my mother because they were offering a better life and better jobs. My mom had to // //move from Mexico because there weren’t any good jobs there. My mom arrived in Chicago in three days. // Sixth slide connecting geography with a personal experience: My mom had a personal experience with new cultures, languages, and people. It was all very new to my mom when she came to the United States, even though Mexico and United States are right next to each other both of them are very different in many ways like different cultures, languages and different people. My mom was very surprised how clean it was because there was no garbage on the floors and everything was amazing to her. One of her biggest surprises was that there were African American people in the United States not because she is racist because from when she was very young all she heard was that people in the United States were tall blond and blue or green eyes and also to find so many people from Mexico living in here too. Seventh slide challenges: The reason my mom left Mexico City was because my mom and her family believed they would all have a better life in the United States. My grandpa came Chicago first, working here for a few years and sending money back to Mexico to support my mom and her family. After arriving my family members did not know any English so it was very difficult to do anything. My mom and her other siblings went to a catholic school which was all English so it was hard to get a good education. Another problem was that it was really hard to get a passport. When you want to apply for a passport you have to go through an interview visa and it takes a few months to get passports and visa. Eighth slide artwork: This is a famous painting by Diego Rivera.