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No full textWelcome to volume 15, issue 2 of The Toro Historical Review!
This issue features seven essays produced in upper-division history classes and represents remarkable achievements in undergraduate research, writing, and editing. Well done all!
Congratulations to the authors:
Mandeline Arguelles, Ana Canales-Molina, Samantha Chavez, Lauren Heib, Ava Kostka, Teresa Ornedo, and Alexis Verduzco
And a special thank you to our editorial team who has worked hard to bring this issue to fruition. Thank you
One Task, One Time, One Tale
Get PDFFiction can sometimes present the truth of a situation that would otherwise seem absurd. Sam Osbiston, a first-gen student from Durham University, would like to bring you on a journey of resilience, but there are no guarantees all will end well. A child’s ambition is to dream, and the Luman exams are on the horizon. They determine a person’s future and the possibility of climbing to the next level. First-time experiences are full of the unknown, but with experience comes knowledge that can be passed down. Someone must experience it first; sometimes forces are outside our control. All that we can do is try. 
A Letter to Her
Get PDFLauren Caylee Griego is an undergraduate student at CSULA studying English Literature and Language, but there’s more to her than her education. She is Chicana, a daughter, sister, cousin, and friend. Although she was a hardworking, diligent, and dedicated girl in all areas of her life during her younger years, she had failures. As an adolescent, Griego struggled to find meaning in herself and searched constantly for an explanation to help her better understand the negative, overwhelming challenges in her life and their relationship to more positive, uplifting experiences. Now, with a deeper awareness of the world and herself, Griego travels back in time to soothe the fears, anxieties, and emotions that once controlled her, painting a portrait of real adolescent emotions and thoughts. There is nothing that can stop a young Chicana woman from receiving what she wants and needs in this life, especially the knowledge that she is powerful and worthy of belonging. Exploring hard definitions of first-gen experiences alongside her own identity, Griego helps her younger self to finally discover the purpose of it all
From Frustration to Finding One\u27s Self
No full textChristopher Saucedo is a first-generation undergraduate student at California State University, Los Angeles. He is an artist, designer, and avid fiction writer studying English. From an early age, frustration at school and at home led to being held back when he knew he could do better if only he could discover how to demonstrate it. Though his life goals have suffered many setbacks, he has persisted thanks in part to the determination of his mother and her ambition to see him make it in higher education, even if she was not able to see him make it in the end
Experiential Learning on an Urban Farm: Hands-on pedagogy for deep learning, sustainability, food security, and social justice
No full textJoin CSU Dominguez Hills faculty Alfredo Carlos (Labor Studies) and Jenney Hall (Interdisciplinary Studies) for a couple of minutes with the university’s urban farm and current students. Here the learning is literally hands-on: students leave with a firsthand understanding of the basic principles of agriculture, soil, and sustainability, while better able to address the environmental degradation and food insecurity that beset city dwellers, all without leaving home
