Thursday, February 21, 2013

Faber- Carlos

Alfredo Quinones :

Alfredo Quinones  was an illegal  immigrant from Mexico , 20 years ago he came to  the United States of America and became a migrant farmworker.

Today, he is a researcher who is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer. Also he is a neurosurgeon and a professor at Johns Hopkins  University.
He was born in a little community in Mexico, and by 5 years old , he was working at his father's gas station. 
When Mexico's economy collapsed ,Quinones's father could no longer keep food on the table for the family. Quinones continued studying and became a teacher  by the time that he was 18.

 He came to the U.S . and signed up for English classes. He went to Harvard Medical  school, where he eventually delivered the commencement speech.It is also during this time that revived his U.S. citizenship

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