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Young immigrant, newly fearless, ponders future | Essentials

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Young immigrant, newly fearless, ponders future

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If I am no longer 'undocumented and unafraid,' asks Angy Rivera, what am I? NEW YORK –  Angy Rivera glided through the airport as though she owned it, giddy with excitement at her brave new world. Then she saw the security guards, and froze. After a lifetime of avoiding any public place where she might be asked for identification, had she just made the biggest mistake of her life? Would she be stopped, arrested, detained — and deported? Nervously, she handed over her boarding pass. The security guard barely glanced at her Colombian passport, questioned her about a tube of hair mousse — and waved her through. Elated, she boarded the plane. "I am flying for the first time," the 22-year-old criminal justice student from Queens wrote, in a jubilant essay. "I left something up in between the air and clouds," she wrote. "Not my luggage.

People:

Angy Rivera

Overall Sentiment: -0.0648015

Relevance: 0.878573

SentimentQuote
0.343711'undocumented and unafraid,' asks Angy Rivera, ...
-0.0853346"I won't want to leave the room," Rivera says, ...
0.142389"In coming out, I liberated myself," Rivera says. ...
0.122945"In coming out, I liberated myself," Rivera says. "And I liberated my mother too."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.5237104
  • Mean: 0.1309276
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: -0.0107765

Relevance: 0.262869

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Maria

Overall Sentiment: -0.208011

Relevance: 0.256097

Lauren Burke

Overall Sentiment: -0.0764585

Relevance: 0.192046

SentimentQuote
0"Is there anything in your past I should know?" immigration lawyer Lauren Burke asked,
0.0613552"Angy, you deserve this," Burke said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0613552
  • Mean: 0.0306776
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Velez

Overall Sentiment: 0.142724

Relevance: 0.154434

SentimentQuote
0.118817"Angy is our rock star," jokes a friend, Melissa Garcia Velez.
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.118817
  • Mean: 0.118817
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Garcia Velez

Overall Sentiment: 0.52293

Relevance: 0.139359

SentimentQuote
0.324739"Don't worry," said Garcia Velez, ...
-0.22847"Don't worry," said Garcia Velez, giving her friend a hug and joking, "You'll always be undocumented in my heart."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.096269
  • Mean: 0.0481345
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Norma Juarez

Overall Sentiment: 0.439927

Relevance: 0.135148

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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