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Most of the support for his argument comes from the hardships his grandfather, grandmother, and father had to overcome and accept. Both his grandparents lived in Europe during world war two. His grandfather had to leave his home when the Germans invaded Poland and had to live in Displaced Persons camp, while his grandmother was in a death march and was put in a concentration camp after that(Fortgang 377). His father was also a man that faced many hardships. His father had to work many hard hours and having little time to spend with his lovely family(Fortgang 378).…
It is very clear to readers that there are many things that immigrants face upon moving to another country. However, with Mukherjee's article, she gives a true story of her experiences moving to America with her sister. With all of this in "Two Ways to Belong in America," readers are able to get great sense of the struggles through the rhetoric of Bharati…
America has always been the country of opportunity and new beginnings. It is a place to start a fresh and better life for immigrants (at least that’s what they think). In Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis wants to better his and several members of his family’s lives. He does this by packing up and traveling to America, but he is unaware of the downfalls in his future. The family members who came along with Jurgis are Ona, his soon to be wife, Jurgis’ father Antanas, Ona’s stepmother Elzbieta, her three kids, and her brother Jonas.…
The United States of America originally a nation of immigrants is rapidly becoming a nation of native born citizens. We have by now had an opportunity to produce the native-born individual someone we might label as an “American”. Today, the number of foreign-born persons in the United States is about 3,000,000 of the population, and about 5,000,000 of Americans are the children of immigrants. Due to the new Immigration Reform and Control Act the days of mass immigration are over, but the influence of the movement will never be eased. (Arun and Daniel p.1)…
As Yezierska’s experience in America Progresses, her tone evolves from oblige, radiant, and emptiness. She has been through a lot in her lifestyle. She struggles, finds imperfection, disagreements, and a lot of down hearted things. She has to figure out how everything works in America now that she moved from Russia. First off, Yezierska’s is a girl that lives in Russia; she is misapplying about living in Russia because she wanted to be in America. When she said “ One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out of their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.” She is trying to tell America to understand how she feels or what she went through. She is so melancholy about not getting a good treatment in Russia. Her dream is to come to America because she thinks that…
During the late 1800s, there was a huge increase of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe looking for opportunities in America (Doc A). Majority of these foreigners were victims of religious oppression, famine, and instability caused by political issues. To them, America was a beacon of hope, the land of opportunity, and a haven with open doors for them. But soon they would realize the hardship of surviving in the new world because of their inability to assimilate to the new society. Although the immigrants experienced some success in assimilation through job opportunities and free education, there were still; however, discrimination, and lack of action from both the newcomers and the Americans that proved to become a great obstacle…
His community’s tireless efforts to save him through their protesting until the media got involved is the main reason why he was granted the proper documentation to stay in the country. Navila’s story was especially touching due to the loss of a father in a close-knit family and the unfortunate call for her to cope all too quickly to keep her siblings and mother from crumbling. The film does not have any notable weaknesses due to its brutal honesty which speaks volumes about the issues in post-9/11 America. The documentary’s ability to show how strong humans are both together and individually is key in raising awareness to the issues of immigration, deportation and feelings towards Muslims. The issues for immigrant youth in a post-9/11 world is discussed in Chapter Four of “Youthscapes” by Sunaina Maira.…
If you were born in a poor country and you could barely survive, what would you do? If you heard that there are opportunities for a better life in more advanced countries, would you try your luck there in an attempt to provide a better life for your family? Although the reasons that brought all the immigrants to the Unites States may vary, a typical case is that in which an individual is born in a family with limited resources and he comes to the U.S. with hopes of having a better life. Those who have empathy would want to help those going through a difficult situation by letting them into our country. However, simply acting based on emotions is not sufficient; reasoning and logic are crucial when governing a nation. After an examination of…
I am a first generation American born child of an immigrant. I am not Mexican, Latino, Cuban or Filipino; I am the daughter of a Nederlander. My father was raised in Maastricht, a Nazi occupied town in Holland. When he was 19 years old, he won a one way ticket to LaGuardia Airport. Upon arrival he made the decision to assimilate into the American culture. He embraced the language, the traditions and the way of life here in the United States. When I look back and think of my father standing in New York, with no friends, an enormous language barrier, and with little money, I can’t help but admire his passion to be an adult learner. A lifelong learner; for the remainder of his life, he learned what it meant to be an American Citizen. His…
The story, “Becoming American” by Dinesh D’Souza is about why America is so engaging to immigrants. D’Souza shares his story of when he moved from Bombay, India to America.…
Although walking different paths, they ended in similar places: Mira felt betrayed by America since she devoted her almost entire career into American education system but had to face the new rules curtailing benefits for legal immigrants like her; Bharati, the author of this article, although not yet compromised by this country politically, had undergone a hard time fitting into the community that she was supposed to be in. Undeniably, cultural difference between America and India played a significant role in Mira’s feeling of not belonging to America so much—-as the final sentence of the article says: “The price that immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation”. It is the unwillingness of cultural self-transformation that make Mira “happier to live in America as expatriate Indian than as an immigrant American”, which causes her political disadvantages and thus tears apart her American dream of living well as an Indian in America. Unsurprisingly, unwillingness of cultural self-transformation is neither the only nor the most important factor that complicates people achieving American…
Everybody do choose every day. Some decisions are small that don't have a big impact on our life. However, others decision is big enough to change our life that we couldn't imagine. At my life, I have been in a few situations that I had to take big decisions. But, the biggest decision that I had to take in my life was when I decided to move to the United States. This decision changed my life completely.…
My story beings like any other, at the moment I took my first breath on July 30th 1998 in Bilisht, Albania. I was born in a small town in the lower region of Albania where my entire family lived with my grandparents under one household. My parents soon came to the realization that the current living situation was incongruous for a new family, such as ours, to thrive. As the result, my parents chose to apply for the government program granting our family access to move into a completely new society with new laws, regulations, political aspects and that was tens of thousands of miles away. Our family, at that instant, had a struck of luck as my mother’s name was drawn for us to move to the greatest country the United States of America.…
This is a good article for me. As I am a foreign students from China, I will also face this situation when I finish my holiday with my family in China and get back, the officer will ask me a lot of questions, just like the author said which is very inconvenient. However America is the strongest country in the world, I also could never hate America. For now except the United States has lots of shootings, I feel it is a very good country for people to live, study, and work. Because the environment in the United States is pretty good, we can always see the blue sky and the lots of forest around us; the high tech-knowledge of computer, medical, IT; and there are a lot of opportunities for people to find a good job because there are a lot of International companies in America. And there are the last but not least thing can prove America is a good country that let me could never hate, is that in the United Stated we can get good education, that is the reason…