Exemplification Essay: The Role Of Immigrants In My Family

As far as immigration in my family goes all I know is that my paternal grandmother’s parents came to the United States from Ireland. Once in America, the two of them had three daughters: Catherine, Mary, and my grandmother, Anna (though she went by Ann and we always called her Nanny). They raised their girls in Jersey City, New Jersey until their passing, at which time their eldest daughter, Catherine, took over looking after her younger sisters before joining the convent.
At the age of nineteen, my grandmother married my grandfather, Daniel Hartmann (Pop-Pop in the Hartmann family), who was twenty years old at the time with a stint in the United States Marines in his future. The two later moved to Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, where they would go on to have six children: Daniel, Neil, Thomas, James, Robert, and Mary Ann. When their job of raising children was done, my grandparents retired to a
I believe another part of it, on the other hand, is my realization that women can be powerful people outside of what they look like. There are many women in the world that I feel I can look up to, in my personal life as well as in the media. Especially in today’s age of social media, it is easy to see women standing up for themselves and speaking out for what they believe in, which is something that I find empowering, even if I am not the biggest fan of social media to begin with. As a recent example, we just got to see a woman on the ticket of a major party for the Presidential election. While Hillary Clinton did not win the election (though she did win the popular vote), she broke boundaries for women all over the country. The glass ceiling has yet to be shattered, but she definitely put some cracks in it, which is why it felt so good to vote for her this past