When I Came To America I want to write about this experience because a lot of things have since this event and that i’ve learned through this point in my life.It was May 27‚2009‚ the sun was burning‚ i felt like i was melting.I remember seeing my family members with sad teary eyes.It was my last day living in Dominican Republic .I was years old at that time‚ i was so excited to come to America but at same time i was i wanted to stay in my country.When i got to America everything was different
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what they had thought due to humans not being as technologically evolved to figure that out. That quote reminds me of one my elementary school teachers would state which was that “Columbus discovered America.” Which is false because of where columbus landed at islands at that none of which were in America. Those islands he landed on were already inhabited anyways. The “Indians” also known as the people of the island Columbus named Hispaniola were there first with an inhabitants of over 250‚000 people
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American An American is someone who is diverse‚ hard-working‚ and determined. First of all‚ an American isn’t defined by race. There is too much diversity in America to define an American by color. For instance‚ in the short story “America and I‚” by Anzia Yezierska‚ the narrator is an immigrant who discovers that diversity is what makes America: “They had left their native country as I had left mine. They had crossed an unknown ocean and landed in an unknown country‚ as I” (26). In making this comment
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In “Caging of America‚” written by Adam Gopnik is an outline of everything that is wrong with the mass incarceration problem in America. We have come so reliant on methods that do not work that we have become blind to the effects it has on prisoners. We believe have set up a successful model to handle mass incarceration‚ in addition to our miss guided belief that we have fixed a problem. To say nothing of the treatment of prisoner locked in a virtual mindless existence trying to escape the “Groundhogs
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“Let America be America‚” and “I‚Too.” I have concluded that all the poems are talking about how even though they might not all be the same color or have the same purpose in America‚ it is still everyone’s home. You learn from different people and they learn from you and what ‚might be easy for you might not be easy for them because sometimes some people in this country are treated better than others. In the poem ‘Let America Be America” there is a line that says “O‚ let America be America again—The
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Why do you think people decided they wanted to come to America? Maybe your own family has traveled a far to come to America‚ but do you question how their journey was or their first impression of America when they first came? In the novel‚ “America in the Heart” by Carlos Bulosan‚ a native Filipino‚ describes his own journey of traveling from the Philippines to America and the mental and physical challenges he had faced. These physical and mental challenges also affected the well being and financial
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Krista Henry Thomas Reynolds English 3210.02I Summary #9 Poverty in America Manrsios‚ Gregory. "Class in America-2003": The Social Construction of Gender." Trans. Paula S. Rothenberg. Race‚ Class‚ and Gender in the United State. 6th ed. New York: Worth Publishers‚ 2004. 193-207. In the essay of "Class in America-2003" by‚ Gregory Mantsios is basically about the rich and the poor of America. In Mantsios essay he talks about upper class‚ middle class‚ and lower class Americans. The most common
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about how different his perspective of America is to others. Peter was in search of the redeeming qualities of America‚ which aided in him having a change of opinion and a change of character. He ultimately learned about himself in the process‚ as both the friends and enemies he met along the way‚ help form his ideals and opinions. Peter decided to begin his journey to learn about America and see it in a different light than from view he was raised seeing. America seemed like an awful place to him
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Family life and culture influences the way we see things. Like in “Two Ways to Belong in America” Mira is influenced by her family’s Indian culture. Even though she lives in the U.S. she choses to stay an Indian citizen and stay with the culture she grew up with. Even when her sister went from their Indian culture to American culture‚ she kept the same views she had when she came to the United States of America. You can tell this by when she tells Bharati over the phone “For over 30 years‚ I’ve invested
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election. The title itself‚ Why I Fear America Could Enslave Black People Again‚ sets the tone for the paper. It obviously shows that the writer is worried about what direction our country is headed for. The author begins his paper by telling the audience that he was in Bethlehem Pennsylvania for a talk entitled “Making America As Good As Its Promise”. Hearing this‚ the audience obviously automatically thinks of Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” but the author quickly informs
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