Coming to America full of hope People sacrifice everything just to come to America and live a better life‚ but they still often struggle once they get here. In the article’s “America and I” by Anzia Yezierska and “Facing Poverty with the Rich Girl’s Habit” by Suki Kim‚ these two authors discuss their Hardships coming to America and how America treats them. Most immigrants have hard time to assimilate into an American culture‚ which I myself can relate to. “Facing Poverty
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America‚ the most technologically advanced and affluent of all nations on the earth‚ seems to have an increasingly larger illiteracy rate every year. This has become and continues to be a critical problem throughout our society as we know it. According to the National Adult Literacy survey‚ 42 million adult Americans can’t read; 50 million are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one in every four teenagers drops out of high school‚ and of the students who graduate‚ one in every four has
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corner are sixty thousand dollar automobiles with passengers too busy to stop and throw out a dollar to help feed a hungry American with no place to live. Something is very wrong with that picture. In that way I think the individuals and the society is responsible for the homelessness to the extent that it is reduced through different programs offered to the homeless. The facts are that there are millions of homeless people in America today. Many of these people had no choice but to become homeless
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No‚ I am not optimistic about the financial future of America’s middle class. With that being said‚ it has become common today to dismiss the fact that the financial future of America’s middle class is on the decline. Common sense seems to dictate that as a world we don’t give this issue much thought. As my mom says‚ “There is no middle class! Only the rich and the poor‚ and if you don’t have money you don’t matter.” In a society like today where people only care for themselves‚ look out for their
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Simmons Mrs. Kilbox ENG 3U Thursday‚ September 24 2013 Overcoming Racism of America The Melting Pot by Dudley Randall‚ Everyday Use by Alice Walker and Identity: How Do I Define Mine by Althea Samuels are all connected through the topics of culture and racism. The connections made throughout the texts demonstrate that one must be able to accept their heritage and skin colour and not be overcome by the racist ways of America. The struggle of each speaker and characters path to overcome racism is proved
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One City‚ One Dream In my home country I heard that: America is a place where dreams can come true. This is the reason why my family immigrated to America and settled in Queens five years ago. Everyone in the world wants to have a bite of this big apple‚ New York City. But the path to make this dream come true is long and difficult. The two articles‚ “America and I” by Anzia Yezierska and “New York Was Our City On The Hill” by Edwidge Danticat‚ fully express the hardships of the immigration journey
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America is essentially the laziest country in the world. This elucidates why there’re so many lazy people in it‚ like myself. However‚ being lazy does not necessarily mean America is a bad country; laziness makes America the unique and beautiful country we know and love. Being lazy can be awful or great‚ but when I describe how excited I am to go on vacation‚ it’s a huge deal. I’m never more anxious than the morning I wake up to go on vacation once a year. Consequently‚ I am usually at my worst when
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Americans seem to share a relatively concrete idea of what constitutes success throughout society. I have even noticed that some Americans may even voice that they do not share this definition of success‚ but their actions and concerns definitely suggest otherwise. For many Americans‚ success seems to be measured by a combination of factors‚ which include relationships to material objects‚ socioeconomic factors‚ and social class lifestyles. Numerous sociologists have highlighted the excessive rates
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he hints at his hopes for a better America unlike the one that is currently taking place around him. Diction is used in the telling of the poem‚ to establish a dramatic element of dialogue that is felt at times when a different voice jumps in or proclamations are made.The poem begins with Hughes’ statement “ Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be..” of letting America be the America it once was. Yet‚ points out that this version of America is nonexistent‚ rather has always
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There were many interesting facts in the Upfront Magazine “The New Face of America.” The first one I found was that other races outnumber caucasian races‚ “The Census Bureau announced last spring that minority births-Hispanic‚ black Asian‚ American Indian‚ Native Hawaiian‚ Pacific Islander‚ and Alaska Native-now outnumber those of non-Hispanic whites.” Living in a region with dominantly white people‚ I didn’t realize that we made up less than half of our country’s population. Another interesting
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