united states is very dangerous place. First‚ how is that affected me? Before‚ I come to the United States‚ I had the idea that it is a very dangerous place. Which means crimes happen everywhere‚ people carrying guns all the time for different purposes such as ether protecting or murdering. Therefore‚ when I came to the united states I was very scared. I didn’t leave the airport directly as I arrived because I started thinking about these thoughts. Also‚ when I used to spend a lot of time in my apartment
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The first time I came to United States. My first time in United States was scary but yet fun. I came over with my mother‚ my father and my little brother. I was only 9 years old and didn’t speak any English. My father was the only one that knew good English because he was born and raised in New Jersey. To begin with‚ not only was I scared when I came to United States I was about to learn a new language. Before we came over my dad had flew over first a couple weeks before to find us a place.
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for me. A college where t wouldn’t know anyone so I could make new friends. After I graduated from high school in May and packed my clothes in August to I was on my way to Columbus State University. I wanted to have because I needed new friends who were encouraging‚ supportive‚ funny‚ and most importantly‚ honest. I had times when my old friends would get me grounded by my parents for staying out too late‚ being involved with school drama‚ or going to the principal’s office for disrupting the class
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United States in 2001 was a huge challenge my parents and I had to overcome. I was three at the time and I could barely speak my own language‚ Urdu. Staying in a one-bedroom apartment in Arlington‚ VA was fine at the time‚ but it started to get a little less spacious once my younger brother was born. My parents knew we had to move someplace bigger that had more than just one room. So we moved to a three-bedroom townhouse in Falls Church‚ VA about ten miles from the previous house. Here my youngest
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My family immigrated to the United States from the Philippines during the 1960s. Like many other immigrants‚ they had very little on their backs‚ but what fueled them was their deep obsession with their pursuit of the American Dream. In 2008‚ I had the opportunity to visit the Philippines for the first time. I traveled to the various villages that my family was from‚ and it was evident that most people were quite poor‚ many whom worked on farms or owned small businesses. Surprisingly
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living my first experience in the United States; however‚ is not my first experience in a new country. I have already passed trough all the feelings of meeting new people‚ miss home‚ and adapt myself to my new culture; but‚ there is one thing that I have clear‚ being afraid of something that I do not now is like crying for something that still not happened; nobody is going to hit as hard as life‚ after all‚ is not about how hard I hit‚ is about how hard I can get hit and keep moving forward. My story
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South African state‚ as it developed under Smuts and his post 1948 successors can be considered a developmental state‚ this essay will consider two things. Firstly it will consider what is meant by a developmental state and what a developmental state consists of‚ and secondly it will consider the state of South Africa from 1948 onward‚ as developed under Smuts and other successors. Lastly this essay will discuss what legacy this left for a post-apartheid government. Developmental states initially
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My dad had always told me stories about going to Baxter State park. How good the fishing is and all the wildlife that is there. He has been there a few times and he’s climbed Mt. Katahdin before. He knows where all the ponds and rivers like they are in his back pocket. After listening to all of my dad’s experiences of Baxter‚ I was just itching to go. It was the end of June and I finally got my chance to go to Baxter State Park. My dad and I have been preparing for this trip since February and this
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I cannot say that my family has a vast American history of a 100+ years‚ but what I can say is that my family has grown a lot in the past 30+ years. We would not have migrated to the USA if it weren’t for my aunt’s marriage. It was 1984 when the first member of my family‚ my aunt‚ came to the United States of America. From then on‚ the rest of my immediate family trickled into the United States of America‚ looking for a place to grow and expand their family lines. It wasn’t easy to get a stable
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seconds. That same day the war between the United States‚Russia‚and China had began and ended when each country decided to launch their nuclear weapons at each other. Within minutes almost every major city on the East Coast including New york‚Boston‚Philadelphia‚and Washington D.C were devastated leaving them to ruins and submerged with lethal doses of radiation. The earth once so beautiful and green was now dark and left to ashes. Thankfully due to my service in the military‚ I was able to
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