Today‚ a great amount of people has immigrated to the United States in search of the American Dream. The dream is difficult to define‚ but what it generally means is freedom‚ equality and the creating of a new and better life. The opportunities to succeed is what is pushing these people to work hard and never give up on the journey to reach their dream. This dream can be something major‚ like becoming a movie star or a bestselling artist‚ or something more modest‚ like getting a job and a steady
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Today marks my fifth year since I’ve migrated here in the US. Whew! Time flies so fast. It has been that long since I first left home that time when I first wave goodbye to my friends and relatives‚ my beloved home. That time when I was having mixed emotions‚ happy yet sad. Happy‚ because I am opening the next chapter in my life. Sad because I know‚ I would not see my friends and relatives and be with them as much as I want to‚ anymore. Excited yet nervous‚ 7‚374 miles away from home. Going to a
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Why do millions of people decide to move to the United States every year from all over the world? Since humans started to hunt and fish hundreds of years ago‚ they have been trying to find better places to live and raise their children. This process is called immigration. There are several reasons why people choose the U.S. as a country where they want to move and build their new lives. The most prominent reasons are a better economy‚ religious tolerance‚ and high education. The economic basis is
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As a kid I moved around frequently and had to keep on changing schools because my parents could not decide where to stay. Until‚ they finally found a wonderful place to settle and call it home. We lived in California in a valley called Santa Clara. Before I came to Santa Clara I was from India where I was born and raised till the age of six‚ I was raised in a middle class family with only one sibling which was my little brother who was just born‚ When we arrived to America we did not live in Santa
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Idealist and Materialist Concepts of Culture in the Theorisations of Culture and Society Culture has evolved through time since the 18th century; from the pre-industrial era to the industrialised society. The concept of culture is not definite as it is used as a tool to understand culture as a signifying practice of representation within the context of social power (Barker 2008‚ p.38). Originally‚ ‘culture’ was connected to cultivation of crops but later progressed into a “cultured person”
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nations‚ with their claim being they are escaping terror and ruin in the nations they once called their home. Although‚ this should be concerning to the vast majority of the people in the world today considering the times in the past that mass human migrations have happened. Initially‚ these
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I love a good challenge‚ but when Professor Romo gave her lecture of the Early Humans Migration in the Americas my beliefs were challenged. My initial reaction was to laugh out loud‚ but I hold my composer due to my curiosity of wanting to know why would it be consider a theory. Out of the 3 theories covered in class I found the alien theory skeptical since I do not believe in aliens at all. To even believe that aliens put people on earth sounds unrealistic to me so does aliens helping people to
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The world needs to pay more attention to the global migration crisis‚ considering it could led to a new problem. If more people are leaving their country and moving towards more developed countries‚ it will leave less resources for the developed‚ and the developing will have less workers. The more developed countries like the U.S‚ Canada and the U.K should be more opened to helping others migrate from their government. However‚ it may be difficult for them to let more immigrants come in because it
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Globalization and Migration Question #3: Is there such a thing as ‘race’? Drawing on the American Anthropological Association’s Statement on “Race”’(May 17‚1998)‚ discuss the anthropological understanding of ‘race’. Is there such a thing as ‘race’? This question has inspired many professionals in different fields to spend countless days investigating in order to unmask this myth. After several centuries‚ anthropologists from America pointed out that ‘race’ was not the biological
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comes to Minors’ rights to refuse medical tests requested by their parents. In the United States‚ the legal system generally gives complete authority for medical decision making to parents‚ giving way to ethical issues that arise when caring for mature minors who are refusing medical procedures requested by their parents. In case study 1‚ the parents are requesting that their teenage daughter Camilla undergo invasive medical testing that she is opposed to. Because Camilla is a mature minor‚ the most
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