Personal Narrative: My Immigrant To The US

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As the person who original born at China, immigrant to the United States is not my first choice. My native language is Chinese, and I had no experienced with English before I immigrant to this country. I came to this country in 2009, and a year later, I got my green card, and then I realized that I will stay in this country for long time. As I figured out that I am unable to change my situation, I started learning English.

As of now, I am college student, I am appreciate with everything I obtain after immigrant to this country. Life might be challenging, but we never know whether the result is positive or negative until last minute. I declare my electronic commerce and marketing major in my first semester of junior year, although it was not

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Personal Narrative: My First Immigrant To US

first arrived to U.S, I really didn’t know a thing about the country or how my life would turn out in a new country. I didn’t know anyone other than my family and relatives. I felt like I was in a different world, everything was so different, until I moved to city of Hamtramck. It was filled with different cultures and people from different countries, but mostly I felt relieved when I saw people from my home country. I started my school life from Sixth grade, it was really weird and awkward. I didn’t…

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Anti-Mexican Discourse

Growing up, I always wondered where my father would gain energy to head to work from 4pm to 3am in the morning every day, except Saturdays. Saturdays were my favorite days because I’d be able to see my dad and spend valuable time with him and my family, together. I also wondered why was it that my family or six had to endure living in a one-bedroom apartment when my dad is the living example of the idea of meritocracy highly valued in the U.S. Beginning college two years ago, I have begun to understand…

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The Arrival Essay

country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval…

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Second Generation African Americans

born to immigrant parents. This research topic gains significance due to the substantial population of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Second-generation Americans navigate the complexities of balancing multiple cultural identities, making it imperative to delve into their experiences. By analyzing scholarly articles and personal narratives, this paper aims to explore the following key themes: identity formation and cultural belonging, challenges…

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Comparing Two Ways To Belong In America

the deeper significance of the life choices she and her sister have made. Mukerjee’s essay, true to its French root meaning “to weigh,” shows us the process of understanding, of weighing significance. There is no thesis; she appears to learn as she writes: “Mira's voice, I realize, is the voice not just of the immigrant South Asian community but of an immigrant community of the…

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Cs 4310 Unit 1 Assignment 1 Analysis

Question 1: T/F CSS 4310 has been useful, valuable, and/or personally relevant to my personal life. The CSS 4310 class has been useful in my personal life. Politics surrounds everyone, but it does uniquely impact me. This class has direct implications on my career as I plan on working in public policy. Politics cannot exist without communication–it informs public discourse, lends credibility to candidates, and influences constituent opinions. As such, understanding our class principles has not only…

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Peasant Fires Book Review

Peasant Fires by Richard Wunderli Peasant Fires, a self proclaimed tragedy written by Richard Wunderli, is a historical narrative that explores the rise and fall of young peasant named Hans Behem, a common herdsman, who believed he had been personally affirmed by the Virgin Mary to lead thousands of oppressed peasants on a pilgrimage to Niklashausen in a revolt against corrupt leaders of the established church during fifteenth century Germany. Thousands upon thousands of peasants dropped everything…

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Essay ENG095 Final

LOC NGUYEN ENG 095 Narrative Assignment Due day: Oct 8th PEOPLE ARE STILL CONFRONTED WITH STEREOTYPE EVERYDAY In our contemporary life, many countries around the world experience a wide variety of stereotypes. We need to be rethought. It has happened many ways in the past until today. It affected people and touches basic human values either directly or indirectly. Let me share my personal experiences with this issue which happened long ago and I remember very clearly. How can we contribute to solution…

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Early 20th Century Child Labor

tremendous amount about exactly how business owners treated children laborers and immigrant employees in the 19th and early 20th century. I learned a great deal of the businesses that worked children and immigrants, as well as the effects that it had on them. This topic gave me the opportunity to put an abundance of thought into child labor and immigrant employees in today society. The use of child labor and immigrant workers was predominate during the late 19th and early 20th century. Many children…

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Learner Profile paper

at the "individual/cognitive view of learning" and questions the assumption that that concepts and skills can be "learned independently of outside influence" (p.4). This perspective shows little consideration for the "transcultural experience of immigrant Americans and how early formal and informal socialization influences their learning in a new country"(Alfred, 2002). To go to the source in this investigation I interviewed Ariana. We first met eight years ago as coworkers, later I moved into a…

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