A Guilt Of A Country Analysis

The articles "We Are Not A Nation of Immigrants" by Gina Loudon and "Many Forget U.S. is a Nation Built by Immigrants" by Lisa Miller both focus on immigrants living in America. Loudon's essay is primarily focused on how the United States is a nation created by pioneers and settlers; she argues that the U.S. is not a nation built by immigrants. Miller focuses her essay on the idea of America being a melting pot; she calls America a "blend of many different world cultures" (1). Despite the contrasting focuses of the essays, both Loudon and Miller are discussing aspects of immigration that either benefit or negatively impact America's future.

America consists of a variety of people, with all kinds of different backgrounds, such as their immigrant ancestors. “In the same sense, we cannot speak of a particular “immigrant contribution” to America because all Americans have been immigrants or the descendants of immigrants; even the Indians, as mentioned before, migrated to the American continent,” (Kennedy 23). Everyone that is “American”, their

Quindlen seems to touch more on the conflicts that immigrants have caused or participated in, in America, not so much the positives. On the other hand, Kennedy seems to touch more on the benefits immigrants have had on America. Jewish boys would walk several blocks out of their way, just to avoid the Irish divide of Chester Avenue (Quindlen 14). Many different scientists and investors who benefited the United States were not born in America: Albert Einstein (Germany), Michael Pupin (Serbia), Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland)... (Kennedy 24-25). Kennedy and Quindlen focus on separate ideas, Kennedy on what immigrants have done for our country, and Quindlen on what conflicts immigrants have caused. In addition, the diction the author’s create are different. Quindlen uses a more sophisticated tone, she asks, what is the point of a country where Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers, and Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab passengers (Quindlen 14)? This creates a more sophisticated and formal tone. On the flip side, Kennedy uses a more Ordinary and slangy in several occasions. The ideal of the “melting pot” symbolizes the process of blending many strains into a single nationality, and we have come to realize in modern times that the “melting pot” need not mean the end of particular ethnic identities or traditions (Kennedy 27). The “melting pot” is an example of Kennedy’s use of slang, and the rest of the

Kennedy. American identity is shown in the story by talking about how immigrants shape our country in many ways. Immigrants help our country by spreading their culture in things like food,songs,games etc.. Another way the story shows American identity is America is a country of all different people and all different cultures which helped shape this county. The story “The Immigrant Contribution” shows American identity in a lot of ways.

Like many Americans today, a successful life is something every family endeavors to achieve. Whether you are native to this land or an immigrant, everyone is pursuing their idea of the American dream. Whereas every dream may be different, the journey to each dream is both trying and straining. In both articles written by Hogan and Shteyngart, we find two families striving for a better life as they encounter their own struggles along the way. Although Native Americans and immigrants are different as Native Americans are indigenous, while immigrants are foreigners, the authors illustrate they are also similar as they both have adversities, pervading family influences, and are strangers in a world they attempt to call home.

These two authors couldn't be more different, even though they both have similar views on the diversity and huge impact they have had they still share different thoughts. Quindlen wrote about the various cultures uniting as one while Kennedy wrote about way the immigrants have changed us by incorporating their lives into ours. Kennedy wrote about the contribution of immigrants when he wrote, “Yet each wave of immigration left its own imprint on society…(Kennedy 24).” Then Quindlen wrote about her view on the unity of cultures when she wrote, “Taking pride in this unlikely ability to throw all of us together in a country that across its length and breadth is as different as a dozen countries, and still be able to call it by one name.

Emma Lazarus and Anna Quindlen have very different view points on the same thing, immigration to the United States. Both authors think immigration is positive. For example, Lazarus wrote “Glows world wide welcome.” Emma Lazarus is talking about the Statue Of Liberty. One of the first things people see when they immigrate is that huge symbol welcoming them, and it shows everyone that they are welcomed and accepted in this free country. Next Quindlen wrote, “The greengrocer stocks yellow peppers and fresh rosemary for the gourmands, plum tomatoes and broad-leaf parsley for the older Italians, mangoes for the Indians. He does not carry Plantains he says, because you can buy them in the bodega”. You can infer from this, that there are any different

A Quilt of America and the Immigrant Contribution, both share same and different qualities, both are about the American society and many different aspects. They both about what the Country of America is made up or out of from. Which coming from immigration, some immigration grew and grew and the more and more they came, the bigger and better America was allied.

In A Separate Peace by John Knowles the theme of guilt is used, which is used to say that guilt comes with every wrong deed done and that the truth will out. First of all, the most important example of guilt is in A Separate Peace is when Gene confesses to Finny about what he had done before Finny broke his leg. He says “‘I was thinking about it… about you because I caused it… I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off… it struck me then I was injuring him again… that this could be an even deeper injury than before’” (70). By reading the quote there is evidence that Gene has guilt because he goes back to Finny, who is at home recovering from his injury, and confesses and when he does he realizes that, he

United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Therefore, our American journey and our achievements merely not be possible without the generations of immigrants who have come to our shores from every corner of the earth. And It is helpful to take a moment to mirror on the important aids by the generations of immigrants who have helped us build our economy, and made America the economic engine of the world. Because some of these Immigrants with there being here in U.S, the economy will be shaking and won’t be where it is now. Examples, of the Immigrants contributions to the American Soil are, the Immigrants help to create jobs, the Immigrants help to increase the nation’s capacity towards developing new ideas, and the Immigrants

As I said before, these two stories do have some similarities. Both of these stories talk about how immigrants shaped

the United States in some way or another. How so? For example, consider the fruits and

A Nation of Immigrants, John F. Kennedy’s last book’s title, describes our first point well. Kennedy knew the importance that immigrants played in our nation’s history. He speaks of the different “waves” of immigration and their respective contributions to society. Immigrants, in Kennedy’s eyes, are not the menacing and threatening population that some proclaim them to be, but rather are a population who come here in search of freedom and economic opportunity that may not be afforded to them in their countries of origin. The Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, and other European groups that came in great waves during the later 19th and early 20th centuries each influenced the areas they moved to.

For many of years, there have been immigrants from all over the country that come to America. Since 1865 to even today, immigrants come from different countries to the United States for many opportunities at a better life for their family and more jobs. But since then, a lot has changed now for the people that want to come to the states. There has been positive and negative changes for immigrants in America. They differ from the countries they migrate from, to the kinds of jobs they work, and the different laws that’s been passed from the 1800’s to today.

This paragraph shows the similarities in how immigration affects families in both of the texts. In both texts, they use people's own words from the text to express feelings. This is related because they both have a problem with immigrated children or parents and are using own their own words to express their emotions. Also, in both texts, they portray that family separation has a big impact on children. They show