Anna Quindlen And The Immigration Contribution

The essays are both very different, mainly in the way the authors define what an immigrant is. Loudon defines an immigrant as "someone who comes to a new place and enjoys what pioneers worked and died to create" (1). In contrast to Loudon's definition, Miller defines an immigrant as an individual that makes America unique; she states that nobody is technically from America. These definitions are unique to the opinion of the author, making their arguments personal. Although Loudon and Millers definitions are contradicting, they have a similarity; each provides

Simply put, America is the land of opportunity. In the past, immigrants have left most of their family, memories, and familiarities with their homeland in search of a better life in America, where jobs were easy to find and the economy was booming. These immigrants formed almost the entire American population, a demographic anomaly in which people from nationalities separated by land and sea; these people come from countries separated by expansive distances can live within the same neighborhood. Both Anna Quindlen with her essay “A Quilt of a Country” and John F. Kennedy with his essay “The Immigrant Contribution” have documented the story of these immigrants and what they have done to contribute to the great country of the United States of America. Both authors have written in their own unique style which has changed the reader’s perspective of their accomplishments, contributions, and sense of community in their new nation. In the essays “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen and “The Immigrant Contribution by John F. Kennedy, they show similar writing styles by both using the formal diction in their writing, and contradict in the way that Quindlen takes a more poetic approach in her writing, while Kennedy, being the President of the United States, uses more sophisticated dictions.

On the other hand, the essays “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen and “The Immigrant Contribution” by John F. Kennedy, they differ in the way that Quindlen tends to use the poetic diction in her writing, while Kennedy typically leans towards using the sophisticated diction in his writing. For example, in this passage found in Quindlen’s essay, the dictions of technical, poetic, and sophisticated are used. Quindlen writes: “Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world war and the electrified fence of communism.” (Quindlen, 15) The poetic diction used in this section of the essay helps paint the picture that once, the United

In the United States, the cliché of a nation of immigrants is often invoked. Indeed, very few Americans can trace their ancestry to what is now the United States, and the origins of its immigrants have changed many times in American history. Despite the identity of an immigrant nation, changes in the origins of immigrants have often been met with resistance. What began with white, western European settlers fleeing religious persecution morphed into a multicultural nation as immigrants from countries across the globe came to the U.S. in increasing numbers. Like the colonial immigrants before them, these new immigrants sailed to the Americas to gain freedom, flee poverty and

Immigration makes up of the United States. The life of an immigrant faces many struggles. Coming to the United States is a very difficult time for immigrant, especially when English is not their first language. In Oscar Handlin’s essay, Uprooted and Trapped: The One-Way Route to Modernity and Mark Wyman’s Coming and Going: Round Trip to America, both these essays describes the life of immigrants living in America and how they are able to make a decent amount of money to support their families. Handlin’s essay Uprooted and Trapped: The One - Way Route to Modernity explains how unskilled immigrants came to adapt to the American life working in factories to make a living. In the essay, Coming and Going: Round Trip to America, this essay describes the reality of many immigrants migrating to the United States in the midst of the Industrial Revolution. Many were living and adjusting to being transnational families. Both these essays show how the influx of immigration and industrialization contributed to the making of the United States. With the support from documents 3 and 7, Thomas O’ Donnell, Immigrant Thomas O’Donnell Laments the Worker’s Plight, 1883 and A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country, 1909, these documents will explain the life of an immigrant worker in the United States. Although, the United States was portrayed as the country for a better life and a new beginning, in reality, the United

In the story Quilt of a Country Anna Quindlen’s claim is that America is an “improbable” country and we have all come together as one community no matter what culture we are. Quindlen stated “of all nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image.” Of all nations we come together as one no matter the culture and nobody is able to do that. Other nations don’t except like the United States does. Quindlen also said “ America is an “improbable” idea, a mongrel nation built of ever changing disparate parts, it is held together by one nation, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better the someone.” This also proves her claim because all men are equal. If everybody

Today in the United States, illegal immigrants has become a subject that has left many people upset and angry of the view on deportation. Unfortunately at the cost of personal relationships and attachments with friends and family. Yet in 1947,Helbert Leyman hit the topic of immigration right on the head by saying,“ We are a nation of immigrants. It is immigrants who brought to this land the skills of their hands and brains to make of it a beacon of opportunity and hope for all men (Messener,et al, 127).” Immigrants hands built this country of ours, what it is today. Fast Forward sixty-six years to the present, and these words by Herbert Lehman still ring true today. Our government should closely regulate the flow of immigrants into the

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.

When most people think about immigration to the United States, they think of the U.S. as being the “land of opportunity,” where they will be able to make all of their dreams come true. For some people, immigration made their lives richer and more fulfilled. This however, was not always the case. A place that is supposed to be a “Golden Land” (Marcus 116) did not always welcome people with open arms. Even after people became legal citizens of the United States, often times the natural born Americans did not treat the immigrants as equals but rather as outsiders who were beneath them in some way. In some situations, people’s lives were made worse by coming to the “land of opportunity.” Often times people were living no better than they

Mary Gordon and Walter Russel Mead share very similar viewpoints on immigration. To them, immigration is important in creating American culture, and Americans fail to appreciate the contributions they make to the country. If Gordon or Mead were to respond to speeches by Senator Smith and Congressman Clancy they would share similar responses regarding each speech. Senator Smith takes a clear stance on opposing immigration and believes America should be should “breed up a pure, unadulterated American citizenship” (1008). Gordon and Mead would disagree. With the fact that we are all descendants of immigrants, it isn’t accurate to have an all-white, pure-bred America. Mead says in her essay, “I could tell the immigrant ghosts that I was one of them” (1013). Everyone in America wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for their ancestors who came either hundreds of years ago or ones who came a few years ago. As for Congressman Clancy’s speech, he is speaking in response to the Johnson Reed Anti-Immigration Act in which he says “the racial discriminations of this bill are un-American” (1006). His standpoint is comparable to Gordon’s and Mead’s viewpoint on immigration. Every American had foreign ancestors, so to exclude people from similar culture is not what America stands for. Gordon and Mead would be very supportive of Clancy’s speech, but would denounce the views of Senator

Maria Pineda is a student at Highline College, at Seattle Washington. In search of better opportunities, Pineda moved from El Salvador to the United States fourteen years ago. She is the first generation of her family to graduate high school and to attend College. One of her top priorities is to acquire an emphasis in accounting, with that she plans to aid her family by giving back a little of what they have given her. Pineda has received three scholarships, which has assisted her to keep studying. She also volunteers every quarter at Highline College by recruiting ESL students (English as a Second Language) for a program called Jumpstart, where once she attended. Lastly, she is interested in mythology, science, history, and subjects like immigration, these and other interests have helped her to comprehend the world around her.

Quilt of a Country, and Immigrant contribution talk about the same kind of topics in different ways. Quilt of a country expresses how America is so full of different races and ethnicities, that it separates our whole country. There are lots of arguments, and people killing each other just because of where their ancestors came from. Immigrant contribution talks about why immigrants settled here.

The immigration policy in Canada have many different parts, like regulations, guidelines, and actions by government agents. It could be difficult to know what the main goal of these different parts are, since so much of it is set out of the public eye. In this paper, the focus will be on the purpose of immigration historically and in the contemporary period. I will also be talking about the relationship between ethnicity, race and assimilability to the nation-state and nationhood. Then I would look at the people in immigration that were defined as either an ethnic or as a 'race ', and why. Furthermore I would write about the relationship between nationalism and racism and how, by whom, and why it is expressed.

Nowadays, immigration has been a hotly dabated topic. According to the article “ The new common sense. Immigration controls are unsustainable. Let’s junk them” by Teresa Hayter, she offers a convincing critique of people who argue against free immigration. In her article, Hayter makes a series of powerful arguments about the benefits of free movement. She also makes a case for connecting immigration controls with repression, racism, and ideological control. For Hayter, immigration represents one of the evidences of national power, as countries have begun to give up control over immigration to international powers and regulations. She provides quantitative evidence regarding the economic benefits of free immigration. From my point of view, I strongly agree with the statement of Hayter due to the reason of social contribution, living conditions and social disorder. These reasons will be shown in the following parts of my essay.

Nicole Gelinas voices her opinion on how Europe should focus their immigration policies towards those who are in war zones and not those who leave on their own accord. I disagree. This policy should be focused on those who are making this dangerous trek and risking their lives to do so. Many of these people aren’t near a war zone but still face the same dangers as if they were. These refugees make this dangerous trek either by choice or force. Forced refugees leave because of the harsh laws, like Sharia, in their home countries that bind them to strict codes that are cruel.