Hardships Of The Chinese People

The Chinese culture is built around thousands of years of tradition. Understanding these Chinese beliefs and social influences may benefit you when attending to someone of this culture.

Millions of immigrants over the previous centuries have shaped the United States of America into what it is today. America is known as a “melting pot”, a multicultural country that welcomes and is home to an array of every ethnic and cultural background imaginable. We are a place of opportunity, offering homes and jobs and new economic gains to anyone who should want it. However, America was not always such a “come one, come all” kind of country. The large numbers of immigrants that came during the nineteenth century angered many of the American natives and lead to them to blame the lack of jobs and low wages on the immigrants, especially the Asian communities. This resentment lead to the discrimination and legal exclusion of immigrants,

Beginning in the late 19th century and continuing to the early 20th century, many Chinese families struggled to gain social, economic, and educational stature in both China and the United States. In the book, A Transnational History of a Chinese Family, by Haiming Liu, we learn about the Chang family rooted in Kaiping County, China, who unlike many typical Chinese families’ exemplified hard-work and strong cultural values allowing them to pursue an exceptional Chinese-American lifestyle. Even with immigration laws preventing Chinese laborers and citizens to enter unless maintaining merchant status, Yitang and Sam Chang managed to sponsor approximately 40 relatives to the states with their businesses in herbalist

The study of history and the teaching of history has come under intense public debate in the United States in the last few decades. The “culture-wars” began with the call to add more works by non-Caucasians and women and has bled into the study of history. Not only in the study of history or literature, this debate has spread into American culture like wildfire.

My topic is the Louisiana Purchase and why people wanted Louisiana, the hardships of getting the area for the USA, and what happened after the purchase. The Louisiana Purchase was a monumental change to the United States Of America, but there were struggles that you might not have known about.

Two topics I enjoyed learning about most this semester were The Roaring 20’s and The Great Depression. Both units intrigued me, but The Great Depression was my favorite. Prior to starting the unit in class, I recently read The Grapes of Wrath. The novel helped my understanding during the unit because I was already mostly familiar with Hoovervilles, starvation of the people, the hopelessness, etc. Throughout my English class we went into deep discussion about the main topics just like we did in ours. I can’t imagine living during The Depression and it makes me rethink how I look at life. In our generation, we take many things for granted and after experiencing what those innocent people went through, we rarely go through anything as bad as The

5. Egypt invaded Kush during the New Kingdom period. The results of Egyptian occupation included the brutal exploitation of Nubian laborers and the imposition of Egyptian culture on the Nubian people.

Jackie Robinson is the story I am going to be writing about. It is about a black baseball player and he has just went into the World Series. He had broken the color barrier for his country and he knew he was going to get a lot of hate because of the color of his skin. Feng Ru was the Chinese man of aviation. He created planes for a living and that changed his home country because they can get around much easier. Melba Bee was a girl who had to walk 10 miles a day to get to class when there was a school right next to their house. However, that school was an all white school, so they were protesting. They sued the school and they later were able to get into the school.

Americans used the chinese the help build the railroad, Because they built the Wall of China. The railroad was ecenrual in Western expansion. I think that my prodject fit this year’s theme perfectly.The bolter started when we bought the Louisana Purchase Like how the donner party took a daring risk to explore, sadly it didn’t work out for them. Also the very popular story of louis and clark. They encountered countless gutwrenching events and the friendship of saquwigea. Finally the Railroad was a very big in the growth and exchange.These are some of the reason that I choose this topic

The terrible fates of African Americans during the Civil War. This is about the life of slaves in the war, and all that they suffered. The stories told by blacks shaped the way for future. Many slaves fled their owners before they war even started, but consequences were very bad. If caught they would either die or they would have intense whippings. There was never anything good about getting caught. But if they made it then they were free. The rate of making it to freedom weren't very successful. Many slaves wanted the north to win and lick the southerners. They wanted to be free from the camps but they didn't want the northerners to wipe them out to. They were afraid that they would all die but they still wanted to be free. “I remember the yankees dying I felt sorrow(Civil War I: Slaves).”

One that I found particularly interesting was that in 1907, the United States had a gentlemen’s agreement with Japan to treat Japanese-Americans better and to not restrict immigrants from Japan as long as Japan restricted its citizens from emigrating. This is an interesting agreement as the United State’s is agreeing to treat Japanese-Americans better as long as Japan doesn’t send more citizens. There are also a lot of acts referenced that affect immigration. It’s interesting to see how the United States government attempted to control the population and status quo through the use of legislative policies.

Something I will remember from this Year's history class is Native Americans and how unfairly they were treated by others. I will remember this because they lost their land and were forced out of their land by white settlers. I do not think this is very fair because the Native Americans had already settled in their land and then the white settlers came and move them out so that the white settlers could use the land. I wish that in our history the U.S. was more open to other races.

I learned many events of history and my most favorite one was the building of transcontinental railroad. A transcontinental railroad is a railroad that spanned the entire continent. For the transcontinental railroad to be built congress passed a bill that called two companies to built a transcontinental railroad across the center of the United States. The two companies was the Central Pacific and Union Pacific. The Central Pacific hired Chinese. The Union Pacific hired former soldiers from the north and south, freed slaves, and Irish immigrants. Both companies hired native americans. The two companies building the railroad were given given 20 square miles of land for every track that laid. With land they got they got money because they sold

American history is so full of wonderful, enticing things. A few of those enticing things include the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress and how they came to be through the events leading up to them. Another captivating piece of our history is that of the formation of the Constitution along with the interesting factors and characteristics that go along with it. Finally, we have the emergence of the Federalist and Republican Parties. It is important to have an understanding of these important historical events and people so that we can fully appreciate the nation that we now refer to today as the land of opportunities and of great achievement.

For this interview, I have Skype my grandfather far away from here in China, since he don’t know how to speak English so we were use Chinese during the whole interview. He was born in 1935 before the World War II and grows up in an instable time era. During this time the economy of China is in a low level and compare to another country that is lag behind. Due to the history in China, the play is much popular than the movies, so there is not much chance for him to watch the movies before 1955. Also, the countryside that he was lived doesn’t even have the electricity at that time. After he leave home and joins the army in 1955, he got a lot of chance to watch the film for free with his teammate in the troop’s playground, which is a outdoor place and they set up with two poles on the ground and a white curtain and small movie machine player; that is how they watch the film in a very simple way. However, he does get the chance to watch the movies during that time and he use to watch movies with my grandmother because that is one of a few entertainment in that small town.