How Mrs. Song Changed My Life

Similarily examined in GBTWYCF, the participant’s genuine “refugee experience” allows them to identify social understanding about the fact of other people’s lifestyles and how they withstand the most severe of individual adversities. An extensive structure taken of Raye weeping followed by a remote taken of the moon enhances her concern towards Maisara “I’ve had issues holding child birth through…I do know where she’s arriving from…” examines how by your same circumstances as others, people are able to empathise.

Intro: Refugees face a far worse life than most people can imagine, and there is no easy way out for them. They first must get out of whatever dangerous place they are in, then travel long distances with almost no resources, and even if they do make it safely to the USA there is a chance they will be sent back or even put in jail. The refugee experience is defined by risks and belonging.

In a small town outside of metro Atlanta, each year, at least 1,500 refugees settle in the city of Clarkston to start a new beginning at life. Refugees from Bhutan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia, and Vietnam come in waves from every corner of the globe. Lately there has been an increasingly number of refugees from the Congo, due to the civil war that has been ongoing for many years. Currently, there is a population of 13,000 individuals who have made Clarkston their home away from home. We ask, what brings the refugees to this little city? Many wonder how this has happened, how Clarkston has developed its own little cultural sense of identity? Refugees started settling in Clarkston back in the early 1990's, and it's been the resettlement hub ever since. The reason so many refugees settled in Clarkston, Georgia is due to the low- income based apartments, easy access to public transit and it’s near the interstate, which can take you to any part of Atlanta.

In the battle of refugee resettlement, America is its own worst enemy. By abandoning and victimizing harmless refugees, America robs them of their chance at the American Dream. After spending two years interviewing refugees, Anna Husarska was able to support her argument that America is outrageously unfair to foreign refugees (90). In Husarska’s journal, “Exile Off Main Street: Refugees and America’s Ingratitude,” Husarska emphasizes how widespread and commonplace America’s refugee abandonment is, as well as how seldom America attempts to reconcile for it, and how poor it is at doing so.

It cannot be denied that food is a source of comfort for most people. When an employee of Mehlinger’s failing grocery store noticed that there were no local stores to cater to the significant refugee population, she suggested a change in products could bring about a revival to the business (174). Within months, Mehlinger was seeing a return on his investments into the exotic foods. His nearly immediate financial gain allowed him to view the refugee community in a different light, his familiarity with the different cultures around Clarkston soon replaced any fear that he may have had and further allowed his business to excel. In fact, he soon made the decision to hire numerous refugees of different backgrounds to aid in the food selection process (175). By providing employment opportunities to the refugees, he further aided the community and himself. His contribution to the refugee community may be considered miniscule to many, but his willingness to explore a new business opportunity and provide a locale for new Clarkston residents to buy their comforts of home, speaks volumes about the kind of man he is. When Mehlinger said, “’If you don’t change, you’re gone ‘” he was referring to more than his mere business

Have you ever meet a refuge or know someone who escaped their country because of war? When refugees flee their home they need to stay in refugee camps where they get food and shelter but they can't stay there for ever. Refugees go thru many things when they come to America, one thing is they don't know english and they struggle to communicate. Another thing is that the kids might get bullied because they come from another place or of there religion. Ha life is similar to the universal:Refugees life because she was a refugee and she got bullied in school because where she came from. Ha’s life and the universal:Refugees life have been affected wich that make there life inside out.

Bill Mehlinger shares how he learned to accept the refugees. His grocery store business was doing poorly. With help from one of his employees, Hong Diep Vo, Mehlinger got the idea of making his grocery store fit the needs of the refugees. He got all kinds of ethnic food and started selling them in his store. It was convenient for the refugees because they do not need to go very far to get their food. Then his business was doing better than before. This shows how something new can change your life forever. It proves how diversity serves the goals and interests of everyone. ‘ “If it wasn’t for the refugees knowing us and knowing we go out of our way for them, we’d be gone,’ Mehlinger said” ‘ (175). Furthermore, the old Clarkston Baptist church undergoed the same experience. ‘ “ We realized that what the Lord had in store for that old Clarkston Baptist Church was to transition into a truly international church and to help minister to all these ethnic groups moving into the country,’ he said” ‘(176). As the cliche, “what comes around goes around” greatly applies to this experience. The church was on the verge to becoming broke and there was less people going to church. Then the noticed that they needed to cater to all the refugees in Clarkston. And in turn, the church was filled with people. They believed that the church was a place for everybody and they embraced the new

For the podcast, I interviewed Lina Abdulnoor, with the intention of exploring the intricacies of refugeehood by analyzing Lina’s refugee experience. Lina lived in Iraq with her family until they began receiving death threats due to their religious beliefs. Convinced that they needed to flee the country to survive, they left Iraq as refugees. After leaving Iraq, they settled in Jordan, where they waited two years until the U.N. to approve their request to move to the U.S. in 2012. Lina and her family initially settled in Virginia, where she experienced culture shock as she adapted to American culture and the English language. However, Lina did not feel accepted in Virginia; her experiences in the state led her to think that Americans treated her according to negative stereotypes of Iraqis. After living in Virginia for several months, Lina and her family chose to resettle in San Diego, California, which harbored a larger Iraqi population than Virginia did. Supported by San Diego’s Iraqi community and various refugee organizations, Lina flourished, and she currently studies at UCSD while holding a stable job.

By explicating and elucidating several aspects of a refugee’s journey in America, Applegate sheds light on and illuminates many of the themes that are cogent in characterizing significant lessons in perseverance, courage, and tenacity. To specify, one of the predominant themes in Home of the Brave is that even if you are feeling out of place and obsolete in your struggles, it is indispensable to find the perseverance and motivation to keep moving forward, and dedicate yourself to finding the light within the darkness that life often impels us to acquiesce to. In fact, this theme is emulated in the events subsequent to Kek’s arrival in America, in the midst of which he faces predicaments and struggles that often teach him onerous, yet critical

In the pages of this book, the readers are transformed from readers to listeners, listening to the troubles and concerns of a close friend. By sharing so candidly her personal beliefs, Williams is able to gain and keep the interest of her readers by allowing them to personally relate to her and the characters she describes.

More than half the refugees around the globe are under the age of 18, even though children make up 31 percent of the world’s population. Refugees are people who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disasters. The stories that will be covered in this essay are called “The Teacher Who Changed My Life,” by Nicholas Gage and the second novel is “Letter to a Young Refugee from Another,” by Andrew Lam. These stories have many differences between each other but they both left their country to America. What if you had to flee your country?

It is evident that through relatable and meaningful interactions with refugees, participants such as Raye Colby, are able to recognise the extent of their emotional capacity, in which past experiences have influenced the positive impact of

From 1991 over one-sixth of Bhutan’s people flee their country and take a shelter in Nepal, India and other countries around the world. The large populations of Bhutanese refugee are called lhotshamps, an ethnic group, who were forced to leave their country in the early 1990s. Among 105,000 Bhutanese I’m one of them. I was born in a hut made of bamboo, food rations, and dirt roads. We are hostile, unsettled, unsure of who we are and what future held for us. I often think can we ever able to get rid out of the tag called “refugee” would my life ever changed, while ongoing tussled between mind and outside world finally in 2008 United States open a door for us to settled in the United States a “promised land” with full of struggle in 2009 we came here at Grand Forks. As I was growing up in the refugee camp I have seen a countless number of violence, crimes, injuries, and rebuff that words can’t be described. Most importantly death of people from a disease that can be a cure if, we have enough facilities such as, advanced medical training and hospitals. Although during my early childhood I have seen so much of maltreatment and practices, I always thought of having a career in health-related profession because I wanted to invest and improve the lives of individuals so that their children don't have to orphans, forced to work when their parent died, nor they have to beg for food. When I was 10 years old, my friend and I were trying to climb up the mango tree and I step in

As I read through these essays, her honest tone and wonderful rhetoric got me under her spell. Her writing has made me realize we’re not alone in this world; as I can now share my struggles not only with her, but with thousands of readers. I love her writing style, since she scatters metaphors, personifications and allusions throughout her essays. Beautifully, she links fragments on culture and history to her message. As she recollects her personal experiences, she appeals to the reader’s emotions making her writing relatable; just a human speaking to another about a topic we believe is

After the field trip today to Carter & McCrae, I can say that my beliefs and understandings about children from a different cultural and/or ethnic minority group have changed significantly compared to before the trip. Before the trip, I had some basic understandings of the challenges that these groups face but I never truly understood all of the obstacles that they have to overcome. Overcoming these obstacles will allow them to be successful in schools which will better enable them to be successful in the future. Some of the different aspects that I found eye opening included the disadvantages that some of the groups faced like lack of housing. Another obstacle that I found interesting was how much work it took to receive support in today’s society. I was also surprised by the challenge that people who have a refugee status often face. In this reflection of my trip I plan to explain how these major points surprised me the most.