My Dad 's Job At The Age Of Five

In Pico Lyer’s short story “where worlds collide”, a group of immigrants arrive in California only to find that America is not exactly what they expected. “They come out… with maps their cousins have drawn for them and images they’ve brought over from COPS and Terminator 2” (Lyer 63). Their view of America has been shaped completely by what they have seen of it in their cultural background, through tv shows, movies, and word of mouth. “The blue skies and palm trees they have seen on tv are scarcely visible from here” (Lyer 64)

I felt like an outsider and so is my family members, we don’t speak English well enough. It's so easy to be cheated by someone else, for my case my relatives did mistreat us and lead us in the wrong path to start a new life in this unknown land to us. The culture was totally different in America because my family and I used to live in a city back in Vietnam but now we live in a suburb of a small town. We get used to the noisy city in Vietnam and there was not much grass and tree over there, to compare it to over here the suburbs' life is quiet and full of fresh air that could fulfill the joy and laid back

The home of the brave and land of the free was the perfect sounding place to many immigrants from different places. They came to America because they wanted to escape their poverty, government, war or previous life to achieve the american dream they hear about. The American Dream has changed the last few decades whether it was for good or for worse. Alex Tizon, Gary Soto and Sherman Alexie tells us about the dream that everyone used to seek out but will also tell show how much has changed from the past to the present.

Immigrants coming to the United States have an image in their mind of what America is going to be. They believe America is full of opportunity and hope, but don’t realize it does not come easy. In the beginning of the story, America and I by Anzia Yezierska, the author believes in the American Dream and places it on a pedestal. Later on in the text the author realizes that it is very hard for her, being an immigrant, to reach this goal. She has to start from the bottom and is not always treated the best. “So, made to feel that I was in the hands of American friends, invited to share with them their home, their plenty, their happiness…” (Anzia

It can be very challenging to move away from the country you grew up in. Recalling all those moments of laughter, excitement, and adventure can only make one more and more depressed. I was born in Port-Au -Prince, which is the capital of Haiti and raised in Gonaives. I spend most of my early childhood in Haiti. I only knew my native language, food, music, and history. I was only familiar with my native holidays and celebration. Therefore, the day my mother came to me and told me I had been awarded my resident card, and we had to move to America. My life changed forever.

Growing up in Ghana, I had heard a lot of things about the U.S. This was a country I had always wanted to visit; my prayer was answered when I got the opportunity to travel there. Arriving in a new environment came with many experiences. Adjusting with food, language and the weather was not easy. With the passage of time, however I have been able to0 adjust and fit it. This write-up therefore is to elaborate on my experiences since coming to U.S.

I came to America with a suitcase and a dream, but little did I know that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. After my family and I worked our whole lives to come to the land of opportunity we faced problems in the cities and workplaces, in the environment, problems in politics, and in society.

Growing up in the inner city, I did not spend a great deal of my time focusing on what it meant to be an American. My daily struggles were surviving the tough streets of the city of New Orleans. In fact, my perspective of what it is to be an American was tarnished. When I think of being an American I can recall the odds of escaping poverty were huge; for one thing, the feeling

Growing up in Haiti has strengthen my survival instinct at an early age. With barely enough to eat, we was dying one by one. Medicine and treatment was very rare for us. Imagine dying from a simple cold due to the fact that aspirin and cough medicine was foreign to us. I recall walking around wishing for better days or looking for ways to help. And I remember being told I was coming to America. America, the place where even the most impossible dreams come true. America, where education is free and very beneficial. Regardless of how young I was, I knew with every fiber in my little body that I would try my hardest to be successful in America. Unable to speak english, school become a challenge. But to all my teachers surprise it took me less

As the young, female protagonist in “America and I” took her first steps toward a life in the United States, her head was already overflowing with preconceived notions of what that life would look like. Tommy Hilfiger once said, “the road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.” His words practically provide a definition for what most people expected an American life to be. You get a job, you work hard, you buy a house, you have kids; achieving the American dream was equivalent to a fairytale with a happy ending. However, Anzia Yezierska reveals the roller coaster of incidents and hindrances that many immigrants face during their quest to find their happily ever

The land of freedom and opportunity. Americans are a culture of obsessively-independent, self-righteous bigots. Even when they are wrong, they are right. They are known to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest developed country that has great power and influence over others. The land of opportunity and “The American Dream”, is governed by such an independent culture in comparison to others. It does not mirror anyone else’s; it is the one others sometimes mirror and often marvel at. There are numerous examples, of how the culture can be viewed as strange or even backwards. In a country where independence and self-reliance are everything, viewed as yin yang When children turn 18 years old in a household, the parents, as well as the America community, bestow them with the ultimate independence and kick them out of the home. The fact that

The American dream, as invented by James Truslow Adams in 1931, was an ideology of how The United States of America gave each man a life that was better ,richer and fuller through opportunities of abilities and achievement. Even before the 1900s, early Euro-american settlers deemed America as a blank slate, allowing them to obtain a fresh start. This eventually lead to immigrants from different ethnic backgrounds and environments coming to America to experience these new possibilities and opportunities. As we know, the United States has been one of the world’s major global superpowers, supplying third world countries with resources to aid them in their success through means of education, funding and donations. One of these countries is Haiti,

America takes you in and destroys you if you do not commit yourself to succeed. His father came in aspiring to be rich when he came to the new world. He realized that all of that was just a mere dream, it was not as easy as others made it seem. Michael’s father believed that he would arrive in a land full of riches and a place full of happiness. “It looked so nice and happy, the city standing on end like a child’s toys and blocks.

Every one can speak English it 's the most common language in the United States. Even my mom can speak it, well not clearly but its undestanbel. Well I wasn 't able to say a word about 13 years ago. Well as anyone call tell from my complexion and and the fact I can speak fluent spanish, I was not raised here. I was lucky enough to be born here but the second I was born I was shipped to mexico. I was raised there for around 3 years before coming to the states. Everything was so different in how it looked to how people talked and acted. The thing I noticed the most was how some people didn 't understand me. At the time I didn 't really understand race but I noticed that people with lighter skin spoke a different language and typically didn 't understand me. I started to realize most of the population spoke this weird language, this language that was different from what I spoke. Even when I started school every talked in English.

The American experience, to me, is a very different phenomenon when compared to the like of the American dream. The American dream is just what it implies, a dream, a fantasy, an idyllic resolution from one’s aspirations. Though it is often heavily romanticized, this dream is not unattainable. As a matter of fact, the American dream can be broken up into two basic goals: wealth and social fulfillment. The American experience is a direct outcome of our infatuation with the American dream; it is the journey that we partake in to fulfill such ambitions. How one decides to go on about their journey―is up to them. That being the case, it is inevitable that several interpretations of the American experience coexist, and that the era(s) in which these expressions were assumed ought to define their origins.