Stanly Martain Lieber: A Brief Biography

In the book of Elly My True Story of the Holocaust Elly is a Jewish girl who her family is living in a little town in Romania. As Romania invades their small town and get thrown into a ghetto where there are crowded into little homes. This was the day that Elly and her family was sent to the concentration camp called Auschwitz II were her mother and brother were sent to the left and she was sent to the right were she lived she never saw her family. Elly was working for years in the camp when it was liberated in January 27, 1945 elly was sent free and wrote this book

In “The Deportation of Wopper Barraza” by Maceo Montoya, the main character Wopper is a slacker, who avoids work as much as possible while living with his parents. Wopper lifestyle concerned the people around him. He constantly got into various troubles and his most recent trouble distanced him from his parents and loved ones. For Wopper, being deported was the key to a new life. A life, where people will not consider him as slacker again, but more like an intelligent individual with priceless thoughts and valuable knowledge.

Growing up with parents who are immigrants can present many obstacles for the children of those immigrants. There are many problems people face that we do not even realize. Things happen behind closed doors that we might not even be aware of. Writers Sandra Cisneros and Amy Tan help us become aware of these problems. Both of these authors express those hardships in their stories about growing up with foreign parents. Although their most apparent hardships are about different struggles, both of their stories have a similar underlying theme.

In Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s book, Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, she allows us to enter the everyday lives of ten undocumented Mexican workers all living in the Chicago area. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz refers to Chuy, Alejandro, Leonardo, Luis, Manuel, Omar, Rene, Roberto, Lalo, and Albert the ten undocumented Mexicans as the “Lions”. This book shares the Lions many stories from, their daily struggle of living as an undocumented immigrant in America, to some of them telling their stories about crossing the border and the effects of living in a different country than their family, and many other struggles and experiences they have encountered. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s book delves into

Leslie Lieber is a mother of 3 and many people don't know this, but she is related to one of the most famous country singers in the world. Some call him the “King of Country”, some call him a superstar, but Leslie Lieber calls him her half brother. Lieber is my mother so that makes me George Strait’s half niece, and although I have never met him face-to-face he is still a big inspiration because I share his love for music. When Leslie Lieber was 18 years old she was told a secret that would change her life forever, she is related to George Strait who is 11 years older than her. Being the sibling of a famous person can be tough, this is something Leslie would soon find out.

I was able to compare my own experience of moving from Guatemala to his journey towards the United States. The reason I mention health disparities is because it greatly impacted our lives. For example, I lived with a supportive family, inside of a safe neighborhood, and given an opportunity of excellent education. Luis, on the other hand, was involved in a gang affiliated family, an unsafe neighborhood, and given low quality education. The opportunities I was given was the chance of getting a free degree from a college in Roswell, I was taught good morals such as independance and determination, a full time job with benefits, and although it’s indirect, the health disparities I was involved in is what helped me to achieve these opportunities to a positive future. The same applies to Luis, but he managed to overcome the obstacles that came with the terrible environment he was involved in and managed to become a good example for not just his family, but others who read this story who may be influenced. Perhaps one day I could write a story of my own about my experiences in order to reach out to my generation, just as Luis

The details on how my family arrived in America have been passed down by various members of my family. The accuracy and detail of these memories have diminished with every retelling. Some of my family arrived in America so long ago that all that remains of their experiences are rumors and stretched truths. As a story gets retold over and over it loses much of its accuracy. While much of my family history relies on this kind of storytelling, there are some in my family who were alive and experienced the challenges faced by immigrants. Though born in the United States, my maternal grandfather, Sebastian Passantino, was very familiar with the hardships of being an immigrant.

Tenement life was tough in New York City at the turn of the nineteenth century, as portrayed in the historical novel, City of Orphans. This portrayal depicted an immigrant family that was living hand to mouth in a tenement. This depiction is very accurate to the harsh reality that many families had to come to face. It was tough from the conditions, lifestyles, and space. Maks ' family was barely living off their earnings and was susceptible to disease and fraud. The immigrants were easy targets for poverty and sickness, and all too often fell through cracks in the floor. Their lives, as bad as they were, were not as bad as the ones they led in the countries they fled from to escape prosecution and to seek a better life.

Born in Poland, Henia Weit was the youngest of nine children in her family. She lived in a town by the name of Sambor. Unfortunately, the town was bombarded by German soldiers shortly after Hitler started his reign of terror on the Jews. Henia’s family was forced to do laborious work in a ghetto until they were all deported to a concentration camp. Fortunately for Henia, she was able to escape and never went to the concentration camp herself. Instead, she had to survive for several years alone, with only her sister to turn to.

Enduring hard times. The Sanchez family clearly demonstrate various levels of difficulties while trying to purse you a life in the United States of America. It was not the typical American dream that so many immigrant families anticipated when they landed on this great continent. Therefore, food, income and employment are some factors that were cause for concern.

Each year, thousands of Central American immigrants embark on a dangerous journey from Mexico to the United States. Many of these migrants include young children searching for their mothers who abandoned them. In Enrique’s Journey, former Los Angeles Times reporter, Sonia Nazario, recounts the compelling story of Enrique, a young Honduran boy desperate to reunite with his mother. Thanks to her thorough reporting, Nazario gives readers a vivid and detailed account of the hardships faced by these migrant children.

The induvial who I will be discussing the theories about is Roque. Roque Sanchez came to the U.S from the Mexico at the age of 5 with his family. His father and mother were separated. His mother married someone else, while his father and Roque used to move every now and then to stay away from the immigration officers in hopes of not getting caught. Roque was forced to fend for himself and

From the 1900s, the Progressive Era had new immigrants from the Southern and Eastern Europe. Between the years of 1900 and 1930, one million immigrants who were Mexican migrated for economic opportunities. It was near the year of the great depression which started in 1929. This led the American dream for many immigrants who were looking for jobs and starting a new life. According to Eric Foner “ Voices of Freedom” , page 73, when sociologist Manuel Gamio managed interviews of Mexican-American immigrants in Los Angeles. He decided to report about the Santella family, one better off and “whiter” than most Mexican immigrants. The information he obtained were from conversations and observing the family. This gave some idea on why American freedom has inspired many immigrant families. The Santella family was a total of 9, Mr. Santella and his wife and 5 boys and 2 girls.

Because of this close encounter they moved to the US to begin a new life. The holocaust was a devastating moment in history when families had to make decisions that influenced whether` they lived or died. This was the time when Daniels family had to endure hardships of the government and unfair discrimination towards Jews.

Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.