The On The Other Hand By Aviva Chomsky

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

In the short story “Both Sides of the fence”, written by Teresa Bateman, the author expresses the idea that there are two sides to every argument. In the story, Alberto attempts to prevent people in his pueblo from benefitting from his tree that was left for him by his family. As the story progresses, he suspects his neighbor from purloining his apples, but then realizes his wrongdoings and foolishness. This theme is revealed through the main character’s transformation, a significant passage, and the title of the story.

Globally, the United States has been known as "a nation of immigrants" almost from its inception. Beginning in the 1600s with English Puritans and continuing today, America is a melting pot of culture and ethnicity. In fact, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, immigration was the major source of U.S. population growth. Looking over our 200+ years we find that to clearly be true, with approximately 1 million immigrants coming to America during the 17th and 18th century. Almost 3 million arrived during the 1860s, and another 3 million in the 1870s. In the next four decades, the number of immigrants rose to over 25 million people, most from various European nations, most arriving in New York or one of the Eastern seaports (Damon, 1981). Despite the politicization, as of 2006, the United States actually was the number one country globally to accept legal immigrants into the country, with a current immigrant population of almost 40 million (Terrazas and Batalova, 2009). In fact, the peak of immigration was 1907, when over 1.2 million Europeans entered the country beginning a push towards legislation limiting immigration in the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924 and the 1921 Congressional Quota Act. These immigrants came for two sociological reasons: the push factor (wars, famine, persecution and overpopulation) and the pull factors (jobs and the promise of freedom). Most came by ship, and a passage often cost the equivalent of an entire life's savings causing many

Dating from the early 1900’s, till this day, people are still risking their lives to pursue the “American Dream”,in the pursuit of happiness and wealth. There are some obvious differences, but one underlying reason. They all come from a different country. According to Boustan, Platt, About 30 million immigrants arrived in the United States during this time. By 1910, 22 percent of the U.S. labor force was foreign born. It is much harder making it across the border legally. The greatest similarity of the 1900’s immigrants  and today is that they both come for economic improvement.

Americans may often forget that immigrants are human beings too. A lot of them may not see all the risks that comes with trying to cross the border along with all the issues and problems immigrants face. In Aviva Chomsky’s “How immigration became illegal” she tries to get Americans to understand what it might feel like trying to come to America and really shows it from an immigrant perspective.

People come to america, expecting somewhere they can better their lives, but in current circumstances, America is not a land of opportunity for immigrants, and women. There is the fact that It is difficult to have a good life in America for immigrants, Women in America don't have as much opportunity as women in other countries, and Immigrants don't have as much opportunity with job and economics as they should.

I want a better life, please don’t kill me, I want a better life, please don’t torture me, I want a better life, but I might have to starve to have one. Wanting a better life consist of being killed, tortured, and having to starve. Immigrants face these things when wanting a better life. Immigrants face many obstacles that they must overcome in order to better their lives.

All around the world the United States of America is viewed as a place of freedom and equal opportunity for all people who settle in the country. Immigrants, especially from second or third world countries, view America as a chance for them to start over and a live the lavish lifestyles they are accustomed to hearing. However, this belief that everyone in the United States lives how they want to and has equal opportunity is false. Immigrants from countries all over the world face many different issues as they settle in the United States. Although these problems may vary, the message is the same; the American dream is a lot more difficult to achieve than previously thought. Although every immigrant is different in the problems

Many people immigrated to America to run away from impoverished countries. After this, people still faced struggles with getting out of the tough times that everyone experiences. However, Document A shows that, as time goes on, the poverty rates of immigrants decrease. For example, immigrants that have been in the US for 4 years or less have a 33.3% poverty rate and people that have been in the US for 4-5 years have a 25.5% poverty rate. This means that within a few years, 7.8% of people that were impoverished successfully pulled themselves out of the terrible times of poverty.

The book “Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal” by Aviva Chomsky describes what the process of immigration is actually like and how complicated and rough it truly is for an immigrant. Especially those who have crossed the border illegally and/or those who possess illegal documents. However this book questions what does it really mean to be illegal. As well as throughout the book it illustrates that immigrants are being treated rather closely to how slaves were treated. The work they do connects these ideas as well as other facts such as families being disconnected, immigrants being trapped in a certain part of the world, unable to travel far, and the tiny amount of rights they have compared to an average white american citizen.

There are several occasions in one’s life that he should have spoken up or had not said a lie to where it hurt another, yet the fact is, he is only human and everyone is guilty of making these choices. Why does this become habitual? Is it because integrity is holding him back? These questions are always hard to answer, because no one really thinks about integrity, honesty, or the need to speak up. William Buckley and Stephanie Ericsson, however, do address these topics with a huge amount of thought and purpose. Buckley and Ericsson, under the thematic concept of ethics, have valid points concerning ethics within their rhetoric and style.

Ian Haney Lopez is a professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He was raised in Hawaii as a biracial kid coming from an albeit white and Salvadorian heritage. Due to Lopez background, he has evolved into a critical race theorist. In the novel Dog Whistle Politics, Lopez details his initial reaction to his Harvard Law professor Bell’s theory. According to Derrick Bell, “black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary ‘peaks of progress’, short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance” (Lopez, x). Lopez describes the time when he stormed out of professor Bell’s class as a student because he was disturbed by Bell’s insistence on the permanence of racism in American society. However, despite the fact that Lopez is a liberal, he soon realizes that “professors Bell was correct: racism is not disappearing, it’s adapting” (Lopez, xii). Lopez is then honored to have been selected to give the lecture of the man whose ideas he had originally found so fraught. Lopez throughout the novel is set to prove that since the early 1960’s up to the present conservative politicians in the Republican party and the Southern wing of the Democratic party have used racial code words and images to invoke race-based fear and tension in White voters to gather votes.

Although Tamerlan fits the idea of Speckhard’s thoughts, there are plenty of immigrants and refugees who do not. For instance, since the 1970’s the American government has been accepting Somali refugees into the United States. However, it was not until the 1990’s that most Somalis came to the United States after civil war broke out in Somalia. Once Somalian refugees came into the United States in hopes for safety and better opportunities, Somalians found themselves still living in dangerous environments. For instance, many Somali families have had trouble finding housing and have been forced to live in neighborhoods infested with drugs and crime. In fact, many parents in these neighborhoods are so concerned for their safety that they don’t leave their homes or send their children to school (Abdi 100). Also, others have been so desperate to find safe and affordable housing that they will relocate to a different part of the country to secure public housing or Section 8 certificates (Abdi

Living in the United States, It’s considered a utopia for the perspective of third world countries. Of course, it’s got it’s flaws, but people here don’t realize how good they have it. The American dream lives on but not for people in this country but in the minds of immigrants trying to reach this place and have a peaceful life. The reality is we take advantage of what we have and honestly careless about other countries only concern is our own lives. Look at your daily thoughts do you ever even come across the idea of helping anyone? No, it’s not your first thought in mind. Like in the song Anema by Tool it says “Fret for your figure and Fret for your latte and Fret for your lawsuit and Fret for your hairpiece and Fret for your Prozac and Fret for your pilot and Fret for your contract and Fret for your car.”

For decades immigrants to America were sure of two things. They came for the opportunity to build a better life for their families and they would not seek nor would they accept a handout. The drive and attitude of immigrants who came to America during the nineteen twenties through the nineteen sixties built strong work ethics that created our now famous American melting pot. But for the past thirty years a runaway welfare state has poisoned our good intentions. Well meaning but misguided entitlement programs gave billions of dollars in free handouts to a deluge of new immigrants as the floodgates opened and annual immigration levels more than tripled. The effects of this mass migration