Why Do You Join The United States?

People immigrated to America for a plethora of different reasons, some of which included religion, freedom to create, and the opportunity for a prosperous life. However, it is possible for all of these reasons to be grouped into one, extremely simplified, category. Someone wasn’t happy in their own country, and they thought they would be happier in America. Immigrants firmly believed that their life would be better in America, so they abandoned their home country. They left to escape the hardships of their former life, but they had no idea how many hardships awaited them; circumstances made their lives problematic regardless of where they lived. Immigrants held an extremely wearying existence.

On September 4, 1999, I was born in Victoria Jubilee hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. My family comes from the inner city of a country that is poverty stricken, politically corrupt, with an excessive murder rate. Despite the many flaws, I was taught to love my culture and respect others. My family came to America to have a better opportunity in life.

In the context of physical appearance, black woman are only featured with body parts- mainly their “large, rotund behind” (Perry 137). The presentation of the face is mainly limited to white or lighter-complexioned women. The highest idealization of women is one that possesses a “‘high-status’ face combined with a highly sexualized body read by the viewer as the body of a poor or working-class woman” (Perry 137). Perry further substantiates her claim by stating that “women are created or valued by how many fantasy elements have been pieced together in their bodies” (137). She debunks the opposition arguing that the bodies of black women are appreciated by pointing out that only a minority of black women have such attributes, and those without are pressured and struggle to achieve such proportions.

The reason I came the United States is for study. Same as millions international students, I choose American as a place where I attend college, there are two reasons make me made this decision. The first reason is that America has one of the best higher level education in the world. United States not only has best universities of the world, but also the whole nation’s universities have a better academic performance than rest of the world. So that I came to America for study in order to enhance myself. The second reason of I came to America is the competition in my country – China is intense. In the past year, there are 765 million students graduated from college, since the population of college students is super large, find an idea job in China

Throughout history, women have been victims of oppression no matter what religion or background they come from. They have learned from a young age, that their appearance is important to fundamentally be happy in their life. The topic of oppression in woman leads to controversial discussion not only to scholars but women of all parts of the world. How a woman presents herself through appearance and clothing targets her in a society obsessed with each other’s business. In today’s society, whether we can help it or not, men are treated differently than women. There seems to be different “rules” associated with the acceptable ways they should dress as opposed to the strict rules that apply to women. Women who are westernized

Throughout many decades, African American women have been able to set their own standards of beauty. Lonnae Parker, a writer for The Washington Post, states in her article Black women heavier and happier with their bodies than white women, poll finds, that “Freed from that high-powered media gaze, generations of black women have fashioned their own definitions of beauty with major assists from literature, music, and help from their friends” (Parker, 2012). The importance of this quote is that they were getting help from their culture, the music and literature is essentially the culture that helped them to define their own standards of beauty. By being isolated

Beauty standards have been posed by society since the beginning of time, mandating how individuals do everything from get dressed to style their hair. In Malcolm X's "My First Conk" and Dana Stevens' "Your Flip Flops Are Grossing Me Out" the standards posed by society, and what role they should play in society overall, are discussed. These two essays are different because of their views on health problems, self-degradation, and society’s standards.

This summer I lived in Oaxaca, Mexico, an unbelievably beautiful and cultured town, for six weeks. There were so many different types of people. There were so many different types of everything, actually. The customs were very abnormal to me. The stores greatly varied from each other and the ones here. The styles in Oaxaca and the styles in The States are about as different as night and day. It was all, well, foreign to me.

“Why do people come to America?” Many people may have asked themselves this question. Soon these people end up believing that it is simply because they want to.  However, in reality, people come to America for a new way of life which would then change their conditions and make them prosper.  Along with a goal to seek new opportunities that were not available in their native country.  Afterall, immigrants would mainly want to experience a new start in their lives.

I’m Afghan, and me and my siblings are first generation born in America. I do not pass as white, and neither do any of my family members. We have dark hair, olive toned skin, and are all very hairy. Every single one of us. Knowing I look different than my peers has contributed to a feeling of otherness whenever I’m around my friends who do look traditionally white. It’s an uneasy feeling that is hard to push away and always lingers. However, I haven't always felt like this. When I was in kindergarden I was a big fan of skirts. I wore them all the time. One time, i was sitting down when we had some free time and I remember looking at my bare legs. At the time, It took me a moment to realize my legs looked very different from the

Feeling beautiful deals with many factors but it has become incumbent with focus being placed on the physical aspects of person Una Marson writes about beauty and how it drives many women into changing their features and making those features fit into the standard of beauty. Her poem, “Kinky Haired Blues” speaks about that notion, of women wanting to assimilate to what the norm is. Specifically women of ethnic minorities, she talks more about Black Women and the pressure for them to bleach their skin and to iron their hair. Matters such as race are at forefront of the issues in her society and of the society we currently live in today. Una Marson’s poem “Kinky Hair Blues” speaks to the idea of beauty and the standard of beauty. And how many

This chapter opened my eyes even further and made me realize that the reality is that it is hard to disassociate from “cultural obsession with female beauty as an artifice”(p.108), and that I am not alone and it is normal to struggle. At a certain point of my life, I did not enjoy being a woman. For me, being a woman equated to imposed restrictions, makeup, and the subject of men’s whims and jeers. I have come out of this stage, however I still hesitate to wear frilly clothes and makeup.

Unfortunately in our world there is a general idea of how people from certain cultures and/or ethnicities conduct themselves, dress, and look, and these general ideas are why it is so hard for members of our society to look past the “cover” of one’s “book” and begin to read through the pages of their

My strong argument is about I would rather stay in the U.S.A for 4 weeks than go to a foreign country for 1 week. That is because staying in a foreign country is hard, because you don’t know what they are saying, and you can’t learn there language in a week well unless you were really smart! That is why I don’t want to go to a foreign country. So, that is why I would rather stay in the U.S.A than go to a foreign country for 1

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