Coming to America

Coming to the United States for me was like a rebirth. It was a totally different life that I had to adapt to; a new language to learn and new people to meet. Frank A. Clark once said, "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." This quote says everything I believe about hardship in life because adapting to a new environment for me was not easy. It was a path full of struggles, hardships, and disappointments. But without them I would not be who I am today. I remember

12 October 1492- Columbus arrives in the Americas- Christopher Columbus had the support of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I. Columbus set sail in April of 1492. It took him nearly six months for him to touch land. Although Columbus was not the first to actually discover the Americas, he has been given that credit despite there being evidence that Vikings actually discovered the Americas around 1000 AD. “Icelandic legends called sagas recounted Eriksson’s exploits in the New World around A.D

Transitions are never an easy thing to conquer. It is often hard and stressful to cope with changes to one’s surrounding, but in the cases in which one manages to conquer this obstacle, elevation of knowledge and experience are great results gained from this achievement. I originally came from Africa and recently moved to the United States to join my mother and my step father. This great change in the things I had become accustomed to in my daily life was not easy, furthermore taking into account

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

verse, “Man, I was brave, sailing on graves Don’t think I didn’t notice those tombstones disguised as waves,” and “We all came America trying to get a lap dance from Lady Freedom,” shows how the author understood the deep intentions of immigrants. Even though people do not come over to America on ships anymore, he uses these words to compare the same dangers of coming to America. Back then, ships would carry travelers over to the colonies and many people died sailing on the ships, hence the phrase “tombstones

into the United States is by far one of society's biggest problems today. Due to our lack of immigration laws, the immigrants our stealing welfare right out of legal citizen's hands. It's quite simple, without the laws that we need. The immigrants, coming from wherever they do, simply sneak in, have a child, and are automatically given money by the government to care for the child until it turns eighteen years old. The problem is this: In the U.S., there are so many homeless or helpless legal citizens

After coming to America All people seem to want the same basic things out of life regardless of race or religion. Universally, people want a good job, a healthy family, and a chance for their children to have a better life than the one they have. Families that already possess these things, whether through their own hard work or merely by way of inheritance, rely on the existing power structures within society to ensure that their future happiness continues . But what do people who do not belong

a sense of purpose in their “home”. My favorite passage in the book, is when Kao is telling her story of her adjustment of coming to America. This passage is part of the third section of the book, The American Years. In the section, Kao and her family had just arrived in their new tiny home in Saint Paul, Minnesota. While they had training of what to expect from America, it did not prepare them well enough for what was to come. Their arrival was anything but welcoming as they were greeted with

they think about coming to America. Many come to america to make their dreams a reality or for many reasons as to have a better life for their kids, or the generation that come. Like the colonial immigrants, the 1800s immigrants, and the modern immigrant. All of them have reasons why they came to america or persuade their dreams. How they look at america they all have a way of looking at america different but they all have a dream in america. What is really most people dream in America? Colonial immigrants

By all who immigrate to America, a number of promises are expected. Coming to the New World may be a long and frightening journey, especially for those who do not speak English or share American customs. Despite its chilling mask, however, America redeems itself by providing its citizens with a new life, freedom, peace, hope, guidance, welcoming, and unity, making the tedious route to American citizenship worthwhile. One promise of America is to allow freedom to its people. As described in President