Immigrant Reflection

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Personal Reflection:

My thought process throughout this project has been to get in the mind of an immigrant. Overall, I think I made it seem real as if it were an immigrant writing to the reader in that time period. The hard part of this assignment was to put myself into the immigrant’s shoes. I have never been in the shoes of an immigrant where I am traveling to another country to have a better life, or grew up not knowing if I was going to have enough money for food or essentials. That was the hardest part because at some points it was like you couldn’t even imagine what you would do. I feel bad for the early 1900’s immigrants. They had a hard life to start off and were trying to have a better life then what they had previously. The conditions

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