In Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Shayan Zadeh discusses his and his future business partner, Alex Mehr’s citizenship in America, to later cofound Zoosk together. Zadeh begins giving his family background that leads up to when he went to school to study computer science at Sharif University of Technology is Tehran, where he soon met his business partner. He then continues to discuss his difficulties of granting citizenship into America, and how hard it was to create their idea of Zoosk. He then ends the commentary with how many jobs and the amount of money immigrants can bring into America through jobs that are like the ones Zoosk has created. The author dictates his article as a narration. He tells his background that then leads
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He begins his first paragraph by saying, “American citizens may find it hard to imagine having to sneak into Canada to get permission to study in another country, or being told you can’t start your own business because you weren’t born within particular borders” (1053), which does not just come right and say what the whole article is about, but it gives the sense that he is an immigrant and believes there is a problem with immigrants who want to work. He then goes on to say, “But this has been my reality for 13 years—and it is the reality faced by untold numbers of would-be American entrepreneurs,” (1053) which basically gives the whole reason of this article. It tells us a little how immigrants feel about the way they are treated by the American legal system. He then went on to discuss how he had wanted to create a company with the skills he had learned previously in school. He said he visited the Office of International Affairs at the university he was attending to ask if he could start a business with only having his student visa. The university then led him to a lawyer in Washington, D.C. who then confirmed what they were just told. He then states, “He suggested that if we wanted to create Zoosk, our online dating site, we should build it in another country,” (1054) and his response was, “Alex and I considered ourselves American, and we wanted access to the talent, financial backing and opportunities that the U.S. provides” (1054). So what the author is trying to say at the beginning of this article is that he has his mind set on one goal, and nobody is going to stop including the
He begins his first paragraph by saying, “American citizens may find it hard to imagine having to sneak into Canada to get permission to study in another country, or being told you can’t start your own business because you weren’t born within particular borders” (1053), which does not just come right and say what the whole article is about, but it gives the sense that he is an immigrant and believes there is a problem with immigrants who want to work. He then goes on to say, “But this has been my reality for 13 years—and it is the reality faced by untold numbers of would-be American entrepreneurs,” (1053) which basically gives the whole reason of this article. It tells us a little how immigrants feel about the way they are treated by the American legal system. He then went on to discuss how he had wanted to create a company with the skills he had learned previously in school. He said he visited the Office of International Affairs at the university he was attending to ask if he could start a business with only having his student visa. The university then led him to a lawyer in Washington, D.C. who then confirmed what they were just told. He then states, “He suggested that if we wanted to create Zoosk, our online dating site, we should build it in another country,” (1054) and his response was, “Alex and I considered ourselves American, and we wanted access to the talent, financial backing and opportunities that the U.S. provides” (1054). So what the author is trying to say at the beginning of this article is that he has his mind set on one goal, and nobody is going to stop including the