Reflective Essay: What Are The Five Myths Of Immigration

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The process that I went through to get though the writing essay .And to really digest what the author was trying to covey I had to pay particular attention to the introduction paragraphs to locate this information. Figure out what clues did the writer leave throughout the paper to get his point across. Do these provide what the content and writer’s purpose is? I already clued into what the paper would be about by the title. That is where my active readying started and also where it ended. Since I knew the title I then knew what I should take away from the reading I knew I needed to figure out what the five myths of immigration were. Making it easier for me to figure out what I needed to do next which was make a list of what I needed to take …show more content…
So I asked myself questions on the side of the margins then answered them as well if I knew what I needed to look for then it would be easier for me to understand later. But knowing me as well I think too hard and skip over everything I’m supposed to be taking …show more content…
You know what you are supposed to be studying you know what you should be getting out of the material you are asked to read or test on. But until you write it down until you write notes and break down every little piece of information in front of you, you really would not understand what the author or teacher was trying to teach you. What I did get from the paper as I read through it was. Cole really did not agree with what the people of America or “Native Americans” thought of immigrants. He thought that all the blame they put on the immigrants were ridiculous. They brought more jobs instead of really taking them which brings me to a myth were “all immigrants do is take jobs from American citizens”. He puts in a point where he states how they actually bring in more money for the U.S instead of taking away from the U.S. Cole was just changing the “facts” aka myths that most thought were true, to facts that were actually true. If you read this paper you would think Cole was just taking up for the immigrants that are put down every day in society because of where they are from, their religion, what their political views were and were they allowed constitutional

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