My Move to America Essay

Luis Ramirez, a young Spanish male, was born and raised in Columbia, South America. At the young age of ten, his family decided to leave their family in Columbia and move to the United States. The family was from the city of Pasto where they had raised two young boys. The family planned to fly into the U.S., but the journey began by their personal van to get to the closest airport. The closest airport was ten hours away, Luis doesn’t remember much of the drive, or the flight for that matter,…

America is known to be home to many cultures. America is a place where people can improve their lifestyle, get better education opportunities, and live the American dream to fulfill their wishes. In the short story “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker and the personal essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” written by Bharati Mukherjee we read about sisters who share similarities and differences. In the pairing of Maggie and Mira we see them both embrace their original cultures and find no…

My mother Eilana Haim was born on June 14 in the year of 1979. She is the youngest out of three siblings. The oldest in her family is a girl then comes two boys. Her parents and her older sister were born in Russia but her and her brothers were born in Israel in the city of Tel-Aviv. My mother had many good and bad memories from her birthplace, but all in all she was happy she had the opportunity to at least live in Israel for a few years. My mother moved to the United States at the age of…

America has been widely known as a melting pot of different races, cultures, religions, and ethnicities for some time now. Many would say that we are the most diverse nation in the world, and while that may be true to an extent,we still have a long way to go before we can be a truly culturally diverse country. True cultural diversity, to me, means that as a nation, we should be accepting of all human beings regardless of racial, ethnic, or religious background, gender, sexual orientation, age…

Being successful in life are making excellent choices, accomplishing lots of good baggage that people require to do in life. One of the reasons why people from all over the world come to America is to have the perfect life; the perfect life is having the American dream. The American dream is having a job, family, car, and a house. In order to be on the right track and accomplished the American dream that in lifestyle, you need to have a valuable job or career. Education is the most meaningful…

through my leg, but I feel a liquid and I know it’s has to be blood. My leg hurts so much I can hardly move but I hear voices getting closer by the second, so I move into the bushes near me. Then the voices stop and a flash of light went into the bush that was besides me so i shoot the to enemy foot soldiers. But suddenly one of the enemies radio went off but I couldn’t understand what he was saying because he was speaking some other language. I still can’t move because of my leg and my…

Mother 's Gone. In this non-fiction story, Lam moves to America, and he begins to emphasize who he is as an individual, rather than becoming a duplicate of his family. Suddenly, since Lam moved to America, he does not recall is old ways of living, therefore he is on a quest for his identity presented by rejection, change, and new beginnings. All of a sudden, the family has moved to America, and Lam begins rejecting family functions. Since Lam came to America, he began the quest for his…

it down? You would not turn down any free money. The minimum wage should be raised. There are several reasons for that too. We should balance out business owners and workers, majority rules, and society should move on. What would happen if we didn’t raise minimum wage? We would never move on with life. Raising the minimum wage will give people more money, and raise the economy. And who doesn’t like money? One of those reasons is that we should balance out the money with business owners, and…

some of their expenses. However, Malachy Sr only took the money for himself. Frank and his family would have to take the initiative to find a way to eat and survive for the night. For example, Frank states “Its easier to stick the bread up under my jersey with the lemonade and promise to tell everything in confession” (McCourt 236). Frank has to steal for his family in order to survive for the night. He knows that stealing is wrong and promises to tell the priest his sins at confession so…

first couple of answers that I have for both of these questions, come from how people from my country (Albania) think. Considering Albania a country with a lot of corruption in the government and with a poor economy, that would be one of the main reasons people migrate and leave. That would be the response that I would describe on why me and my family moved to the US. The only people who wouldn't want to move out of the country, is the 1%, who are very happy with the life they have because they…