My Move to America Essay

driveway, the first time i was the house, my jaw dropped. After that we pulled up to the house somebody comed up and opened up the door for me, and showed me inside. It turns out i was not the only guest there was 19 more people there. As we sit down to biggen the dinner, everyone was talking to me, “what did you do”, “where did you come from”, and i answer them “i am a naturalist and i studied in wildlife expert, and i am from the United States of America. I ask…

different languages and baby catching skill. After she ships to North America, she learns how to read and write in English. These skills help her survive through the boat, South Carolina and Nova Scotia. Finally, she is free and back to her homeland. The baby catching skill, language skills and, reading and writing skills that Aminata learns in Bayo and St. Helena in her early age become essential for surviving in North America and she applies these skills through different places. The baby…

“ Where is my family?” (9), that is the question that so many people living in Sudan had, just how Salva had asked a million times. A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park is a true story about the war crisis in Sudan. An 11 year old boy named Salva Dut has to leave everything behind, even his family when the gunfire from the war hit his village of Loun-Ariik (Dinka village). Salva walked for months and months across an arid desert to reach safety at a refugee camp in Ethiopia only to be…

for me when I first came to America for studying. Two years ago, I decided to leave my country for studying in America. It took me a long time to get ready to depart my country and step my foot to here. I still remembered the first moment when I arrived at LAX airport. After over twenty hour flight, all I got to see is a completely new place that I had never seen before. I only knew a little bit about America on TV and photos on…

Dislocation can be of different kinds, physical, psychological, emotional and political. It can be estrangement, self- alienation and social ostracism, an exclusion from familiar environments of family, kinship and culture. It can come through political upheaval, mass migration or natural disaster. It can be individual or collective. But no dislocation is ever absolute, terminal or enduring in itself. In it there is always a kind of holding back, a sort of nostalgia, and the perception of…

Black Mankind has been around for thousands of years, and yet, as the world moves forward, certain things have not changed. Since the slave trade forcefully brought African slaves from Africa to America many centuries ago, America manages to still continue to oppress and cast down African Americans in the eyes of the majority within America. As time continued, black people from different countries began to file into America. From being attacked with water hoses to being sent to jail for petty…

Discussion Questions 1. “One Out of Many” is the first of three stories in a collection titled In a Free State. Comment on this title and connect it to Santosh’s experiences in America. 2. “Priya paid me forty dollars a week. After what I was getting, three dollars and seventy-five cents, it seemed a lot; and it was more than enough for my needs” (1021). Is Santosh exploited by his employers or treated fairly considering the situation? 3. Does the knowledge that Santosh has a wife and children…

School in America I face challenges everyday in my life. My family and I moved from Cuba in July 2011, two weeks before I was supposed to start High School. We moved here because of my dad’s work, he is a pediatrician and he had better opportunities here. My mom wasn’t sure about moving here, she didn’t want to leave our country, our house and her parents, and I just didn’t care about it, since I was too little to think that going to another country was going to make a really big difference in…

friends stopped talking. Hassan and his father decide to move out; despite the long history they have had with Baba. The Taliban start to take over Afghanistan and Baba decides to move to America. When they get to America, Baba learns he has lung cancer, but will not go through therapy to fix it. He refuses…

Journal Essay 3 Garvey and McKay feel as if it is time to step up to white America and fight for their rights. Hurston is not the least bit bothered about her color, she feels as if she is just as equal to the white man. Garvey explains how the African-American community must overcome their struggles to progress in life and McKay is angered by the horrible treatment of his people. Garvey begins with stating that it is time for the Universal Negro Improvement Association to come forth and…