My Move to America Essay

Africans first arrived in America on August 1, 1619. A Dutch ship sold 19 Africans as indentured servants (not slaves) to Englishmen at Point Comfort (today's Fort Monroe), about 50km from Jamestown, Virginia. This was the very first shipment of African servants on record. Afterwards, imperialism began to spread across European countries and America, bringing competition among the colonial powers. The reason why imperialism began to spread…

Muslims who live in the America, it opened my mind on various things that I would not think about on my own. These are details I just do not take the time to reflect upon. It really taught me to pay attention to the obvious. In short, my paper will focus on the concepts of acculturation and assimilation in regards to Muslims in America. I have noticed these concepts in the books and articles we have read in this class. In the book entitled A History of Islam in The America by Kambiz…

territorial expansion was both facilitated and justified by a mid-nineteenth-century ideology (or national vision) known as Manifest Destiny.i Manifest Destiny was infeasible to majority of the people who were willing to get on board with the expansion of America, except for the Indian people. The Indian people felt as though their land, in which they owned, was a good source for hunting, while the settlers thought it was a good idea to expand the nation 's territory. Reaching no concluded…

Yes, we need to take risks and continue to move forward. Without space exploration, Earth would be a disaster because of the lack of study! Good Morning Ms. Guerierro, Ms. Ricard, and fellow astronauts! Today I am going to share my opinion with all of you because…

My parents came to America through school because where there from colleges are not so great. My parents are from a small place in Africa called Rwanda, it’s a pretty small country and not a lot of people know about it. Well my parents didn’t know each other back in Rwanda but met in America. They came here because they were given the option to come to America paid by the government to take studies and come back. My parents obviously didn’t do that but they got that privilege because they did…

My name is Jacqueline Everly and I am currently a junior attending Lemoore High School in Lemoore, California, located in the central valley near Fresno. Throughout this year in my English class, we have been learning about the rights Americans have as citizens. While reading documents such as Stride Towards Freedom and the Declaration of Independence, I have learned what it takes to be a true American. A few months ago we started learning about freedom of speech and what it means when it is…

extremely difficult to get a job and reputation due to my color. The only real choice for me was to trust my friends and move north. As long as you find a town that is not too overcrowded, you should be fine, even when you are colored. As a resident in Detroit, Michigan; life is pretty easy. People don't cause you trouble and are kind. Now, let's talk about World War 1. Even Though I served my country, I felt like my country was not serving me then.. My people were segregated, treated badly,…

I invaded people’s space in the fifth floor where my friend Solange was my partner who helped me. The fifth floor is where groups of people go and is a place to study and talk about anything. In this process, I did three different acts throughout the day so people would not recognize me and know I was doing a social…

The store I choose to write my Close-reading on is “ A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid. In the beginning of In a Small Place I had some mix feelings about it somewhere good and some bad. As the story starts it her telling use what’s happening and what she seeing for example. She describing her country by telling us how non-locals see the country as beautiful, but the locals who see it as a trashy and a bad corrupt place. I want to know why the author makes this point in the beginning? I can only…

transportation industry creates millions of jobs ranging from truck drivers to uber drivers. Unfortunately, Self driving technology is putting these jobs at risk. In the article “A World Without Work” by author Derek Thompson, the question is formed, “Will my profession be taken over by machinery?” If self driving vehicles are created correctly, then it will soon be illegal for a human driver to be behind the wheel. These vehicles will be much safer than human driven vehicles by limiting many…