My Move to America Essay

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    interviewed Salado Mohamed who is a student at St. Cloud State University. She is a third year student, and is studying social work. Salado has many siblings who are all still living in her home country of Kenya. She believes that her siblings wouldn’t move to another country, because her parents are so strict. I asked Salado if she thought her living situation would be different if she didn’t have any siblings; she said that that had never crossed her mind, but she doesn’t think it would have…

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    order to move on or to get away from the past, however, it is not always easy to do so. No matter where people go, their painful memories will always follow. In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Baba and Amir try to create a new life for themselves when they move to America. Having to move from Afghanistan to America was difficult, but to Amir and Baba both locations were considered “home”. America, however, was a reality check for both compared to their lives in Kabul. In America…

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    My father was born on June 16th, 1968 and my mother was born on January 8th, 1967. They were both born in Seoul, South Korea. Both of my parents coincidentally came to America at the same time. They both emigrated to America in 1991. The main reason for my father to emigrate to the United States was due to family. My grandfather decided to come to America on his own to receive his citizenship. My dad said it was hard not saying goodbye because he was afraid he would never see his father again.…

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    Africa and Mexico (The Americas). Spain went to Mexico. Today I am going to be talking about the Age of Exploration and Indigenous people. One thing i'm going to talk about is the Columbian Exchange and how it affected us in a good and bad way. Another thing i’m going to be talking about is the Aztec of the Conquest of Mexico. I’ll finally will be talking about is the destruction of the Indies. The Columbian Exchange contributed food, plants, livestock and diseases. The America contributed…

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    Gift to My Generation America gave me freedom. Freedom came from soldiers who fought for our country. Some may have lost their lives and some may have got injured in the fight. America gave me school. Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean in 1492,and discovered riches from his land. Christopher moved to America and started a family and his family live in Spain. Christopher decided to let his sons stay in Spain so he could explore America. The start of a new settlement . When my…

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    father and husband, emigrated to America in search of better financial stability writes a letter to his wife in attempt to convince her to also emigrate to America. By telling her of the abundance and joy’s America has offered for him and could offer for their family as a whole, and an appeal to pathos Downe strives to persuade his wife to come to America. John Downe first attempts to enlighten her with vivid imagery of the great prosperity and abundance in America. He writes about all the…

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    Puerto Rican's move to the United States in hope of having a better life. Their journey to the United States is easier than other immigrants because Puerto Ricans are already United States citizens. Therefore, this facilitates their immigration to the U.S. because they have unrestricted access to travel between the two countries. Many Puerto Ricans have various reasons for moving to the United States, but mainly they struggle economically and need to find a job. After living in the United States…

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    Thank you so much for sparing me time to put forth my bold idea that could potentially change Europe forever. I want to travel to the Americas not only to explore the unknown land, but to return with new foods and luxuries. There is a lot in the world that we have not yet discovered, including parts of the New World. In America, my crew and I would find land to a build town for the wonderful people that come from Malta. Plots of fertile soil and a body of water would be near for easy access to…

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    stratification terms used in society (based on my own experience) is lower class, middle class, and upper class. Another way to describe the different classes would be in quintiles. Quintiles splits society into five different parts: the lower 20%, the fourth 20%, the middle 20%, the second 20%, and the upper 20%. This way of organizing is super interesting because it can never shift. No matter what happened economically…

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    In my personal opinion, cursive should not be practiced in schools because technology is moving at a very fast rate and the next generation needs to exceed in technology so we can move foward to make the United States of America a better place economical wise. 37% of teachers in a 2012 conference even use cursive according to the text, therefore the popularity of cursive has already started decreasing if the teachers are ready to move on then we should to. "A signature is no longner needed for…

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