Beggars in Spain

How would you feel if you were an immigrant moving from your home to a whole new place with a whole new language. Immigrants have to learn how to overcome the problems they face in order to get a job, have family, etc. Also, It would be very difficult to be in their situation not knowing a thing someone is saying. If that was you, most likely you would feel uncomfortable and out of the ordinary. Throughout immigrants lives, some of them need to make big decisions such as moving to America. Both…

When facing Native American abnormalities, explorers are quick to criticize their culture and traditions, despite their complex advancements compared to European society. Explorer’s inclinations toward the Natives were harsh and degrading. Luckily as the century grew, people’s attitude fluctuated from mainstream thoughts as they took a closer look at the native inhabitants. Explorers realized that what they fathomed were misconceptions toward the American Indians. At the beginning of the age of…

Immigration in the United States The United States hosts the largest immigrant population in the world, yet our current immigration system is broken and crumbling below our feet. An H1-B visa holder is allowed temporary status as a foreign worker for a U.S. employer. The H1-B Visa workers program is abusive because it uses immigrants for their labor but they continue to be put through the bureaucratic limbo of our currently broken immigration system. The system that immigrants are put through…

When the Spanish came to America they sought to incorporate Indians into their empire. They viewed Indians as inferiors and not human. This justified the action they took in setting up missions where missionaries main goal was to teach and have Indians practice Catholicism. They believed that this way it would be easier to conquer the Indians while avoiding conflict. Spanish views of Indians justified missions being present in the communities. They believed the Indians to be inferiors,…

In the Nineteenth Century immigrants came to the United states because of the Industrial Revolution; work in America; Shifts in agriculture; Growing population that left many people unable to make a living and the blight that left people in disease and starvation. Immigrants thought that coming to the United States would be heaven, but it was a nightmare for them Americans worried that immigrants would transform people into an “incoherent, distracted mass”. In The Know-Nothings group created by…

According to the Introduction to Crossing Into America, by Louis Mendoza and S. Shankar, This crossing into America, as the reader will see, is not one thing alone—it is freedom and death,violence and happiness, hate and love. The story of that crossing, too, is not made into literature in one way alone—there are poems and short stories, essays and excerpts from novels, letters and excerpts from memoirs. There are easily recognized names and others most readers will be encountering for the…

Mansa Musa the "king of kings" went on a famous Hajj as a result of this Hajj he also made Mali famous, did he really care about this journey or did he want more? Mansa Musa's religious journey was not for purely religious reasons there were other motivating factors taking him in this journey wealth, riches, and fame. On his journey he could have gone on a straightforward journey to Mecca but he went off course to the city Taghaza. He went off course for the reasons to get wealth. "It was…

North America stands to be one of the most diverse population and all the thanks can be given to the many immigrants who took the chance to leave behind the comfort of their home in hopes of a better future. Not only did these immigrants make North America so diverse, it also enabled there to be an interaction of different cultures impacting the ethnic and social makeup of the U.S. Starting from the 19th centuries many immigrants rushed in from Europe during the massive innovations in…

Every year, even in the 1800s, hundreds of immigrants come into the United States looking for something they needed. Immigrants went through many hard times and had to give up a lot to get what they thought of as the life they wanted for themselves and their families. They found out what being an immigrant was like, faced push and pull factors, and found out how hard it was to get into the Unite States and become a citizen. What it’s like making it as an immigrant in the United States is a lot…

In the late 19th century life was very different from now. After the Civil War, the was a lot of reconstruction that need to take place. New houses were being built as well as factories which led to industrialization. People who lived in the countryside and foreign countries longed for a change and they felt that the urban cities might be able to provide that. Apart from that, there were many other factors that drove them away from their own countries/homes. Things like religious persecution,…